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The science treating of liturgical matters; a treatise on, or description of, liturgies. Shipley.

f 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.

ormulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; -- opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines. Dunglison. Magistral line (Fort.), the guiding line, or outline, or outline, by which the form of the work is determined. It is usually the crest line of the parapet in fieldworks, or the top line of the…

A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation.

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.

ially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".

Description of man as a microcosm.

The description of microscopic objects.

entor'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.

, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.

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.

A descriptive or qualifying appellation given to a person or thing, on account of a character or acts. His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Is. ix. 6.

y 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.