- To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the
action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as
carbonic acid from limestone, and thus (usually) to produce
disintegration; as to, calcine bones. - To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce
to a metallic calx. - To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or
into a calx, by the action of heat.
Definition
[ v. i.]