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The science of plants; a description of the kinds and properties of plants; botany. Sir T. Browne.

A definite position or passage of a document. The place of the scripture which he read was this. Acts viii. 32.

A prescription intended to humor or satisfy. To sing placebo, to agree with one in his opinion; to be complaisant to. Chaucer.

esponding to the perspective plane in perspective; -- called also principal plane. (b) (Descriptive Geom.) One of the planes to which points are referred for the purpose of determining their relative position in space. -- Plane of refraction or reflection (Opt.), the plane in which lie both the incident ray and the re…

The science of spiritual being or phenomena of any description.

A description of the lungs. Dunglison.

The act or practice of multiplying copies of one's own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone, -- a species of lithography.

s of the same text, or containing the same subject matter in several languages; esp., the Scriptures in several languages. Enriched by the publication of polyglots. Abp. Newcome.

A prescription made up of many medicines or ingredients. Dunglison.

Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words. Portrait bust, or Portrait statue, a bust or statue representing the actual features or person of an individual; -- in distinction from an ideal bust or statue.

The act or process of portraying; description; delineation.

A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure, postdot, postscript.

A short homily or commentary on a passage of Scripture; as, the first postils were composed by order of Charlemagne.

To preach by expounding Scripture verse by verse, in regular order.

The act of postillating; exposition of Scripture in preaching.

One who postillates; one who expounds the Scriptures verse by verse.

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

trange postures We have seen him set himself. Shak. The posture of a poetic figure is a description of his heroes in the performance of such or such an action. Dryden.

An account or description of rivers; potamology.

as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.