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To convert into gelatin or jelly. Same as Gelatinate, v. t.

Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.

In a manner tending to inflate.

Pertaining to the maxillary and palatine regions of the skull; as, the maxillo-palatine process of the maxilla. Also used as n.

Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve.

Applied to the Romance languages, as being mostly of Latin origin.

ive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin. [Written also nitrogelatine.]

That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale.

A current alternating in direction.

The province or seigniory of a palatine; the dignity of a palatine. Howell.

o a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges. Count palatine, County palatine. See under Count, and County. -- Palatine hill, or The palatine, one of the seven hills of Rome, once occupied by the palace of the Cæsars. See Palace.

See Platen.

Platinum. Platina mohr, platinum black. -- Platina yellow, a pigment prepared from platinum.

The art or process of covering anything with a plate or plates, or with metal, particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal with a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, platinum; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a higher valence, as contrasted with the platinous compounds; as, platinic chloride (PtCl4).

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid consisting of platinic chloride and hydrochloric acid, and obtained as a brownish red crystalline substance, called platinichloric, or chloroplatinic, acid.

Yielding platinum; as, platiniferous sand.

A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum.

To cover or combine with platinum.

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid consisting of platinous chloride and hydrochloric acid, called platinochloric, or chloroplatinous, acid.