Search the Dictionary

Employed, or chiefly employed, in manufacture; as, a manufacturing community; a manufacturing town.

Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.

The production and working or manufacture of metals. [R.] R. Park.

The plea of the general issue in an action of debt on bond.

Not carrying on manufactures.

See Stupefaction. [Obs.] Howell.

Stupefactive. [Obs.]

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

See Olfactory, a.

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…

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

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

Pertaining to, or characterized by, petrifaction. The . . . petrifactive mutations of hard bodies. Sir T. Browne.

A making of, or turning into, fat.

Relating to a fact that occurs after another.

Same as Postfact.

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

Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process. Wiseman.

Putrefied. [Obs.] What vermin bred of putrifacted slime. Marston.