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An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male.

Acting the freebooter; practicing freebootery; robbing. Your freebooting acquaintance. Sir W. Scott.

A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The formation of frit or slag by heat with but incipient fusion.

In a fronting or facing position; opposingly.

See Frontignac.

State or quality of being frosty.

A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc.

Pertaining to, or producing, fruit.

Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating painsaccompanying locomotor ataxy.

Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures. Fulminating oil, nitroglycerin. -- Fulminating powder (Chem.) any violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as mercuric fulminate.

A fusty state or quality; moldiness; mustiness; an ill smell from moldiness.

An amorphous, gelatinous substance containing nitrogen, found in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent.

A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold. Smart.

Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry. Weale.

Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric.

, Gel"a*tine (, n. Etym: [F. gélatine, fr. L. gelare to congeal. See Geal.] (Chem.) Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on t…

To convert into gelatin, or into a substance resembling jelly.

The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly.

Same as Gelatin.