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Pertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils. A. Brown.

That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel.

re than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens. V. Knox. The heathen, as the term is used in the Scriptures, all people except the Jews; now used of all people except Christians, Jews, and Mohammedans. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine i…

To convert into the Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew or Hebraistic. J. R. Smith.

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

To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.

f water. Thus, diastase of malt, ptyalin of saliva, and boiling dilute sulphuric acid all convert starch by hydration into dextrin and sugar. Nearly all of the digestive ferments are hydrolytic in their action.

To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice.

An indigo-forming substance, found in urine, and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin). Chemically, it is indoxyl sulphate of potash, C8H6NSO4K, and is derived from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Called also uroxanthin.

Not digestible; not readily soluble in the digestive juices; not easily convertible into products fitted for absorption.

Capable of being indorsed; transferable; convertible.

Steel cast in ingots from the Bessemer converter or open-hearth furnace.

To convert into a stony substance; to petrity. [R.] Bacon.

To convert into, or to use as, an interjection. Earle.

nother; as, compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into th…

ess of nutrition, by which dead matter is absorbed by the living organism, and ultimately converted into the organized substance of its various tissues and organs. Dead bodies increase by apposition; living bodies by intrussusception. McKendrick.

extrose), and fruit sugar (levulose); also, less properly, the process by which starch is converted into grape sugar (dextrose).

To divert; to convert to a wrong use. [Obs.] Knolles.

Capable of being changed or converted; as, invertible sugar.

An unorganized ferment which causes cane sugar to take up a molecule of water and be converted into invert sugar.