non-descript
Collocations
4ADJ.
animal, over
VERB + NON-DESCRIPT
ornamented, remains
NON-DESCRIPT + NOUN
animals
PREP.
with
Definitions
adj
Alternative form of nondescript.
On the top of it we gathered ſeveral ſpecies of heath, ſome wild celery, a few ſhrubs, and ſome non-deſcript plants; […]
THE curiosity of the scientific world has for a long time been justly excited by the fossil remains of a non-descript animal, which have been found in North America and Siberia, but generally in so mutilated a condition as to give but very imperfect ideas either of the size or kind of animal to which they must have belonged.
noun
Alternative form of nondescript.
IT becomes the duty of the Editor, as much as it is his inclination, to return his public and grateful acknowledgments to the Gentlemen, through whoſe abilities and liberal communications, in the province of Natural Hiſtory, he has been enabled to ſurmount thoſe difficulties that neceſſarily attended the deſcription of ſo great a variety of animals, preſented for the firſt time to the obſervation of the Naturaliſt, and conſequently in the claſs of Non-deſcripts.
Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs, ſatyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe; but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical non-deſcript.
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6On the top of it we gathered ſeveral ſpecies of heath, ſome wild celery, a few ſhrubs, and ſome non-deſcript plants; […]
WiktionaryTHE curiosity of the scientific world has for a long time been justly excited by the fossil remains of a non-descript animal, which have been found in North America and Siberia, but generally in so mu
Wiktionary[…] the pedestal, which is an irregular octagon, is ornamented with four non-descript animals, scaled over their breasts; […]
WiktionaryIT becomes the duty of the Editor, as much as it is his inclination, to return his public and grateful acknowledgments to the Gentlemen, through whoſe abilities and liberal communications, in the prov
WiktionaryImagination has given figure and character to centaurs, ſatyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe; but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical non-deſcript.
WiktionaryIt is with reluctance I find myſelf obliged to remark, that the literary world is infeſted with a kind of loathſome reptile, of the claſs of non-deſcripts, for it cannot be ranked with propriety among
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