Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of becoming glassy, or of being turned into glass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That may be vitrified; vitrifiable.
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- adjective That may be
vitrified ;vitrifiable .
Etymologies
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Compare French vitrescible.
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Examples
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But as ordinary clay is hardly at all vitrescible, they have not been able to succeed in their attempt; but, instead of that, the stones, by thegrt-at heat applied to them, have been scorched in the manner they row ap - pear, and the clay between themhas been burnt to afhes.
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