calcify

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: cal=ci=fy

CIDE DICTIONARY

calcify, v. t. [L. calx, calcis, lime + -fy.].

 To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.  [1913 Webster]

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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

calcify, v.tr. & intr. (-ies, -ied)
1 harden or become hardened by deposition of calcium salts; petrify.
2 convert or be converted to calcium carbonate.

Derivative

calcific adj. calcification n.