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To convert into acid or vinegar.

That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.

Capable of being acidified, or converted into an acid.

Producing acidity; converting into an acid. Dana.

To make acid; to convert into an acid; as, to acidify sugar.

existence or state. Active capital, Active wealth, money, or property that may readily be converted into money.

To convert adipocere.

of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

Hydrolyzing fats; converting neutral fats into glycerin and free fatty acids, esp. by the action of an enzyme; as, adipolytic action.

To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.

The act of converting into forest or woodland. Blackstone.

To convert into agate; to make resemble agate. Dana.

To convert into alcohol; to rectify; also, to saturate with alcohol.

Capable of being alkalified, or converted into an alkali.

To convert into an alkali; to give alkaline properties to.

ar, surprise, or wonder; amazement. [Chiefly poetic] The wild, bewildered Of one to stone converted by amaze. Byron.

Any fermentation process by which ammonia is formed, as that by which urea is converted into ammonium carbonate when urine is exposed to the air.

To convert into English; to anglicize. Franklin. Darwin.

To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation.

A body formed from albumin by pancreatic and gastric digestion. It is convertible into antipeptone.