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 ]

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 ]

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

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 ]

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. [ 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 ]

n. [ OF. ] A writing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exscriptus, p. p. of exscribere. ] A copy; a transcript. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ex-+scriptural. ] Not in accordance with the doctrines of Scripture; unscriptural. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. imprescriptibilité. ] The quality of being imprescriptible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. im- not + prescriptible: cf. F. imprescriptible. ] 1. Not capable of being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, or by the claims of another founded on prescription; -- of rights. [ 1913 Webster ]

The right of navigation, fishing, and others that may be exercised on the sea, belonging to the right of mere ability, are imprescriptible. Vattel (Trans. ) [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not derived from, or dependent on, external authority; self-evidencing; obvious. [ 1913 Webster ]

The imprescriptible laws of the pure reason. Colerridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an imprescriptible manner; obviously. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + circumscriptible: cf. LL. incircumscriptibilis. ] Incapable of being circumscribed or limited. Cranmer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Condition or quality of being incircumscriptible or limitless. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not descriptive. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being inscribed; inscribable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inscriptio, fr. inscribere, inscriptum, to inscribe: cf. F. inscription. See Inscribe. ] 1. The act or process of inscribing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Anat.) A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bearing inscription; of the character or nature of an inscription. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. manu scriptus. See Manual, and Scribe. ] Written with or by the hand; not printed; as, a manuscript volume. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. manuscriptum, lit., something written with the hand. See Manuscript, a. ] 1. An original literary or musical composition written by the author, formerly with the hand, now usually by typewriter or word processor. It is contrasted with a printed copy. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. Writing, as opposed to print; as, the book exists only in manuscript. Craik. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word is often abbreviated to MS., plural MSS. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Manuscript. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A thing not yet described; that of which no account or explanation has been given; something abnormal, or hardly classifiable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. non- + L. descriptus described. ] 1. Not hitherto described; hence, of no recognizable type or class; odd; abnormal; unclassifiable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Dull or uninteresting; undistinguished. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. able to be sold legally without a doctor's prescription; over-the-counter; -- of medicinal drugs; as, Aspirin is a nonprescription antiinflammatory drug. Opposite of prescription. [ prenominal ]
Syn. -- non-prescription(prenominal), over-the-counter(prenominal), OTC. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. postscriptus, (assumed) p. p. of postscribere to write after; post after + scribere to write: cf. F. postscriptum. See Post-, and Scribe. ] A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and signed by the writer; an addition made to a book or composition after the main body of the work has been finished, containing something omitted, or something new occurring to the writer. [ Abbrev. P. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a postscript; added in a postscript. [ R. ] J. Q. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. praescriptus, p. p. of praescribere: cf. F. prescrit. See Prescribe. ] Directed; prescribed. “ A prescript from of words.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]