Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A medicinal preparation made by digesting sprouting malt in water, expressing the solution, precipitating with alcohol, and drying the precipitate, which is impure diastase.
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- noun Alternative form of
maltin .
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Examples
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Poor Fanny had very little fun of her visit, having been most of the time on a diet of maltine and slops — and this while the rest of us were rioting on oysters and mushrooms.
Vailima Letters 2005
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I began my strike gently; I knocked off all diet extras, such as the maltine and its accompanying banana or the pudding at the mid-day meal, and kept to the food which would be mine the other side, viz.,
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Eventually I consented to take maltine and a banana after the mid-day meal, as they were distressed that I was so thin.
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