Word Meanings - LICHENIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A substance isomeric with starch, extracted from several species of moss and lichen, esp. from Iceland moss.

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• ISOMERIC
  Having the same percentage composition; -- said of two or more different substances which contain the same ingredients in the same proportions by weight, often used with with. Specif.: Polymeric; i. e., having the same elements united in the same
• STARCHER
  One who starches.
• ICELANDER
  A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• LICHENIFORM
  Having the form of a lichen.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• STARCHED
  1. Stiffened with starch. 2. Stiff; precise; formal. Swift.
• EXTRACT
  1. To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger. The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid
• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• ICELAND MOSS
  A kind of lichen found from the Arctic regions to the North Temperate zone. It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent.
• SEVERALITY
  Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall.
• SEVERALLY
  Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.
• SEVERAL
  1. Separate; distinct; particular; single. Each several ship a victory did gain. Dryden. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope. 2. Diverse; different; various. Spenser. Habits and faculties,
• STARCHLY
  In a starched or starch manner.
• LICHENOGRAPHIC; LICHENOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to lichenography.
• LICHENIN
  A substance isomeric with starch, extracted from several species of moss and lichen, esp. from Iceland moss.
• STARCHNESS
  Of or pertaining to starched or starch; stiffness of manner; preciseness.
• ICELANDIC
  Of or pertaining to Iceland; relating to, or resembling, the Icelanders.
• SEVERALTY
  A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty , an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in
• STARCHWORT
  The cuckoopint, the tubers of which yield a fine quality of starch.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• ARISTARCH
  A severe critic. Knowles.
• ARISTARCHIAN
  Severely critical.
• GOULARDS EXTRACT
  An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract.
• CLEARSTARCH
  To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.
• CLEARSTARCHER
  One who clearstarches.