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A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.

parallels of latitude at equal distances. -- Selenographic chart, a map representing the surface of the moon. -- Topographic chart, a minute delineation of a limited place or region.

To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.

A hard stone, as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light.

A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces [Spelt also chiliaëdron.]

An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it. Raymond.

Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel.

The exterior or under surface embraced between the branches of the lower jaw bone, in birds.

The science which treats of the laws of distribution of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc. Its distribution or chorology. Huxley.

e neighborhood of an object. Hills of circumdenudation, hills which have been produced by surface erosion; the elevations which have been left, after denudation of a mass of high ground. Jukes.

The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a concial surface.

The external surface of a sphere, or of any orbicular body.

Having the surface marked with raised lines resembling a lattice, as many shells.

ull extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.

directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.

One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.

t a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.

oven wholly or partially of threads of gold. -- Cloth measure, the measure of length and surface by which cloth is measured and sold. For this object the standard yard is usually divided into quarters and nails. -- Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth shearer, one…

d of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface.

her like or unlike; -- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces. Solids and fluids differ in the degree of cohesion, which, being increased, turns a fluid into a solid. Arbuthnot.