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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
pectin . - noun One of a pair of comb-like structures on the under side of the thorax of scorpions, just behind the hind legs.
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Examples
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Boil juice, add a bag of pectine/preservatives and 100 cl sugar pr 150 cl juice.
Domestic godess (this time: cherry jelly) magnio 2008
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Illane parva est servitus amatorum singulis fere horis pectine capillum, calimistroque barbam componere, faciem aquis redolentibus diluere, &c. 5424.
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Jamne lyrâ, et tetrico vivunt tibi pectine chordæ?
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Maeonius quaecumque senex aut Thracius Orpheus aut Mytilenaeo modulatur pectine Sappho240
The Marriage of Honorius and Maria Claudian 1912
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We may assume, then, that 2·50 parts of starch, 2·75 parts of sugar, or 3 parts of the pectine bodies, are equivalent to 1 part of fat.
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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As the food supplied to these animals contained but a very small proportion of ready-formed fat, it was inferred that four-fifths of the fat of the increase was derived from the sugar, starch, cellulose, and pectine bodies.
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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Grape sugar and the pectine bodies -- substances which form a large proportion of the food of the Herbivora -- contain more oxygen and hydrogen than exist in starch, and, consequently, are not capable of forming so large an amount of fat as an equal weight of starch.
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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The _non-plastic_ elements of nutrition include fat, oil, starch, sugar, gum, and certain constituents of fruits, such as pectine.
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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The estimation of the value of the flesh-forming materials is far more difficult than that of sugar, starch, pectine compounds, and fat.
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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The facts detailed in my last letter will satisfy you as to the manner in which the increase of mass in an animal, that is, its growth, is accomplished; we have still to consider a most important question, namely, the function performed in the animal system by substances destitute of nitrogen; such as sugar, starch, gum, pectine, &c.
Familiar Letters on Chemistry Justus Freiherr von Liebig 1838
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