rugosity

We are going, in the first place, to examine if the _subject_ presents on all parts of the body, and especially on the breast, this miliary eruption, so symptomatic, according to Huxman: and you will assure yourselves, by feeling the subject, of the kind of rugosity this eruption causes.

Mysteries of Paris, V3 Eug��ne Sue 1830

In addition, there is the noun "rugosity," which can refer to either the quality or state of being full of wrinkles or an individual wrinkled place.

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My eyes scoured the blank rock for the tiniest rugosity onto which I could plant a foot.

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Now I have to get one to avoid hand rugosity explanations… :

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Kutter's alone seemed to be of general applicability; when the surface slope measurement is good, and the rugosity coefficient known for the site -- both doubtful matters -- it would probably give results within 7½ per cent. of error.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 Various

To those who receive such presents from the East, I may just say that this and such like materials gradually undergo a change which gives them on the surface a dull and dead appearance; but they may easily be restored to their original beauty if the surface be rubbed with a clean cloth or silk handkerchief, so as to polish the little rugosity or roughness: this will restore the beauty of the colors.

The Chemical History of a Candle 1909

I have noticed that the jays get careless as to the size or accessibility of the hole they drop provisions into -- indeed they will place them sometimes in little more than a rugosity or wrinkle of the bark.

A Tramp's Notebook Morley Roberts 1899

Yet, when one might have expected to find hands of a talon-like knottiness, to correspond with the sparse rugosity of his person, one found to one's astonishment the most delicately shaped hands in the world, with long, sensitive, nervous fingers, like those of the thousands of artists who have lived and died without being able to express themselves in any artistic medium.

The Mountebank William John Locke 1896

It is very abundant, but so exactly does it resemble the bark in colour and rugosity, and so closely does it cling to the branches, that until it moves it is absolutely invisible!

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

Some of these are a foot long and as thick as one's finger, and their whole colouring, form, rugosity, and the arrangement of the head, legs, and antennæ, are such as to render them absolutely identical in appearance with dead sticks.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868