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Converted wholly or partially into sugar or candy; as candied sirup.

To convert into capital, or to use as capital.

A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit; a carpel.

To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel.

The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel. Ure.

process, in scrofulous or consumptive persons, in which the products of inflammation are converted into a cheesy substance which is neither absorbed nor organized.

ially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money.

of cells having been formed from the development of the germ cell and by differentiation converted into tissues and organs which, both in plants ans animals, are to be considered as a mass of minute cells communicating with each other. -- Cellular tissue. (a) (Anat.) See conjunctive tissue under Conjunctive. (b) (Bot…

animals, as the tunicates. It is a carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, isomeric with starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin. Unsized, well bleached linen paper is merely pure cellulose. Goodale. Starch cellulose,…

us substance closely resembling diastase, obtained from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid. Watts.

legs attached laterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs converted into poison fangs. They are insectivorous, very active, and some species grow to the length of a foot.

of taurocholic and glycocholic acids in the bile, and extracted as a resinous substance, convertible under the influence of ether into white crystals.

To convert, or be converted, into cartilage.

The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin.

The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity.

To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as, to Christianize pagans.

Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.

To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle.

To convert into, or add to, a forest. Howell.

To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal.