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Emitted, or sent forth, in rays or direct lines; as, radiated heat.

Having two rays; as, a biradiate fin.

Having eight rays.

Having three rays.

Having but one ray.

Having a radiated form, like a sea anemone.

Having the form of rays; radiated, as an actinia.

Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire.

A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone. [Obs.] [Written also astrite and astrion.]

on or ham, veal, and pork, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin. -- Bologna stone (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined. -- Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces…

A hydrous phosphate of iron occurring in yellow radiated tufts. The phosphorus seriously injures it as an iron ore.

flowerless plant with a broad flat forking thallus and the fruit raised on peduncled and radiated receptacles (Marchantia polymorpha). -- Ground mail, in Scotland, the fee paid for interment in a churchyard. -- Ground mass (Geol.), the fine-grained or glassy base of a rock, in which distinct crystals of its constitu…

genus of composite plants, with shining, commonly white or yellow, or sometimes reddish, radiated involucres, which are often called "everlasting flowers."

That which irradiates or is irradiated; luster; splendor; irradiation; brilliancy. Milton.

Illuminated; irradiated. Mason.

Act of irradiating, or state of being irradiated.

zeolite occuring in groups of glassy acicular crystals, and in masses which often have a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and soda.

A whitish mineral occurring in radiated or fibrous crystalline masses. It is a hydrous silicate of lime and soda.

Radiated; having pencils of rays.

Of or pertaining to a radius or ray; consisting of, or like, radii or rays; radiated; as, (Bot.) radial projections; (Zoöl.) radial vessels or canals; (Anat.) the radial artery. Radial symmetry. (Biol.) See under Symmetry.