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Enzyme :: Enzyme (n.) An unorganized or unformed ferment, in distinction from an organized or living ferment; a soluble, or chemical, ferment. Ptyalin, pepsin, diastase, and rennet are good examples of enzymes..

Indiglucin :: Indiglucin (n.) The variety of sugar (glucose) obtained from the glucoside indican. It is unfermentable, but reduces Fehling's solution..

Zymase :: Zymase (n.) A soluble ferment, or enzyme. See Enzyme..

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

Bragget :: Bragget (n.) A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc..

Glycogen :: Glycogen (n.) A white, amorphous, tasteless substance resembling starch, soluble in water to an opalescent fluid. It is found abundantly in the liver of most animals, and in small quantity in other organs and tissues, particularly in the embryo. It is quickly changed into sugar when boiled with dilute sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, and also by the action of amylolytic ferments..

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

Emulsin :: Emulsin (n.) An unorganized ferment (contained in this extract and in other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain glucosides..

Proteolysis :: Proteolysis (n.) The digestion or dissolving of proteid matter by proteolytic ferments.

Lactic :: Lactic (a.) Of or pertaining to milk; procured from sour milk or whey; as, lactic acid; lactic fermentation, etc..

Chica :: Chica (n.) A fermented liquor or beer made in South American from a decoction of maize.

Pepsinogen :: Pepsinogen (n.) The antecedent of the ferment pepsin. A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called propepsin.

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

Spurge :: Spurge (v. t.) To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation.

Levulosan :: Levulosan (n.) An unfermentable carbohydrate obtained by gently heating levulose.

Ferment :: Ferment (n.) A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.

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..

Fret :: Fret (n.) The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.

Quintessence :: Quintessence (n.) The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment..

Fermentative :: Fermentative (a.) Causing, or having power to cause, fermentation; produced by fermentation; fermenting; as, a fermentative process..

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