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The surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut.

cycle. -- Cycle of eclipses, a priod of about 6,586 days, the time of revolution of the moon's node; -- called Saros by the Chaldeans. -- Cycle of indiction, a period of 15 years, employed in Roman and ecclesiastical chronology, not founded on any astronomical period, but having reference to certain judicial acts wh…

An order of fishes, formerly proposed by Agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and salmon. The group is now regarded as artificial.

and long body; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough- haired and the smooth-haired.

A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc.

Dark; gloomy. "The darkling precipice." Moore.

To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal. So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue. Shak.

w of approaching sunrise. And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve. Thomson. No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day. Hood.

r the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below.

day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.

er Set. -- Dead shot. (a) An unerring marksman. (b) A shot certain to be made. -- Dead smooth, the finest cut made; -- said of files. -- Dead wall (Arch.), a blank wall unbroken by windows or other openings. -- Dead water (Naut.), the eddy water closing in under a ship's stern when sailing. -- Dead weight. (a) A h…

The wane of the moon. Bacon.

Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon.

Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame.

Slight or smooth; light and yielding; -- said of texture; as, delicate lace or silk.

A melting or maudlin mood. Carlyle.

Which to that shady delve him brought at last The very tigers from their delves Look out. Moore.

Fully prostrate; humble; low; rude. [Obs.] How may weak mortal ever hope to file His unsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate style. G. Fletcher.

"[The moon] was dichotomized." Whewell.

That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.