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

One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

The hypothetical radical of picric acid, analogous to phenyl.

The process or recrystallizing.

To crystallize again. Henry.

To descry. [Obs.] Spenser.

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

Imperfectly crystallized.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acrylic series, obtained by the distillation of terpenylic acid, as an only substance having a peculiar cheesy odor.

To cry aloud. [Obs.] Wyclif.

u in a plain accent." Shak. "A perfect accent." Thackeray. The tender accent of a woman's cry. Prior.

A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.

A crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.

edlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal.

Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless. A*cic"u*lar*ly, adv.

A plant of the highest class of cryptograms, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia. The Age of Acrogens (Geol.), the age of coal plants, or the carboniferous era.

A crystalline substance, C9H13O3N, obtained from suprarenal extract, of which it is regarded as the active principle. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and hemostatic.

Admonition; advice; warning. [Obs.] Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement. Shak.

Propagated in an unusual way; cryptogamous.

Having no visible sexual organs; asexual. In Bot., cryptogamous.