Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VIT'RE-OUS-NESS, n.

The quality or state of being vitreous; resemblance of glass.

VI-TRES'CENCE, n. [from L. vitrum, glass.]

Glassiness, or the quality of being capable of conversion into glass; susceptibility of being formed into glass. – Kirwan.

VI-TRES'CENT, a.

Capable of being formed into glass; tending to become glass.

VI-TRES'CI-BLE, a.

That can be vitrified. – Encyc.

VIT-RI-FAC'TION, n. [See Vitrify.]

The act, process or operation of converting into glass by heat; as, the vitrifaction of sand, flint and pebbles with alkaline salts.

VIT'RI-FI-A-BLE, a. [from vitrify.]

Capable of being converted into glass by heat and fusion. Flint and alkalies are vitrifiable.

VIT-RIF'IC-A-BLE, a. [for Vitrifiable. Not used.]

VIT'RIF-IC-ATE, v. [for Vitrify. Not used.]

– Bacon.

VIT-RIF-IC-A'TION, n. [for Vitrifaction. See Vitrifaction, which is generally used.]

VIT'RI-FI-ED, pp.

Converted into glass.

VIT'RI-FORM, a. [L. vitrum, glass, and form.]

Having the form or resemblance of glass. – Fourcroy.

VIT'RI-FY, v.i.

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

VIT'RI-FY, v.t. [L. vitrum, glass, and facio, to make.]

To convert into glass by fusion or the action of heat; as, to vitrify sand and alkaline salts.

VIT'RI-FY-ING, ppr.

Converting into glass.

VIT'RI-OL, n. [Fr. vitriol; It. vitriuolo; Sp. vitriolo; from L. vitrum, glass; from their crystaline form or their translucency, or perhaps from their color.]

1. In mineralogy, native vitriol is a substance of a grayish or yellowish white color, apple green or sky blue, and when decomposed, covered with an ochery crust. It occurs in masses, disseminated, stalactical, or capillary. Externally, it is dull and rough; internally, it is more or less shining, with a vitreous silky structure. It is called by manufacturers copperas, a name derived from the flower or efflorescence of copper. This substance is seen only in cabinets.
2. In chimistry, a combination of the acid of sulphur with any metallic oxyd; but chiefly green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; blue vitriol or sulphate of copper, and white vitriol, or sulphate of zink. Cyc. Fourcroy.

VIT'RI-OL-ATE, v.t.

To convert into a vitriol; as iron pyrites by the absorption of oxygen, which reduces the iron to an oxyd, and the sulphur to sulphuric acid. Thus the sulphuret of iron when vitriolated, becomes sulphate of iron or green vitriol.

VIT'RI-OL-A-TED, pp.

Converted into a sulphate or a vitriol.

VIT'RI-OL-A-TING, ppr.

Turning into a sulphate or a vitriol.

VIT-RI-OL-A'TION, n.

The act or process of converting into a sulphate or a vitriol.

VIT-RI-OL'IC, a.

Pertaining to vitriol; having the qualities of vitriol, or obtained from vitriol. Vitriolic acid, in modern chimistry is denominated sulphuric acid, the base of it being sulphur; one equivalent of sulphur combined with three equivalents of oxygen.

VIT'RI-OL-IZ-A-BLE, a.

Capable of being converted into a vitriol.

VIT-RI-OL-I-ZA'TION, n. [See VITRIOLATION.]

VIT'RI-OL-IZE, v.t. [See VITRIOLATE.]

VIT'RI-OL-IZ-ED, pp. [See VITRIOLATED.]

VIT'RI-OL-IZ-ING, ppr. [See VITRIOLATING.]