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A hard stone, as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light.

The side of the face below the eye.

a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold. [Slang.]

The face; the countenance or its expression. [Obs.] "Sweat of thy cheer." Wyclif.

A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.

A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces [Spelt also chiliaëdron.]

A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.

Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel.

The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.

science which treats of the laws of distribution of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc. Its distribution or chorology. Huxley.

Like a chub; plump, short, and thick. "Chubby faces." I. Taylor.

eighborhood of an object. Hills of circumdenudation, hills which have been produced by surface erosion; the elevations which have been left, after denudation of a mass of high ground. Jukes.

The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a concial surface.

The external surface of a sphere, or of any orbicular body.

A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes.

Having the surface marked with raised lines resembling a lattice, as many shells.

extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.

aving a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo. She has . . . a cold and clear-cut face. Tennyson.

rections, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.

ook, as for a pot over a fire; specif., an iron- headed golf club with a straight, narrow face and a long shaft.