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One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross- pawl.

Secretly; occultly.

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.

orm 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.

ch 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.

One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography.

Pertaining to crystallography.

In the manner of crystallography.

The doctrine or science of crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation.

A body which, in solution, diffuses readily through animal membranes, and generally is capable of being crystallized; -- opposed to colloid.

The science of the crystalline structure of inorganic bodies.

Divination by means of a crystal or other transparent body, especially a beryl.

The art of measuring crystals.

Crystallizaton.