Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CAL'CINE, v.t. [Fr. calciner; It. calcinare; Sp. calcinar; from calx. See Calx.]

1. To reduce a substance to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; or to expel from a substance some volatile matter, combined with it, or forming its cementing principle, as the carbonic acid from limestone, or the water of crystalization from salts.
2. To oxydize, as a metal; to reduce to a metallic calx.
3. To dissolve; to destroy the principles which unite. – Denham.