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The act of making cold. [Obs.]

Cooling. [Obs.] Boyle.

Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another. [R.] "The glass-faced flatterer." Shak.

Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager. Shak.

Incapable of being effaced; indelible; ineradicable.

So as not to be effaceable.

Dissatisfaction. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Included between two plane surfaces or faces; as, an interfacial angle.

Double-faced; deceitful. Janus-faced lock, one having duplicate faces so as to go upon a right or a left hand door, the key entering on either side indifferently. Knight.

fying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin. There is in it such a labefaction of all principles as may be injurious to morality. Johnson.

Having a thin face.

A writ of execution at common law.

That which serves to liquefy.

cess, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid by cold or pressure; as, the liquefaction of oxygen or hydrogen.

The act of lubricating, or making smooth. Ray. Bacon.

The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. [R.] Bacon.

A crime; an offense; an evil deed. [R.] Shak.

An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.

A female malefactor. Hawthorne.