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See Stupefaction. [Obs.] Howell.

The sense by which the impressions made on the olfactory organs by the odorous particles in the atmosphere are perceived.

The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration. Jer. Taylor.

Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy. "Petrifaction of the soul." Cudworth.

A making of, or turning into, fat.

The condition of being putrefied; also, that which putrefied. "Putrefaction's breath." Shelley.

ocess of rarefying; the state of being rarefied; - - opposed to condensation; as, the rarefaction of air.

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

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.

The quality or state of being self-satisfied.

The act of sprinkling. [Obs.] Swift.

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.

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

Act of tepefying.

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

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

A subordinate party or faction.

Dissatisfaction. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The act, art, or process of vitrifying; also, the state of being vitrified.