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Word Meanings - ENZYME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An unorganized or unformed ferment, in distinction from an organized or living ferment; a soluble, or chemical, ferment. Ptyalin, pepsin, diastase, and rennet are good examples of enzymes.

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  • LIVINGLY
    In a living state. Sir T. Browne.
  • LIVELY
    1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
  • LIVRAISON
    A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
  • LIVINGNESS
    The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.
  • LIVED
    Having life; -- used only in composition; as, long-lived; short-lived.
  • LIVE
    liven, livien, AS. libban, lifian; akin to OS. libbian, D. leven, G. leben, OHG. lebn, Dan. leve, Sw. lefva, Icel. lifa to live, to be left, to remain, Goth. liban to live; akin to E. leave to forsake, and life, Gr. lip to anoint, smear; -- the
  • FERMENTABLE
    Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.
  • PEPSINHYDROCHLORIC
    See PEPTOHYDROCHLORIC
  • 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
  • LIVERWORT
    1. A ranunculaceous plant with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups. 2. A flowerless plant , having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. Note: From this plant many others of the same
  • LIVING PICTURE
    A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
  • ORGANIZATION
    1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also,
  • LIVERY
    gift of clothes made by the master to his servants, prop., a thing delivered, fr. livrer to deliver, L. liberare to set free, in LL., to The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements. The writ by which possession is obtained. Note: It
  • LIVER-GROWN
    Having an enlarged liver. Dunglison.
  • UNFORM
    To decompose, or resolve into parts; to destroy the form of; to unmake. Good.
  • LIVE-FOREVER
    A plant with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.
  • LIVERING
    A kind of pudding or sausage made of liver or pork. Chapman.
  • PEPSIN
    An unorganized proteolytic ferment or enzyme contained in the secretory glands of the stomach. In the gastric juice it is united with dilute hydrochloric acid and the two together constitute the active portion of the digestive fluid. It is the
  • LIVERIED
    Wearing a livery. See Livery, 3. The liveried servants wait. Parnell.
  • LIVERED
    Having a liver; used in composition; as, white-livered.
  • DELIVERANCE
    Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
  • REDELIVER
    1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
  • OLIVARY
    Like an olive. Olivary body , an oval prominence on each side of the medulla oblongata; -- called also olive.
  • OLIVINE
    A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks.
  • COD LIVER
    The liver of the common cod and allied species. Cod-liver oil, an oil obtained fron the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.
  • OLIVERIAN
    An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay.
  • 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
  • REDELIVERY
    1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
  • DELIVERABLE
    Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale.
  • OLIVED
    Decorated or furnished with olive trees. T. Warton.
  • INSOLUBLENESS
    The quality or state of being insoluble; insolubility. Boyle.

 

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