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Most distant; farthest. A spacious cave within its farmost part. Dryden.

A concave filling in of a reëntrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.

oForlese. [Obs.] The beasts their caves, the birds their neforlore. Fairfax.

heel. -- Spur gearing, gearing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.

n axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebræ convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel.

To shine with a bright, dazzling light. The cavern glares with new-admitted light. Dryden.

perfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton.

A concave molding; a cavetto. Gwilt.

scope, named from Prof. James Gregory, of Edinburgh, who perfected it in 1663. A small concave mirror in the axis of this telescope, having its focus coincident with that of the large reflector, transmits the light received from the latter back through a hole in its center to the eyepiece placed behind it. -- Gregoria…

A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.

A concave cut made in the teeth of some saw blades.

Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken. With hollow eye and wrinkled brow. Shak.

A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the concave side in the fixed circle. Cf. Epicycloid, and Trochoid.

traced by a point in the radius, or radius produced, of a circle which rolls upon the concave side of a fixed circle. See Hypocycloid, Epicycloid, and Trochoid.

oothed birds found in the American Cretaceous formation. It is remarkable for having biconcave vertebræ, and sharp, conical teeth set in sockets. Its wings were well developed. It is the type of the order Odontotormæ.

An extinct genus of marine reptiles; -- so named from their short, biconcave vertebræ, resembling those of fishes. Several species, varying in length from ten to thirty feet, are known from the Liassic, Oölitic, and Cretaceous formations.

A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.

A concave metallic mirror attached to the object-glass end of a microscope, to throw down light on opaque objects; a reflector.

t of fine manchet [white bread], and of silver two great post, and white wine, and sugar. Cavendish.

A den or cave.