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A printing process of engraving on a surface of wax spread on a steel plate, for electrotyping.

Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact. The dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. Dan. ii. 45.

A fact or truth unquestionable established. Certainties are uninteresting and sating. Landor.

y; in truth; verily. [Archaic] Certes it great pity was to see Him his nobility so foul deface. Spenser.

A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior.

To give certain information of; to make certain, as a fact; to verify. Hammond. The industry of science at once certifies and greatly extends our knowledge of the vastness of the creation. I. Taylor.

Washed with a preparation of white lead; as, cerused face. Beau. & Fl.

Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.

ion; mortification. I must own that I felt rather vexation and chagrin than hope and satisfaction. Richard Porson. Hear me, and touch Belinda with chagrin. Pope.

The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.

made in the ground; -- said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are afterward fired; also, designating the process of making such enamel work. --n.

an axis, as in cutting screws, gear, etc. -- To ring the changes on, to present the same facts or arguments in variety of ways.

Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone. [R.] His strange face, his strange chant. Macaulay. Ambrosian chant, See under Ambrosian. Chant royal Etym: [F.], in old French poetry, a poem containing five strophes of eleven lines each, and a concluding stanza. -- each of these six parts ending with a common refrain. --…

rack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain. Blackmore. Nor winter's blast chap her fair face. Lyly.

A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood. His head and face covered with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through. Howell.

aits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot.

Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent. What charitable men afford to beggars. Shak.

allels of latitude at equal distances. -- Selenographic chart, a map representing the surface of the moon. -- Topographic chart, a minute delineation of a limited place or region.

due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges. The king [John, a.d. 1215], with a facility somewhat suspicious, signed and sealed the charter which was required of him. This famous deed, commonly called the "Great Charter," either granted or secured very important liberties and privileges to every order of men…

A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.