CPage 520
- English Word Cryophorus Definition An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs, connected by a tube of the same material, and containing only a quantity of water and its vapor, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below 32¡ Fahr.
- English Word Crypt Definition A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.
- English Word Crypt Definition A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.
- English Word Cryptal Definition Of or pertaining to crypts.
- English Word Cryptic Definition Alt. of Cryptical
- English Word Cryptical Definition Hidden; secret; occult.
- English Word Cryptically Definition Secretly; occultly.
- English Word Cryptidine Definition One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper.
- English Word Cryptobranchiata Definition A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata.
- English Word Cryptobranchiata Definition A group of nudibranch mollusks.
- English Word Cryptobranchiate Definition Having concealed or rudimentary gills.
- English Word Cryptocrystalline Definition Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope.
- English Word Cryptogam Definition A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia.
- English Word Cryptogamia Definition The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.
- English Word Cryptogamiae Definition of Cryptogamia
- English Word Cryptogamian Definition Alt. of Cryptogamous
- English Word Cryptogamic Definition Alt. of Cryptogamous
- English Word Cryptogamist Definition One skilled in cryptogamic botany.
- English Word Cryptogamous Definition Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series.
- English Word Cryptogram Definition A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph.
- English Word Cryptograph Definition Cipher; something written in cipher.
- English Word Cryptographal Definition Pertaining to cryptography; cryptographical.
- English Word Cryptographer Definition One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.
- English Word Cryptographic Definition Alt. of Cryptographical
- English Word Cryptographical Definition Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink.
- English Word Cryptographist Definition Same as Cryptographer.
- English Word Cryptography Definition The act or art of writing in secret characters; also, secret characters, or cipher.
- English Word Cryptology Definition Secret or enigmatical language.
- English Word Cryptonym Definition A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to the initiated.
- English Word Cryptopine Definition A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium.