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

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

Not crystallizable; incapable of being formed into crystals.

Liquorice. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A large British fluke, or flounder (Rhombus megastoma); -- called also carter, and whiff. marchpane.

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

The office of a minister. Swift.

The state of being an ordinary. [R.] Fuller.

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

The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court. [R.] Wood.

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

One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

The office of a prebendary.

Office of a prothonotary.

The process or recrystallizing.

To crystallize again. Henry.

The office or condition of a residentiary.

The office, or the term of office, of a secretary.

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

Imperfectly crystallized.