Maltine

(mawl' -tin). A name given to arious proprietary preparations of malted wheat, or parley, useful as food for invalids. ilting mawl' -ting. The proce n the manufacture of beer during which the grain tsually barley is germinated, by means of steeping n water, until it swells and becomes soft. In order o remove the carbon dioxid, which interferes with germination, and to prevent an exce ive rise of temperature, so-called pneu matic malting has been devised. st, heated air is pa ed through the germinated rr.iin for this purpose. Ultodextrin (mawl-to-deks' -trin), A carbohydrate, q. v., interned i ate between starch and maltose. Ultose (mawl'-tos), V variety of sugar, formed, together with dextrin, by he action of malt diastase upon starch (in the mash of whiskey and beer). It is capable of direct ferment a i on. It is obtained in the form of crystalline crusts omposed of hard white needles, which lose their water 1 crystallization at 100° C. Its properties closely Table of. those of grape-sugar. See Ca/bohvdrate's, Mtum See Malt. MAM ME A Malulella imal-u-lel'-ah. of mala, jaw: pi., In biology, an appendix to the second pair of jaws of a Myriapod.