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ominence; figure in relief; raised work; jut; protuberance; esp., a combination of raised surfaces having a decorative effect. "The embossment of the figure." Addison.

glued for scouring and polishing. -- Emery wheel, a wheel containing emery, or having a surface of emery. In machine shops, it is sometimes called a buff wheel, and by the manufacturers of cutlery, a glazer.

parative facility of emission, or rate at which emission takes place, as of heat from the surface of a heated body.

A variety of glass, used in ornament, to cover a surface, as of metal or pottery, and admitting of after decoration in color, or used itself for inlaying or application in varied colors.

Coated or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed. [Written also enamelled.]

Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.

ine enters the system through the skin, being applied either to the sound skin, or to the surface denuded of the cuticle by a blister.

The membrane lining the inner surface of the uterus, or womb.

Having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines.

haracters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper.

Toward the inside or central part; away from the surface; -- opposed to ectad. B. G. Wilder.

Being, or having its origin, within the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. Opposed to epiperipheral.

A curve or surface which is tangent to each member of a system of curves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law. Thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents. push the envelope. It is used to refer to the maximum performance available at…

That of the pericardium which forms the outer surface of the heart; the cardiac pericardium.

The outermost layer of the cells, which covers both surfaces of leaves, and also the surface of stems, when they are first formed. As stems grow old this layer is lost, and never replaced.

Formed originating on the surface of the earth; -- opposed to hypogene; as, epigene rocks.

Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk.

e of vegetable growth in which an organ grows more rapidly on its upper than on its under surface. See Hyponastic.

Connected with, or having its origin upon, the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to the feelings which originate at the extremities of nerves distributed on the outer surface, as the sensation produced by touching an object with the finger; -- opposed to entoperipheral. H. Spenser.…

A vegetable parasite growing on the surface of the body.