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Recompense; atonemet; retribution. [Obs.] Howell.

A remaking or recasting; an adaptation, esp. of a literary work or musical composition.

Making red. -- n. (Med.)

The act or process of making red.

ce with its desires or demands. The mind having a power to suspend the execution and satisfaction of any of its desires. Locke.

Satisfactory. [Obs.] Satisfactive discernment of fish. Sir T. Browne.

Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation.

e party bringing it should not have advantage of such record, or (as in the case of scire facias to repeal letters patent) why the record should not be annulled or vacated. Wharton. Bouvier.

The quality or state of being self-satisfied.

Converting into sensation. Huxley.

Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest. Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people's prise. Dryden.

Over-bashful; sheepish.

The white indris of Madagascar. It is regarded by the natives as sacred.

Having one surface; -- said specif. of aëroplanes or aërocurves that are covered with fabric, etc., on only one side.

A soft-spoken, crafty hypocrite. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Having a feminine countenance or complexion; smooth-faced; girlish. Fenton.

Producing absorption. -- n.

The act of sprinkling. [Obs.] Swift.

Producing stupefaction; stupefactive. -- n. (Med.)

The act of stupefying, or the state of being stupefied. [Written also stupifaction.] Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it. South.