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deathbed'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.

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

Descriptive.

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

ered 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.

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.

hisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. A dismal description of an English November. Southey.

A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It is usually, but not always, distinguished from a pharmacopoeia in that it issued by private parties, and not by an official body or by government.

n the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic.

The general description of embryos.

To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of Congress."

A treatise upon, or description of, the intestinal glands.

A treatise upon, or description of, the intestines; enterology.

uman family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.

An afterpiece of a comic description, either a farce or a travesty.

whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering. "Guided by other's experiences." Shak. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. P. Henry To most men experien…

appropriate characters or signs. Past expression, Beyond expression, beyond the power of description. "Beyond expression bright." Milton.

he years are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See Ocellus. Description of illustration: a b Conjunctiva; c Cornea; d Sclerotic; e Choroid; f Cillary Muscle; g Cillary Process; h Iris; i Suspensory Ligament; k Prosterior Aqueous Chamber between h and i; l Anterior Aqueous Chamber; m Crystal…

tory or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero. The fabulous birth of Minerva. Chesterfield.

Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.