Chapter Visitable to Vitrificate of V by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

2. Of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass; as, vitreous electricity.

Vitreous body (Anat.), the vitreous humor. See the Note under Eye. — Vitreous electricity (Elec.), the kind of electricity excited by rubbing glass with certain substances, as silk; positive electricity; — opposed to resinous, or negative, electricity. — Vitreous humor. (Anat.) See the Note under Eye. — Vitreous sponge (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of siliceous sponges having, often fibrous, glassy spicules which are normally six-rayed; a hexactinellid sponge. See Venus's basket, under Venus.

Vitreousness
(Vit"re*ous*ness), n. The quality or state of being vitreous.

Vitrescence
(Vi*tres"cence) n. The quality or state of being vitreous; glassiness, or the quality of being vitrescent; capability of conversion into glass; susceptibility of being formed into glass. Kirwan.

Vitrescent
(Vi*tres"cent) a. [See Vitreous.] Capable of being formed into glass; tending to become glass.

Vitrescible
(Vi*tres"ci*ble) a. [Cf. F. vitrescible.] That may be vitrified; vitrifiable.

Vitric
(Vit"ric) a. [L. vitrum glass.] Having the nature and qualities of glass; glasslike; — distinguished from ceramic.

Vitrifaction
(Vit`ri*fac"tion) n. [Cf. Vitrification.] The act, art, or process of vitrifying; also, the state of being vitrified.

Vitrifacture
(Vit`ri*fac"ture) n. [L. vitrum glass + facere, factum, to make.] The manufacture of glass and glassware.

Vitrifiable
(Vit"ri*fi`a*ble) a. [Cf. F. vitrifiable.] Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable.

Vitrificable
(Vi*trif"i*ca*ble) a. Vitrifiable. [Obs.]

Vitrificate
(Vit"ri*fi*cate) v. t. To convert into glass; to vitrify. [Obs.] Bacon.