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rugosity|ruːˈgɒsɪtɪ|
[ad. L. rūgōsitas or F. rugosité (16th c.): see rugose a. and -ity.]
1. The state of being rugose or wrinkled.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 265/1 This pomado maketh softe and whyte handes, and driveth away all rugositye therof. 1666J. Smith Old Age (1676) 63 Weaknesses..whether they be outward, as stiffness, contraction, rugosity; or inward. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 130 Having upon it both the rugosity, and suture of the Scrotum. a1788Pott Chirurg. Wks. II. 236 If the quantity of water be not large, nor the distension great, the skin preserves some degree of rugosity. 1866R. Tate British Mollusks iv. 194 The degree of rugosity or smoothness. 1876Spencer Princ. Sociol. (1877) I. 126 Exactly like in colour and rugosity to a piece of the bark.
2. With a and pl. A corrugation or wrinkle; a slight roughness or inequality.
1664Power Exp. Philos. 5 Little clea's or tallons..by which she [the fly] layes hold on the rugosities and asperities of all bodies she walks over. 1674Phil. Trans. IX. 10 Viewed in a Microscope, they appeared very polished, and without any rugosities. 1709Ibid. XXVII. 131 At the lower part of this rugosity the Bone is 13½ Inches in Circumference. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 155 The folia exceedingly thin, discovering rugosities. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 127 The fibres of wool..are covered with little rugosities, like pig's skin. 1887Ferguson Ogham Inscriptions 122 The surface, with its natural pittings and rugosities.
fig.1830Lytton Paul Clifford xiv, There is something so graceful..in her manner of smoothing down the little rugosities of Warlock House. 1900Morley O. Cromwell v. ix. 457 History is apt to smooth out these rugosities. 1969T. E. B. Howarth Culture, Anarchy & Public Schools iii. 54 It may..be doubted if the new sixth-former..will take kindly to the traditionally rigorous system of the old type of sixth form. He will expect his teachers to spare him the sterner rugosities. |