单词 | cream of tartar |
释义 | > as lemmascream of tartar cream of tartar n. the purified and crystallized bitartrate of potassium, used in medicine and for various technical purposes.extracted from creamn.2cream of tartar cream of tartar n. see 1 and cream n.2 4a. ΚΠ 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Soluble Tartar, is made by boiling in 3 Pints of Water, 8 Ounces of Cream of Tartar, and 4 Ounces of the Fix'd Salt of Tartar. cream of tartar a. Chemistry. Bitartrate of potash (acid potassium tartrate), present in grape juice, deposited in a crude form in the process of fermentation, and adhering to the sides of wine-casks in the form of a hard crust, also called argal or argol n.1, which in the crude state varies from pale pink to dark red, but when purified forms white crystals, which are cream of tartar.†In quot. c1425 applied to the dregs of malt liquor. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > deposits argolc1386 tartarc1386 upon the lee1390 wine-leesc1400 wine-stone1526 fechia1704 white friars1745 beeswing1860 crust of wine1863 wine-crust1872 flor1873 wine ball- the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > dregs or lees tartarc1386 c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 260 Of Tartre, Alum glas, berme, wort and argoille. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvi. xcix. (Tollem. MS.) Tartar is wyn drastes [L. tartarum est vini fæculentia], and like to a softe ston cleuynge harde to þe sides of þe tonnes. c1425 tr. Arderne's Surgery (E.E.T.S.) 49 Ffirst I made hym ane emplastre of tartare of ale, i.[e]. dreggez. ?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. B.vii Wyne Lyes called Tartarum..menglid in oyle and Veniger is verye good. 1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum Introd. 28 Like Tartar, [it] is so Baked and Crusted to the sides of the Vessel, that till you knock off the Hoopes and take the Frame in pieces, no Art of Man will free the Cask from a tang at least of the old mustiness. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 259 Small Wines, with little Oil, and much Tartar. 1797 Encycl. Brit. IV. 495/2 The tartar of the white wines is of a greyish white colour, called white tartar; and that of red wine has a red colour, and is called red tartar. 1883 J. T. Taylor Hardwich's Man. Photogr. Chem. (ed. 9) 96 Tartaric Acid..is derived from a substance called Tartar, deposited from the juice of the Grape during fermentation. This Tartar is an Acid Tartrate of Potash. < as lemmas |
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