Vitrify

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  • intransitive verb. To change or make into glass or a glassy substance, especially through heat fusion.
  • intransitive verb. To become vitreous.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To convert into glass by the action of heat. See glass.
  • To become glass; be converted into glass.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To become glass; to be converted into glass.
  • transitive verb. To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to be made into glass, especially through heat
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. undergo vitrification; become glassy or glass-like
  • verb. change into glass or a glass-like substance by applying heat
  • Word Usage
    "The painting with vitreous colours on glass depends entirely on the same principles as painting in enamel, and he manner of executing it is likewise the same, except that in this the transparency of the colours being indispensably requisite no substance can be used to form them but such as vitrify perfectly, since, without such vitrification, there can be no transparency."
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