Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The antler of a hart, formerly used as a source of ammonia and in smelling salts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The antler of the hart or stag, Cervus elaphus.
- noun Spirit of hartshorn; ammonia.
- noun In botany See
hartshorn-plantain .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer.
- noun Spirits of hartshorn (see below); volatile salts.
- noun (Bot.) an annual species of plantain (
Plantago Coronopus ); -- called alsobuck's-horn . - noun originally taken from the horns of harts, are now obtained chiefly by planing down the bones of calves. They afford a kind of jelly.
- noun (Chem.) an impure solid carbonate of ammonia, obtained by the destructive distillation of hartshorn, or any kind of bone; volatile salts.
- noun (Chem.) a solution of ammonia in water; -- so called because formerly obtained from hartshorn shavings by destructive distillation. Similar ammoniacal solutions from other sources have received the same name.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
antler of ahart , once used as a source ofammonia . - noun dated An
aqueous solution of ammonia;smelling salts . - verb transitive To
revive with hartshornsmelling salts .
Etymologies
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Examples
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By the simple action of water and heat, the gelatine is separated; but in order to procure the ammonia, or what is commonly called hartshorn, the bones must be distilled, by which means the gelatine is decomposed, and hydrogen and nitrogen combined in the form of ammonia.
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For leavening, purists prefer a pinch of hartshorn aka baker's ammonia, which is traditional in Scandinavian baking and thought to produce a tender, fluffier crumb—but conventional baking powder more than suffices.
Wunderbar Cookies Sarah Karnasiewicz 2011
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The first is a body recognized by its extremely pungent smell, and commonly known as hartshorn, and is formed by the union of two elements -- nitrogen and hydrogen.
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For a few days an alkali, in the simple form of "hartshorn" (ammonia) was rubbed on instead of the acid.
Papers on Health John Kirk
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal, Prop Styling by Anne Cardenas THE BAKER'S TOOLBOX | For recipe booklets, hartshorn baker's ammonia, pure anise oil and the widest and finest selection of reproduction springerle molds and cutters, go to House on the Hill (houseonthehill.net) and Springerle Joy (springerlejoy.com).
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I wonder about using a touch of ammonium carbonate (hartshorn).
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Stunned, as it were, by the event which had taken place, she was unable to move, and was pensively leaning against the wainscot, when Sir Charles and Mr. Donald waited on her together, while the latter presented her with some hartshorn and water, which he entreated her to take.
hernesheir commented on the word hartshorn
Calcined deer antler that was used to replace lead white when mixing yellow orpiment pigment.
February 27, 2010