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Recompense; atonemet; retribution. [Obs.] Howell.

The act of drying, or the state of growing dry. The arefaction of the earth. Sir M. Hale.

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

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

The act or process of torrefying, or the state of being torrefied. Bp. Hall.

The science of measuring the air, including the doctrine of its pressure, elasticity, rarefaction, and condensation; pneumatics.

A microörganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. Sternberg.

Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.

A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.

Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

Not liable to putrefaction; nonputrescent. -- n.

A sirupy, nontoxic ptomaine, C5H14N2 (chemically pentamethylene diamine), formed in putrefaction of flesh, etc.

state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to "generation". Bacon.

To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. Ure.

as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.

An instrument for measuring the degree of rarefaction of air contained in the receiver of an air pump. [Spelt also elaterometer.]

ices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction. Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm embalmed Israel. Gem. l. 2.

enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.

Having an offensive smell; stinking. Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy. Bacon.

partly filled with mercury, -- used to indicate pressure, as of steam, or the degree of rarefaction produced in the receiver of an air pump or other vacuum; a manometer. -- Sliding gauge. (Mach.) (a) A templet or pattern for gauging the commonly accepted dimensions or shape of certain parts in general use, as screws,…