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Incapable of being described. -- In`de*scrib"a*bly, adv.

l interest; self- interest; selfishness. The selfishness of the small proprietor has been described by the best writers as individualism. Ed. Rev.

; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school. The institution of God's law is described as being established by solemn injunction. Hooker.

og or for dogs, or for a pack of hounds. A dog sure, if he could speak, had wit enough to describe his kennel. Sir P. Sidney.

e standard adopted by the Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two letters (CHR) of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various…

representing the priest Laocoön, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil.

Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy. "Laputan ideas." G. Eliot.

s; laxity; independence. In human actions there are no degrees and precise natural limits described, but a latitude is indulged. Jer. Taylor.

to cathode rays. So called from the German physicist Philipp Lenard (b. 1862), who first described them.

An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned on other passages of Scripture.

One who describes lichens; one versed in lichenography.

One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift's "Voyage to Lilliput."

ned together by joins, and having certain of their points fixed in a plane. It is used to describe straight lines and curves in the plane.

raced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that moves according to a given law. Plane locus, a locus that is a straight line, or a circle. -- Solid locus, a locus that is one of the conic sections.

The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them.

of Childhood" (schools in the poorest tenement districts of Rome, Italy), and first fully described by her in 1909. Leading features are freedom for physical activity (no stationary desks and chairs), informal and individual instruction, the very early development of writing, and an extended sensory and motor training…

as 45º, and even higher; - - so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described. Mortar bed (Mil.), a framework of wood and iron, suitably hollowed out to receive the breech and trunnions of a mortar. -- Mortar boat or vessel (Naut.), a boat strongly built and adapted to carrying a mortar or mortar…

Of or relating to myths; described in a myth; of the nature of a myth; fabulous; imaginary; fanciful. -- Myth"ic*al*ly, adv. The mythic turf where danced the nymphs. Mrs. Browning. Hengist and Horsa, Vortigern and Rowena, Arthur and Mordred, are mythical persons, whose very existence may be questioned. Macaulay.…

A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the Greeks.

One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition. The treacherous nixes who entice men to a watery death. Tylor.