CPage 521
- English Word Crypturi Definition An order of flying, drom/ognathous birds, including the tinamous of South America. See Tinamou.
- English Word Crystal Definition The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.
- English Word Crystal Definition The material of quartz, in crystallization transparent or nearly so, and either colorless or slightly tinged with gray, or the like; -- called also rock crystal. Ornamental vessels are made of it. Cf. Smoky quartz, Pebble; also Brazilian pebble, under Brazilian.
- English Word Crystal Definition A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint glass.
- English Word Crystal Definition The glass over the dial of a watch case.
- English Word Crystal Definition Anything resembling crystal, as clear water, etc.
- English Word Crystal Definition Consisting of, or like, crystal; clear; transparent; lucid; pellucid; crystalline.
- English Word Crystallin Definition See Gobulin.
- English Word Crystalline Definition Consisting, or made, of crystal.
- English Word Crystalline Definition Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture.
- English Word Crystalline Definition Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized.
- English Word Crystalline Definition Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid.
- English Word Crystalline Definition A crystalline substance.
- English Word Crystalline Definition See Aniline.
- English Word Crystallite Definition 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 trichites, belonites, globulites, etc.
- English Word Crystallizable Definition Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.
- English Word Crystallization Definition The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.
- English Word Crystallization Definition The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.
- English Word Crystallize Definition To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.
- English Word Crystallize Definition To be converted into a crystal; to take on a crystalline form, through the action of crystallogenic or cohesive attraction.
- English Word Crystallized Definition of Crystallize
- English Word Crystallizing Definition of Crystallize
- English Word Crystallogenic Definition Alt. of Crystallogenical
- English Word Crystallogenical Definition Pertaining to the production of crystals; crystal-producing; as, crystallogenic attraction.
- English Word Crystallogeny Definition The science which pertains to the production of crystals.
- English Word Crystallographer Definition One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography.
- English Word Crystallographic Definition Alt. of Crystallographical
- English Word Crystallographical Definition Pertaining to crystallography.
- English Word Crystallographically Definition In the manner of crystallography.
- English Word Crystallography Definition The doctrine or science of crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation.