January 12, 2011
Word of the Day: Ossify
Ossify
\AH-suh-fy\, intransitive verb
1. To change into bone, to become bony.
2. To become hardened or set in a rigidly conventional pattern
Origin:
Ossify
is from Latin
os, oss-,
"bone" +
-fy
, from Latin
-ficare
, akin to
facere
, "to make"
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