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A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing. Dunglison.

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.

way, so as to give nearly true edges; -- said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.

Having a broad, flat face.

Relating to a fact that occurs after another.

Same as Postfact.

oem; an introduction, or series of preliminary remarks. This superficial tale Is but a preface of her worthy praise. Shak. Heaven's high behest no preface needs. Milton.

The writer of a preface.

At first view; on the first appearance. Prima facie evidence (of a fact) (Law), evidence which is sufficient to establish the fact unless rebutted. Bouvier.

o you! -- a familiar salutation or welcome. [Obs.] Master page, good master page, sit. Proface! Shak.

Having a face like a monkey or a pug; monkey-faced.

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.

White-faced; -- used contemptuously. Clarke.

Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.

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