Word Meanings - PETRIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. Kirwan. 2. To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify
Additional info about word: PETRIFY
1. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. Kirwan. 2. To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. "Petrifying accuracy." Sir W. Scott. And petrify a genius to a dunce. Pope. The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. De Quincey. A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition. G. Eliot.
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- STONEBRASH
A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash. - ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - CONVERTIBILITY
The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - SUBSTANCE
To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich. - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - MATTER
1. To be of importance; to import; to signify. It matters not how they were called. Locke. 2. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. "Each slight sore mattereth." Sir P. Sidney. - STONEROOT
A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse. - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - PARALYZE
1. To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy. 2. Fig.: To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts. - STONY
1. Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust. 2. Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific. The stony dart of senseless cold. - ANIMALCULIST
1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism. - ANIMAL
1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process - RIVER
One who rives or splits. - CONVERTIBLY
In a convertible manner. - STONE-STILL
As still as a stone. Shak. - STONE-BLIND
As blind as a stone; completely blind. - RIVERLING
A rivulet. Sylvester. - TRANSFORMATION
The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically: -- - PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - CAPSTONE
A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap. - CLINKSTONE
An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite. - GRINDSTONE
A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed, - MOORSTONE
A species of English granite, used as a building stone. - RUBSTONE
A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub. - GRINDLE STONE
A grindstone. - EYESTONE
Eye agate. See under Eye. (more info) 1. A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, - INCONVERTED
Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne. - TURNSTONE
Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and - GALLSTONE
A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1. - EAGLESTONE
A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aƫtites. - RECONVERTIBLE
Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition. - CROSS-STONE
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