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Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.

Place of a home; homestead. Cowper.

Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.

Not crystallizable; incapable of being formed into crystals.

To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place. She installed her guest hospitably by the fireside. Sir W. Scott.

The act of installing or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained minister in a parish. On the election, the bishop gives a mandate for his installation. Ayliffe.

The act of installing; installation. Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law. Milton.

ce where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.[Obs.] B. Jonson. Smithfield was a laystall of all ordure and filth. Bacon.

Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.

Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline.

See Pedestal. [Obs.]

The process or recrystallizing.

To crystallize again. Henry.

To install again. Milton.

A renewed installment.

Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.

Imperfectly crystallized.

Taking away or removing. [Obs.] Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.

A crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.