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▪ I. calcining, vbl. n.|kælˈsaɪnɪŋ| [f. calcine v. + -ing1.] The process of reducing to a calx, burning to ashes, or subjecting to a roasting heat.
c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 218 The care and wo That we hadden in oure matires sublymyng And in almalgamyng and calceniyng Of quyk siluer. 1601Holland Pliny, Expl. Wds. of Art, Calcining, the burning of a minerall, or any thing, for to correct the malignitie of it, or reduce it into pouder. 1641French Distill. i. (1651) 9 Corrosion is the Calcining of bodies by corrosive things. 1861W. Fairbairn Addr. Brit. Assoc., The different processes, from the calcining of the ore to the production of the bar. attrib.1662Merrett Neri's Art of Glass ii, The Calcar is a kind of calcining furnace. 1875Ure Dict. Arts I. 914 The Calcining Furnace rests upon a vault. 1876R. Routledge Discov. 28 Large calcining kilns. ▪ II. calcining, ppl. a.|kælˈsaɪnɪŋ| [f. as prec. + -ing2.] That calcines.
1644–58Cleveland Gen. Poems (1677) 15 No more of your calcining Flame. 1757Dyer Fleece (1807) 97 Dissolving water's, and calcining sun's and thieving air's attacks. |