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having many varieties differing in color and in their constituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), and conforming to the same general chemical formula. The commonest color is red, the luster is vitreous, and the hardness greater than that of quartz. The dodecahedron and trapezohedron are the common for…

, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck. A rose just gathered from the stalk. Dryden. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles Matt. vii. 16. Gather us from among the heathen. Ps. cvi. 47.

Gay; merry; festal. Tennyson. Let's have one other gaudy night. Shak.

aloid obtained from the yellow jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens), as a bitter white semicrystalline substance; -- called also gelsemia.

erived from, the yellow jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens); as, gelseminic acid, a white crystalline substance resembling esculin.

The arrangement of buds on the stalk; also, of leaves in the bud.

ke the knee when bent; as, a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal.

A bitter, crystallizable substance obtained from gentian.

A crystallizable, sugarlike substance, with a slightly sweetish taste, obtained from the gentian.

A bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and obtained from the gentian.

A tasteless, yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from the gentian; -- called also gentianin.

A nodule of stone, containing a cavity, lined with crystals or mineral matter.

Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.

phoric or acetic acids. Glacial acid (Chem.), an acid of such strength or purity as to crystallize at an ordinary temperature, in an icelike form; as acetic or carbolic acid. -- Glacial drift (Geol.), earth and rocks which have been transported by moving ice, land ice, or icebergs; bowlder drift. -- Glacial epoch or…

A fierce, piercing look or stare. About them round, A lion now he stalks with fiery glare. Milton.

Of a dazzling luster; glaring; bright; shining; smooth. Bright, crystal glass is glary. Boyle.

Sulphate of soda, a well-known cathartic. It is a white crystalline substance, with a cooling, slightly bitter taste, and is commonly called "salts."

An alkaloid obtained from the plant Glaucium, as a bitter, white, crystalline substance.

mineral of a dark bluish color, related to amphibole. It is characteristic of certain crystalline rocks.

a ease, etc.) with glass. Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. Bacon.