(n.) A piece of ordnance carrying a 12 pound shot.
(n.) A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil. See Spike.
(n.) A savory meat jelly containing portions of fowl, game, fish, hard boiled eggs, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) First-past-the-post seemed to freeze the old system in aspic.
(2) "Radio 4 is a national treasure but it is not one set in aspic," said Liddiment, adding that he was not asking for radical changes to the station's output.
(3) That's a recipe for everything left in aspic, whatever the cost.
(4) I think that he got it just about right, but nothing is preserved in aspic.
(5) Aspic makes a comeback, enclosing diced vegetables and a soft-boiled egg, quickly heated beforehand, or wild mushrooms with foie gras mousse.
(6) For the Monarch flights, foie gras was cut into sausage shapes, decorated, put in the freezer, then I’d pour hot aspic over them.
(7) In fact I rather hope it will, for the loyal and the new audience share one thing in common – their belief that personal tastes and canons of music don’t exist in aspic.
(8) The dominating vehicle of botulism was in 61% of the notified cases a home-prepared food; usually a galantine, aspic, liver paste, pork with vegetables, and smoked pork.
(9) I don't believe in preserving London's skyline in aspic but I do think the fact that London is a predominantly low-rise city is a great asset - it feels open and human.
(10) It's been frozen in aspic for too long … You'll see the edges of Shoreditch creeping into EastEnders .
(11) First, can it face down the forces of conservatism on the left, in unions and in the media who believe the public sector should be preserved in aspic?
(12) A factor X activator was isolated from the venom of Vipera aspis aspis (Aspic viper) by gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatography.
(13) It's been frozen in aspic for too long," Treadwell-Collins told the latest issue of Radio Times.
(14) Seventy years on, we should celebrate Beveridge's vision and laud the Labour ministers who enacted his proposals – not by asking how we freeze today's welfare state in aspic, but, instead, how we become the radical reformers once again.
(15) So we see the life in these letters unfold as if preserved in the emotional equivalent of aspic, the juvenile tones emerging at the most unlikely moments.
(16) The whole thing looks like a plate of Nan’s jellied meats in aspic, the outer reaches wobbling about gleefully while the insides remain solid.
(17) egg, cream, rice, cold meat, seafood, aspic and mayonnaise.
(18) Labour politicians and campaigners have condemned the head of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council for suggesting that public libraries are primarily used by the white middle classes The controversial comments were made by Roy Clare, the council's chief executive, who argued that the service should not be preserved in "aspic".
(19) He reiterated the Conservative party's view that using a portion of the BBC's licence fee to "prop up regional news simply casts a failed regional TV model in aspic".
(20) "We shouldn't take a particular version of the family institution, such as the 1950s model, and try and preserve it in aspic," he said.
Gelatine
Definition:
(n.) 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.
(n.) Same as Gelatin.
Example Sentences:
(1) All of the strains examined were motile and hemolytic and produced lipase and liquid gelatin.
(2) Glucose release from these samples was highly correlated with starch gelatinization (r2 = .99).
(3) The combination vaccine consisted of 12 Lf tetanus toxoid and 10 TCID50 vaccinia virus "MVA" preserved with gelatine and glucosamine.
(4) We found that when neutrophils were allowed to settle into protein-coated surfaces the amount of O2- they generated varied with the nature of the protein: IgG greater than bovine serum albumin greater than plastic greater than gelatin greater than serum greater than collagen.
(5) The binding of 125I-labeled core protein to immobilized fibronectin was inhibited by soluble fibronectin and by soluble cold core protein but not by albumin or gelatin.
(6) At low concentrations of gelactin, the gelatin of actin exhibits a bell-shaped dependency on free calcium ion concentration, being stimulated between pCa 8 and 6 and inhibited at pCa below 5.5, while at high gelactin concentrations the calcium sensitivity of actin gelation is apparently abolished.
(7) One hour after induction of shock, the circulating volume was expanded using a colloidal gelatin solution.
(8) A sustained-release property of gelatin microcapsules of piretanide was evaluated by pharmacodynamic parameters.
(9) Soft gelatin capsules were filled with 50 mg of the final mixture to give 0.050 mg of ethinylestradiol.
(10) The arterial network of the fresh animal cadaver was injected with a mixture of lead oxide and gelatin.
(11) An initial insulin loss of 26% (with albumin) to 37% (with gelatine) was followed by only a small loss (less than 9%) during the next 24 hours.
(12) A 35-year-old man developed gelatinous drop-like corneal dystrophy at age 20.
(13) The use of polymeric silicone film and homograft nasal cartilage was associated with a significant number of complications and has been abandoned, substituting instead absorbable gelatin film and ossicular bone transplants.
(14) The heart and lungs were removed, the pulmonary artery was injected with barium-gelatin, and the lung was fixed in formalin in the inflated state.
(15) 3 The reduction by gelatine was reversed when the protease inhibitor aprotinin was added to the injection vehicle, and hypercalcaemia then persisted for more than 8 h. 4 Of other protease inhibitors studied, epsilon-aminocaproic acid was also found to enhance the hypercalcaemic response to subcutaneous PTH and its fragments but, unlike aprotinin, it was ineffective in the presence of gelatine.
(16) These were activated to inhibit the in-vitro growth of tumour cells much more effectively, when immunoglobulin (IgG), fibronectin (FN), and gelatin conjugates were used than when MDP was used alone.
(17) In second group after thoracotomy the lungs were stabilized with gelatin-resorcin-formaldehyde glue.
(18) A simplified method for the detection of acrosin proteolytic activity (APA) of the individual sperm was developed by using a gelatin substrate slide.
(19) Incorporating polyvinylpyrrolidone, gelatin and methylcellulose binding agents in a metronidazole formulation alters the tensile strength, disintegration and dissolution times of the tablets by reducing their wettability as measured by the adhesion tension of water.
(20) Fish skin gelatin showed much better blocking activity than hydrolyzed porcine gelatin, and it still had the practical advantage of remaining fluid even under refrigeration.