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Faculae :: Faculae (n. pl.) Groups of small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere..

Directrix :: Directrix (n.) A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating a surface..

Outcrop :: Outcrop (v. i.) To come out to the surface of the ground; -- said of strata.

Topsoil :: Topsoil (n.) The upper layer of soil; surface soil.

Ophthalmometer :: Ophthalmometer (n.) An instrument devised by Helmholtz for measuring the size of a reflected image on the convex surface of the cornea and lens of the eye, by which their curvature can be ascertained..

Lambent :: Lambent (a.) Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over.

Float :: Float (v. i.) A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die..

Hyponasty :: Hyponasty (n.) Downward convexity, or convexity of the inferior surface..

Lake :: Lake (n.) A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area..

Mantle :: Mantle (v. i.) To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool..

Mosaic :: Mosaic (n.) A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work..

Blanch :: Blanch (a.) To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices..

Notaeum :: Notaeum (n.) The back or upper surface, as of a bird..

Hyetograph :: Hyetograph (n.) A chart or graphic representation of the average distribution of rain over the surface of the earth.

Silky :: Silky (superl.) Covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, as a leaf; sericeous..

Deep :: Deep (superl.) Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea..

Grater :: Grater (a.) One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs..

Sense :: Sense (v. t.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface..

Cream :: Cream (n.) The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface..

Lyra :: Lyra (n.) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; -- so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.

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