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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.

To give satisfaction; to afford gratification; to leave nothing to be desire.

urn to greatest scath. Spenser. Wherein Rome hath done you any scath, Let him make treble satisfaction. Shak.

Enjoyment of one's self; self-satisfaction.

Giving satisfaction to one's self.

A somewhat similar expression of countenance, indicative of satisfaction combined with malevolent feelings, as contempt, scorn, etc; as, a scornful smile.

That which supplies a want; assistance; a gratification; satisfaction. [R.] The perfume and suppliance of a minute. Shak.

pt, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit. Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer. Num. xxxv. 31. Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore. 1 Tim. v. 10.

To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.

That which affords entertainment; a gratification; a satisfaction; as, the concert was a rich treat.

nmixed; unqualified; pure; as, unalloyed metals; unalloyed happiness. I enjoyed unalloyed satisfaction in his company. Mitford.

that the profits in the mean time shall be received by the mortgagee without account, in satisfaction of interest. Burrill. -- Welsh mutton, a choice and delicate kind of mutton obtained from a breed of small sheep in Wales. -- Welsh onion (Bot.), a kind of onion (Allium fistulosum) having hollow inflated stalks and…