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To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of. The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an edict for universal tolerance. Bancroft.

A picture in lines; a sketch. [R.]

a boat strongly built and adapted to carrying a mortar or mortars for bombarding; a bomb ketch. -- Mortar piece, a mortar. [Obs.] Shak.

t of a deceased person; a notice of the death of a person, accompanied by a biographical sketch.

A sketch composed of such lines; the delineation of a figure without shading. Painters, by their outlines, colors, lights, and shadows, represent the same in their pictures. Dryden.

-- Pen and ink, or pen-and-ink, executed or done with a pen and ink; as, a pen and ink sketch. -- Pen feather. A pin feather. [Obs.] -- Pen name. See under Name. -- Sea pen (Zoöl.), a pennatula. [Usually written sea-pen.]

Painted, drawn, sketched, or marked with a pencil.

A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively. [Obs.] Bacon.

subjects embraced, in any public exercise, performance, or entertainment; a preliminary sketch. Programme music (Mus.), descriptive instrumental music which requires an argument or programme to explain the meaning of its several movements.

Especially, a picturesque or widely extended view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape. I went to Putney . . . to take prospects in crayon. Evelyn.

A sketch, or a fully written account, of a speech, debate, or the proceedings of a public meeting, legislative body, etc.

a rowdy. In the rough, in an unwrought or rude condition; unpolished; as, a diamond or a sketch in the rough. Contemplating the people in the rough. Mrs. Browning.

To draw or delineate rapidly and by way of a first sketch.

A kind of ketch very common in the Levant, which has neither topgallant sail nor mizzen topsail.

A rough draught; a rude sketch or outline.

A preliminary sketch of the plot, or main incidents, of an opera.

nt of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.

The pictorial representation of a scene; a sketch, as, a fine view of Lake George.

To see or know by personal presence; to have direct cognizance of. This is but a faint sketch of the incalculable calamities and horrors we must expect, should we ever witness the triumphs of modern infidelity. R. Hall. General Washington did not live to witness the restoration of peace. Marshall.