Part 2642

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The glass over the dial of a watch case.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Anything resembling crystal, as clear water, etc.</def>

<blockquote>The blue <b>crystal</b> of the seas. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Blood crystal</col>. <cd>See under <er>Blood</er>.</cd> -- <col>Compound crystal</col>. <cd>See under <er>Compound</er>.</cd> -- <col>Iceland crystal</col>, <cd>a transparent variety of calcite, or crystallized calcium carbonate, brought from Iceland, and used in certain optical instruments, as the polariscope.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Rock crystal</col>, &or; <col>Mountain crystal</col></mcol>, <cd>any transparent crystal of quartz, particularly of limpid or colorless quartz.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Crys"tal</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Consisting of, or like, crystal; clear; transparent; lucid; pellucid; crystalline.</def>

<blockquote>Through <b>crystal</b> walls each little mote will peep. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>By <b>crystal</b> streams that murmur through the meads. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The <b>crystal</b> pellets at the touch congeal, And from the ground rebounds the ratting hail. <i>H. Brooks.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Crystallin</h1> <Xpage=352>

<hw>Crys"tal*lin</hw> <tt>(-l?n)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Physiol. Chem.)</fld> <def>See <er>Gobulin</er>.</def>

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<hw>Crys"tal*line</hw> <tt>(kr?s"t<it>a</it>l-l?n &or; -l?n; 277)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>crystallinus</ets>, from Gr. <?/<?/<?/<?/: cf. F. <ets>cristallin</ets>. See <er>Crystal</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Consisting, or made, of crystal.</def>

<blockquote>Mount, eagle, to my palace <b>crystalline</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture.</def>

<blockquote>Their <b>crystalline</b> structure. <i>Whewell.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Imperfectly crystallized; <as>as, granite is only <ex>crystalline</ex>, while quartz crystal is perfectlly crystallized</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid.</def> "The <i>crystalline</i> sky."

<i>Milton.</i>

<cs><mcol><col>Crystalline heavens</col>, &or; <col>Crystalline spheres</col></mcol>, <cd>in the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, two transparent spheres imagined to exist between the region of the fixed stars and the <i>primum mobile</i> (or outer circle of the heavens, which by its motion was supposed to carry round all those within it), in order to explain certain movements of the heavently bodies.</cd> -- <col>Crystalline lens</col> <fld>(Anat.)</fld>, <cd>the capsular lenslike body in the eye, serving to focus the rays of light. It consists of rodlike cells derived from the external embryonic epithelium.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Crys"tal*line</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A crystalline substance.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>See <er>Aniline</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

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<hw>Crys"tal*lite</hw> <tt>(kr?s"t<it>a</it>l-l?t)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Crystal</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form crystallites are called <stype>trichites</stype>, <stype>belonites</stype>, <stype>globulites</stype>, etc.</def>

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<hw>Crys"tal*li`za*ble</hw> <tt>(kr?s"t<it>a</it>l-l?`z?-b'l)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.</def>