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So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.

Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.

ilver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism.

An advocate of bimetallism.

A stall or stand where books are sold.

In a brutal manner; cruelly.

A toil or net to take deer.

In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life; as, to punish capitally.

A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphæra is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies.

The science of exchanges, a branch of political economy.

In a congenital manner.

Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope.

See Gobulin.

Consisting, or made, of crystal. Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. Shak.

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.

Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.

ich a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.

To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.

Pertaining to the production of crystals; crystal-producing; as, crystallogenic attraction.

The science which pertains to the production of crystals.