- Small depression - Small hollow - A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface
of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin. - A slight indentation on any surface. - To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little
inequalities. - To mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions.
- Nicking - Scoring, ... up - of Notch - The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small
hollows. - The small hollow, or hollows, cut; a notch or notches. - A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching
them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched
portions. - A method of excavating, as in a bank, by a series of
cuttings side by side. See also Gulleting.
- Little sac or cyst - A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell. - A small bladderlike body in the substance of vegetable, or
upon the surface of a leaf. - A small, and more or less circular, elevation of the
cuticle, containing a clear watery fluid. - A cavity or sac, especially one filled with fluid; as, the
umbilical vesicle. - A small convex hollow prominence on the surface of a shell
or a coral. - A small cavity, nearly spherical in form, and usually of
the size of a pea or smaller, such as are common in some volcanic
rocks. They are produced by the liberation of watery vapor in the
molten mass.
- A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap
bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river. - A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as,
bubbles rising in champagne or aerated waters. - A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent
solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens. - A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for
testing the strength of spirits. - The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level. - Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is
more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive
scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea
bubble. - A person deceived by an empty project; a gull.
- A pimple; a small, usually conical, elevation of the
cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy
of tissue; a papule. - One of the numerous small hollow processes of the
integument between the plates of starfishes.