Chem. [f. amid- the common Romanic form of L. amyl-um starch (as in Fr. amid-on, etc.) + -IN.]
1. The soluble matter of starch found in the interior of the granules.
1833. Penny Cycl., I. 452. One hundred parts of potato starch … yielded 17 of amidine, 30·4 of sugar, 17·2 of gum, and some unaltered starch.
2. Starch in a state of solution, gelatinous and transparent.
1839. Hooper, Med. Dict., 84. Caventou says that the amidine is formed at once by the action of the hot water on the starch.
1879. in Syd. Soc. Lex.
