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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.

A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.

or preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters.

A form of barometer so constructed as to inscribe of itself upon paper a record of the variations of atmospheric pressure.

To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.

which spaces are left vacant; a bland form. The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank. Palfrey.

A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.

To engrave; to inscribe. [R.] These trees shall be my books. And in their barks my thoughts I 'll character. Shak.

To draw a line around si as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5.

A clay tablet on which was inscribed a contract, for safe keeping. Such tablets were inclosed in an outer case (often called the envelope), on which was inscribed a duplicate of the inscription on the inclosed tablet.

To inscribe or address, as to a patron. He complied ten elegant books, and dedicated them to the Lord Burghley. Peacham.

One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.

To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed.

To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin.

To inscribe; to enroll; to record; as, to enter a name, or a date, in a book, or a book in a catalogue; to enter the particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship or of merchandise at the customhouse.

A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: "Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis."

In modern heraldry, a similar ribbon on which the motto is inscribed.

The center of the circle inscribed in a triangle.

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