Word Meanings - MANNITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A white crystalline substance of a sweet taste obtained from a so-called manna, the dried sap of the flowering ash ; -- called also mannitol, and hydroxy hexane. Cf. Dulcite. HO.CH2. 4.CH2.OH = D-mannitol; manna sugar; cordycepic acid; Diosmol;
Additional info about word: MANNITE
A white crystalline substance of a sweet taste obtained from a so-called manna, the dried sap of the flowering ash ; -- called also mannitol, and hydroxy hexane. Cf. Dulcite. HO.CH2. 4.CH2.OH = D-mannitol; manna sugar; cordycepic acid; Diosmol; Mannicol; Mannidex; Osmiktrol; Osmosal. -- used in pharmacy as excipient and diluent for solids and liquids. Used as a food additive for anti-caking properties, or as a sweetener. Also used to "cut" illegal drugs such as cocaine or heroin.
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- SUGARPLUM
A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks. - CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - WHITECAP
The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - WHITE-FRONTED
Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow. - DRIFT
That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud. Kane. Drift anchor. See Sea anchor, and also Drag sail, under Drag, n. -- Drift epoch , the glacial epoch. -- Drift net, a - WHITE FLY
Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder. - SWEETLY
In a sweet manner. - FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - SWEETISH
Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n. - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - DRINKABLE
Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele. - WHITESTER
A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster. - DRIBBLET; DRIBLET
A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke. - WHITE-HEART
A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin. - SWEETING
1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak. - SWEETHEART
A lover of mistress. - FLOWER-DE-LUCE
A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north - DRIFTBOLT
A bolt for driving out other bolts. - WHITESIDE
The golden-eye. - CHONDRIN
A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin. - MIDRIB
A continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf. - SUNDRILY
In sundry ways; variously. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - HYPOCHONDRIACISM
Hypochondriasis. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - CAULIFLOWER
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.