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Petrescence
n.
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The process of changing into stone; petrification.
Petrescent
a.
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Petrifying; converting into stone; as, petrescent water.
Petrifaction
n.
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The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.
Petrifaction
n.
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The state or condition of being petrified.
Petrifaction
n.
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That which is petrified; popularly, a body incrusted with stony matter; an incrustation.
Petrifaction
n.
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Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy.
Petrifactive
a.
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Having the quality of converting organic matter into stone; petrifying.
Petrifactive
a.
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Pertaining to, or characterized by, petrifaction.
Petrific
a.
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Petrifying; petrifactive.
Petrificate
v. t.
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To petrify.
Petrification
n.
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See Petrifaction.
Petrification
n.
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Fig.: Obduracy; callousness.
Petrified
imp. & p. p.
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of Petrify
Petrifying
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Petrify
Petrify
v. t.
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To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.
Petrify
v. t.
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To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young.
Petrify
v. i.
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To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
Petrify
v. i.
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Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
Petrine
a.
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Of or pertaining to St.Peter; as, the Petrine Epistles.
Petro-
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A combining form from Gr. / a rock, / a stone; as, petrology, petroglyphic.
Petrogale
n.
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Any Australian kangaroo of the genus Petrogale, as the rock wallaby (P. penicillata).
Petroglyphic
a.
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Of or pertaining to petroglyphy.
Petroglyphy
n.
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The art or operation of carving figures or inscriptions on rock or stone.
Petrographic
a.
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Alt. of Petrographical
Petrographical
a.
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Pertaining to petrography.
Petrography
n.
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The art of writing on stone.
Petrography
n.
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The scientific description of rocks; that department of science which investigates the constitution of rocks; petrology.
Petrohyoid
a.
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Pertaining to petrous, oe periotic, portion of the skull and the hyoid arch; as, the petrohyoid muscles of the frog.
Petrol
n.
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Petroleum.
Petrolatum
n.
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A semisolid unctuous substance, neutral, and without taste or odor, derived from petroleum by distilling off the lighter portions and purifying the residue. It is a yellowish, fatlike mass, transparent in thin layers, and somewhat fluorescent. It is used as a bland protective dressing, and as a substitute for fatty materials in ointments.