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. (Geom.) To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the
boundaries.
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.