Lant
{{short description|Aged or fermented urine}}
{{missing information|chemistry (what’s making it caustic [ammonia?], how it’s formed [urease?])|date=March 2022}}
File:Urine after 4 months (28 June) (2957323941).jpg
Lant is aged urine. The term comes from Old English {{Wikt-lang|ang|hland}}, which referred to urine.{{Cite book|last=Johnson|first=Samuel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2dMJOBI0xukC&q=Lant+comes+from+Old+English+land,&pg=PT327|title=A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals ...|date=1827|publisher=Longman, rees, orme|pages=15|language=en}} Collected urine was put aside to ferment until used for its chemical content in many pre-industrial processes, such as cleaning and production.{{Cite book|last=Fownes|first=George|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UT5OAAAAYAAJ&q=stale+urine&pg=PA513|title=Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical|date=1853|publisher=Blanchard and Lea|pages=513|language=en}}
History
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Because of its ammonium content, lant was most commonly used for floor cleaning and laundry. According to early housekeeping guides, bedpans would be collected by one of the younger male servants and put away to ferment to a mild caustic before use.
In larger cottage industries, lant was used in wool-processing{{Cite book|last=Hummel|first=J. J. (John James)|url=https://archive.org/details/dyeingtextilefa01hummgoog|title=The dyeing of textile fabrics|date=1898|publisher=London [etc.] New York, Cassell and company, limited|others=Harvard University|pages=92}} In times of urgent need and in districts where these were the chief industries, the whole town was expected to contribute to its supply.
{{Quote|"Lant. Stale urine. It was preserved in a tank and having been mixed with lime used for dressing wheat before it was sown to keep the birds from picking up the seeds."|Sidney Addy|Glossary of Sheffield Words 1888{{Cite book|last=Addy|first=Sidney Oldall|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KaITAAAAQAAJ|title=A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield|date=1888|publisher=English dialect society|language=en}}{{Rp|164}}}}
Related info
LaNt (with an alternate capitalization) may also refer to Laminin N-terminus proteins.{{cite journal | vauthors = Chavda ND, Sari B, Asiri FM, Hamill KJ |title= Laminin N-terminus (LaNt) proteins, laminins and basement membrane regulation |journal= Biochem Soc Trans |date=December 16, 2022 | volume = 50| issue = 6|pages=1541-1553|doi=10.1042/BST20210240
|PMID=36355367 |PMC= 9788559|url=https://portlandpress.com/biochemsoctrans/article/50/6/1541/232075/Laminin-N-terminus-LaNt-proteins-laminins-and|doi-access=free}} Laminins are basic structural proteins of basement membranes. Some particularly small sized proteins within this family of proteins are called LaNt proteins.
References
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- Ray, John (1691) North Country Words
- [https://archive.org/stream/glossaryofwordsu00addyuoft#page/164/mode/2up/search/old+wash Addy, Sidney (1888) Glossary of Sheffield Words, p.164]
- {{cite book | author=Kacirk, Jeffrey | title=Forgotten English | location=New York | publisher=William Morrow & Co | year=1997 | isbn=0-688-15018-7 | url=https://archive.org/details/forgottenenglish00kaci }}
- {{cite book | author=Ray, John | title=A Collection of English Words Not Generally used, with their Significations and Original, in two Alphabetical Catalogues, The One Of such as are proper to the Northern, the other to the Southern Counties | location=London | publisher=Christopher Wilkinson | year=1691 | id=No ISBN}}
- Kelly, John F. "[http://www.wfmu.org/LCD/19/urine.html The Urine Cure and Other Curious Medical Treatments]" Hippocrates Magazine. (May/June 1988) By Hercules
- {{cite book | author=Horan, Julie L. | title=The Porcelain God – A Social History of the Toilet | location=Secaucus, New Jersey | publisher=A Birch Lane Press Book | year=1996 | page=[https://archive.org/details/porcelaingodsoci00hora/page/96 96] | isbn=1-55972-346-7 | url=https://archive.org/details/porcelaingodsoci00hora/page/96 }}
- {{cite book | author=Grose, Francis | title=A Provincial Glossary with a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions | location=London | publisher=S. Hooper | year=1787}}
Further reading
- {{cite web |last1=Winterthur Program in American Material Culture |title=Lant: The Forgotten Resource |url=https://sites.udel.edu/materialmatters/2018/04/11/lant-the-forgotten-resource/ |website=University of Delaware |publisher=Winterthur Program in American Material Culture |access-date=17 December 2023}}