dulcitan

[Eng., ., dulcit (e), and an (hydride) (q. v.).) Chem.: C6H12O5. Dulcinan, the anhydride of dulcose, obtained by heating dulcose for some time near 200°, or by boiling it with hydrochloric acid. It is a neutral syrup which volatilizes at 120°, and is reconverted into dulcose by heating it with water and baryta. dul-çi-tăn-Ideş, s. pl. [Eng., ., dulcitan; suff. -ide ( Chem.) (q. v.).] Chem.: Compounds formed by heating dulcose with organic acids in sealed tubes at 200°. They may be regarded as dulcitan in which two or four atoms of hydrogen are replaced by acid radicals. (Watts: Dict. Chem.) dul-çite, s. [DULCOSE.] *dül-çi-tüde, s. [Lat. dulcitudo , from dulcis = sweet.] Sweetne . *dul-cõr-āte, v . t . [Lat. dulcoratus , pa. par. of dulcoro to make sweet; dulcis =sweet.] 1. To sweeten; to make sweet; to free from acid. ity or bitterne . 2. To make le acid, bitter, or acrimonious. "Turbith mineral, es it is sold in the shops, is a rough medicine; but, being somewhat dulcorated , first procur. eth vomiting, and then salivation."-Wiseman: Surgery. *dul-cõr-at-ling, pr . par ., a. & s. [DULCORATE.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of sweetening or freeing from acidity or bitterne ; dulcoration. "The ancients, for the dulcorating of fruit, do commend swine's dung above all other dung."-Bacon: Natural History , § 465. *dul-cõr-ā-tion, s . [Lat. dulcoratus , pa. par. of dulcoro to make sweet.] The act or proce of sweetening or freeing from acidity or bitterne ; dulcification. "Malt gather eth a sweetne to the taste, which appear eth in the wort: the dulcoration of things is worthy to be tried to the full; for that dulcoration import eth a degree to nourishment: and the making of things in alimental to become alimental, may be an experiment of great profit." -Bacon . dŭl-côşe, s . [Lat. dulc ( is )=sweet, and Eng., ., ( glucose (q. v.).] Chem.: C6H1406, also called Dulcin, Dulcite, and Mel am pyrite. A saccharine substance which occurs in Dulcite-manna from Madagascar, also by mixing the aqueous decoction of Melampyrum nemorosum with lime, concentrating, adding hydrochloric acid in exce , and evaporating; crystals separate out on cooling; also by the action of sodium amalgam on milk sugar. Dulcose crystallizes in large monoclinic prisms, which melt at 188°. Dulcose heated with hydriodic acid yields secondary hexyl iodide. Oxidized with nitric acid, it yields mucic acid. *dŭl-cour, s. [Lat. dulcor , from dulcis =sweet.] Sweetne . "This sort of viand is at this time made use of, out of no le mystery, than by its color and dulcour they might be remembered of the purity and delightfulne of the law." - L . Add is on : State of the Jews, p. 176. *düle (1), *dōle, *doôl, s. & a. [DOOL.] 1. As subst.: Grief, lamentation. "Oure drevyn had all thare day is in dule." Wyntoun, VII. i. 4. 2. As adj.: Mourning. "How many fereteris and dule habit is schyne Sal thou behold f" Douglas: Virgil, 19, 732,