2. To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint. [ 1913 Webster ]

We shall see
Justice design the victor's chivalry. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Meet me to-morrow where the master
And this fraternity shall design. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ask of politicians the end for which laws were originally designed. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was designed to the study of the law. Dryden.

Syn. -- To sketch; plan; purpose; intend; propose; project; mean. [ 1913 Webster ]

Design for, to intend to go to. [ Obs. ] “From this city she designed for Collin [ Cologne ].” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; -- often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot. [ 1913 Webster ]

The vast design and purpos&unr_; of the King. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

The leaders of that assembly who withstood the designs of a besotted woman. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

A . . . settled design upon another man's life. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

How little he could guess the secret designs of the court! Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mus.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arts of design, those into which the designing of artistic forms and figures enters as a principal part, as architecture, painting, engraving, sculpture. --
School of design, one in which are taught the invention and delineation of artistic or decorative figures, patterns, and the like.

Syn. -- Intention; purpose; scheme; project; plan; idea. -- Design, Intention, Purpose. Design has reference to something definitely aimed at. Intention points to the feelings or desires with which a thing is sought. Purpose has reference to a settled choice or determination for its attainment. “I had no design to injure you, ” means it was no part of my aim or object. “I had no intention to injure you, ” means, I had no wish or desire of that kind. “My purpose was directly the reverse, ” makes the case still stronger. [ 1913 Webster ]

Is he a prudent man . . . that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to the remaining part of his life? Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

I wish others the same intention, and greater successes. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is the purpose that makes strong the vow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To call by a distinctive title; to name. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; as, to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.

Syn. -- To name; denominate; style; entitle; characterize; describe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The usual designation of the days of the week. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase. [ 1913 Webster ]

Finite and infinite seem . . . to be attributed primarily, in their first designation, only to those things which have parts. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who designates. [ 1913 Webster ]