Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SU-PER-FI'CIES
SU-PER-FI'CIAL-NESSSU'PER-FINE
SU-PER-FI'CIES, n. [L. from super, upon, and facies, face.]
The surface; the exterior part of a thing. A superficies consists of length and breadth; as, the superficies of a plate or of a sphere. Superficies is rectilinear, curvilinear, plane, convex or concave.
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