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Description \De*scrip"tion\, n. [F. description, L. descriptio.
See {Describe}.]
1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
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2. 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.
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Milton has descriptions of morning. --D. Webster.
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3. A class to which a certain representation is applicable;
kind; sort.
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A difference . . . between them and another
description of public creditors. --A. Hamilton.
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The plates were all of the meanest description.
--Macaulay.

Syn: Account; definition; recital; relation; detail;
narrative; narration; explanation; delineation;
representation; kind; sort. See {Definition}.
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