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Roughness or ruggedness. [Obs.] Feltham.

The quality of a body by which it excites the sensation of taste.

The quality or state of being schistose.

A mineral occurring in steel-gray flexible folia. It contains iron, nickel, and phosphorus, and is found only in meteoric iron.

A morbid induration, as of a gland; stste of being scirrhous.

rst sacrilege is looked on with horror; but when they have made the breach, their scrupulosity soon retires. Dr. H. More. Careful, even to scrupulosity, . . . to keep their Sabbath. South.

action originating in one's self or in itself. These molecular blocks of salt are self-posited. Tyndall.

The act of disposing or arranging one's self or itself. The self-positing of the molecules. R. Watts.

ssing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver. Sensitivity and emotivity have also been used as the scientific term for the capacity of feeling. Hickok.

To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate.

An agent that sensitizes. The sensitizer should be poured on the middle of the sheet. Wilis & Clements (The Platinotype).

An instrument or apparatus for comparing and grading the sensitiveness of plates, films, etc., as a screen divided into squares of different shades or colors, from which a picture is made on the plate to be tested.

See Sensory.

The quality or state of being sensuous; sensuousness. [R.]

The quality or state of being sententious. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To set aside; to give up. [Obs.]

The act of setting aside, or of giving up. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

The quality or state of being serous.

ies of windings; a wave line; a curve. A line of coast certainly amounting, with its sinuosities, to more than 700 miles. Sydney Smith.