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Ambounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description.

le species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.

A prescription or recipe for the preparation of a medicinal compound.

used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast. Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian. Addison.

A treatise on galvanism, or a description of its phenomena.

A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places.

d; relating to a genus, as distinct from a species, or from another genus; as, a generic description; a generic difference; a generic name.

The science which treats of the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, fetures, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited.

analytical investigation of the relations and properties of geometrical magnitudes. -- Descriptive geometry, that part of geometry which treats of the graphic solution of all problems involving three dimensions. -- Elementary geometry, that part of geometry which treats of the simple properties of straight lines, ci…

An account or description of giants.

Having the faculty of, or characterized by, clear and impressive description; vivid; as, a gruphic writer. Graphic algebra, a branch of algebra in which, the properties of equations are treated by the use of curves and straight lines. -- Graphic arts, a name given to those fine arts which pertain to the representation…

A suffix denoting the art of writing or describing; also, the writing or description itself; a treatise; as, calligraphy, biography, geography.

e Pipit. -- Ground laurel (Bot.). See Trailing arbutus, under Arbutus. -- Ground line (Descriptive Geom.), the line of intersection of the horizontal and vertical planes of projection. -- Ground liverwort (Bot.), a flowerless plant with a broad flat forking thallus and the fruit raised on peduncled and radiated rece…

A dealer in drapery goods of various descriptions, as laces, silks, trimmings, etc.

The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints. J. H. Newman.

Description of the sea; the science that treats of the sea.

A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.

A book containing the names and descriptions of plants. Bacon.

Vivid; strong or forcible in representation; hence, exaggerated; as, high-colored description.

A description of, or treatise on, organic tissues.