Word Meanings - ISINGLASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A popular name for mica, especially when in thin sheets. (more info) hausenblase), lit., bladder of the huso, or large sturgeon; huizen 1. A semitransparent, whitish, and very pure from of gelatin, chiefly prepared from the sounds or air bladders

Additional info about word: ISINGLASS

A popular name for mica, especially when in thin sheets. (more info) hausenblase), lit., bladder of the huso, or large sturgeon; huizen 1. A semitransparent, whitish, and very pure from of gelatin, chiefly prepared from the sounds or air bladders of various species of sturgeons found in the of Western Russia. It used for making jellies, as a clarifier, etc. Cheaper forms of gelatin are not unfrequently so called. Called also fish glue.

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• POPULARIZATION
  The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.
• GELATINATION
  The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly.
• GELATINIZATION
  See GELATINATION
• PREPARATIVELY
  By way of preparation.
• POPULAR
  1. Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the popular voice; popular elections. "Popular states." Bacon. "So the popular vote inclines." Milton. The commonly held in
• GELATINIFEROUS
  Yielding gelatin on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• WHITISH
  Covered with an opaque white powder. (more info) 1. Somewhat white; approaching white; white in a moderate degree.
• GELATINIZE
  To coat, or otherwise treat, with gelatin. (more info) 1. To convert into gelatin or jelly. Same as Gelatinate, v. t.
• WHITISHNESS
  The quality or state of being whitish or somewhat white.
• GELATIN; GELATINE
  from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on the collagen of various kinds of connective tissue
• POPULARES
  The people or the people's party, in ancient Rome, as opposed to the optimates.
• BLADDER
  A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air. 2. Any vesicle or
• LARGE-HANDED
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• BLADDERWORT
  A genus of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.
• LARGE-HEARTED
  Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• POPULARNESS
  The quality or state of being popular; popularity. Coleridge.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• PREPARER
  One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready. Wood.
• PREPARABLE
  Capable of being prepared. "Medicine preparable by art." Boyle.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• NITROGELATIN
  An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin.
• DISPREPARE
  To render unprepared. Hobbes.
• SUBGELATINOUS
  Imperfectly or partially gelatinous.
• NONPREPARATION
  Neglect or failure to prepare; want of preparation.