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Benefice :: Benefice (n.) An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson..

Unorganized :: Unorganized (a.) Not organized; being without organic structure; specifically (Biol.), not having the different tissues and organs characteristic of living organisms, nor the power of growth and development; as, the unorganized ferments. See the Note under Ferment, n., 1..

Zymologist :: Zymologist (n.) One who is skilled in zymology, or in the fermentation of liquors..

Zymotic :: Zymotic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation..

Fermenting :: Fermenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fermen.

Fox :: Fox (n.) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment..

Perry :: Perry (n.) A fermented liquor made from pears; pear cider.

Maraschino :: Maraschino (n.) A liqueur distilled from fermented cherry juice, and flavored with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia..

Diastase :: Diastase (n.) A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar..

Ale :: Ale (n.) An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops..

Microzyme :: Microzyme (n.) A microorganism which is supposed to act like a ferment in causing or propagating certain infectious or contagious diseases; a pathogenic bacterial organism.

Koumiss :: Koumiss (n.) An intoxicating fermented or distilled liquor originally made by the Tartars from mare's or camel's milk. It can be obtained from any kind of milk, and is now largely made in Europe..

Tryptone :: Tryptone (n.) The peptone formed by pancreatic digestion; -- so called because it is formed through the agency of the ferment trypsin.

Beer :: Beer (n.) A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc..

Referment :: Referment (n.) The act of referring; reference.

Papain :: Papain (n.) A proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the green fruit of the papaw (Carica Papaya) of tropical America..

Proteolysis :: Proteolysis (n.) The digestion or dissolving of proteid matter by proteolytic ferments.

Beer :: Beer (n.) A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor..

Fox :: Fox (v. i.) To turn sour; -- said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting..

Glycogen :: Glycogen (n.) A white, amorphous, tasteless substance resembling starch, soluble in water to an opalescent fluid. It is found abundantly in the liver of most animals, and in small quantity in other organs and tissues, particularly in the embryo. It is quickly changed into sugar when boiled with dilute sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, and also by the action of amylolytic ferments..

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