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To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reduce from an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat globules are in a very finely divided state, giving it the semblance of solution; as, the pancreatic juice emulsifies the oily part of food.

To damnify; to injure. [R.] Sandys.

To make eternal. [Obs.] Fame . . . eternifies the name. Mir. for Mag.

To show or illustrate by example. He did but . . . exemplify the principles in which he had been brought up. Cowper.

To make false; to represent falsely. The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. Spenser.

To make fruitful; to fecundate. Johnson.

To make happy; to felicitate. [Obs.] Quarles.

To make fine; to dress finically. [Obs.] Hath so pared and finified them [his feet.] B. Jonson.

To change to fish. [R.] Shak.

Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy. "The carpets were fluffy." Thackeray. The present Barnacle . . . had a youthful aspect, and the fluffiest little whisker, perhaps, that ever was seen. Dickens. -- Fluff"i*ness, n.

To make a fool of; to befool. [R.] Holland.

To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify. Milton.

was fortified by pride. Gibbon. Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution. Sir W. Scott.

To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. Burke.

To bear fruit. "Causeth the earth to fructify." Beveridge.

Light; puffy. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U. S.]

To subject to the action of smoke. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To convert into gas, or an aëriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.

See Jiffy.

rt, by ascribing glory to; to asknowledge the excellence of; to render homage to; to magnify in worship; to adore. That we for thee may glorify the Lord. Shak.