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Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language.

A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model.

One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar. Cowper. He left school a good Latinist. Macaulay.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, Latin; in the Latin style or idiom. "Latinistic words." Fitzed. Hall.

One who has but a smattering of Latin. Walker.

The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom. "His eleLatinity." Motley.

The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country. The Germanization of Britain went far deeper than the Latinization of France. M. Arnold.

To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin.

In the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin. [Obs.] Heylin.

o, a process of preparing dry plates with an emulsion of bromides and silver nitrate in gelatin.

Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition. Calculating machine, a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high d…

See Platinichloric.

The art or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of electricity.

, 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.

Having the form of gelatin.

Same as Gelatination.