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The act of signaling, or of signalizing; hence, description by peculiar, appropriate, or characteristic marks. Mrs. Browning.

A description or history of the forest trees of a country.

A written statement containing a minute description or enumeration of particulars, as of charges against a public officer, the terms of a contract, the description of an invention, as in a patent; also, a single article, item, or particular, an allegation of a specific act, as in a charge of official misconduct.…

A description of the spleen.

Movables of an inferior description; especially, such as have been collected by depredation. [Scot]

A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record. One malcontent who did indeed get a name in story. Barrow. Venice, with its unique city and its Impressive story. Ed. Rev. The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story. Sir W. Temple.…

A description of an army, or of what belongs to an army.

of, as any part of the earth's surface, whether land or water; also, a measured plan and description of any portion of country, or of a road or line through it. Survey of dogs. See Court of regard, under Regard. -- Trigonometrical survey, a survey of a portion of country by measuring a single base, and connecting it…

A description of the ligaments; syndesmology.

Description of the arts and crafts of tribes and peoples. -- Tech`no*graph"ic, Tech`no*graph"ic*al (#), a.

the tenor, or the instrument that play it. Old Tenor, New Tenor, Middle Tenor, different descriptions of paper money, issued at different periods, by the American colonial governments in the last century.

The science which treats of testaceans, or shellfish; the description of shellfish. [R.]

A description, or the doctrine, of death. Dunglison.

The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region.

A description of sculpture such as bas-relief in metal.

The art or the description of scupture such as bas-relief in metal; toreumatography.

n of both his expressions and thoughts is unharmonious. Dryden. The Roman poets, in their description of a beautiful man, often mention the turn of his neck and arms. Addison.

One of a certain description of militia among the Tartars.

A description or plan of the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the construction of celestial maps, globes, etc.; uranology.

ing . . . which will give the reader a far better notion of the structure than any verbal description could convey to the mind. Mayhew.