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The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2.

nser. Through his life's whole date. Chapman. To bear date, to have the date named on the face of it; -- said of a writing.

The hypothetical line on the surface of the earth fixed by international or general agreement as a boundary on one side of which the same day shall have a different name and date in the calendar from its name and date on the other side.

The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface.

A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces. [Written also, less correctly, decaedron.]

Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity.

ame given by Haüy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced.

Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea. The water where the brook is deep. Shak.

At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply.

Disfigurement; deformity. [Obs.] "Strange defeatures in my face." Shak.

A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction.

The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means. Knight.

Soft and fair; -- said of the skin or a surface; as, a delicate cheek; a delicate complexion.

by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints shades; accurate and minute representation, as distinguished from art that is careless of details, or subordi…

A solid bounded by twelve quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the isometric system, allied to the tetrahedron.

A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank.

ton. Nan was very much delighted in her demure way, and that delight showed itself in her face and in her clear bright eyes. W. Black.

The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.

process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.

A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.