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The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel. Ure.

A kind of dress goods, made with a soft and glossy surface like cashmere.

A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air.

Any violent catastrophe, involving sudden and extensive changes of the earth's surface.

A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes. Whewell.

A dich or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.

A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir.

rement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb).…

c battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode. Faraday. Cathode ray (Phys.), a kind of ray generated at the cathode in a vacuum tube, by the electrical discharge.…

A caustic curve or caustic surface.

solutions of the same. -- Caustic silver, nitrate of silver, lunar caustic. -- Caustic surface (Optics), a surface to which rays reflected or refracted by another surface are tangents. Caustic curves and surfaces are called catacaustic when formed by reflection, and diacaustic when formed by refraction.…

relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around.

To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like.

The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.

A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.

or the purpose of measuring the area or the volume generated by the rotation of a line or surface about a fixed axis, depending upon the principle that every figure formed by the revolution of a line or surface about such an axis has for measure the product of the line or surface by the length of the path of its center…

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

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

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

ons 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.