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... in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste, but, by the action of ferments or of dilute acids and alkalies, always break down into some characteristic substance (acid, aldehyde, alcohol, phenole or alkaloid) and glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the ...

... thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.(v.t.) To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.(n.) A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not ...