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To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe. Spenser.

A sharp-pointed tool, used by joiners for drawing lines on stuff; a marking awl.

To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author. The finest [speech] that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem. Addison.

to write or engare around. [R.] Thereon is circumscribed this epitaph. Ashmole.

One who, or that which, circumscribes.

To enroll; to enlist. [Obs.] E. Hall.

To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.

Same as Generatrix.

One who describes.

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.

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.]

To ascribe wrongly.

To describe wrongly.

To make a postscript. [R.] T. Adams.

or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct. Prescribe not us our duties. Shak. Let streams prescribe their fountains where to run. Dryden.

One who prescribes.

uction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents. Robert Vere, Earl of Oxford, . . . was banished the realm, and proscribed. Spenser.