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A description of the air or atmosphere; aërology.

To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. Paley.

Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.

A description of the grasses.

The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject. Exaggeration is a species of amplification. Brande & C. I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show…

To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon. Watts. He must often enlarge and amplify upon the subject he handles. South.

or more than twenty years. In England, and in some of the United States, they acquire a prescriptive right.

A description of the winds.

A description of blood vessels and lymphatics.

g animation; lively; vigorous. "Animated sounds." Pope. "Animated bust." Gray. "Animated descriptions." Lewis.

A description of flowers.

om different authors, especially the poets. He published a geographical and anthological description of all empires and kingdoms . . . in this terrestrial globe. Wood.

A description or definition contrary to that which is given by the adverse party. [R.]

The application to God of terms descriptive of human beings.

An appellation or title; a descriptive name. God chosen it for one of his appellatives to be the Defender of them. Jer. Taylor.

Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house. Wharton. Coke…

A description of, or a treatise on, antiquity or antiquities.

A systematic description of the arteries.

The description of joints.

The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.