v. Also (in Dicts.) zinkify. [f. ZINC sb.: see -FY.] trans. To coat or impregnate with zinc. Hence Zincification (zink-), the process of zincifying, or state of being zincified.
1801. Coleridge, in Sir H. Davy’s Rem. (1858), 89. My motive muscles tingled and contracted at the news,… as if you … were zincifying their life-mocking fibres.
1891. Eissler, Metall. Argent. Lead, 304. Argentiferous zinc may settle in the cavities during zincification.
