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Inclined, or able, to estimate; serving for, or capable of being used in, estimating. We find in animals an estimative or judicial faculty. Sir M. Hale.

instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed. Collimating eyepiece. See under Collimate. -- Negative, or Huyghenian, eyepiece, an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses with their curved surfaces turned toward the object glass, and separated from each other by about half…

Peculiar character; animating spirit, as of a nation, a religion, a language.

uble in dilute solutions of salt. It is present in the red blood corpuscles united with hæmatin to form hæmoglobin. It is also found in the crystalline lens of the eye, and in blood serum, and is sometimes called crystallin. In the plural the word is applied to a group of proteid substances such as vitellin, myosin, fi…

Hematin.

A substance formed from the hematin of blood, by removal of the iron through the action of concentrated sulphuric acid. Two like bodies, called respectively hæmatoporphyrin and hæmatolin, are formed in a similar manner.

Hematin. [R.]

s a yellow crystalline substance, C16H14O6, with a sweetish taste. Formerly called also hematin.

c dust as a reducing agent upon the coloring matter of the blood, used medicinally as a hematinic.

A crystalline or amorphous pigment, free from iron, formed from hematin in old blood stains, and in old hemorrhages in the body. It resembles bilirubin. When present in the corpora lutea it is called hæmolutein.

The hematin of blood. [R.]

common salt; -- called also Teichmann's crystals. Chemically, it is a hydrochloride of hematin.

Resembling, or approximating to, a hemisphere in form.

al coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrate animals. It is composed of hematin and globulin, and is also called hæmatoglobulin. In arterial blood, it is always combined with oxygen, and is then called oxyhemoglobin. It crystallizes under different forms from different animals, and when crystallized, is…

A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute; hence, it is the power that must be e…

Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.

to illegitimatize. The marriage should only be dissolved for the future, without illegitimating the issue. Bp. Burnet.

The act of illegitimating; bastardizing.

Animating; cheering; moving; exhilarating; as, an inspiring or scene.

To impress, as an animating power, or instinct. [Obs.] Bentley.