单词 | enamel jelly |
释义 | > as lemmasenamel jelly a. gen. Anything of the consistence of jelly; a gelatinous substance of any kind. enamel jelly (see quot. 1901); glycerin(e) jelly, any of various mixtures of glycerol and gelatin, principally used as mounting media in microscopy; cf. 2d; (more fully royal jelly), the secretion produced by honey bees to feed the larvae of the colony, esp. those that will become queens. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > [noun] > gelatinous state > substance jelly1605 jell1870 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke iii. 178 Take of..the ielly or sperme of frogges, which is to be found in standing waters. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xiv. 81 Seruant. My Lord, yet haue you one eye left... Corn. Least it see more preuent it, out vild Ielly [1623 gelly] . View more context for this quotation a1631 J. Donne Progresse of Soule xxiii, in Poems (1633) 12 A female fishes sandie Roe With the males jelly, newly lev'ned was. a1640 P. Massinger Beleeue as you List (1976) iii. ii. 104 How my iellie quakes! 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 121 One would verily have thought, that..Stone had been broken or bruised whilst a Gelly..and so hardened. 1677 T. D'Urfey Madam Fickle ii. 14 I could have beaten the Woman into a Jelly. 1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature Demonstrative Evid. 124 Those masses of animated jelly, which one sees at times scattered along the sea shore. 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xix. 130 They will select one or more to be educated as queens; which..being fed with royal jelly for not more than two days..will come forth complete queens. 1846 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. II. 203 The pus becomes so viscid as to form a tenacious jelly. 1859 Q. Jrnl. sc. Sci. 7 257 The bottle of glycerine jelly is put into a cup of hot water, until liquefied. 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 494/2 As a proof that any worker egg or young larva not more than three days old may be made to produce a queen, the experimenter has only to supply to such an one a portion of royal jelly. 1880 Amer. Monthly sc. Jrnl. 1 208/1 I have used such a medicine dropper to hold and apply glycerin jelly, with great satisfaction. 1886 F. R. Cheshire Bees & Bee-keeping I. vi. 82 In the case of the queen larva..that secretion, commonly, though, as I hold, erroneously, called royal jelly, is added unstintingly. 1887 W. Hillhouse tr. E. Strasburger Handbk. Pract. Bot. 206 If the hæmatoxylin stain is to be preserved in glycerine or glycerine-jelly. 1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 15 Sept. 718 Wheeler's Glycerine Jelly. 1901 W. A. N. Dorland Illustr. Med. Dict. s.v. Jelly Enamel-jelly, a soft material in a growing tooth between the epithelial investment and the calcifying cells of the young enamel. 1926 Bryologist 29 56 Take several brushfulls of jelly [sc. = glycerine jelly] from the bottle. 1954 C. G. Butler World of Honeybee iv. 46 It has come to be believed that any female honeybee larva..that is fed exclusively on royal jelly always develops into a queen bee. 1958 J. R. Baker Princ. Biol. technique xiii. 255 Preparations mounted in glycerine-jelly, balsam, or other commonly-used media. 1973 L. Hellman Pentimento (1974) 230 He was always having mysterious operations... He took royal jelly. < as lemmas |
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