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Having no albumen about the embryo; -- said of certain seeds.

The whites; leucorrhæa.

m the stems of certain Asiatic umbelliferous plants, mostly species of Ferula. The Bubon Galbanum of South Africa furnishes an inferior kind of galbanum. It has an acrid, bitter taste, a strong, unpleasant smell, and is used for medical purposes, also in the arts, as in the manufacture of varnish.

The general outward form of any solid object, as of a column or a vase.

etimes additional points. The heads were sometimes of very elaborate form. [Written also halbert.]

Hastate.

One who is armed with a halberd. Strype.

Same as Hemialbumose.

An albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into hemipeptone. Called also hemialbumin.

A West African arboreal monkey (Cercopithecus cynosurus).

A form of albumin found in ascitic and certain serous fluids. It is sometimes regarded as a mixture of albumin and mucin.

The albumin from white of eggs; egg albumin; -- in distinction from serum albumin. See Albumin.

A proteidlike body found in the fluid from ovarian cysts and elsewhere. It is generally associated with a substance related to, if not identical with, glycogen.

Serum albumin.

A glucoside found in the seeds of white mustard (Brassica alba, formerly Sinapis alba), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

A sort of dog, noted for quick scent and eager pursuit of game. [Obs.] Wase (1654).

Same as Calotype.

Any of a class of toxic substances of protein nature; a toxin.

Vars. of Odal, etc. Obs. exc. in Shetland and the Orkney Islands, where udal designates land held in fee simple without any charter and free of any feudal character.

A yellowish amorphous alkaloid extracted from the rootstock of Veratrum album.