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ntor's model of a machine. [The application for a patent] must be accompanied by a full description of the invention, with drawings and a model where the case admits of it. Am. Cyc. When we mean to build We first survey the plot, then draw the model. Shak.

the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.

Something to preserve memory; a reminder; a monument; hence, a mark; an image; a superscription; a record. [Obs.] Spenser.

A written account or description of a single thing, or class of things; a special treatise on a particular subject of limited range.

tc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions. On your family's old monument Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites That appertain unto a burial. Shak.

Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.

The description of muscles, including the study of muscular contraction by the aid of registering apparatus, as by some form of myograph; myology.

A dramatic representation of a Scriptural subject, often some event in the life of Christ; a dramatic composition of this character; as, the Chester Mysteries, consisting of dramas acted by various craft associations in that city in the early part of the 14th century. "Mystery plays," so called because acted by craftsm…

volve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.

A descriptive or qualifying appellation given to a person or thing, on account of a character or acts. His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Is. ix. 6.

of the triad or common chord. -- Natural history, in its broadest sense, a history or description of nature as a whole, incuding the sciences of botany, zoölogy, geology, mineralogy, paleontology, chemistry, and physics. In recent usage the term is often restricted to the sciences of botany and zoölogy collectively,…

Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has.

A description of the nerves. Dunglison.

To nurse; to lead or teach; to foster; to nuzzle. [Obs.] If any man use the Scripture . . . to nosel thee in anything save in Christ, he is a false prophet. Tyndale.

A description or classification of diseases.

A treatise on, or description of, coins and medals.

t easily understood; not clear or legible; abstruse or blind; as, an obscure passage or inscription.

The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.

to offer; to appear; to happen; to take place; as, I will write if opportunity occurs. In Scripture, though the word heir occur, yet there is no such thing as "heir" in our author's sense. Locke.

A description of the ocean.