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Having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows.

Having small pits or depression, as the receptacle in some composite flowers.

Foveolate.

To walk or to dance on a rope.

Ropedancing.

Narrow, like the walk of a ropedancer. This funambulatory track. Sir T. Browne.

Forming a narrow ridge.

A kind of striped cotton fabric, usually of superior quality and striped with blue or red on white.

Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. -- A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor.

Covered as with a hat or cap. Smart.

A salt of gallic acid.

The tread, treadle, or chalasa of an egg.

The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.

The formation of gelatin.

Producing, or yielding, gelatin; gelatiniferous; as, the gelatigeneous tissues.

, 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.

Yielding gelatin on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.