Calcify
- v. i. To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in which lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth.
- v. t. To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.