gluten

Definition

Fibrin (formerly considered as one of the "animal humours").

Etymology

From Middle French gluten, borrowed from Latin glūten (“glue”).

Example Sentences

• "The Radicall or innate, is dayly ſupplied by nouriſhment, which ſome call Cambium, and make thoſe ſecundary Humors of Ros and Gluten to maintaine it: […]"
• "[T]he Fly suspends it self very firmly and easily, without the access or need of any such Sponges fill'd with an imaginary gluten, as many have, for want of good Glasses, perhaps, or a troublesome and diligent examination, suppos'd."
• "The tyrant machine is the female body, grinding and milling the pulp of matter, the gluten of human flesh."

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