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Preferment :: Preferment (n.) The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion..

Tryptone :: Tryptone (n.) The peptone formed by pancreatic digestion; -- so called because it is formed through the agency of the ferment trypsin.

Beer :: Beer (n.) A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc..

Referment :: Referment (n.) The act of referring; reference.

Zymosimeter :: Zymosimeter (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation..

Scum :: Scum (v.) The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means; also, the scoria of metals in a molten state; dross..

Beneficed :: Beneficed (a.) Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.

Fermentation :: Fermentation (n.) The process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; in a wider sense (Physiol. Chem.), the transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind according to the nature of the ferment which causes it..

Mutage :: Mutage (n.) A process for checking the fermentation of the must of grapes.

Yaourt :: Yaourt (n.) A fermented drink, or milk beer, made by the Turks..

Zymic :: Zymic (a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, fermentation; -- formerly, by confusion, used to designate lactic acid..

Kirschwasser :: Kirschwasser (n.) An alcoholic liquor, obtained by distilling the fermented juice of the small black cherry..

Tun :: Tun (n.) A fermenting vat.

Deferment :: Deferment (n.) The act of delaying; postponement.

Poi :: Poi (n.) A national food of the Hawaiians, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment..

Indican :: Indican (n.) A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter taste, a decomposes or drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc., it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo..

Zymogen :: Zymogen (n.) A mother substance, or antecedent, of an enzyme or chemical ferment; -- applied to such substances as, not being themselves actual ferments, may by internal changes give rise to a ferment..

Guillevat :: Guillevat (n.) A vat for fermenting liquors.

Ambition :: Ambition (n.) An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something..

Zymophyte :: Zymophyte (n.) A bacteroid ferment.

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