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r albuminous matter into soluble and diffusible products, as peptones. " The proteolytic ferment of the pancreas." Foster.

A stage intermediate between the larva and pupa of bees and certain other hymenopterous insects.

A division of birds including the sand grouse. They are in some respects intermediate between the pigeons and true grouse. Called also Pteroclomorphæ.

An unorganized amylolytic ferment, on enzyme, present in human mixed saliva and in the saliva of some animals.

A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud. Oxf. Gloss.

A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians. [written also quas.]

green crystalline substance formed by the union of quinone with hydroquinone, or as an intermediate product in the oxidation of hydroquinone or the reduction of quinone. [Written also chinhydrone.]

The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment. [Obs.]

One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.

llow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe. Arcadian pipe, the pastoral reed Of Hermes. Milton.

w; to reproduce; to give new life, strength, or vigor to. Through all the soil a genial fferment spreads. Regenerates the plauts, and new adorns the meads. Blackmore.

gulating milk. [Written also runnet.] Cheese rennet. (Bot.) See under Cheese. -- Rennet ferment (Physiol. Chem.), a ferment, present in rennet and in variable quantity in the gastric juice of most animals, which has the power of curdling milk. The ferment presumably acts by changing the casein of milk from a soluble t…

To send on from an intermediate station by means of a repeater.

proaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.

A mixture of volatile hydrocarbons intermediate between gsolene and cymogene. It is obtained in the purification of crude petroleum, and is used as a refregerant.

To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.

A short intermediate symphony, or instrumental passage, in the course of a vocal piece; an interlude.

A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.

A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.

litting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiæ is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula.