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To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc. For who would die to gratify a foe Dryden.

Full of whirlpools or gulfs. Chapman.

To record in or as history. [R.] Lamb. Thy conquest meet to be historified. Sir P. Sidney.

To horn; to cuckold. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror; as, the sight horrified the beholders. E. Irving.

Puffed up; as, huffy bread.

To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate. [R.] The humanifying of the divine Word. H. B. Wilson.

se or effect; to consider as the same in any relation. Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people and of the rulers. D. Ramsay. Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people. Burke.

To form into fire. [R.] Stukeley.

ge; to insure. The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out. Sir W. Temple.

To treat disdainfully or with indignity; to contemn. [Obs.] Spenser.

To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.

To put or insert between other strata.

To make, or to become, gelatinous; to jelly. -- Jel`li*fi*ca"tion (#), n.

A moment; an instant; as, I will be ready in a jiffy. [Colloq.] J. & H. Smith.

duty. That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Milton. Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify revolution, it would not justify the evil of breaking up a government. E. Everett.

To weaken or impair. [R.]

To make a lady of; to make ladylike. [Obs.] Massinger.

To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.

Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest. "The leafy month of June." Coleridge.