Word Meanings - AMYLOLYTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment. Foster.

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• SUGARPLUM
  A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
• FERMENT
  fervimentum, fr. fervere to be boiling hot, boil, ferment: cf. F. 1. That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer. Note: Ferments are of two kinds: Formed or organized ferments. Unorganized or structureless ferments. The
• FERMENTABLE
  Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.
• STARCHER
  One who starches.
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• SUGARED
  Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." Spenser.
• SUGARY
  1. Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet. Spenser. 2. Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.
• STARCH
  A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking
• EFFECT
  1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. So great a body such exploits to effect. Daniel. 2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed
• AMYLOLYTIC
  Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment. Foster.
• SUGARLESS
  Without sugar; free from sugar.
• STARCHED
  1. Stiffened with starch. 2. Stiff; precise; formal. Swift.
• CONVERSION
  An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse. Or bring my action of conversion And trover for my goods. Hudibras. (more info) 1. The act of turning or changing
• FERMENTATION
  1. The process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; in a wider sense , the transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind according
• EFFECTOR
  An effecter. Derham.
• EFFECTUATE
  To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis.
• STARCHLY
  In a starched or starch manner.
• DEXTRIN
  A translucent, gummy, amorphous substance, nearly tasteless and odorless, used as a substitute for gum, for sizing, etc., and obtained from starch by the action of heat, acids, or diastase. It is of somewhat variable composition, containing several
• STARCHNESS
  Of or pertaining to starched or starch; stiffness of manner; preciseness.
• FERMENTATION THEORY
  The theory which likens the course of certain diseases (esp. infectious diseases) to the process of fermentation, and attributes them to the organized ferments in the body. It does not differ materially from the accepted germ theory .
• PREFERMENT
  1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
• INSOLUBLENESS
  The quality or state of being insoluble; insolubility. Boyle.
• ERYTHRODEXTRIN
  A dextrin which gives a red color with iodine. See Dextrin.
• IRRESOLUBLENESS
  The state or quality of being irresoluble; insolubility.
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.
• INSOLUBLE
  loosed: cf. F. insoluble. See In- not, and Soluble, and cf. 1. Not soluble; in capable or difficult of being dissolved, as by a liquid; as, chalk is insoluble in water. 2. Not to be solved or explained; insolvable; as, an insoluble doubt, question,
• ARISTARCH
  A severe critic. Knowles.
• ARISTARCHIAN
  Severely critical.
• DISSOLUBLE
  1. Capable of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid. Woodward. 2. Capable of being disunited.
• INEFFECTIVE
  Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor.