ossify
verb
1 ossify
Become bony.
2 ossify
Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern.
Roget 323: render hard etc. adj.; harden, stiffen, indurate, petrify, temper, ossify, vitrify; accrust†.
3 ossify
Cause to become hard and bony.
Dutch: verkalken
Moby thesaurus: anneal, brutalize, calcify, callous, case harden, cornify, firm, fossilize, harden, indurate, inure, lapidify, lithify, petrify, steel, temper, toughen, vitrify.
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