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Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid. "The crystalline sky." Milton. Crystalline heavens, or Crystalline spheres, in the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, two transparent spheres imagined to exist between the region of the fixed stars and the primum mobile (or outer circle of the heavens, which by its mot…

Crystal-like; transparent like crystal.

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

A variety of cellulose, occuring as a fine transparent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredient of cork; by oxidation it passes to suberic acid.

A small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer.

A thin, transparent stuff, the same as, or corresponding to, crape. It was either white or black, the latter being most common, and used for mourning. [Obs.] Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow. Shak.

A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.

A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures; diaper work.

Transparent or translucent. [R.]

Having power to transmit light; transparent; diaphanous.

A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens.

Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear. Another cloud in the region of them, light enough to be fantastic and diaphanous. Landor.

in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced.

The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

The outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum.

A transparent, colorless oil obtained from elemi resin by distillation with water; also, a crystallizable extract from the resin.

An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain. Ure.

Alaska. -- Emperor moth (Zoöl.), one of several large and beautiful bombycid moths, with transparent spots on the wings; as the American Cecropia moth (Platysamia cecropia), and the European species (Saturnia pavonia). -- Emperor paper. See under Paper. -- Purple emperor (Zoöl.), a large, strong British butterfly (A…

A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

A mineral occurring in transparent emerald green crystals. It is hydrous arseniate of copper.