Description

1. n. A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.
2. n. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
3. n. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.