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- Contour - n. - The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery.
- Contour - n. - The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification.
- Contourne' - a. - Turned in a direction which is not the usual one; -- said of an animal turned to the sinister which is usually turned to the dexter, or the like.
- Contourniated - a. - Having furrowed edges, as if turned in a lathe.
- Surveying - n. - That branch of applied mathematics which teaches the art of determining the area of any portion of the earth's surface, the length and directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole on paper; the act or occupation of making surveys.
- Dry - superl. - Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring.
- Contorniate - n. - A species of medal or medallion of bronze, having a deep furrow on the contour or edge; -- supposed to have been struck in the days of Constantine and his successors.
- Feather - n. - One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
- Hydrography - n. - That branch of surveying which embraces the determination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars.
- Hypoptilum - n. - An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.