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In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20.

The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.

The upper surface of the toes, individually.

The entire upper surface of the foot.

Pertaining to or affecting the surface.

e divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface. Simpson.

Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.

The front edge (in direction of motion) of a supporting surface; -- contr. with following edge, which is the rear edge.

hing blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.

act with the air and need oxygen for their growth; as the microbacteria which form on the surface of putrefactive fluids.

A modification of the aëroplane, having curved surfaces, the advantages of which were first demonstrated by Lilienthal.

A plane or arched surface for sustaining bodies by its movement through the air; a spread wing, as of a bird.

Not forming an angle. Agonic line (Physics), an imaginary line on the earth's surface passing through those places where the magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.

(Aëronautics) A small plane or surface capable of being manipulated by the pilot of a flying machine to preserve or destroy lateral balance; a hinged wing tip; a lateral stabilizing or balancing plane.

n gasoline-engine motor vehicles, the cooling of the cylinder by increasing its radiating surface by means of ribs or radiators, and placing it so that it is exposed to a current of air. Cf. Water cooling. -- Air"-cooled`, a.

A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and then distributed through a building.

Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface.

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

are found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast plains. R. Cobden.

Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.