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e head of a child at its birth. It is deemed lucky to be with a caul or membrane over the face. This caul is esteemed an infallible preservative against drowning . . . According to Chysostom, the midwives frequently sold it for magic uses. Grose. I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers,…

A caustic curve or caustic surface.

lutions of the same. -- Caustic silver, nitrate of silver, lunar caustic. -- Caustic surface (Optics), a surface to which rays reflected or refracted by another surface are tangents. Caustic curves and surfaces are called catacaustic when formed by reflection, and diacaustic when formed by refraction.…

lief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around.

To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like.

The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.

A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.

the purpose of measuring the area or the volume generated by the rotation of a line or surface about a fixed axis, depending upon the principle that every figure formed by the revolution of a line or surface about such an axis has for measure the product of the line or surface by the length of the path of its center of…

A printing process of engraving on a surface of wax spread on a steel plate, for electrotyping.

y; in truth; verily. [Archaic] Certes it great pity was to see Him his nobility so foul deface. Spenser.

Washed with a preparation of white lead; as, cerused face. Beau. & Fl.

Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.

The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.

made in the ground; -- said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are afterward fired; also, designating the process of making such enamel work. --n.

Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone. [R.] His strange face, his strange chant. Macaulay. Ambrosian chant, See under Ambrosian. Chant royal Etym: [F.], in old French poetry, a poem containing five strophes of eleven lines each, and a concluding stanza. -- each of these six parts ending with a common refrain. --…

rack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain. Blackmore. Nor winter's blast chap her fair face. Lyly.

A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood. His head and face covered with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through. Howell.

aits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot.

allels of latitude at equal distances. -- Selenographic chart, a map representing the surface of the moon. -- Topographic chart, a minute delineation of a limited place or region.

A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.