Word Meanings - DESCRIBE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Represent
  To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.
• Torchwood
  The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, A. Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.
• TRACERY
  Ornamental work with rambled lines. Especially: -- (a) The decorative head of a Gothic window. Note: Window tracery is of two sorts, plate tracery and bar tracery. Plate tracery, common in Italy, consists of a series of ornamental patterns cut through
• Drawing
  of Draw
• Drawgloves
  An old game, played by holding up the fingers.
• Drawhead
  The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear.
• Representable
  Capable of being represented.
• Torchwort
  The common mullein, the stalks of which, dipped in suet, anciently served for torches. Called also torch, and hig-taper.
• Waverer
  One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like.
• Drawing knife
  Alt. of Drawknife
• Representance
  Representation; likeness.
• Waveringly
  In a wavering manner.
• Drawable
  Capable of being drawn.
• Drawknife
  A joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called also drawshave, and drawing shave.
• Representant
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• traced
  of Trace

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