Search the Dictionary

Checking evacutions through astringent or styptic qualities.

A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center. Marshall Hall.

Of or pertaining to a cast.

A stalk of Indian corn.

Pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; as, costal nerves.

Having the nerves spring from the midrib.

Relating to a crust.

Pertaining to crustalogy.

One versed in crustalogy.

Crustaceology.

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

traction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.

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.

act or process by which 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.