calcify
(verb) convert into lime; “the salts calcified the rock”
calcify
(verb) turn into lime; become calcified; “The rock calcified over the centuries”
calcify
(verb) become impregnated with calcium salts
calcify
(verb) become inflexible and unchanging; “Old folks can calcify”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
calcify (third-person singular simple present calcifies, present participle calcifying, simple past and past participle calcified)
(transitive) To make something hard and stony by impregnating with calcium salts.
(intransitive) To become hard and stony by impregnation with calcium salts.
Source: Wiktionary
Cal"ci*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Calcified; p. pr. & vb. n. Calcifying.] Etym: [L. calx, calcis, lime + -fy.]
Definition: To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
Cal"ci*fy, v. i.
Definition: To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 May 2025
(adjective) not tried or tested by experience; “unseasoned artillery volunteers”; “still untested in battle”; “an illustrator untried in mural painting”; “a young hand at plowing”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
