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To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.

Same as Generatrix.

One who describes.

Drawn outside of; -- used to designate a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the other two sides produced.

To copy; to transcribe. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Incapable of being described. -- In`de*scrib"a*bly, adv.

Capable of being inscribed, -- used specif. (Math.) of solids or plane figures capable of being inscribed in other solids or figures.

Quality of being inscribable.

To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint. Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone. Pope.

One who inscribes. Pownall.

To write between. [R.]

To ascribe wrongly.

To describe wrongly.

To make a postscript. [R.] T. Adams.

r rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct. Prescribe not us our duties. Shak. Let streams prescribe their fountains where to run. Dryden.

One who prescribes.

ction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents. Robert Vere, Earl of Oxford, . . . was banished the realm, and proscribed. Spenser.

One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.

To write back; to write in reply. Ayliffe.

Capable of being written, or of being written upon. [R.]