adj. criticising vehemently and effectively; making light of; as, afire with annihilating invective.
Syn. -- devastating, withering. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. tending to or characterized by or causing assimilation (being absorbed into or incorporated).
Syn. -- assimilative, assimilatory. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Bromine + gelatin. ] (Photog.) Designating or pertaining to, a process of preparing dry plates with an emulsion of bromides and silver nitrate in gelatin. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Calculating machine, a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) a compound which forms a chelate with a metal ion. Commonly used chelating agents in laboratory use are EDTA and sodium citrate. Citrate is used as an additive to blood collected in blood banks, to chelate the calcium ions and retard clotting. [ PJC ]

a. (Chem.) See Platinichloric. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. moving or flowing in a circuit and returning to the same point; as, steam circulating through the pipes; the circulating thyroid hormones. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. passing from one to another. [ prenominal ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive.
Syn. -- dissembling, dissimulative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The art or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of an electric current. The metal to be deposited on an article is usually used as the anode and the article to be plated as the cathode, in an electrolyte solution in which the plating metal is the cation. The process is conducted in a tank called an electroplating bath, which holds the electrolyte solution. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gelatinated p. pr. & vb. n. Gelatinating. ] To convert into gelatin, or into a substance resembling jelly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be converted into gelatin, or into a substance like jelly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lapis lazuli, if calcined, does not effervesce, but gelatinates with the mineral acids. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, n. [ F. gélatine, fr. L. gelare to congeal. See Geal. ] (Chem.) Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on the collagen of various kinds of connective tissue (as tendons, bones, ligaments, etc.). Its distinguishing character is that of dissolving in hot water, and forming a jelly on cooling. It is an important ingredient of calf's-foot jelly, isinglass, glue, etc. It is used as food, but its nutritious qualities are of a low order. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Both spellings, gelatin and gelatine, are in good use, but the tendency of writers on physiological chemistry favors the form in -in, as in the United States Dispensatory, the United States Pharmacopœia, Fownes' Watts' Chemistry, Brande & Cox's Dictionary. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blasting gelatin, an explosive, containing about ninety-five parts of nitroglycerin and five of collodion. --
Gelatin process, a name applied to a number of processes in the arts, involving the use of gelatin. Especially: (a) (Photog.) A dry-plate process in which gelatin is used as a substitute for collodion as the sensitized material. This is the dry-plate process in general use, and plates of extreme sensitiveness are produced by it. (b) (Print.) A method of producing photographic copies of drawings, engravings, printed pages, etc., and also of photographic pictures, which can be printed from in a press with ink, or (in some applications of the process) which can be used as the molds of stereotype or electrotype plates. (c) (Print. or Copying) A method of producing facsimile copies of an original, written or drawn in aniline ink upon paper, thence transferred to a cake of gelatin softened with glycerin, from which impressions are taken upon ordinary paper. --
Vegetable gelatin. See Gliadin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Gelatin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gelatin + -ferous. ] (Physiol. Chem.) Yielding gelatin on boiling with water; capable of gelatination. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the form of gelatin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Gelatination. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To convert into gelatin or jelly. Same as Gelatinate, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Photog.) To coat, or otherwise treat, with gelatin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. Same as Gelatinate, v. i. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. gélatineux. ] Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner tending to inflate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F., fr. L. Latinus belonging to Latium, Latin, fr. Latium a country of Italy, in which Rome was situated. Cf. Ladin, Lateen sail, under Lateen. ] 1. Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom. [ 1913 Webster ]

Latin Church (Eccl. Hist.), the Western or Roman Catholic Church, as distinct from the Greek or Eastern Church. --
Latin cross. See Illust. 1 of Cross. --
Latin races, a designation sometimes loosely given to certain nations, esp. the French, Spanish, and Italians, who speak languages principally derived from Latin.
Latin Union, an association of states, originally comprising France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy, which, in 1865, entered into a monetary agreement, providing for an identity in the weight and fineness of the gold and silver coins of those countries, and for the amounts of each kind of coinage by each. Greece, Servia, Roumania, and Spain subsequently joined the Union. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The language of the ancient Romans. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin. [ Obs. ] Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Eccl.) A member of the Roman Catholic Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dog Latin, barbarous Latin; a jargon in imitation of Latin; as, the log Latin of schoolboys. --
Late Latin,
Low Latin, terms used indifferently to designate the latest stages of the Latin language; low Latin (and, perhaps, late Latin also), including the barbarous coinages from the French, German, and other languages into a Latin form made after the Latin had become a dead language for the people. --
Law Latin, that kind of late, or low, Latin, used in statutes and legal instruments; -- often barbarous. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To write or speak in Latin; to turn or render into Latin. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. That part of the American continents that speak Spanish, Portuguese, or French; the part of the American continents south of the United States. [ PJC ]

prop. a. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Latin America. [ PJC ]

prop. n. A native or inhabitant of Latin America. [ PJC ]

adj. derived from or imitative of Latin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. Same as Latinize.
Syn. -- Romanize, Latinize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. latinisme. ] A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term is also sometimes used by Biblical scholars to designate a Latin word in Greek letters, or the Latin sense of a Greek word in the Greek Testament. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. latiniste. ] One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

He left school a good Latinist. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or derived from, Latin; in the Latin style or idiom. “Latinistic words.” Fitzed. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Poetaster. ] One who has but a smattering of Latin. Walker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. latinitas: cf. F. latinité. ] The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom. “His ele&unr_;ant Latinity.” Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Germanization of Britain went far deeper than the Latinization of France. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Latinized p. pr. & vb. n. Latinizing ] [ L. latinizare: cf. F. latiniser. ] 1. To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring under the power or influence of the Romans or Latins; to affect with the usages of the Latins, especially in speech. “Latinized races.” Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make like the Roman Catholic Church or diffuse its ideas in; as, to Latinize the Church of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. to write in the latin alphabet.
Syn. -- Romanize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To come under the influence of the Romans, or of the Roman Catholic Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin. [ Obs. ] Heylin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of making or enacting laws; legislation{ 1 }.
Syn. -- legislation, lawmaking. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Maxilla + palatine. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to the maxillary and palatine regions of the skull; as, the maxillo-palatine process of the maxilla. Also used as n. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. [ Naso- + palatal. ] (Anat.) Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Neo- + Latin. ] Applied to the Romance languages, as being mostly of Latin origin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Nitro- + gelatin. ] An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin. [ Written also nitrogelatine. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) A current alternating in direction. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. Either of two regions in Germany, formerly divisions of the Holy Roman Empire; the Lower Palatinate or Rhine Palatinate is now within the Rhineland-Palatinate; the Upper Palatinate is now within Bavaria. It is usually referred to as the Palatinate. [ PJC ]

☞ Palatinate The [ F. Palatinat, G. Pfalz, ML. Palatinatus, the province of count palatine, from palatinatus, palatine. ] A former German State. Its territories were originally in the region of the Rhine, and from the 14th century to 1620 embraced two separate regions, the Rhine (or Lower) Palatinate (distinctively the Palatinate), and the Upper Palatinate (see below). The palsgraves on the Rhine, whose original seat was at Aix-la-Chapelle, were important princes of the empire as early as the 11th century. Early in the 13th century the Palatinate passed to the Bavarian dynasty of Wittelsbach, which soon after branched off into the Bavarian and palatine lines. The Palatinate was enlarged early in the 14th Century with a part of Bavaria (the Upper Palatinate). The Golden Bull of 1356 designated the Palatinate as one of the seven electorates. In the 16th century Heidelberg, the capital of the electors palatine, became a great center of Calvinism. The elector Frederick V., having accepted the Bohemian crown in 1619, and having been overthrown in 1620, was stripped of his dominions. The electoral dignity was transferred to Bavaria in 1623, and the Upper Palatinate was annexed to it. By the treaty of 1648 the Rhine Palatinate was restored to its former rulers, and an eighth electorate created for it, the Upper Palatinate being confirmed to Bavaria. The Rhine palatinate was terribly ravaged by the French in 1674 and 1689. The Palatinate and the Bavarian lands were united in 1777. In 1801 the Rhine Palatinate was divided: all west of the Rhine was ceded to France; Baden received Heidelberg, Mannheim, etc.; and the rest fell to Hesse-Darmstadt, Nassau, etc. By the treaties of 1814-15 the French portion west of the Rhine was restored to Germany: Prussia and Hesse-Darmstadt received portions, but the greater portion fell to Bavaria. This part is the present Rhine Palatinate, or Lower Palatinate (G. Rheinpfalz or Unterpfalz): it is bounded by the Rhine on the east, and borders on Hesse, Prussia, and Alsace-Lorraine. It forms a "Regierungs-bezirk" of Bavaria, with Spires as Capital. It is traversed by the Hardt Mountains, and produces grain, wine, coal, etc. Area, 2, 289 square miles. Population (1890), 728, 339. The Upper Palatinate (9. Oberpfalz) forms a "Regierungs-bezirk" of Bavaria under the title Upper Palatinate and Ratisbon (Regensburg). It borders on Bohemia. Capital, Ratisbon. It has extensive forests and flourishing industries. Area, 3, 729 square miles. Population (1890), 537, 954. [ Century Dict., 1906 ]

v. t. To make a palatinate of. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. palatinat. See Palatine. ] The province or seigniory of a palatine; the dignity of a palatine. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Anat.) A palatine bone. [ 1913 Webster ]