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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Surface

Sûr'face, n.

noun

n. [Fr. surface. See SUPERFICIES, and SUR and FACE.]

  1. The exterior part of any thing that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid; superficies; outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body; a spherical surface.
  2. Hence, outward or external appearance. “Vain and weak understandings, which penetrate no deeper than the surface.” Knox.
  3. (Geom.) A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies.
  4. (Fort.) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion. Stocqueler.

Surface condensation. See CONDENSATION.—Surface condenser. See CONDENSER.

Sûr'face, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. 1. To give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain. 2. To work over the surface or soil of, as ground, in hunting for gold.