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One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.

support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.

n wholly or partially of threads of gold. -- Cloth measure, the measure of length and surface by which cloth is measured and sold. For this object the standard yard is usually divided into quarters and nails. -- Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth shearer, one wh…

e name of certain South American monkeys of the genus Ateles, esp. A. paniscus. The black-faced coaita is Ateles ater. See Illustration in Appendix.

A kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron uniting timbers. [Also spelt coag.]

To set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner. They cocked their hats in each other's faces. Macaulay.

Hollow-seeded; having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends, as in coriander seed.

Rubblework faced with stone. Knight.

lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel.

like or unlike; -- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces. Solids and fluids differ in the degree of cohesion, which, being increased, turns a fluid into a solid. Arbuthnot.

The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc. Bentley.

g. The foxe, maister of collusion. Spenser. That they [miracles] be done publicly, in the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion. Atterbury. By the ignorance of the merchants or dishonesty of the weavers, or the collusion of both, the ware was bad and the price excessive. Swift.…

der black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime. [Archaic.] Thou hast not collied thy face enough. B. Jonson. Brief as the lighting in the collied night. Shak.

A money changer. [Obs.] In the face of these guilty collybists. Bp. Hall.

To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.

(Anat.), epithelium in which the cells are priismatic in form, and set upright on the surface they cover. -- Columnar structure (Geol.), a structure consisting of more or less regular columns, usually six-sided, but sometimes with eight or more sides. The columns are often fractured transversely, with a cup joint, sh…

In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.

The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc.

lace he found beyond expression bright, Compared with aught on earth. Milton. Compare our faces and be judge yourself. Shak. To compare great things with small. Milton.

To divide; to mark out into parts or subdivisions. [R.] The crystal surface is comparted all In niches verged with rubies. Glover.