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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
calcify
v 1: become impregnated with calcium salts [ant: {decalcify}]
2: turn into lime; become calcified; "The rock calcified over
the centuries"
3: convert into lime; "the salts calcified the rock"
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