geizen

i. Same as gizzen. Gekko, gekko, n. See Gecco , gecko . Gekkonidæ, n. pl. See Gecconidæ. gelable (jel'a-bl), a. [L. gelare, freeze (see geall ), + -ble.] Capable of being congealed, or of being converted into jelly. [Rare.] gelada (gel'a-da), n. [Native name.] 1. An Aby in i an baboon, Cynocephalus or Cercopithe cus or Theropithecus gelada, or Gelada rueppelli. Gelada ( Theropithecus gelada ). It is upward of 2 feet long, with a large mane, small ischial callosities, and naked face. It is of a dark-brown color, blackening on the shoulders and paling on the under parts, and has a pair of triangular naked spots on the throat. 2. [ cap .] [NL.] A generic name of this animal: synonymous with Theropithecus . Gelalæan era. See era . Gel asian (je-lā'si-an), a. [ Gelasimus (je-las'i-mus), n. [NL., fish, is called isingla . Its leading character is the formation of a tremulous jelly when its solution in boiling water cools. A yellowish-white precipitate is thrown down from a solution of gelatin by tannin, which forms an elastic adhesive ma . Tannin has the same action also on the ti ues from which gelatin is made, and this action of tannin is the foundation of the art of tanning leather. Gelatin is nearly related to the proteids. It is regarded as a This indicates a condition of the synovial membrane known as gelatinoid degeneration. J. H. Packard , Medical News, L. 281. II. n. A substance allied to or resembling nutritious food, and much used in preparing soups, jellies, gelatin. etc.; animals fed exclusively with symptoms of starvation. No chemical formula has yet been deduced for gelatin. It contains about 18.3 per cent. of nitrogen, 0.6 per cent. of sulphur, 50 of carbon, 7 of hydrogen, and 23 of oxygen. (See jelly.) In all the arts allied to photography, gelatin forms the basis of he great variety of It at present vehicle for holding the sensitive salts of silver in dry plates, and for holding the sensitive bichromate of potash in all the photo-printing and photo-engraving proce es. (See emul sion, carbon proce (under carbon ), photolithography, heliotype, and photography.) Gelatin is also used to form the copying-pad in a variety of copying proce es. See hectograph. - Chromatized gelatin. See chromatize. Explosive gelatin, a very powerful explosive compound made by di olving guncotton in nitroglycerin gently in a water-bath. A small amount of gum camphor may be added to diminish its sensitivene . For military purposes it has been made of 90 per cent. of nitroglycerin and 10 per of soluble nitrocellulose or guncotton. Το make the camphorated compound, 96 per cent. of the above mixture and 4 per cent. of camphor is used. This preparation forms a gelatinous, elastic, translucent, pale-yellow ma (specific gravity 1.6), of about the consistency of a very stiff jelly, which can be easily cut with a knife. ( C. Е. Munroe.) Also called gum - dynamite. Gelatin culture. See culture. Gelatin of Wharton, or jelly of Wharton, a kind of mucoid connective ti ue which constitutes most of the bulk of the umbilical cord. - Gelatin proce , any photographic proce in which gelatin enters as a basis or an element. - Gelatin sugar. Same as glyco coll. Vegetable gelatin, one of the constituents of gluten, identical or nearly so with animal gelatin. Also called gliadin and glut in. II. a . Like gelatin; gelatinous. You shall always see their [insects'] eggs laid carefully and commodiously up, if in the waters, in neat and beautiful rows, oftentimes in that sperm a tick gelatine matter in which they are reposited. Derham, Physico-Theology, vi. 6. gelatinate (jel'a-ti-nat), nāt), v.; pret. and pp. pp. gel a tinated, ppr. gelatinating. [ II. in trans . To become gelatinous. In mineral ., said of a number of silicates, as calamin, which, when treated with hydro chlorid acid, are decomposed, and yield on partial evaporation a more or le perfect jelly. From a pound of bone about an ounce of nutritive material was obtained, of which three-fourths was fat and the rest gelatinoids and the like. The Century , XXXVI. 135.