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als which forms on the surface of the liquor in the process of purification by recrystallization. It is a white crystalline substance, with a gritty acid taste, and is used very largely as an ingredient of baking powders; -- called also potassium bitartrate, acid potassium tartrate, etc.

An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.

The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople. Hence:

ately as an ornament for plate, liveries, and the like. It is a relic of the ancient cognizance. See Cognizance, 4.

Having short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag. "The crinkled lightning." Lowell.

To sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum. Hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise. C. Bront

across the country; not by the road. "The cross- country ride." Cowper. -- Cross fertilization, the fertilization of the female products of one physiological individual by the male products of another, -- as the fertilization of the ovules of one plant by pollen from another. See Fertilization. -- Cross file, a doub…

of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.

A substance, as salt, ammonium chloride, etc., which crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water. F. Guthrie.

symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.

Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. Their crystalline structure. Whewell.

line 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.

The doctrine or science of crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation.

Crystallizaton.

Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See Crystallization. Cubic equation, an equation in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a cube. -- Cubic foot, a volume equivalent to a cubical solid which measures a foot in each of its dimensions. -- Cubic number, a number produced by multiplying a number…

al improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste. What the Greeks expressed by their humanitas, we less happily try to express by the more artificial word culture. J. C. Shairp. The list of all the items of the general life of a people rep…

A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.

; sly; artful; designid; deceitful. They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere. South.

A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.

ace, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice.