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To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.

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  1. v. t. To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.
  2. v. t. To become glass; to be converted into glass.
  3. v. change into glass or a glass-like">glass-like substance by applying heat
  4. v. undergo vitrification; become glassy or glass-like
  5. To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion. To become glass; to be converted into glass. Chymists make vessels of animal substances, calcined, which will not vitrify in the fire. Arbuthnot.
  6. To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassysubstance, by heat and fusion.
  7. v. change into glass or a glass-like">glass-like substance by applying heat v. undergo vitrification; become glassy or glass-like