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convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin. Unsized, well bleached linen paper is merely pure cellulose. Goodale. Starch cellulose, the delicate framework which remains when the soluble part (granulose) of starch is remov…

Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver).

A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum; -- called also meta-arabinic acid.

A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.

Cerium oxide, CeO2, a white infusible substance constituting about one per cent of the material of the common incandescent mantle.

A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminæ.

A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.

A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.

White lead, used as a pigment. See White lead, under White.

Washed with a preparation of white lead; as, cerused face. Beau. & Fl.

Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.

A white, waxy substance, forming the essential part of spermaceti.

A white substance extracted from the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetraria Islandica). It consists of several ingredients, among which is cetraric acid, a white, crystalline, bitter substance.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, spermaceti. Cetylic alcohol (Chem.), a white, waxy, crystalline solid, obtained from spermaceti, and regarded as homologous with ordinary, or ethyl, alcohol; ethal; - - called also cetyl alcohol.

A mineral occuring in glassy rhombohedral crystals, varying, in color from white to yellow or red. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also chabasie.

A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France.

Vexation; irritation of mind; rage. The cardinal in a chafe sent for him to Whitehall. Camden.

A spiral band of thickened albuminous substance which exists in the white of the bird's egg, and serves to maintain the yolk in its position; the treadle.

A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.

The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use.