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The cold-blooded vertebrates. Same as Hematocrya.

Cold-blooded.

Same as Hematocrystallin.

The cold-blooded vertebrates, that is, all but the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to Hematotherma.

See Hemoglobin.

Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered. Holocryptic cipher, a cipher so constructed as to afford no clew to its meaning to one ignorant of the key.

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

Pertaining to, or designating, an isomeric variety of lastic acid that breaks down into acrylic acid and water.

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

Incapable of weeping. [Obs.] Bailey.

Not crystallizable; incapable of being formed into crystals.

Pertaining to, having the nature of, or illustrating, an isocryme; as, an isocrymal line; an isocrymal chart.

A line connecting points on the earth's surface having the same mean temperature in the coldest month of the year.

Isocrymal.

See Lachrymatory, n., and Lachrymal, a.

See Lachrymary, Lachrymatory, Lachrymose.

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

The act or practice of one who mimics; ludicrous imitation for sport or ridicule.

A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, a former glacial formation.