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Petrifaction :: Petrifaction (n.) The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness..

Loy :: Loy (n.) A long, narrow spade for stony lands..

Holosiderite :: Holosiderite (n.) Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.

Rock :: Rock (n.) A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.

Madrepore :: Madrepore (n.) Any coral of the genus Madrepora; formerly, often applied to any stony coral..

Mineralization :: Mineralization (n.) The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature.

Lithoidal :: Lithoidal (a.) Like a stone; having a stony structure.

Isis :: Isis (n.) Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isidae, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints. See Gorgoniacea..

Petrify :: Petrify (v. i.) Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate..

Stood :: Stony (superl.) Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze..

Calcify :: Calcify (v. t.) To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.

Decalcify :: Decalcify (v. t.) To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin..

Devitrification :: Devitrification (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..

Lithiasis :: Lithiasis (n.) The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages..

Calcification :: Calcification (n.) The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue..

Calcify :: Calcify (v. i.) To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in which lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth..

Stonish :: Stoniness (n.) The quality or state of being stony.

Lapidify :: Lapidify (v. i.) To become stone or stony.

Petrosal :: Petrosal (a.) Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal part of the temporal bone..

Petrify :: Petrify (v. t.) To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance..

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