As we ourselves experienced in coming north, they also cause a weakness of vision, which occurs in the case of animals fed on pure gluten or amylaceous matter only. ❋ Unknown (2004)
For most distilled liquors, the raw material used is a natural sugar as found in honey, ripe fruit, sugarcane juice, palm sap, beet root, milk, or a substance of amylaceous (starchy) nature that can be easily converted into simple sugars using enzymes present in cereals or through the addition of suitable malted cereal. ❋ Unknown (1992)
-- This species has a spindle-shaped root brown externally, about six or seven ounces or more in weight, which contains amylaceous matter, without any bitterness, and is used as food, after being rasped and washed, so as to cleanse it from the fibrous matter, in the same manner as arrowroot is prepared. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
The sweet potato and the yam, both of which are considered to be less nutritious than the arrowroot, rank above it in the centesimal proportion of their amylaceous produce. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
The meal or flour as imported in the form of a fine amylaceous powder. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
Cubical amylaceous pieces, of a darker brown than the other kinds. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
Therefore combinations of these fibers in any composition of non-amylaceous fiber (ligneous or woody fiber) will be dissolved, leaving the latter unharmed; the woody fibers remaining will prove suitable objects for examination under the microscope. ❋ Various (N/A)
Every textile amylaceous fiber is convertible into these forms, more or less, by strong sulphuric acid. ❋ Various (N/A)
The fibers of cotton, flax, and ramie are examples of amylaceous cellulose, that is to say, these fibers are converted into starchy matter by treatment with the last-named acid. ❋ Various (N/A)
The Oswego starch factory has happily introduced the use of Indian corn, as a grain producing a larger proportion of pure amylaceous properties than any other known vegetable substance, proffering to the ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
Having cut down a tree, they took out the pith, that nearly fills its trunk, and which abounds in mucilage and an amylaceous fluid; after keeping this for some time buried under ground in the skin of an animal, they reduced it by pounding and kneading into a kind of paste; and then baked it in hot ashes, in the form of round cakes, nearly an inch thick. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
Like the other amylaceous substances, it forms a valuable and nutritious article of food for the invalid. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
The root contains much saccharine and amylaceous matter. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
_Pyschotria elliptica_, and other species; and white or amylaceous ipecacuan, furnished by _Richardsonia scabra_, an herbaceous perennial, native of the provinces of Rio Janeiro and Minas Geraes. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
Some of the cryptogamic plants form considerable articles of commerce, particularly as food plants, affording gelatinous and amylaceous matter, and being useful in medicine and the arts. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
Quantities of amylaceous (starchy) food, candy, cakes and other sweets, coarse vegetables and potatoes must be avoided, since with children they are the cause of stomach trouble, resulting in decomposition and the formation of acids in the intestines. ❋ Louis Dechmann (N/A)
CEYLON MOSS (_Gracelaria_, or _Gigartina, lichenoides_), a small and delicate fucus, is well known for the amylaceous property it possesses, and the large proportion of true starch it furnishes. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
_Zamia pumila_, a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and other species of this remarkable genus of plants, which is nearly related to both ferns and palms, supply an amylaceous matter, which has been sold as arrowroot. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
The saccharine, or amylaceous substances constitute the most abundant of the proximate constituents of plants. ❋ Charles Alexander Cameron (1875)
Dr. McCall, of Georgia, found it to yield one-fourth part its weight of pure amylaceous matter, which is white, delicate, and nutritive. ❋ Unknown (1863)
