Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Calcify

Calcify (kal"si*fī) , transitive verb

[Latin calx, calcis, lime + -fy.]

To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.

Calcify , intransitive verb

To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in which lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth.