orient ness (orientnes)

The state of being orient or bright; luster; brightne : spe cifically applied to diamonds. Hakluyt's Voy ages, III. 269. or i facial (or-i-fa's hal), a. [L. os (or-), mouth, + facies, face: see facial.] Noting the angle defined below. Or i facial angle, in craniom., the an gle between the facial line of Camper and the plane of the lower surfaces of the upper teeth. orifext (or'i-feks), n. [An erroneous form of orifice (apparently simulating artifex with regard to artifice ).] An opening; aperture; ori fice. All my entrails bathed In blood that strain eth from their orifex . Marlowe , Tamburlaine, II., iii. 4. And yet the spacious breadth of this division Admits no orifex for a point as subtle As Ariachne's broken woof to enter. Shak., T. and C., v. 2. 151.