isinglass

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This is because many beers are classified with isinglass, which is a collagen made from the bladders of fish.

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  1. noun A transparent, almost pure gelatin prepared from the air bladder of the sturgeon and certain other fishes and used as an adhesive and a clarifying agent.
  2. noun Mica in thin, transparent sheets.

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  • I held up a piece of isinglass, a few pence from the chemist's on Head Street. —  dummy 3
  • So finely is the surface imprinted into the isinglass, that they were posted home. —  dummy 3
  • This is because many beers are classified with isinglass, which is a collagen made from the bladders of fish. —  Progressive Bloggers
  • 195. HOW TO PREPARE ISINGLASS JELLY Put one ounce and a-half of isinglass, with two ounces of lump sugar and half a pint of water, into a small stewpan, and stir the whole on the fire while it boils gently for ten minutes; then remove the jelly from the fire, add the juice of three oranges, and the thin pared rind of one orange; stir well together for five minutes, strain through a muslin into a basin, and set the jelly in a cold place to become stiff No. —  A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes
  • Then stiffen it with a solution of isinglass or gum Arabic, put on the inside, with a sponge. —  A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
 

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  1. By folk etymology (influenced by glass) from obsolete Dutch huizenblas, from Middle Dutch hūsblase : hūs, sturgeon + blase, bladder; see bhlē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. A corruption, simulating English glass, of Middle Dutch huysenblas, later huizenblas (Dutch huisblad) = German hausenblase = Danish husblas = Swedish husbloss. literally ‘sturgeon-bladder,’ from Middle Dutch huysen, huizen = Middle Low German husen = German hausen, etc., sturgeon (see huso), + Middle Low German blase = German blasen, etc., bladder: see blaze.
 

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/ˈaɪzɪŋglæs/
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