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Same as Stupefacient. [Written also stupifactive.]

nything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body. The bright surface of this ethereous mold. Milton.

The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.

That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth of a millimeter, is considered to equal the radius of the sphere of molecular act…

A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.

A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease.

One who has a sickly, pale complexion. Shak.

Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.

Of or pertaining to both the temple and the face.

Act of tepefying.

The act or process of torrefying, or the state of being torrefied. Bp. Hall.

See Trigeminal.

Pertaining to tufa; consisting of, or resembling, tufa.

Producing swelling; tumefying.

The act or process of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumor; a swelling. Arbuthnot.

A subordinate party or faction.

An inferior or subordinate faculty.

To remove the face or cover from; to unmask; to expose.

Having but one front surface; as, some foliaceous corals are unifacial, the polyp mouths being confined to one surface.

Dissatisfaction. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.