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of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc. Burrill. Bouvier.

To indulge with unrestrained delight and freedom; as, to luxuriate in description.

A description of the lymphatic vessels, their origin and uses.

A list or invoice of a ship's cargo, containing a description by marks, numbers, etc., of each package of goods, to be exhibited at the customhouse. Bouvier.

A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple.

Description of man as a microcosm.

The description of microscopic objects.

ventor's model of a machine. [The application for a patent] must be accompanied by a full description of the invention, with drawings and a model where the case admits of it. Am. Cyc. When we mean to build We first survey the plot, then draw the model. Shak.

A written account or description of a single thing, or class of things; a special treatise on a particular subject of limited range.

The description of muscles, including the study of muscular contraction by the aid of registering apparatus, as by some form of myograph; myology.

ny of the triad or common chord. -- Natural history, in its broadest sense, a history or description of nature as a whole, incuding the sciences of botany, zoölogy, geology, mineralogy, paleontology, chemistry, and physics. In recent usage the term is often restricted to the sciences of botany and zoölogy collectively…

Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has.

A description of the nerves. Dunglison.

A description or classification of diseases.

A treatise on, or description of, coins and medals.

A description of the ocean.

A description of the teeth.

A description of the organs of animals or plants.

The science or description of mountains.

The right description of things. [R.] Fotherby.