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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Silicified

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Silicifying

[L.

silex

silicis

, a flint +

-fy

: cf. F.

silicifier

(Chem.)

To convert into, or to impregnate with, silica, or with the compounds of silicon.

The specimens found . . . are completely

silicified

Say.

☞ The silica may take the form of agate, chalcedony, flint, hornstone, or crystalline quartz.

Verb.

To become converted into silica, or to be impregnated with silica.

Verb.

[L. silex, flint, and facio, to make.] To convert into silex. The specimens found near Philadelphia are completely silicified.

Verb.

To become silex.