vegetablize (vejetabliz)

t.; pret. and pp. vegetablized, ppr. vegetablizing. [ Silk is to be vegetablized ... by an immersion in a bath of cellulose di olved in ammoniacal copper oxide. O'Neill , Dyeing and Calico Printing, p. 36. vegetal (vej'e-tal), a. and n. [ On the whole it appears to me to be the most convenient to adhere to the old plan of calling such of those low forms as are more animal in habit Protozoa, and such as are more vegetal Protophyta. Huxley , Critiques and Addre es, p. 281. 2. Of or pertaining to the series of vital phenomena common to plants and animals-namely, digestion and nutritive a imilation, growth, absorption, secretion, excretion, circulation, respiration, and generation, as contradistinguished from sensation and volition, which are peculiar to animals. The first are called the vegetal functions, the second the animal functions; and the powers or forces on which they depend have been termed respectively the vegetal life and the animal life. Brande and Cox , Dict. Sci., Lit., and Art, III. 930. II. n. A plant; a vegetable. I saw vegetals too, as well as minerals, put into one gla B. Jonson, Mercury Vindicated. there. vegetaline (vej'e-tal-in), n. [ vegetaline fine powder, then mixed with resin soap, and treated with aluminium sulphate to remove the soda of the soap, again dried, and pre ed into cakes. The substance may be made transparent by the addition of castor-oil or glycerin before pre ing, and can be colored as desired. It is used as a substitute for ivory, coral, caoutchouc, etc. E. H. Knight.