All 9 Uses of
inscribe
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Making them pens was a distressid tough job, and so was the saw; and Jim allowed the inscription was going to be the toughest of all.
Chpt 38inscription = words written on something's surface
- But he had to have it; Tom said he'd GOT to; there warn't no case of a state prisoner not scrabbling his inscription to leave behind,
Chpt 38 *inscription = words written on something's surface (in this case something left by a prisoner on the prison wall)
- Jim's GOT to do his inscription and coat of arms.
Chpt 38inscription = words written on something's surface
- He'd got all that coat of arms business fixed, so now he started in to finish up the rest of that part of the work, which was to plan out a mournful inscription--
Chpt 38
- Then pretty soon he says: "Come to think, the logs ain't a-going to do; they don't have log walls in a dungeon: we got to dig the inscriptions into a rock."
Chpt 38
- We got to have a rock for the coat of arms and mournful inscriptions, and we can kill two birds with that same rock.
Chpt 38
- …on top of all the other work he had to do on pens, and inscriptions, and journals, and things, which made it more trouble and worry and responsibility to be a prisoner than anything he ever undertook, that Tom most lost all patience with him;
Chpt 38
- The shirt was sent in early, in a pie, and every time a rat bit Jim he would get up and write a little in his journal whilst the ink was fresh; the pens was made, the inscriptions and so on was all carved on the grindstone; the bed-leg was sawed in two, and we had et up the sawdust, and it give us a most amazing stomach-ache.
Chpt 39
- And we had to steal candles, and the sheet, and the shirt, and your dress, and spoons, and tin plates, and case-knives, and the warming-pan, and the grindstone, and flour, and just no end of things, and you can't think what work it was to make the saws, and pens, and inscriptions, and one thing or another, and you can't think HALF the fun it was.
Chpt 42
Definitions:
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(1)
(inscribe) to write or mark -- often by engraving or etching onto a surface
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In mathematics, inscribe means to draw a geometric shape within another geometric shape so that each vertex (corner or angle) of the enclosed shape touches the outer figure. For example, a square is inscribed in a circle when each corner of the square touches the circle.