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

Domesticity; care of home. [Obs.] "Wifely homeliness." Chaucer.

A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called also housing. Totten.

Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal. "Hyaline spaces." Carpenter.

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

A bituminous substance obtained from the mercury mines of Idria, where it occurs mixed with cinnabar.

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.

ards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively inclined." Cowper.

One who, or that which, inclines; specifically, an inclined dial.

Want of discipline or instruction. [R.]

Any one of a series of artificial blue dyes, in appearance resembling indigo, for which they are often used as substitutes.

Any one of a large series of aniline dyes, colored blue or violet, and represented by aniline violet.

A gallfly which deposits its eggs in galls formed by other insects.

Situated between hills; -- applied especially to valleys lying between volcanic cones.

To write or insert between lines already written or printed, as for correction or addition; to write or print something between the lines of; as, to interline a page or a book. Swift.

Contained between lines; written or inserted between lines already written or printed; containing interlineations; as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc. -- In`ter*lin"e*ar*ly, adv.

Interlinear. -- n.

That which is interlined; a passage, word, or line inserted between lines already written or printed.

se C10H9N, extracted from coal-tar naphtha, as an oily liquid. It is a member of the quinoline series, and is probably identical with lepidine.

Of an isabel or isabella color.