pellicle

• “This inner skin is called the pellicle - sometimes it will come off along with the outer skin but if it doesn't just place the chestnut back in the boiling water and let it soak for a few minutes for it to soften.”

  Chestnut Soup

• “The cap was covered with a sticky, skin-like layer, called the pellicle or cuticle, both terms having the same meaning.”

  Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners

• “Caseine is insoluble in water, but dissolves readily in alkalies; its solution is not coagulated by heat, but, on evaporation, becomes covered with a thin pellicle, which is renewed as often as it is removed.”

  Elements of Agricultural Chemistry

• “Perhaps this bit of folk-lore was suggested by the shape of the pellicle, which is that of a heart.”

  Two Years in the French West Indies

• “The pellicle is the empty envelope of the Anthophora's egg; the louse is a Meloe-larva.”

  The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles

• “Then beneath this pellicle, which is so delicate that it can hardly bear the most cautious touch, we see a soft, white mass taking shape,”

  The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles

• “Detween this membrane atul the pellicle was the fame red liquor, but lefs in quantity than was contained ii\ the former ftage.”

  Internet Archive: A journey through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787;

• “That fermentation promotes the drying and loosens the silvery pellicle which is attached to the bean inside the parchment, and which cannot be entirely got rid of in any other way.”

  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

• “But this "pellicle" of Professor Bastian is not mere structureless matter, any more than the "bioplast" of Professor Beale.”

  Life: Its True Genesis

• “Professor Bastian is forced to go back of his infusorial forms and fungus-germs to a microscopical "pellicle," from which he admits they are”

  Life: Its True Genesis

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