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a negative, a transparent drawing, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface. Printed goods, textile fabrics printed in patterns, especially cotton cloths, or calicoes.

uble refraction is thrown out of the field by total reflection from the internal cemented surface, and the extraordinary, or polarized, image alone is transmitted.

To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle.

Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep. "A gulf profound." Milton.

Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane. Conical projection, a mode of representing the sphere, the spherical surface being projected upon the surface of a cone tangent to the sphere, the point of sight being at the center of the sphere. -- Cylindric projection, a mode of representing the sphe…

A jutting out beyond a surface.

Standing out, or projecting, beyond the line surface of something; jutting; protuberant; in high relief; as, a prominent figure on a vase.

The act of turning the palm or palmar surface of the forefoot downward.

Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level. Since the floods demand, For their descent, a prone and sinking land. Blackmore.

Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate Elyot. Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire. Milton.

That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation. Solar protuberances (Astron.), certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which are seen to extend beyond the edge of the moon at the time of a so…

Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye. -- Pro*tu"ber*ant*ly, adv.

To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.

The act of swelling beyond the surrounding surface. Cooke (1615).

The surface of constant negative curvature generated by the revolution of a tractrix. This surface corresponds in non-Euclidian space to the sphere in ordinary space. An important property of the surface is that any figure drawn upon it can be displaced in any way without tearing it or altering in size any of its eleme…

e developed in the form of broad, thin, winglike organs, with which they swim at near the surface of the sea.

erficial growth of vascular tissue radiating in a fanlike manner from the cornea over the surface of the eye.

Having nearly the whole surface of the skin covered with down; dasypædic; -- said of the young of certain birds.

Having a finely powdered surface; pulverulent.

Marked with small spots. The studs have their surface punctulated, as if set all over with other studs infinitely lesser. Woodward.