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Of or pertaining to the description of fossil remains.

The description of fossil remains.

A general description; entire view of an object.

A manuscript written on papyrus; esp., pl., written scrolls made of papyrus; as, the papyri of Egypt or Herculaneum.

To serve as a model for; to surpass. [Obs.] He hath achieved a maid That paragons description and wild fame. Shak.

piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant. Mozley & W.

A minute description; a detailed statement. [R.]

Fitness or appropriateness; striking suitableness; convenience. The description with equal patness may suit both. Barrow.

f, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation. "Figures pedantical." Shak.

st's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc.

The art or operation of carving figures or inscriptions on rock or stone.

The scientific description of rocks; that department of science which investigates the constitution of rocks; petrology.

of a real object; a fancy; a notion. Cudworth. Figures or little features, of which the description had produced in you no phantasm or expectation. Jer. Taylor.

A description of celestial phenomena, as rainbows, etc.

eparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist.

A description, history, or explanation of phenomena. "The phenomenology of the mind." Sir W. Hamilton.

A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.

A description of seaweeds.

nt or of black calfskin, containing slips of parchment or vellum on which are written the scriptural passages Exodus xiii. 2-10, and 11-17, Deut. vi. 4-9, 13-

The science of describing plants in a systematic manner; also, a description of plants.