inscribing

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint. [1913 Webster]

Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone.— Pope.[1913 Webster]

2.To mark with letters, characters, or words. [1913 Webster]

O let thy once lov'd friend inscribe thy stone.— Pope.[1913 Webster]

3.To assign or address to; to commend to by a short address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

4.To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory. [1913 Webster]

5.(Geom.) To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries. [1913 Webster]

Note: A line is inscribed in a circle, or in a sphere, when its two ends are in the circumference of the circle, or in the surface of the sphere. A triangle is inscribed in another triangle, when the three angles of the former are severally on the three sides of the latter. A circle is inscribed in a polygon, when it touches each side of the polygon. A sphere is inscribed in a polyhedron, when the sphere touches each boundary plane of the polyhedron. The latter figure in each case is circumscribed about the former. [1913 Webster]