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w, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland.

f 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.

A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.

e, have the same relative size as the real surfaces; that is, so that the relative actual areas of the different countries are accurately represented by the corresponding portions of the map.

The Cæsarean section. See under Cæsarean.

uages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.

The morbid condition of a limited area resulting from such obstruction; as, a hemorrhagic infarct.

That which integrates; esp., an instrument by means of which the area of a figure can be measured directly, or its moment of inertia, or statical moment, etc., be determined.

tress of forty pounds which is distributed uniformly over a surface of four square inches area is ten pounds per square inch.

In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum.

A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177 Bartlett.

ers. Lacustrine deposits (Geol.), the deposits which have been accumulated in fresh-water areas. -- Lacustrine dwellings. See Lake dwellings, under Lake.

A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll. Lagoon island, a coral island consisting of a narrow reef encircling a lagoon.

ression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.

ome to man and beast. -- Land measure, the system of measurement used in determining the area of land; also, a table of areas used in such measurement. -- Land, or House, of bondage, in Bible history, Egypt; by extension, a place or condition of special oppression. -- Land o' cakes, Scotland. -- Land of Nod, sleep.…

A cutting through the walls of the abdomen, as in the Cæsarean section.

a planet with respect to the sun is an ellipse, the sun being in one of the foci. (2) The areas swept over by a vector drawn from the sun to a planet are proportioned to the times of describing them. (3) The squares of the times of revolution of two planets are in the ratio of the cubes of their mean distances. -- Law…

Learned or literary men. See Literatus. Shakespearean commentators, and other literati. Craik.

A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens (Roccella tinctoria, Lecanora tartarea, etc.), as a blue amorphous mass which consists of a compound of the alkaline carbonates with certain coloring matters related to orcin and orcein.

Capable of affording lodging; fit for lodging in. [R.] " The lodgeable area of the earth." Jeffrey.