v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Acetified p. pr. & vb. n. Acetifying ] [ L. acetum vinegar + -fly. ] To convert into acid or vinegar. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To turn acid. Encyc. Dom. Econ. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Acidified p. pr. & vb. n. Acidifying ] [ L. acidus sour, acid + -fy: cf. F. acidifier. ] 1. To make acid; to convert into an acid; as, to acidify sugar. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To sour; to imbitter. [ 1913 Webster ]

His thin existence all acidified into rage. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. adsignificare to show. ] To denote additionally. [ R. ] Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. aër air + -fly. ] 1. To infuse air into; to combine air with. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To change into an aëriform state. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Affied p. pr. Affying. ] [ OF. afier, LL. affidare. Cf. Affiance. ] 1. To confide (one's self to, or in); to trust. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To betroth or espouse; to affiance. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To bind in faith. [ Obs. ] Bp. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To trust or confide. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. alacer, alacris, lively + -fly. ] To rouse to action; to inspirit. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Alkalified p. pr. & vb. n. Alkalifying. ] [ Alkali + -fly: cf. F. alcalifier. ] To convert into an alkali; to give alkaline properties to. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become changed into an alkali. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Amplified p. pr. & vb. n. Amplifying. ] [ F. amplifier, L. amplificare. See Ample, -fy. ] 1. To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Rhet.) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become larger. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Strait was the way at first, withouten light,
But further in did further amplify. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

He must often enlarge and amplify upon the subject he handles. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make like an angel; to angelize. [ Obs. ] Farindon (1647). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ NL. Anglicus English + -fly. ] To anglicize. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Anglified p. pr. & vb. n. Anglifying. ] [ L. Angli + -fly. ] To convert into English; to anglicize. Franklin. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. arere to be dry + -fly. ] To dry, or make dry. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ Argue + -fy. ] 1. To argue pertinaciously. [ Colloq. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To signify. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. to transform into gold. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to turn golden. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Baff, v. t. ] (Golf) A short wooden club having a deeply concave face, seldom used. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ Balm + -fy. ] To render balmy. [ Obs. ] Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Base + -fy. ] (Chem.) To convert into a salifiable base. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Beatified p. pr. & vb. n. Beatifying. ] [ L. beatificare; beatus happy (fr. beare to bless, akin to bonus good) + facere to make: cf. F. béatifier. See Bounty. ] 1. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment. “Beatified spirits.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (R. C. Ch.) To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of “the blessed, ” and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Beautified p. pr. & vb. n. Beautifying. ] [ Beauty + -fy. ] To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish. [ 1913 Webster ]

The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To adorn; grace; ornament; deck; decorate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become beautiful; to advance in beauty. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inclined to bo bluff; brusque. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. bonus good + -fy: cf. F. bonifier. ] To convert into, or make, good. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bonify evils, or tincture them with good. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Brutified p. pr. & vb. n. Brutifying. ] [ Brute + -fy: cf. F. brutifier. ] To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize. [ 1913 Webster ]

Any man not quite brutified and void of sense. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Resembling, or characterized by, buff. [ 1913 Webster ]

Buffy coat, the coagulated plasma of blood when the red corpuscles have so settled out that the coagulum appears nearly colorless. This is common in diseased conditions where the corpuscles run together more rapidly and in denser masses than usual. Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Calcified p. pr. & vb. n. Calcifying. ] [ L. calx, calcis, lime + -fy. ] To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in which lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Calefied p. pr. & vb. n. Calefying. ] [ L. calere to be warm + -fy ] To make warm or hot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow hot or warm. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. or v. i. [ L. candificare; candëre to be white + -facere to make. ] To make or become white, or candied. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Capacified ] [ L. capax, -acis, capacious + -fy. ] To quality. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ LL. carnificare, fr. L. caro, carnis, flesh + facere to make: cf. F. carnifier. ] To form flesh; to become like flesh. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. caelestis heavenly + -fly. ] To make like heaven. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Certified p. pr. & vb. n. Certifying. ] [ F. certifier, LL. certificare; L. certus certain + facere to make. See Certain, and cf. Certificate, v. t. ] 1. To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain. [ 1913 Webster ]

We certify the king, that . . . thou shalt have no portion on this side the river. Ezra iv. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give certain information of; to make certain, as a fact; to verify. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

The industry of science at once certifies and greatly extends our knowledge of the vastness of the creation. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To testify to in writing; to make a declaration concerning, in writing, under hand, or hand and seal. [ 1913 Webster ]

The judges shall certify their opinion to the chancellor, and upon such certificate the decree is usually founded. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Certified check, A bank check, the validity of which is certified by the bank on which it is drawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Light or worthless as chaff. [ 1913 Webster ]

Slight and chaffy opinion. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) (a) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales. (b) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ Gr. cho`ndros cartilage + -fy. ] To convert, or be converted, into cartilage. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Fat or puffed out in the cheeks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Rough; clownish; surly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ Chyle + -ly. ] (Physiol.) To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Chyme + -fy: cf. F. chymifier. ] (Physiol.) To form into chyme. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clarified p. pr. & vb. n. Clarifying. ] [ F. clarifier, from L. clarificare; clarus clear + facere to make. See Clear, and Fact. ] 1. To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup. “Boiled and clarified.” Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate. [ 1913 Webster ]

To clarify his reason, and to rectify his will. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To glorify. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Fadir, clarifie thi name. Wyclif (John ii. 28). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To grow clear or bright; to clear up. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the discoursing with another. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Classified p. pr. & vb. n. Classifying. ] [ L. classis class + -fy. ] To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

Syn. -- To arrange; distribute; rank. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having cliffs; broken; craggy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cockney + -fy. ] To form with the manners or character of a cockney. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Codified p. pr. & vb. n. Codifying. ] [ Code + -fy: cf. F. codifier. ] To reduce to a code, as laws. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. comfortable. [ informal ]. uncomfortable [ WordNet 1.5 ]