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Description of fossils. [Obs.]

The description of bones; osteology.

A description of the ear.

To exaggerate; as, to overcharge a description. Overcharged mine. (Mil.) See Globe of compression, under Globe.

Of or pertaining to the description of fossil remains.

The description of fossil remains.

A general description; entire view of an object.

To serve as a model for; to surpass. [Obs.] He hath achieved a maid That paragons description and wild fame. Shak.

A minute description; a detailed statement. [R.]

Fitness or appropriateness; striking suitableness; convenience. The description with equal patness may suit both. Barrow.

of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation. "Figures pedantical." Shak.

The scientific description of rocks; that department of science which investigates the constitution of rocks; petrology.

n of a real object; a fancy; a notion. Cudworth. Figures or little features, of which the description had produced in you no phantasm or expectation. Jer. Taylor.

A description of celestial phenomena, as rainbows, etc.

A description, history, or explanation of phenomena. "The phenomenology of the mind." Sir W. Hamilton.

A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.

A description of seaweeds.

The science of describing plants in a systematic manner; also, a description of plants.

The science of plants; a description of the kinds and properties of plants; botany. Sir T. Browne.

The science of spiritual being or phenomena of any description.