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

To write back; to write in reply. Ayliffe.

To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document. [They] subscribed their names under them. Sir T. More.

One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.

to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter.

To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.

One who transcribes, or writes from a copy; a copier; a copyist.

The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.

to be added; an appendix or addition. Addendum circle (Mech.), the circle which may be described around a circular spur wheel or gear wheel, touching the crests or tips of the teeth. Rankine.

To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.

That part of anatomy which describes the glands.

thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.

Said before, or in a preceding part; already described or identified.

A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.

. (a) Scarcely; not even. [Obs.] Shak. (b) Almost; nearly. "The fine arts were all but proscribed." Macaulay. -- All hollow, entirely, completely; as, to beat any one all hollow. [Low] -- All one, the same thing in effect; that is, wholly the same thing. -- All over, over the whole extent; thoroughly; wholly; as, she…

A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.…

differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.] Blackstone.

nating, the followers of Jacob Amman, a strict Mennonite of the 17th century, who even proscribed the use of buttons and shaving as "worldly conformity". There are several branches of Amish Mennonites in the United States.

A word used to describe the character Halliwell.

preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters.