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To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.

The active principe of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms.

s in butter, cocoanut oil, etc., united with glycerin; they are colorless oils, or white crystalline solids, of an unpleasant odor like that of goats or sweat.

A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.

Inflammation of a capsule, as that of the crystalline lens.

The incision of a capsule, esp. of that of the crystalline lens, as in a cataract operation.

A white crystallized substance, C12H8NH, derived from aniline and other amines.

s the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagon…

used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous.

A beautiful crystalline compound, SiC, consisting of carbon and silicon in combination; carbon silicide. It is made by heating carbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than emery, and is used as an abrasive.

A white crystalline substance, C9H6N.OH, of acid properties derived from one of the amido cinnamic acids.

me element or radical; as, potassium carboxide. Potassium carboxide, a grayish explosive crystalline compound, C6O6K, obtained by passing carbon monoxide over heated potassium.

A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, found in extract of meat, and related to xanthin.

A red crystallizable tasteless substance, extracted from the carrot.

A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.

A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla.

The goldilocks (Chrysocoma linosyris) and perhaps other plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed.

Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic ti…

A white crystalline substance obtained from castoreum.

like the eye of a cat. The mane is given to other gems affording like effects, esp. the chrysoberyl.