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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Morin \Mo"rin\, n. (Chem.) A yellow crystalline substance ( C15H10O7) of acid properties extracted from fustic ( Chlorophora tinctoria syn. Maclura tinctoria, formerly called Morus tinctoria); -- called also moric acid and natural yellow 8. It is used as a dye for wool, giving a color from lemon yellow through olive to olive brown, depending on the metal with which it is mordanted.
Wiktionary
n. (context organic compound English) A yellow flavonoid, extracted from fustic, once used to dye wool
Wikipedia
Morin is a common French surname meaning "The dark skinned or dark haired one". It may refer to:
Morin is a French surname.
Morin may also refer to:
Morin is a yellow chemical compound that can be isolated from Maclura pomifera (Osage orange), Maclura tinctoria (old fustic) and from leaves of Psidium guajava (common guava). In a preclinical in vitro study, morin was found to be a weak inhibitor of fatty acid synthase with an IC of 2.33 μM. Morin was also found to inhibit amyloid formation by islet amyloid polypeptide (or amylin) and disaggregates amyloid fibers.
Such amyloid formation may have a role in Alzheimer's disease, as well as type 2 diabetes. It may also contribute to graft failure in islet cell transplantation in type 1 diabetes.
Morin can be used to test for the presence of aluminium or tin in a solution, since it forms characteristically fluorescent coordination complexes with them.
Usage examples of "morin".
Valenglard and Madame Morin began on the topic of the horoscope anew, and I left them, taking Mdlle.
Content with so much I begged everybody to come to dinner with me next day, telling Madame Morin that I should not be going out, and that I was therefore delighted to put my carriage at her service.
Madame Morin and their niece came at noon, and we spent the hour before dinner in reading the horoscope.
He accosted Madame Morin with easy grace, was welcomed heartily by her, spoke well, scarcely gave me a glance, and did not say a word to the nieces.
I gave Madame Morin a farewell kiss, and she was kind enough to tell her niece to give me a similar mark of friendship, which she did in a way that shewed me how completely she had shared my ardour.
I was editor of the Fanal des Charentes, and I used to meet Morin every day at the Cafe du Commerce, and the day after his adventure.
She was the wife of a barrister named Morin, and aunt to the young lady who had so interested me.
Madame Morin gave her daughter and niece, whose pockets were empty, some money, and Valenglard directed their play so well that when we left off to go to supper I had the pleasure of seeing that each of the three ladies had won two or three louis.
To give my prophecy authority, I told her some curious circumstances which had hitherto happened to her, and which I had learnt now and again from herself or Madame Morin without pretending to heed what they said.
I wrote to my friend Valenglard, asking him to remind Madame Morin that she had promised to shew me a likeness to somebody at Chamberi.
I was obliged to talk to all the nuns, and Madame Morin told her niece that I wanted her to try some excellent chocolate I had brought from Genoa, but that I hoped her lay-sister would make it.
Madame Morin, who knew my tastes, told her to spare nothing, and I warned her that I would send in the necessary wines.
Madame Morin took leave of her niece, and the handshakings, thanks, and promises of remembrance between me and the nuns, lasted for a good quarter of an hour.
We dined together and we then called on Madame Morin, with whom we found her fair niece.
As soon as I got back to the inn I sent off Le Duc in a travelling carriage to Madame Morin, whom I informed by letter that as I was only at Chamberi for her sake I would await her convenience.