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That can be described; capable of description.

To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.

d make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested.

To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A stripping or plundering; spoliation. Bailey.

athbed's detector of the heart. Young. Bank-note detector, a publication containing a description of genuine and counterfeit bank notes, designed to enable persons to discriminate between them. -- Detector l. See under Lock.

6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring in many ripe fruits. Dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence called invert sugar. Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch, and hence called also starch sugar.…

Scientific determination of any kind; the concise description of characterization of a species.

A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving.

Descriptive.

The art or science of descriptive drawing; especially, the art or science of drawing by mechanical appliances and mathematical rule.

d with authority; an order; a command; an authoritative rule, principle, or maxim; a prescription; as, listen to the dictates of your conscience; the dictates of the gospel. I credit what the Grecian dictates say. Prior.

who having bought so much land as a hide would cover, is said to have cut it into thin strips long enough to inclose a spot for a citadel.

ppropriate for strengthening and comfort. Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them. Book of Common Prayer.

A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych.

That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants. The princes digged the well . . . by the direction of the law giver. Numb. xxi. 18.

harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance. They reject the plainest sense of Scripture, because it seems disagree with what they call reason. Atterbury.

To disrobe; to strip of apparel; to make naked. Drink disapparels the soul. Junius (1635).

To strip of bark; to bark. [R.] Boyle.

To strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud. [R.] Holland.