vanilla (vanila)

[= F. vanille, IMG:content-1695.png:[ocr errors] Flowering Branch of Vanilla plan i folia. a , the fruit. V. plan i folia is by far the largest source; but other species, as V. aromatic a and V. grandiflora, are also grown for use. Vanilla is most largely produced in Mexico, the product being obtained to a great extent from the wild plant; but the plant is also found, either wild or in cultivation, in various parts of Central and South America, and is more or le grown in many warm countries, notably in Mauritius and the Seychelles, Java, and Tahiti. On the isthmus of Pana 6695 ma the fruit of Selenipedium Chica, and perhaps of some other orchids, there known as vanilla chica, or little vanilla, is used like that of true vanilla. The vanilla-plant is a climber easily propagated by cuttings, beginning to bear when three years old, and continuing thirty or forty years. The flowers need to be artificially fertilized, except in the plant's natural habitat, where fertilization is effected by insects. The fruit is a long fleshy pod, known as vanilla bean, from its form, not from its seeds, which are minute. 2. The vanilla-bean or its economic extract. The valuable property of the bean, which resides in a volatile oil (see vanillin ), is developed by a slow proce of curing involving fermentation. The extract has a IMG:content-1696.png:[blocks in formation] A gentler judgment vanish'd from his lips. Shak., R. and J., iii. 3. 10. 5. In math., to become zero. - Vanishing circle. See circle. Vanishing fraction, in alg. See fraction.Vanishing line, in persp., the line which represents the line at infinity in which any given plane cuts all parallel planes.-Vanishing plane, in relief persp., the plane which represents the plane at infinity, and thus contains all vanishing points and vanishing lines. - Vanishing point, in persp., the point which represents the point at infinity in which an imaginary line pa ing through the peculiar agreeable odor and aromatic taste. It has the medicinal property of an aromatic stimulant, with some effect upon the nervous system. Its chief use, however, is in the preparation of liquors, in perfumery, and as a flavoring of chocolate, confectionery, creams, etc. 3. [ cap.] [NL. (Plumier, umier, 1703).] A genus of orchids, of the tribe Neottieæ, type of the subject to be drawn cuts that line produced and all parallel tribe Vanilleæ. It is characterized by having tall climbing and branching leafy stems, and large flowers with a broad concave stalked lip, at the base rolled about the column, to which the stalk is adnate. There are about 20 species, widely scattered through the tropics. They are robust climbers, sending out adventitious roots, by which they cling to trees, and bearing thick fleshy or coriaceous leaves. The flowers are usually large, often abundant, and of delicious fragrance, chiefly white and red, in several economic species green. The dark-brown pods are 6 to 9 inches long, and are filled with a dark oily odorous pulp. (See def. 1 and vanilloes.) The Jamaican species are there known as green withe and purple lip. V. plan i folia occurs also in Florida along the everglades, where its green flowers reach about 2 inches in diameter. V. lutescens and V. Phalænopsis are cultivated under gla of the observer parallel to any straight line of an ob lines; hence, colloquially and in confusion with sense 5, the point or condition of disappearance of anything. The margin of profit has been reduced to vanishing Quarterly Rev., CXLV. 72. point. Vanishing stre . See stre 1. vanish (van'ish), n. [ vanish , v.] In pho- netics, a sound with which another principal sound vanishes or ends, as the e-sound of a (the i in ei as pronounced in veil ), or the ö-sound of ō (the u in ou as pronounced in soul ). vanisher (van'ish-ėr), n . [ vanish + -er1.] One who disappears or vanishes. Whittier . vanishingly (van'ish-ing-li), adv . In a vanish- for their flowers, which are large and handsome, yellowing manner; so as to vanish; imperceptibly: ish, white, or orange. Frosted vanilla (F. vanille as, a certain probability is vanishingly small. givrée ), vanilla-beans upon the surface of which vanillin appears in frost-like crystals: the best quality. A. W. vanishment (van'ish-ment), n. [ Harrison . - Wild vanilla, a composite plant, Trilisa ( Li -- ment .] A vanishing. One of the New England Antinomians, about 1637: so called from Sir Henry Vane, governor of Ma achusetts Bay Colony in 1636. vanitied (van'i-tid), a. [ I am exasperated against your foolish, your low- van i tied Love lace. Richardson, Clari a Harlowe, IV. 86. ( Davies .) atris ) odor at is sima, found from North Carolina to Florida Vanist (vā'nist), n. [ see, under vanilla ). a monobasic crystalline acid obtained by the oxidation of its aldehyde vanillin.