Nevertheless, I rested my hand a moment upon his head, and then glided it in a semi-professional manner along the line of dorsal elevation, until I came to a deep depression in his backbone, which corresponded exactly with the convexity of the bottle.

The corn slides down the convexity of the lower stone, and by the motion of the upper, is ground in its passage."

He was a short, brisk little man with a pronounced abdominal convexity, and he maintained toward his superior, though but a few years his junior, a mingled attitude of awe, admiration and affection such as a dickey bird might adopt toward a distinguished owl.

In the eye it is the convexity of the lens that is altered so that the eye is capable of adjusting itself to different distances.

A convex lens may be needed to aid the failing power to increase the convexity of the lens, and to assist it in bringing the divergent rays of light to a focus.

The tuberosities of the humerus form the convexity of the shoulder.

When the arm is raised, the convexity disappears,there is a slight depression in its place.

The ring was then dropped to the floor so as to strike on the convexity just opposite to the walnut, which invariably was broken to pieces.

This change in the convexity of the lens is only a slight one, as the difference in the focal point between rays from an object twenty feet distant and one four inches distant is only one-tenth of an inch.

At that moment he glimpsed the convexity of Tump's stomach.

germination, growth, upgrowth^; accretion &c 35; budding, gemmation^. overgrowth, overdistension^; hypertrophy, tympany^. bulb &c (convexity) 250; plumper; superiority of size.

rotundity &c 249; convexity &c 250.

Convexity N. convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity^, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion; camber, cahot [U.S.].

Convexity N. convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity^, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion; camber, cahot [U.S.].

[prominent convexity on the face] proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz [Coll.].

Elevation N. elevation; raising &c v.; erection, lift; sublevation^, upheaval; sublimation, exaltation; prominence &c (convexity) 250. lever &c 633; crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch; dredge, dredger, dredging machine.

[ornamental surface pattern: list] pattern, diaper, powdering, paneling, graining, pargeting^; detail; repousse (convexity) 250; texture &c 329; richness; tracery, molding, fillet, listel^, strapwork^, coquillage

Unwritten Links of TravelDeparture from SouthamptonThe Bay of BiscayCintraTrafalgarGibraltar at MidnightLandingSearch for a Palm-TreeA Brilliant MorningThe Convexity of the EarthSun-WorshipThe Rock Chapter XXXIII.

The bulwarks are low, and the deck of such a convexity that it is quite impossible to walk it in a heavy sea.

Unwritten Links of TravelDeparture from SouthamptonThe Bay of BiscayCintraTrafalgarGibraltar at MidnightLandingSearch for a Palm-TreeA Brilliant MorningThe Convexity of the EarthSun-WorshipThe Rock.

Looking eastward to the horizon line of the Mediterranean, my sight extended so far, in the wonderful clearness of the air, that the convexity of the earth's surface was plainly to be seen.

The Superior Edge, outlining the superior margin of the laminal surface, describes a curve, with the convexity of the curve forward.

The first thing that strikes one is the convexity of the sole.

From the inside of this circle the snow was cut by means of a long knife in the form of slabs nearly a foot thick, and from two to three feet long, having a slight convexity on the outside.

The monocle did not move from its orbit, but a light ripple of surprise appeared to cross its luminous convexity.