a. Capable of being ascribed; attributable. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ascribed p. pr. & vb. n. Ascribing. ] [ L. ascribere, adscribere, to ascribe; ad + scribere to write: cf. OF. ascrire. See Scribe. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The finest [ speech ] that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or allege to belong. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To Ascribe, Attribute, Impute. Attribute denotes, 1. To refer some quality or attribute to a being; as, to attribute power to God. 2. To refer something to its cause or source; as, to attribute a backward spring to icebergs off the coast. Ascribe is used equally in both these senses, but involves a different image. To impute usually denotes to ascribe something doubtful or wrong, and hence, in general literature, has commonly a bad sense; as, to impute unworthy motives. The theological sense of impute is not here taken into view. [ 1913 Webster ]

More than good-will to me attribute naught. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ascribes his gettings to his parts and merit. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

And fairly quit him of the imputed blame. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To scribble over. “Bescribbled with impertinences.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being circumscribed. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Circumscribed p. pr. & vb. n. Circumscribing. ] [ L. circumscribere, -scriptum; circum + scribere to write, draw. See Soribe. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. to write or engrave around. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thereon is circumscribed this epitaph. Ashmole. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain. [ 1913 Webster ]

To circumscribe royal power. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Geom.) To draw a line around so as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5.

Syn. -- To bound; limit; restrict; confine; abridge; restrain; environ; encircle; inclose; encompass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, circumscribes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. conscribere. See Conscript. ] To enroll; to enlist. [ Obs. ] E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A crib for storing corn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. crybb; akin to OS. kribbja, D. krib, kribbe, Dan. krybbe, G. krippe, and perh. to MHG. krebe basket, G, korb, and E. rip a sort of wicker basket. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

The steer lion at one crib shall meet. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stall for oxen or other cattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. Prov. xiv. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A hovel; a hut; a cottage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . .
Than in the perfumed chambers of the great? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Mining) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A small raft of timber. [ Canada ] [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A small theft; anything purloined; a plagiarism; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The Latin version technically called a crib. Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib. Wilkie Collins. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. A miner's luncheon. [ Cant ] Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. (Card Playing) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cribbed p. pr. & vb. n. Cribbing. ] 1. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp. [ 1913 Webster ]

If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed. Gauden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination. [ College Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Crib, v. t., 2. ] A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man's fancy would be summed up in cribbage. John Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cribbage board, a board with holes and pegs, used by cribbage players to score their game. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mining) A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. A horse that has the habit of cribbing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Cribbing, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. crible, LL. criblus sieve, fr. L. cribrum. ] 1. A coarse sieve or screen. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Coarse flour or meal. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cribbled p. pr. & vb. n. Cribbling ] [ Cf. F. cribler. ] To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Coarse; as, cribble bread. [ Obs. ] Huloet. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., a small sieve, dim. of cribrum sieve. ] (Zool.) A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (Ciniflonidæ), used for spinning a special kind of silk. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cribratus, p. p. of cribrare to sift, fr. cribrum a sieve. ] Cribriform. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. cribration, fr. L. cribrare to sift. See Cribble, n. ] (Pharmacy) The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cribrum sieve + -form: cf. F. cribriforme. ] Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cribriform cells (Bot.), those which have here and there oblique or transverse sieve plates, or places perforated with many holes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cribrum sieve. ] Perforated like a sieve; cribriform. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That can be described; capable of description. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Described p. pr. & vb. n. Describing. ] [ L. describere, descriptum; de- + scribere to write: cf. OE. descriven, OF. descrivre, F. décrire. See Scribe, and cf. Descry. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book. Josh. xviii. 9.

Syn. -- To set forth; represent; delineate; relate; recount; narrate; express; explain; depict; portray; chracterize. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. describens, p. pr. of describere. ] (Geom.) Same as Generatrix. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who describes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. e out, out of + scribere to write. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. excribere; ex out, from + scribere to write. ] To copy; to transcribe. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incapable of being described. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an indescribable manner; to a degree impossible to desribe; as, indescribably beautiful. [ PJC ]

a. Capable of being inscribed, -- used specif. (Math.) of solids or plane figures capable of being inscribed in other solids or figures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being inscribable. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inscribed p. pr. & vb. n. Inscribing. ] [ L. inscribere. See 1st In-, and Scribe. ] 1. To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To mark with letters, characters, or words. [ 1913 Webster ]

O let thy once lov'd friend inscribe thy stone. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To assign or address to; to commend to by a short address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Geom.) To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A line is inscribed in a circle, or in a sphere, when its two ends are in the circumference of the circle, or in the surface of the sphere. A triangle is inscribed in another triangle, when the three angles of the former are severally on the three sides of the latter. A circle is inscribed in a polygon, when it touches each side of the polygon. A sphere is inscribed in a polyhedron, when the sphere touches each boundary plane of the polyhedron. The latter figure in each case is circumscribed about the former. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who inscribes. Pownall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Interscribed p. pr. & vb. n. Interscribing. ] [ L. interscribere; inter between + scribere to write. ] To write between. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To ascribe wrongly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To describe wrongly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. postscribere. See Postscript. ] To make a postscript. [ R. ] T. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Prescribed p. pr & vb. n. Prescribing. ] [ L. praescribere, praescriptum; prae before + scriebe to write. See Scribe. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct. [ 1913 Webster ]

Prescribe not us our duties. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let streams prescribe their fountains where to run. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To appoint; order; command; dictate; ordain; institute; establish. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To give directions; to dictate. [ 1913 Webster ]

A forwardness to prescribe to their opinions. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To influence by long use [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) To claim by prescription; to claim a title to a thing on the ground of immemorial use and enjoyment, that is, by a custom having the force of law. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who prescribes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Proscribed p. pr. & vb. n. Proscribing. ] [ L. proscribere, proscriptum, to write before, to publish, proscribe; pro before + scribere to write. See Scribe. The sense of this word originated in the Roman practice of writing the names of persons doomed to death, and posting the list in public. ] 1. To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents. [ 1913 Webster ]

Robert Vere, Earl of Oxford, . . . was banished the realm, and proscribed. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit; as, the Puritans proscribed theaters. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Arian doctrines were proscribed and anathematized in the famous Council of Nice. Waterland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. rescribere; pref. re- re- + scribere to write. See Scribe. ] 1. To write back; to write in reply. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To write over again. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Scribe. ] Capable of being written, or of being written upon. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Scribe. ] Skillful in, or fond of, writing. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A painter's pencil. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl. [ 1913 Webster ]

If Maevius scribble in Apollo's spite. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]