DPage 117
- English Word Descent Definition A passing from a higher to a lower tone.
- English Word Describable Definition That can be described; capable of description.
- English Word Describe Definition 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.
- English Word Describe Definition To represent by words written or spoken; to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describes countries and cities.
- English Word Describe Definition To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
- English Word Describe Definition To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.
- English Word Described Definition of Describe
- English Word Describent Definition Same as Generatrix.
- English Word Describer Definition One who describes.
- English Word Describing Definition of Describe
- English Word Descried Definition of Descry
- English Word Descrier Definition One who descries.
- English Word Description Definition The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
- English Word Description Definition A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
- English Word Description Definition A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.
- English Word Descriptive Definition Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age.
- English Word Descrive Definition To describe.
- English Word Descry Definition To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.
- English Word Descry Definition To discover; to disclose; to reveal.
- English Word Descry Definition Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance.
- English Word Descrying Definition of Descry
- English Word Desecate Definition To cut, as with a scythe; to mow.
- English Word Desecrate Definition To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the opposite of consecrate.
- English Word Desecrated Definition of Desecrate
- English Word Desecrater Definition One who desecrates; a profaner.
- English Word Desecrating Definition of Desecrate
- English Word Desecration Definition The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated.
- English Word Desecrator Definition One who desecrates.
- English Word Desegmentation Definition The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.
- English Word Desert Definition That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.