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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint. Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone. Pope.

2. To mark with letters, charakters, or words. O let thy once lov'd friend inscribe thy stone. Pope.

3. To assign or address to; to commend to by a shot address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend. Dryden.

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

5. To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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