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Clear; transparent. " Lucid streams." Milton.

Lucid; clear; transparent. Thomson.

A mineral occurring in small, green, transparent, monoclinic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.

A spring of water; hence, water, or a pure, transparent liquid like water. A fountain bubbled up, whose lymph serene Nothing of earthly mixture might distain. Trench.

maroon. See 4th Maroon. Maroon lake, lake prepared from madder, and distinguished for its transparency and the depth and durability of its color.

uding from the mastic tree, and obtained by incision. The best is in yellowish white, semitransparent tears, of a faint smell, and is used as an astringent and an aromatic, also as an ingredient in varnishes.

widely in composition, and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black. The transparent forms are used in lanterns, the doors of stoves, etc., being popularly called isinglass. Formerly called also cat-silver, and glimmer.

A transparent pyx, in which the consecrated host is exposed to view.

A marine fish having a very slender, flat, transparent body. It is now generally believed to be the young of the conger eel or some allied fish.

nd in large doses is emetic. Mustard oil (Chem.), a substance obtained from mustard, as a transparent, volatile and intensely pungent oil. The name is also extended to a number of analogous compounds produced either naturally or artificially.

some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture.

An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco. It is a colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and an acrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous. Ure.

A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.

A mineral occurring in transparent crystals, usually of a white, sometimes of a reddish gray, or lemon-yellow, color; native sodium nitrate. It is used in making nitric acid and for manure. Called also soda niter.

g opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency; opaqueness.

Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance.

treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision.

One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions.

A kind of transparent light muslin.

A more or less spherical and transparent mass of granular protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle.