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

e 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 rough draught; a rude sketch or outline.

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

ent 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.