Definition of describe

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Describe (v. t.) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class..

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Cosmographer :: Cosmographer (n.) One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth..
Lilliputian :: Lilliputian (a.) Of or pertaining to the imaginary island of Lilliput described by Swift, or to its inhabitants..
Schneiderian :: Schneiderian (a.) Discovered or described by C. V. Schneider, a German anatomist of the seventeenth century..
Terrier :: Terrier (n.) In modern usage, a book or roll in which the lands of private persons or corporations are described by their site, boundaries, number of acres, or the like..
Mortar :: Mortar (n.) A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45¡, and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described..
Houyhnhnm :: Houyhnhnm (n.) One of the race of horses described by Swift in his imaginary travels of Lemuel Gulliver. The Houyhnhnms were endowed with reason and noble qualities; subject to them were Yahoos, a race of brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men..
Blazon :: Blazon (v. t.) To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon..
Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To say; to relate; to describe.
Identity :: Identity (n.) The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods..
Oblongum :: Oblongum (n.) A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis. Cf. Oblatum, and see Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid..
Tore :: Tore (n.) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
Therapeutae :: Therapeutae (n. pl.) A name given to certain ascetics said to have anciently dwelt in the neighborhood of Alexandria. They are described in a work attributed to Philo, the genuineness and credibility of which are now much discredited..
Personate :: Personate (v. t.) To personify; to typify; to describe.
Laputan :: Laputan (a.) Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy..
Femalize :: Femalize (v. t.) To make, or to describe as, female or feminine..
Depict :: Depict (v. t.) To represent in words; to describe vividly.
Nondescript :: Nondescript (n.) A thing not yet described; that of which no account or explanation has been given; something abnormal, or hardly classifiable..
Galvanologist :: Galvanologist (n.) One who describes the phenomena of galvanism; a writer on galvanism.
Behemoth :: Behemoth (n.) An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24..
Enchase :: Enchase (v. t.) To delineate or describe, as by writing..
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