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Drawn outside of; -- used to designate a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the other two sides produced.

To copy; to transcribe. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop. A pert fribble of a peer. Thackeray.

A trifler; a fribble.

Frivolous; trining; toolishly captious.

nd tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge. [Written also friburgh and fribourg.] Burril.

Full of rage. [Obs.] G. Harvey.

- so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi.

A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America.

international law, nominated by the signatory powers. From these persons an arbitration tribunal is chosen by the parties to a difference submitted to the court. On the failure of the parties to agree directly on the arbitrators, each chooses two arbitrators, an umpire is selected by them, by a third power, or by two…

Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder. A dungeon horrible on all sides round. Milton.

The state or quality of being horrible; dreadfulness; hideousness. The horribleness of the mischief. Sir P. Sidney.

In a manner to excite horror; dreadfully; terribly.

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

Inferable.

Capable of being inscribed, -- used specif. (Math.) of solids or plane figures capable of being inscribed in other solids or figures.

Quality of being inscribable.

To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint. Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone. Pope.

One who inscribes. Pownall.

To write between. [R.]