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insoluble substance, and, unlike elastin, is not dissolved even by gastric or pancreatic juice. By decomposition with sulphuric acid it yields leucin and tyrosin, as does albumin. Called also epidermose.

The dark red dried juice of certain plants, used variously in tanning, in dyeing, and as an astringent in medicine.

An alcoholic liquor, obtained by distilling the fermented juice of the small black cherry.

Milky; full of white juice like milk. [Obs.] "Lactary or milky plants." Sir T. Browne.

The state or quality of producing milk, or milklike juice; resemblance to milk; a milky color. This lactescence does commonly ensue when . . . fair water is suddenly poured upon the solution. Boyle.

Producing milk or a milklike juice or fluid, as the milkweed. See Latex.

n to the right. The third acid, ethylene lactic acid, accompanies sarcolactic acid in the juice of flesh, and is optically inactive. -- Lactic ferment, an organized ferment (Bacterium lacticum or lactis), which produces lactic fermentation, decomposing the sugar of milk into carbonic and lactic acids, the latter, of w…

The inspissated juice of the common lettuce, sometimes used as a substitute for opium.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the juice of the Lactuca virosa; -- said of certain acids.

A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities (called latex cells or latex tubes). It contains the peculiar principles of the plants, whether aromatic, bitter, or acid, and in many instances yields caoutchouc upon coagulation.

y; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus. Arbuthnot.

A beverage consisting of lemon juice mixed with water and sweetened.

ca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is obtained. The commonest wild lettuce of the United States is L. Canadensis. Hare's lettuce, Lamb's lettuce. See under Hare, and Lamb. -- Lettuce opium. See Lactucarium. -- Sea lettuce, certain pa…

A dropsical habit of body, or the commencement of anasarca; paleness, with viscid juices and cold sweats.

A plant of the genus Glycyrrhiza (G. glabra), the root of which abounds with a juice, and is much used in demulcent compositions.

The balsamic juice which is obtained from these trees by incision. The liquid balsam of the Oriental tree is liquid storax.

Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.

bacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers.

Full of juice or succulence. Tennyson. How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! Shak.

ch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power.