'He's got an abrasion on the knob of his right-hand front paw,' says he.

Besides these, there were two contusions, one upon the back of the head, the other upon the forehead, with a slight abrasion of the eyebrow.

The abrasion of the skin in the canal thus produced affords a favorable soil for the growth of vegetable parasites.

[reduce in size by abrasion or paring.

"Kill me, or I shall destroy everything!" He held her close to him, with so rough a grasp that she could scarcely breathe, crying: "When a child steals, it is punished!" A few drops of blood appeared and trickled down her rounded shoulder, where an abrasion had cut the delicate satin skin.

The slightest defect or abrasion is immediately repaired by one of these stone-breakers Stevenson mentions, a solitary individual, his eyes concealed behind large green goggles, to protect them from the glare and the flying bits of stone.]

In five minutes he would have confided to her the principal details, and she would have understood, and then he could describe his agonizing and humiliating half-hour in the Abbey, and she would pour her magic oil on that dreadful abrasion of his sensitiveness.

Three times in its descent the cord was parted by abrasion, but at last, securing the weight with a leather band, I was enabled to ascertain by a measurement which I think quite exact, the height of the fall.

This in being applied to the gear retains the small particles of mica, which soon imbed themselves in every little abrasion or rough place in the gearing, and the surface quickly becomes hard and smooth throughout the entire face of the engaging gear, and your gear will run quiet, and if your gearing is not out of line will stop cutting if applied in time.

The abrasion was so serious that Americans were not safe over the Mexican boundary, and Mexicans were in danger in the boundaries of the United States.

No matter if but the abrasion of the skin, the puncture of the flesh, or the nipping of an ear, she would betray it involuntarily.

Here he not only found abundance of water for all he wanted, but to his surprise he also found a sandy bottom, formed no doubt by the particles washed from the surrounding rocks under the never-ceasing abrasion of the waves.

Framed through a great gap in the wall of the church of Amance was an immense Christ on the cross without a single abrasion, and a pile of debris at its feet.

Fragments might strike it without causing more than an abrasion; for big guns have pretty thick cuticles.

One had an abrasion, a tracery of dents.

If such be the case, can it have the power of retaining the germ in the womb, when on the most minute examination of the young, I could not detect, by cicatrice or line of abrasion on any part of the abdomen, that they ever possessed umbilical vessels, or had been in any way nourished by a placenta?

ABRASION AND INDENTATION Abrasion: The machine used by the U.S. Forest Service is a modified form of the Dorry abrasion machine.

ABRASION AND INDENTATION Abrasion: The machine used by the U.S. Forest Service is a modified form of the Dorry abrasion machine.

ABRASION AND INDENTATION Abrasion: The machine used by the U.S. Forest Service is a modified form of the Dorry abrasion machine.

The size of the section under abrasion for each specimen is 2" X 2".

A comparison of the wear of the two blocks affords a fair idea of their relative resistance to abrasion.

By comparison with the original weight the loss from abrasion is determined, and by comparison with a certain wood chosen as a standard, a coefficient of wear-resistance can be obtained.

The artistic effect is further enhanced by the relief of exquisite flesh tones against the rich crimson drapery, and although the atmospheric glow has been sadly destroyed by abrasion and repainting, we may still feel something of the magic charm which Giorgione knew so well how to impart.

In spite of abrasion, in spite of the loss of glow, in spite of much that disfigures, nay disguises, the master's own touch, I feel confident that Giorgione and no other produced this beautiful picture.

Thus nature lends a gradual protective hardening to a tender surface during abrasion with a coarser thing.