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A smelling organ; a nose. [R.]

Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the sense of smell; as, the olfactory nerves; the olfactory cells. Olfactory organ (Anat.), an organ for smelling. In vertebrates the olfactory organs are more or less complicated sacs, situated in the front part of the head and lined with epithelium innervated by the olfactory (or…

rom doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation.

ment in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.

To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. (a) To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. (b) To direct one's speech or discourse to.

To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.

The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another.

authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.

Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown /or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter.

To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute. No man was able to answer him a word. Matt. xxii. 46. These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant. Milton. The reasoning was not and could not be answered. Macaulay.

Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer. The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable. Johnson.

A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords. [U.S.]

the parties have made an arrangement between themselves concerning their disputes; a satisfactory arrangement.

An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.

The prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before the sermon.

The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out. Craig.

A factotum. [R.] He is his master's both-hands, I assure you. B. Jonson.

A place of confinement for malefactors Shak. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage. Lovelace.

See Calefactory. [R.]

Of or pertaining to process of using the calorimeter. Satisfactory calorimetric results. Nichol.