Arefaction

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 8

ar-e-fak′shun, n. ( obs. ) the action of drying.— v.t. and v.i. Ar′efy , to dry up, wither. [L. arefacĕre , to make dry— arēre , to be dry, and facĕre , to make.]