calcify : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: calcify	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for calcify
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
calcify v become impregnated with calcium salts Antonym(s): decalcify become inflexible and unchanging; "Old folks can calcify" turn into lime; become calcified; "The rock calcified over the centuries" convert into lime; "the salts calcified the rock"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Calcify \Cal"cify\ (k[acr]l"s[icr]f[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Calcified} (-f[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Calcifying}.] [L. calx, calcis, lime + -fy.] To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Calcify \Cal"ci*fy\, v. i. To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in which lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth.