adv. & a. [ Pref. a- in + drip. ] In a dripping state; as, leaves all adrip. D. G. Mitchell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adscriptus, p. p. of adscribere to enroll. See Ascribe. ] Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adscriptivus. See Adscript. ] Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 an airfield without normal airport facilities.
Syn. -- flight strip, landing strip, strip [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Opposed to, or not in accordance with, the Holy Scriptures. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Adscript. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ascriptio, fr. ascribere. See Ascribe. ] The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ascriptitius, fr. ascribere. ] 1. Ascribed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Added; additional. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An ascriptitious and supernumerary God. Farindon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + trip. ] (Naut.) (a) Just hove clear of the ground; -- said of the anchor. (b) Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming; -- said of sails. (c) Hoisted up and ready to be swayed across; -- said of yards. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of plants of the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae); its members include species called orach and saltbush.
Syn. -- genus Atriplex. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ LL. auriphrigiatus; L. aurum gold + LL. phrygiare to adorn with Phrygian needlework, or with embroidery; perhaps corrupted from some other word. Cf. Orfrays. ] Embroidered or decorated with gold. [ R. ] Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Orpiment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame. [ R. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. Icel. gandar, ODan. & OSw. gan, witchcraft, and E. trap a snare, tramp. ] A charm; an incantation; a shell; a trick; adroit mischief. [ Written also cantraip. ] [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. capripers; caper goat + pes pedis, foot. ] Having feet like those of a goat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. centrum center + petere to move toward. ] 1. Tending, or causing, to approach the center. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) (a) Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit. (b) Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone. R. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

Centripetal force (Mech.), a force whose direction is towards a center, as in case of a planet revolving round the sun, the center of the system, See Centrifugal force, under Centrifugal. --
Centripetal impression (Physiol.), an impression (sensory) transmitted by an afferent nerve from the exterior of the body inwards, to the central organ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Centripetency. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Tendency toward the center. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Cephalotribe. ] (Med.) The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cerebrum + L. petere to seek. ] (Physiol.) Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the spinal cord to the brain and so transfer sensations (centripetal impressions) from the exterior inwards. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Type Founding) One of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters. [ Spelt also seriph. ] Savage. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. circumscriptio. See Circumscribe. ] 1. An inscription written around anything. [ R. ] Ashmole. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit. [ 1913 Webster ]

The circumscriptions of terrestrial nature. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

I would not my unhoused, free condition
Put into circumscription and confine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Circumscribing or tending to circumscribe; marcing the limits or form of. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a limited manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a literal, limited, or narrow manner. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Cirripedia. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. cirrus curl + pes, pedis, foot. ] (Zool.) An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a brief sequence of drawings, usually with characters drawn only sketchily, as in a cartoon, with dialog written in “balloons” over a character's head, and depicting a fictional and usually comical incident; -- also called a cartoon. Each comic strip contains typically from four to six panels arranged horizontally, but widely varying arrangements are published. In modern newspapers, weekly comic strips are in color, and daily strips are usually in black and white. In some, the story depicted may be serialized and continuous, carried over from day to day or week to week. Stories of adventure, drama, mystery or an otherwise non-comical nature depicted in the same style are also called comic strips. [ PJC ]

v. t. To enroll, by compulsion, for military service. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. conscriptus, p. p. of conscribere to write together, to enroll; con- + scribere to write. See Scribe. ] Enrolled; written; registered. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conscript fathers (Rom. Antiq.), the senators of ancient Rome. When certain new senators were first enrolled with the “fathers” the body was called Patres et Conscripti; afterward all were called Patres conscripti. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conscriptio: cf. F. conscription. ] 1. An enrolling or registering. [ 1913 Webster ]

The conscription of men of war. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Trippant in opposite directions. See Trippant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Same as Countertrippant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. cripel, crepel, crupel, AS. crypel (akin to D. kreuple, G. krüppel, Dan. kröbling, Icel. kryppill), prop., one that can not walk, but must creep, fr. AS. creópan to creep. See Creep. ] One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Local. U. S. ] (a) Swampy or low wet ground, often covered with brush or with thickets; bog.

The flats or cripple land lying between high- and low-water lines, and over which the waters of the stream ordinarily come and go. Pennsylvania Law Reports.

(b) A rocky shallow in a stream; -- a lumberman's term. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Lame; halting. [ R. ] “The cripple, tardy-gaited night.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Crippled p. pr. & vb. n. Crippling ] 1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had crippled the joints of the noble child. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled. [ 1913 Webster ]

More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. “The crippled crone.” Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lameness. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A wooden tool used in graining leather. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. [ R. ] Mrs. Trollope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Cypris Venus + pes, pedis, foot. ] (Bot.) A genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady's slipper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. description, L. descriptio. See Describe. ] 1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Milton has descriptions of morning. D. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort. [ 1913 Webster ]

A difference . . . between them and another description of public creditors. A. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The plates were all of the meanest description. Macaulay.

Syn. -- Account; definition; recital; relation; detail; narrative; narration; explanation; delineation; representation; kind; sort. See Definition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. descriptivus: cf. F. descriptif. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Descriptive anatomy, that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures. --
Descriptive geometry, that branch of geometry. which treats of the graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. )

-- De*scrip"tive*ly, adv. -- De*scrip"tive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]