Category:Vitrify

Vit"ri*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vitrified; p. pr. & vb. n. Vitrifying.] Etym: [f. vitrifier; l. vitrum glass + -ficare to make. See vitreous, -fy.]

Defn: to convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy Substance, by heat and fusion.

Vitrify Vit"ri*fy, v. t.

Defn: to become glass; to be converted into glass. Chymists make vessels of animal substances, calcined, which will not Vitrify in the fire. Arbuthnot.