a. Consisting of, or like, crystal; clear; transparent; lucid; pellucid; crystalline. [ 1913 Webster ]
Through crystal walls each little mote will peep. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
By crystal streams that murmur through the meads. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
The crystal pellets at the touch congeal,
And from the ground rebounds the ratting hail. H. Brooks. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. cristal, F. cristal, L. crystallum crystal, ice, fr. Gr.
The blue crystal of the seas. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
Blood crystal.
Compound crystal.
Iceland crystal,
Rock crystal,
Mountain crystal
n. (Physiol. Chem.) See Gobulin. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. crystallinus, from Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;: cf. F. cristallin. See Crystal. ]
Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Their crystalline structure. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]
Crystalline heavens,
Crystalline spheres
Crystalline lens (Anat.),
n.
n. [ See Crystal. ] (Min.) 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
a. Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. cristallization. ]
☞ The systems of crystallization are the several classes to which the forms are mathematically referable. They are most simply described according to the relative lengths and inclinations of certain assumed lines called axes; but the real distinction is the degree of symmetry characterizing them. 1.
☞ The Diclinic system, sometimes recognized, with two oblique intersections, is only a variety of the Triclinic. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
v. i. To be converted into a crystal; to take on a crystalline form, through the action of crystallogenic or cohesive attraction; to precipitate from a solution in the form of crystals. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]