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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"