- (n.) Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy.
- (n.) The process of petrifying or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone or a substance of stony hardness.
- (n.) The state or condition of being petrified.
- (n.) That which is petrified; popularly, a body incrusted with stony matter; an incrustation.
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