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division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal. "In an oxes stall." Chaucer.

To feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall- feed an ox.

The right of erecting a stalls in fairs; rent paid for a stall.

Installation. [Obs.]

Put or kept in a stall; hence, fatted. "A stalled ox." Prov. xv. 17.

A standard bearer. obtaining Fuller.

Stabling. Tennyson.

A male horse not castrated; a male horse kept for breeding.

One who keeps a stall for the sale of merchandise, especially books. Sterne.

A slip from a plant; a scion; a cutting. [R.] Holished.

A stall or stand where books are sold.

A toil or net to take deer.

Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope.

See Gobulin.

Consisting, or made, of crystal. Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. Shak.

form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form crystallites are called trichites, belonites, globulites, etc.

Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.

hich a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.

To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.

Pertaining to the production of crystals; crystal-producing; as, crystallogenic attraction.