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The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.

eighborhood of an object. Hills of circumdenudation, hills which have been produced by surface erosion; the elevations which have been left, after denudation of a mass of high ground. Jukes.

The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a concial surface.

The external surface of a sphere, or of any orbicular body.

Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness. With silent circumspection, unespied. Milton.

That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things. The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened. W. Irving.

evidence (Law), evidence obtained from circumstances, which necessarily or usually attend facts of a particular nature, from which arises presumption. According to some authorities circumstantial is distinguished from positive evidence in that the latter is the testimony of eyewitnesses to a fact or the admission of a…

Enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts.

a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.

ing, or the ability to hear, sounds not normally audible; -- usually claimed as a special faculty of spiritualistic mediums, or the like.

A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry. Macaulay.

A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes.

Having the surface marked with raised lines resembling a lattice, as many shells.

extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.

aving a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo. She has . . . a cold and clear-cut face. Tennyson.

rections, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.

ook, as for a pot over a fire; specif., an iron- headed golf club with a straight, narrow face and a long shaft.

One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.

support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.

n wholly or partially of threads of gold. -- Cloth measure, the measure of length and surface by which cloth is measured and sold. For this object the standard yard is usually divided into quarters and nails. -- Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth shearer, one wh…