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n. The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of receiving electricity, or of being charged with it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not admitting of being vitrified, or converted into glass. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Composition in metrical form; versification. [ R. ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act or process of converting the standard system of units of a country to those of the metric system; metrication. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. nitrification. see Nitrify. ] 1. (Chem.) (a) The act, process, or result of combining with nitrogen or some of its compounds. (b) The act or process of oxidizing nitrogen or its compounds so as to form nitrous or nitric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A process of oxidation, in which nitrogenous vegetable and animal matter in the presence of air, moisture, and some basic substances, as lime or alkali carbonate, is converted into nitrates. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The process is going on at all times in porous soils and in water contaminated with nitrogenous matter, and is supposed to be due to the presence of a bacteria, such as members of the genus Azotobacter, formerly called nitrification ferments. In former times the process was extensively made use of in the production of saltpeter. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. (Chem.) An agent employed in nitrification. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. pétrifique. ] Petrifying; petrifactive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To petrify. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Our hearts petrificated were. J. Hall (1646). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. pétrification. See Petrify. ] 1. See Petrifaction. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: Obduracy; callousness. Hallywell. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. Converted into stone. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. Converted into a mineral; as, petrified wood.
Syn. -- mineralized. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. Same as terrified; as, petrified by the sight of the approaching bear.
Syn. -- panicky, panic-stricken, panic-struck, terrified, frightened. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. rendered unable to act due to intense fear. petrified with fear
Syn. -- frozen. [ PJC ]

5. Rendered lifeless or inactive; as, an imagination petrified by habitual television viewing.
Syn. -- frozen; ossified. [ PJC ]

n. Putrefaction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality or state of being semivitrified. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A substance imperfectly vitrified. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. trifidus; tri- (see Tri-) + the root of findere to split: cf. F. trifide. ] Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts; three-cleft. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. tri- + fistula, fistular. ] Having three pipes. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

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[ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. vitrifiable. ] Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Vitrifiable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To convert into glass; to vitrify. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Vitrify. ] Same as Vitrifaction. Sir T. Browne. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]