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Half acidified.

Imperfectly changed into stone. Kirwan.

Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.

Combined or impregnated with silicon or silica, especially the latter; as, silicified wood.

One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer. [Used humorously or in contempt.] G. Eliot.

An attendant bearing a staff. [Obs.] "Staffiers on foot." Hudibras.

Having its substance arranged in strata, or layers; as, stratified rock.

One who stultifies.

Having been made stupid.

Quality of being stupid.

One who, or that which, stupefies; a stupefying agent.

One who testifies; one who gives testimony, or bears witness to prove anything; a witness.

One who, or that which, typifies. Bp. Warburton.

One who, or that which, unifies; as, a natural law is a unifier of phenomena.

Destitute of a bony structure.

Not stratified; -- applied to massive rocks, as granite, porphyry, etc., and also to deposits of loose material, as the glacial till, which occur in masses without layers or strata.

One who, or that which, verifies.

One who versifies, or makes verses; as, not every versifier is a poet. Dryden.

One who vilifies or defames.

Converted into glass.