Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Vitrify

Vitrify , transitive verb

[French vitrifier; Latin vitrum glass + -ficare to make. See Vitreous, -fy.]

To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.

Vitrify , transitive verb

To become glass; to be converted into glass.
Chymists make vessels of animal substances, calcined, which will not vitrify in the fire. — Arbuthnot