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The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface.

The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat.

The upper border or part of a décolleté corsage.

od shells of the genus Spirifer. Delthyris limestone (Geol.), one of the divisions of the Upper Silurian rocks in New York.

Concave on the upper side; -- said of a leaf whose disk is lower than the border.

The upper voice in part music.

this would be the left side. Dexter chief, or Dexter point (Her.), a point in the dexter upper corner of the shield, being in the dexter extremity of the chief, as A in the cut. -- Dexter base, a point in the dexter lower part or base of the shield, as B in the cut.

tract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower. -- Diminished, or Diminishing, scale, a scale of gradation used in finding the different points for drawing the spiral curve of the volute. Gwilt. -- Diminishing rule (Arch.), a board cut w…

Conversation; talk. In their discourses after supper. Shak. Filling the head with variety of thoughts, and the mouth with copious discourse. Locke.

ct tetrachords (Mus.), tetrachords so disposed to each other that the gravest note of the upper is one note higher than the acutest note of the other.

Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.

A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.

A government of Upper Egypt.

Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.

The back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue.

d), a rail whose flanges are duplicates, so that when one is worn the other may be turned uppermost.

Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets.

pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select. Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples. Holwell.

The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.