gelatin : Idioms & Phrases

• noun mixture of guncotton with nitroglycerin
  

WordNet

• an explosive, containing about ninety-five parts of nitroglycerin and five of collodion.

Webster 1913

• noun jellied dessert made with gelatin and fruit juice or water
  

WordNet

• a name applied to a number of processes in the arts, involving the use of gelatin. Especially: (a) (Photog.) A dry-plate process in which gelatin is used as a substitute for collodion as the sensitized material. This is the dry-plate process in general use, and plates of extreme sensitiveness are produced by it. (b) (Print.) A method of producing photographic copies of drawings, engravings, printed pages, etc., and also of photographic pictures, which can be printed from in a press with ink, or (in some applications of the process) which can be used as the molds of stereotype or electrotype plates. (c) (Print. or Copying) A method of producing facsimile copies of an original, written or drawn in aniline ink upon paper, thence transferred to a cake of gelatin softened with glycerin, from which impressions are taken upon ordinary paper.

Webster 1913

• noun a gelatinous preparation made from gelatin and glycerin and water; used as a base for ointments and suppositories
  

WordNet

• . See Gliadin.

Webster 1913