Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as gliadin.
  • noun Same as gelatin. It forms the chief part of carpenters' glue. Not to be confounded with gluten or any of its components.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as Gliadin.
  • noun rare Sometimes synonymous with Gelatin.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun gliadin

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Examples

  • I don't much like kneading myself - and I've convinced myself that when I mix my final dough (in a standup KA), if I allow it to reach the "stringy" stage, where the glutin is obviously developing, and then let it continue for 10 mins or so, it won't need any further kneading.

    Yeast we forget! 2006

  • This process kneads the dough and develops the glutin giving the pasta a toothiness.

    Italian Sausage Pilau 2007

  • The pet food was largely poisoned by a chemical reaction which included a product called melamine, which is used in fertilizer and plastics, mixed with wheat glutin.

    China Killed Your Dog; Now You and Your Kids are at Risk Too 2007

  • This process kneads the dough and develops the glutin giving the pasta a toothiness.

    Shrimp Ravioli 2007

  • The original recalls were made after contaminated wheat glutin from China was found in some pet foods.

    CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2007 2007

  • Menu Foods said all of the wheat glutin tainted by melamine came from the Chinese supplier.

    China Killed Your Dog 2007

  • Is the glutin secreted to secure the wide dispersal of the seeds?

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • The natural glutin is produced while the slim, fluted, inch-long seeds are green, but its virtue remains even after the whole panicle has withered and has fallen.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • Then there are the white flesh and the glutin, the best of all fattening foods; and having eaten to repletion for a couple of days, the diet palls, and they begin to speak in shockingly disrespectful terms of turtle.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • If the glutin is provided to prevent birds consuming the kernels, then the object is perfectly served; otherwise no very satisfactory reason is apparent why the tree should be invested with the means of destroying even humble forms of life.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

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