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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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To convert into a salifiable base.

BEATIFY v. 3 definitions

supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness. The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth. Barrow.

BEAUTIFY v. 2 definitions

autiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish. The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke.

Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy.

BLUFFY a. 2 definitions

Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks.

To convert into, or make, good. To bonify evils, or tincture them with good. Cudworth.

To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize. Any man not quite brutified and void of sense. Barrow.

Resembling, or characterized by, buff. Buffy coat, the coagulated plasma of blood when the red corpuscles have so settled out that the coagulum appears nearly colorless. This is common in diseased conditions where the corpuscles run together more rapidly and in denser masses than usual. Huxley.

CALCIFY v. 2 definitions

To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.

CALEFY v. 2 definitions

To make warm or hot.

To make or become white, or candied. [R.]

To quality. [R.] The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.

To form flesh; to become like flesh. Sir M. Hale.

To make like heaven. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

CERTIFY v. 3 definitions

To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain. We certify the king, that . . . thou shalt have no portion on this side the river. Ezra iv. 16.

CHAFFY a. 4 definitions

Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. Coleridge.

To convert, or be converted, into cartilage.

CHUFFY a. 2 definitions

Fat or puffed out in the cheeks.

To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle.

To form into chyme.