A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.
It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts.
It contains a pulpy substance in the center of the stem, of a starchy, mucilaginous nature, which is a common article of food with the natives.
The seed pods contain a quantity of mucilaginous and saccharine matter, and are used as food for cattle.
The inferior kinds of aloes are prepared by pressing the leaves, when the resinous juice becomes mixed with the mucilaginous fluid from the central part of the leaves, and thus it is proportionately deteriorated.
A malvaceous plant, possessingmucilaginous properties, for which it is used medicinally.
In the first figure it has already pierced the mucilaginous coat of the ovum, the limit of which is represented by a line through which the tail of the spermatozoön is passing: the head of the spermatozoön is just entering the ovum proper.
Its mucilaginous solution in cold water is not tinged blue with iodine.
Their precipitation is counteracted by the addition of gum, or other mucilaginous substances.
There it must be left during two or three weeks, to ferment in the summer season, and watered, if necessary, till it passes into a mucilaginous state.
In England, the mucilaginous oils of Gallipoli are preferred, and in Malabar, oils more or less rancid.
Such beer contains, besides mucilaginous sugar and gum, usually some starch, which even remains after the fermentation, and hinders its clarifying, and gives it a tendency to sour.
When it is heated to a certain degree in water, the envelopes of its spheroidal particles burst, and the farina forms a mucilaginous emulsion, magma, or paste.
In proportion as the mucilaginous substance dissolves the colouring and tawny matters upon the cloth, the husky surface attracts and fixes upon itself the greater part of them.
Mashing is the operation by which the wort is extracted, or eliminated from the malt, and whereby a saccharo-mucilaginous extract is made from it.
The former also, for the same reason, needs a more leisurely infusion than the latter, for its conversion into mucilaginous sugar.
Astragalus, found in western Asia, as well as to the mucilaginous substance or gum derived from them.
The animal should be encouraged to eat soft feed and given mucilaginous drinks.
Mucilaginous drinks should be given in large quantities.
As an injection in the acute form starch and laudanum, or bismuth suspended in a mucilaginous vehicle, should be used.
The other is a Fat Oil, which of itself is not soluble in water; but being divided by the means of trituration into very small globules, it is dispersed through the whole liquor, and suspended therein by the aid of the mucilaginous part.
Infusions or slight decoctions of mucilaginous plants, when evaporated to dryness, become actual Gums.
These matters will not give out their Extract, without such an application of water as shall dissolve their saline, saponaceous, and mucilaginous parts.
The salver-form corolla and the seeds not being mucilaginous distinguishes Phlox from Gilia.
It contains a mixture of molasses and mucilaginous matter.
The analogue of the anther (Antheridium) is a cellular sac, which in bursting discharges innumerable delicate cells floating in a mucilaginous liquid; each of these bursts and sets free a vibratile self-moving thread.
While there is a general tendency in the group to mucilaginous degeneration of the cell-wall, in Laminaria digitata there are also glands secreting a plentiful mucilage.
The mucilaginous leaves are of three separate shapes.
If at this time the spermatozoa are allowed to come in contact with the egg, their heads soon become enveloped in the investing mucilaginous coat.
Aqueous solutions of gums or the mucilaginous principles of vegetable substances.
Emulsions are aqueous preparations in which oils or resins are suspended by means of mucilaginous substances.
The mucilaginous diabetes will require the same treatment, which is most efficacious in the dropsy, and will be described below.
There are no cells in the body, where dropsy may not be produced, if the lymphatics cease to absorb that mucilaginous fluid, which is perpetually deposited in them, for the purpose of lubricating their surfaces.
Hence this mucilaginous diabetes is a cure, or the consequence of a cure, of a worse disease, rather than a disease itself.
On all these membranes a mucilaginous or aqueous fluid is secreted, which moistens and lubricates their surfaces, as was explained in Section XXIII.
Gills= distant, composed of a mucilaginous membrane, which can be readily separated into two plates, continuous at the edge which is acute and powdered with the blackish fusiform spores.
The very decurrent gills differ from all others in their soft mucilaginous consistency.
Within the vessels of the vascular system, as mucilaginous lining, minus-pressure matter assists the circulation of fluids, on the foregoing capillary principle.
It is considered to be very intoxicating; but this is probably because the spirit, being partly sheathed by the mucilaginous juice and the sugar, its strength does not appear to the taste so great as it really is.
A mucilaginous fluid found on the surface of certain membranes which keeps them soft and pliable.
Mucilaginous drinks should be given as soon Fly Powder.
Carbonate of Potassa | Mucilaginous drinks may be given.
Starch, wheat flour mixed with water, In its | whites of eggs, milk, and mucilaginous different forms.
Most of them are characterized also by the development of great quantities of a mucilaginous matter within their tissues.
The lowest of the Cyanophyceæ are strictly single-celled, separating as soon as formed, but cohering usually in masses or colonies by means of a thick mucilaginous substance that surrounds them (Fig.
Mucilaginous medicaments, which have the power of diminishing the effects of stimulating substances upon the animal system.
