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Head :: Head (n.) The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler..

Invertin :: Invertin (n.) An unorganized ferment which causes cane sugar to take up a molecule of water and be converted into invert sugar.

Cane :: Cane (n.) A lance or dart made of cane.

Plant-cane :: Plant-cane (n.) A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon..

Hexdecyl :: Hexdecyl (n.) The essential radical, C16H33, of hecdecane..

Undecylic :: Undecylic (a.) Related to, derived from, or containing, undecyl; specifically, designating that member of the fatty acids which corresponds to undecane, and is obtained as a white crystalline substance, C11H22O2..

Canescent :: Canescent (a.) Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white..

Zincane :: Zincane (n.) Zinc chloride.

Hierapicra :: Hierapicra (n.) A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark..

Buccaneer :: Buccaneer (n.) A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Lactose :: Lactose (n.) Sugar of milk or milk sugar; a crystalline sugar present in milk, and separable from the whey by evaporation and crystallization. It has a slightly sweet taste, is dextrorotary, and is much less soluble in water than either cane sugar or glucose. Formerly called lactin..

Seating :: Seating (n.) The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating..

Inversion :: Inversion (n.) The act or process by which cane sugar (sucrose), under the action of heat and acids or ferments (as diastase), is broken or split up into grape sugar (dextrose), and fruit sugar (levulose); also, less properly, the process by which starch is converted into grape sugar (dextrose)..

Texas :: Texas (n.) A structure on the hurricane deck of a steamer, containing the pilot house, officers' cabins, etc..

Glucose :: Glucose (n.) A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also dextrose, grape sugar, diabetic sugar, and starch sugar. See Dextrose..

Canes :: Canes (pl. ) of Cani.

Hexadecane :: Hexadecane (n.) See Hecdecane.

Puccoon :: Puccoon (n.) Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum (L. hirtum, and L. canescens); also, the pigment itself..

Joint :: "Joint (n.) The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations; as, a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg..

Carcanet :: Carcanet (n.) A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar..

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