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A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

The compound formed by mixing different substances together.

A crystalline substance, C9H13O3N, obtained from suprarenal extract, of which it is regarded as the active principle. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and hemostatic.

To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.

The act of combining air with another substance, or the state of being filled with air.

Divination from the state of the air or from atmospheric substances; also, forecasting changes in the weather.

A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards.

Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere.

To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.

The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.

Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies.

A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta- percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of…

A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water is coagulated by heat ad by certain chemical reagents. Acid albumin, a modifica…

A substance produced by the action of an alkali upon albumin, and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance.

The substance of the cells which inclose the white of birds' eggs.

A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.

Of or pertaining to alburnum; of the alburnum; as, alburnous substances.

The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder. [Obs.] Johnson.

An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains ("protein granules") in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.