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An apparatus for diffusing a solution, as brine or vinegar, over a large surface, for exposure to the air.

Production of decorative designs by scratching them through a surface of layer plaster, glazing, etc., revealing a different- colored ground; also, pottery or ware so decorated; -- chiefly used attributively.

The transplanting of a portion of flesh or skin to a denuded surface; autoplasty.

To raise in granules or small asperities; to make rough on the surface.

One of the small, red, grainlike prominences which form on a raw surface (that of wounds or ulcers), and are the efficient agents in the process of healing.

aphic arts, a name given to those fine arts which pertain to the representation on a fiat surface of natural objects; as distinguished from music, etc., and also from sculpture. -- Graphic formula. (Chem.) See under Formula. -- Graphic granite. See under Granite. -- Graphic method, the method of scientific analysis…

A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or bru…

A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning. Grate surface (Steam, Boiler) the area of the surface of the grate upon which the fuel lies in the furnace.

e who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.

To cook, as macaroni, in a savory juice or sauce until juice is absorbed and a crisp surface forms.

To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.

The surface formed by two such vaults.

The surface of the earth; the outer crust of the globe, or some indefinite portion of it. There was not a man to till the ground. Gen. ii. 5. The fire ran along upon the ground. Ex. ix. 23. Hence:

Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator; as:

t, a glutton. [Obs.] Chapman. -- Gully hole, the opening through which gutters discharge surface water.

A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay.

A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See Hatching.

Having fine, short, and sharp points on the surface; as, the hackly fracture of metallic iron.

ernating transparent and opaque white rings which are seen outside the blastoderm, on the surface of the developing egg of the hen and other birds.

Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.