Wordnet 3.0
VERB (4)
1.
become impregnated with calcium salts;
2.
become inflexible and unchanging;
- Example: "Old folks can calcify"3.
turn into lime;
become calcified;
- Example: "The rock calcified over the centuries"4.
convert into lime;
- Example: "the salts calcified the rock"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Calcify \Cal"ci*fy\ (k[a^]l"s[i^]*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.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
calcify
v 1: become impregnated with calcium salts [ant: decalcify]
2: become inflexible and unchanging; "Old folks can calcify"
3: turn into lime; become calcified; "The rock calcified over
the centuries"
4: convert into lime; "the salts calcified the rock"