Surface

sur′fās, n. the exterior part of anything.— adj. Sur′faced , having a surface.— ns. Sur′faceman , a miner employed in open-air working: a workman employed in keeping a railway-bed in repair; Sur′face-print′ing , printing from a relief surface, as cotton-cloth; Sur′facer , one who, or that which, smooths or levels a surface; Sur′face-ten′sion , in liquids, that property in virtue of which a liquid surface behaves as if it were a stretched elastic membrane—say a sheet of india-rubber; Sur′face-wa′ter , drainage-water; Sur′facing , the act of giving a certain surface to anything. [Fr., from sur —L. super , and face —L. facies .]