AMIDIN

n. A?m’i?d-i2n. From Fr., amidon, starch. Lat., amidinum, amidin a. Fr., amidine. Ger., Amidin. It., amidin a. Sp., almidino, almidina, amidin a. Guérin-Vary gave the names expre ed in the following sub-titles to the inner and outer portions of starch granules. [A, 301.] Used without qualification, the word means soluble a. [Sau ure (B, 196).]—Soluble a. Fr, amidine soluble. The interior portion of a starch granule, which is soluble in water and is released from the insoluble tegumentary substance (amyl in) by boiling, [B, 5.] See AMVLUM (2d def.).—Tegument- A2m°’i2d-e?th""i21- arya. Fr, amidine tégumentaire. See AMYLIN. AMIDI n. A2m’i2d-en. Fr., amidine. Ger., Amidin, It, amidin a. Syn,: amimide. A compound having the general formula R.C 4 X, (in which R or R represents a univalent radicle), imagined to be derived from a corresponding acid amide by the substitution of NR’ for an atom of oxygen. Thus from acetamide, H.C 1 Na, is formed acedia mine, CH,C=} N12, Compounds of this cla are designated by the termination -amidine, -amimide, or -diamine affixed to the name of the corresponding radicle. [B,2.]