calcine

• "Brother" or "sister" was usual ... and whoever had instructed her would have told her the exact words to say. —  Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
• Soften, calcine, and fall like dust away, —  The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
• How much the constitution of our bodies and the make of our animal spirits are concerned in this; and whether the temper of the brain makes this difference, that in some it retains the characters drawn on it like marble, in others like freestone, and in others little better than sand, I shall not here inquire; though it may seem probable that the constitution of the body does sometimes influence the memory, since we oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all those images to dust and confusion, which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble. —  God, Aids & Circumcision
• (1677-8), in the Philosophical Transactions, vol.ii. p. 418, where he says, "After they have pounded their ore, their first work is to calcine it, which is done in kilns, much after the fashion of ordinary lime-kilns, These they fill up to the top with coal and ore, stratum super stratum, until it be full; and so setting fire to the bottom, they let it burn till the coal be wasted, and then renew the kilns with fresh ore and coal, in the same manner as before. —  Industrial Biography
• - —  The Zero

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