diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 24d8805..07bada6 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ install-manpages:
 	install -c -m 644 man/retro.1 $(MANDIR)/retro.1
 	install -c -m 644 man/retro-embedimage.1 $(MANDIR)/retro-embedimage.1
 	install -c -m 644 man/retro-extend.1 $(MANDIR)/retro-extend.1
+	install -c -m 644 man/retro-describe.1 $(MANDIR)/retro-describe.1
 	install -c -m 644 man/retro-muri.1 $(MANDIR)/retro-muri.1
 	install -c -m 644 man/retro-unu.1 $(MANDIR)/retro-unu.1
 
diff --git a/man/retro-describe.1 b/man/retro-describe.1
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9940682
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/retro-describe.1
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+.Dd March 2019
+.Dt RETRO-DESCRIBE 1
+.Os
+.Sh RETRO-DESCRIBE
+.Nm retro-describe
+.Nd "a modern, pragmatic forth development system"
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm
+wordname
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+RETRO is a modern, pragmatic Forth drawing influences from many
+sources. It's clean, elegant, tiny, and easy to grasp and adapt
+to various uses.
+
+.Nm
+is a tool for looking the description and stack comments for
+words in the core language and extensions.  It will write output
+to stdout.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Charles Childers Aq Mt crc@forthworks.com