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The quality or condition of being transparent; transparence.

Imperfect or partial transparency.

A kind of roughness on the surface of glass, which clouds its transparency. [Written also crizzeling and crizzle.]

To deprive of glasslike character; to take away vitreous luster and transparency from.

The quality of being diaphanous; transparency; pellucidness.

An instrument for measuring the transparency of the air.

er phyllopod crustacean (Chirocephalus diaphanus); -- so called from its delicate colors, transparency, and graceful motions. The name is sometimes applied to similar American species. -- Fairy stone (Paleon.), an echinite.

A kind of marble or alabaster, sometimes used for windows on account of its transparency.

Watery vapor condensed in the lower part of the atmosphere and disturbing its transparency. It differs from cloud only in being near the ground, and from mist in not approaching so nearly to fine rain. See Cloud.

nus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma.

Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep.

Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball.

o its seat, as distinguished from a compression cock. Knight. -- Ground glass, glass the transparency of which has been destroyed by having its surface roughened by grinding. -- Ground joint, a close joint made by grinding together two pieces, as of metal with emery and oil, or of glass with fine sand and water.…

smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness. O'er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn. Tennyson. Above the world's uncertain haze. Keble.

A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency. R. Hunt.

Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a limpid stream. Springs which were clear, fresh, and limpid. Woodward.

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

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

The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air. Locke.

d of other colors; also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color and degree of transparency, being sometimes opaque.