[f. CALCINE v. + -ING1.] The process of reducing to a calx, burning to ashes, or subjecting to a roasting heat.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Chan. Yem. Prol. & T., 218. The care and wo That we hadden in oure matires sublymyng And in almalgamyng and calceniyng Of quyk siluer.
1601. Holland, 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.
1641. French, Distill., i. (1651), 9. Corrosion is the Calcining of bodies by corrosive things.
1861. W. Fairbairn, Addr. Brit. Assoc. The different processes, from the calcining of the ore to the production of the bar.
attrib. 1662. Merret, trans. Neri’s Art of Glass, ii. 8. The Calcar is a kind of calcining furnace.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, I. 914. The Calcining Furnace rests upon a vault.
1876. Routledge, Discov., 28. Large calcining kilns.
