Word Meanings - SILICIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To convert into, or to impregnate with, silica, or with the compounds of silicon. The specimens found . . . are completely silicified. Say. Note: The silica may take the form of agate, chalcedony, flint, hornstone, or crystalline quartz.
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- QUARTZITE
Massive quartz occurring as a rock; a metamorphosed sandstone; -- called also quartz rock. - 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. - FOUNDATION
The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, - FOUNDER
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. - FLINTWOOD
An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis. - HORNSTONE
A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert. - FOUND
imp. & p. p. of Find. - FOUNDATIONER
One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school. - CONVERTIBLY
In a convertible manner. - FOUNDEROUS
Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke. - FLINTWARE
A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely. Knight. - FLINTINESS
The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty. Beau. & Fl. - QUARTZOID
A form of crystal common with quartz, consisting of two six- sided pyramids, base to base. - QUARTZOUS
Quarzose. - FOUNDRESS
A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund. - FOUNDERY
See FOUNDRY - IMPREGNATE
To come into contact with so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate. 3. To infuse an active principle into; to render frutful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue. 4. To infuse particles of another substance into; - CRYSTALLINE
1. Consisting, or made, of crystal. Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. Shak. 2. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. Their crystalline structure. Whewell. 3. Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, - FLINTLOCK
1. A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on stricking the steel ignites the priming. 2. A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies. - CONVERTIBLE
1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable. - BASILIC; BASILICAL
Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm. (more info) 1. Royal; kingly; also, basilican. - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - EKASILICON
The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See Germanium, and cf. Ekkabor. - GAGATE
Agate. Fuller. - INCONVERTED
Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne. - SEMICRYSTALLINE
Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter. - RECONVERTIBLE
Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition. - UNCONVERTED
1. Not converted or exchanged. 2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter. - RUNAGATE
A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade. Bunyan. Wretched runagates from the jail. De Quincey. Who has not been a runagate from duty Hare. - REFRAGATE
To oppose. Glanvill. - PHASE CONVERTER
A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency. - HYPOCRYSTALLINE
Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass. - MICROCRYSTALLINE
Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline. - INCONVERTIBLE
Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.