Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Presenting a fibrous appearance; finely divided or fringed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Belonging to the fibers of plants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to the
fibres ofplants . - noun Dated form of
fibrin .
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Examples
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Our blood, then, contains _white of egg_; it contains in fact -- if you care to know it -- sixty-five times more white of egg than fibrine, for in 1,000 ounces of blood, you will find 195 of _albumen_, and only three of _fibrine_; of _casein_, none.
The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals Jean Mac�� 1854
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Thus, on one side slender threads arise, termed fibrine or filaments, and on the other lymph fluid appears, which receives the particles of salts freed from the filaments during their chemical separation.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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The hunting of animals renders their flesh more tender; the cause assigned is, that the great exertion of the muscles liquefies their fibrine, which is the toughest of their constituents.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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I shall experiment with albumen, as provided by the egg of the hen; albumen being an isomer of fibrine, which is the principal element of all flesh diet.
Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Next to the JUICE, which, as we have said, is composed of asmazome and the extractus, there are found in fish many substances which also exist in land animals, such as fibrine, gelatine, albumen.
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Next to the JUICE, which, as we have said, is composed of asmazome and the extractus, there are found in fish many substances which also exist in land animals, such as fibrine, gelatine, albumen.
The Physiology of Taste 1755-1826 Brillat-Savarin 1790
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The edges of the horn applied to the surface are wetted, and cupping is well performed, though the doctor occasionally, by separating the fibrine from the blood in a basin of water by his side, and exhibiting it, pretends that he has extracted something more than blood.
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Blood is composed of an albuminous serum and of fibrine, some gelatine and a little osmazome.
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The active principle of the juice known as papain, said to be capable of digesting two hundred times its weight of fibrine, is used for many disorders and ailments, from dyspepsia to ringworm and ichthyosis or fish-skin disease.
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Whether, therefore, the sample contains a certain proportion of nitrogen, or whether it contains albumen, fibrine, and caseine in sufficient quantity, it may still want the very condition which is essential to the manufacture of good bread.
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