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

Having visible flowers containing distinct stamens and pistils; -- said of plants.

e particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.

A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor. Crabb.

A representation of sounds by distinctive characters; commonly, a system of shorthand writing invented by Isaac Pitman, or a modification of his system, much used by reporters.

rine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise on sounds.

The act or method of grouping the notes so as to form distinct musical phrases.

history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.

thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series; a definite performance; especially:

-- Working pit (Min.), a shaft in which the ore is hoisted and the workmen carried; -- in distinction from a shaft used for the pumps.

attle, a general battle; a battle in which the hostile forces have fixed positions; -- in distinction from a skirmish. -- To pitch into, to attack; to assault; to abuse. [Slang]

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space. Here is the place appointed. Shak. What place can be for us Within heaven's bound Milton. The word place has sometimes a more confused se…

es are plain figures. -- Plain sewing, sewing of seams by simple and common stitches, in distinct from fancy work, embroidery, etc.; -- distinguished also from designing and fitting garments. -- Plain song. (a) The Gregorian chant, or canto fermo; the prescribed melody of the Roman Catholic service, sung in unison, i…

An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.

ing as if produced by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts. Medallions . . . fraught with the plastic beauty and grace of the palmy days of Italian art. J. S. Harford. Plastic clay (Geol.), one of the beds of the Eocene period; -- so called b…

Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold.

One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in distinction from patrician.

The property of crystallizing under two or more distinct fundamental forms, including dimorphism and trimorphism.

Having a small, distinct point; apiculate. Henslow.

Passing through several distinct larval forms; -- having several distinct kinds of young.