Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Description

Description , noun

[French description, Latin descriptio. See Describe.]

1.
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
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.
Milton has descriptions of morning. — D. Webster
3.
A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.
A difference... between them and another description of public creditors. — A. Hamilton
The plates were all of the meanest description. — Macaulay