Meaning

• To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.

• To produce rigidity akin to stone.

• To immobilize with fright.

• To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.

• To become stony, callous, or obdurate.

• To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification.