v. [f. L. ēmuls- ppl. stem of ēmulgē-re to milk out + -(I)FY.] trans. To convert into an emulsion. Also absol.
1859. Todd, Cycl. Anat., V. 106/1. The fat had … been minutely subdivided and emulsified.
1881. Times, 4 Jan., 3/5. Dr. Maddox obtained sensitive photographic plates by emulsifying bromide of silver in liquid gelatine.
Hence Emulsifying vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 442. No emulsifying substance was contained in the intestine.
1878. M. Foster, Physiol., II. i. 198. It [bile] has a slight but only slight emulsifying power.
1883. Taylor, Hardwick’s Photogr. Chem., 378. He prefers emulsifying with a very small quantity of it.
