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- English Word Petrify Definition To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.
- English Word Petrify Definition To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young.
- English Word Petrify Definition To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
- English Word Petrify Definition Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
- English Word Petrifying Definition of Petrify
- English Word Petrine Definition Of or pertaining to St.Peter; as, the Petrine Epistles.
- English Word Petro- Definition A combining form from Gr. / a rock, / a stone; as, petrology, petroglyphic.
- English Word Petrogale Definition Any Australian kangaroo of the genus Petrogale, as the rock wallaby (P. penicillata).
- English Word Petroglyphic Definition Of or pertaining to petroglyphy.
- English Word Petroglyphy Definition The art or operation of carving figures or inscriptions on rock or stone.
- English Word Petrographic Definition Alt. of Petrographical
- English Word Petrographical Definition Pertaining to petrography.
- English Word Petrography Definition The art of writing on stone.
- English Word Petrography Definition The scientific description of rocks; that department of science which investigates the constitution of rocks; petrology.
- English Word Petrohyoid Definition Pertaining to petrous, oe periotic, portion of the skull and the hyoid arch; as, the petrohyoid muscles of the frog.
- English Word Petrol Definition Petroleum.
- English Word Petrolatum Definition 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.
- English Word Petroleum Definition Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by pressure of the gas attending it. It consists of a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may vary much in appearance, composition, and properties. It is refined by distillation, and the products include kerosene, benzine, gasoline, paraffin, etc.
- English Word Petroleur Definition Alt. of Petroleuse
- English Word Petroleuse Definition One who makes use of petroleum for incendiary purposes.