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External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere. Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man Resemble that it was. Shak.

Surface; superficies; externality.

Outwardly; externally; on the exterior. Shak. They are exteriorly lifelike. J. H. Morse.

a station." Thackeray. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, And wisdom falls before exterior grace. Cowper.

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell.

A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril. Gray.

A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.

A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense. [Written also bayle.] [Obs.]

The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.

The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.

Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone. R. Owen. Centripetal force (Mech.), a force whose direction is towards a center, as in case of a planet revolving round the sun, the center of the system, See Centrifugal force, under Centrifugal. -- Cen…

he spinal cord to the brain and so transfer sensations (centripetal impressions) from the exterior inwards.

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

e higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.

The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery. Ray.

The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border. [Obs.] From the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea, shall your coast be. Deut. xi. 24.

The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness. A smooth, uniform convexity and rotundity of a globe. Bentley.

The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain.

One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.