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- English Word Albolith Definition A kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite.
- English Word Alborak Definition The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule.
- English Word Albugineous Definition Of the nature of, or resembling, the white of the eye, or of an egg; albuminous; -- a term applied to textures, humors, etc., which are perfectly white.
- English Word Albugines Definition of Albugo
- English Word Albugo Definition Same as Leucoma.
- English Word Album Definition A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.
- English Word Album Definition A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book.
- English Word Album Definition A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.
- English Word Album Graecum Definition Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine.
- English Word Albumen Definition The white of an egg.
- English Word Albumen Definition Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.
- English Word Albumen Definition Same as Albumin.
- English Word Albumenize Definition To cover or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an albuminous solution; as, to albumenize paper.
- English Word Albumenized Definition of Albumenize
- English Word Albumenizing Definition of Albumenize
- English Word Albumin Definition A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water and is coagulated by heat and by certain chemical reagents.
- English Word Albuminate Definition A substance produced by the action of an alkali upon albumin, and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance.
- English Word Albuminiferous Definition Supplying albumen.
- English Word Albuminimeter Definition An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid.
- English Word Albuminin Definition The substance of the cells which inclose the white of birds' eggs.