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tallin
(wn) | Tallin
n 1: a port city on the Gulf of Finland that is the capital and
largest city of Estonia [syn: Tallinn, Tallin, {capital
of Estonia}] |
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crystalline
(encz) | crystalline,krystalický adj: Zdeněk Brožcrystalline,křišťálový adj: Zdeněk Brož |
crystalline lens
(encz) | crystalline lens, n: |
crystalline water
(encz) | crystalline water,krystalická voda [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
forestalling
(encz) | forestalling, n: |
installing
(encz) | installing,instalování n: Zdeněk Brož |
microcrystalline
(encz) | microcrystalline, adj: |
noncrystalline
(encz) | noncrystalline,nekrystalický |
polycrystalline
(encz) | polycrystalline,polykrystalický adj: Zdeněk Brož |
stalling
(encz) | stalling,pozastavení n: Zdeněk Brož |
tallinn
(encz) | Tallinn,hl.m. - Estonsko n: [jmén.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
totalling
(encz) | totalling,sčítání n: Zdeněk Brožtotalling,součtování n: Zdeněk Brož |
polycrystalline diamond
(czen) | Polycrystalline Diamond,PCD[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
Cryptocrystalline
(gcide) | Cryptocrystalline \Cryp`to*crys"tal*line\ (-kr?s"tal-l?n), a.
[Gr. krypto`s hidden + E. crystalline.] (Geol.)
Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals,
whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct
particles are visible, even under the microscope.
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Crystallin
(gcide) | Crystallin \Crys"tal*lin\ (-l?n), n. (Physiol. Chem.)
See Gobulin.
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Crystalline
(gcide) | Crystalline \Crys"tal*line\ (kr?s"tal-l?n or -l?n; 277), a. [L.
crystallinus, from Gr. ????: cf. F. cristallin. See
Crystal.]
1. Consisting, or made, of crystal.
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Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. --Shak.
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2. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture.
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Their crystalline structure. --Whewell.
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3. Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline,
while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized.
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4. Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid.
"The crystalline sky." --Milton.
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Crystalline heavens, or Crystalline spheres, in the
Ptolemaic system of astronomy, two transparent spheres
imagined to exist between the region of the fixed stars
and the primum mobile (or outer circle of the heavens,
which by its motion was supposed to carry round all those
within it), in order to explain certain movements of the
heavenly bodies.
Crystalline lens (Anat.), the capsular lenslike body in the
eye, serving to focus the rays of light. It consists of
rodlike cells derived from the external embryonic
epithelium.
[1913 Webster]Crystalline \Crys"tal*line\, n.
1. A crystalline substance.
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2. See Aniline. [Obs.]
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Crystalline heavens
(gcide) | Crystalline \Crys"tal*line\ (kr?s"tal-l?n or -l?n; 277), a. [L.
crystallinus, from Gr. ????: cf. F. cristallin. See
Crystal.]
1. Consisting, or made, of crystal.
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Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. --Shak.
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2. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture.
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Their crystalline structure. --Whewell.
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3. Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline,
while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized.
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4. Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid.
"The crystalline sky." --Milton.
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Crystalline heavens, or Crystalline spheres, in the
Ptolemaic system of astronomy, two transparent spheres
imagined to exist between the region of the fixed stars
and the primum mobile (or outer circle of the heavens,
which by its motion was supposed to carry round all those
within it), in order to explain certain movements of the
heavenly bodies.
Crystalline lens (Anat.), the capsular lenslike body in the
eye, serving to focus the rays of light. It consists of
rodlike cells derived from the external embryonic
epithelium.
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Crystalline humor
(gcide) | Humor \Hu"mor\, n. [OE. humour, OF. humor, umor, F. humeur, L.
humor, umor, moisture, fluid, fr. humere, umere, to be moist.
See Humid.] [Written also humour.]
1. Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal
bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the
eye, etc.
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Note: The ancient physicians believed that there were four
humors (the blood, phlegm, yellow bile or choler, and
black bile or melancholy), on the relative proportion
of which the temperament and health depended.
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2. (Med.) A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often
causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors."
--Sir W. Temple.
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3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly
supposed to depend on the character or combination of the
fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good
humor; ill humor.
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Examine how your humor is inclined,
And which the ruling passion of your mind.
--Roscommon.
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A prince of a pleasant humor. --Bacon.
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I like not the humor of lying. --Shak.
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4. pl. Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices;
freaks; vagaries; whims.
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Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and
discretion? Has he not humors to be endured?
--South.
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5. That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an
incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite
laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations;
a playful fancy; facetiousness.
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For thy sake I admit
That a Scot may have humor, I'd almost said wit.
--Goldsmith.
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A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the
perplexities of mine host. --W. Irving.
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Aqueous humor, Crystalline humor or Crystalline lens,
Vitreous humor. (Anat.) See Eye.
Out of humor, dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant
frame of mind.
Syn: Wit; satire; pleasantry; temper; disposition; mood;
frame; whim; fancy; caprice. See Wit.
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(gcide) | Humor \Hu"mor\, n. [OE. humour, OF. humor, umor, F. humeur, L.
humor, umor, moisture, fluid, fr. humere, umere, to be moist.
See Humid.] [Written also humour.]
1. Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal
bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the
eye, etc.
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Note: The ancient physicians believed that there were four
humors (the blood, phlegm, yellow bile or choler, and
black bile or melancholy), on the relative proportion
of which the temperament and health depended.
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2. (Med.) A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often
causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors."
--Sir W. Temple.
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3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly
supposed to depend on the character or combination of the
fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good
humor; ill humor.
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Examine how your humor is inclined,
And which the ruling passion of your mind.
--Roscommon.
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A prince of a pleasant humor. --Bacon.
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I like not the humor of lying. --Shak.
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4. pl. Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices;
freaks; vagaries; whims.
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Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and
discretion? Has he not humors to be endured?
--South.
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5. That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an
incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite
laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations;
a playful fancy; facetiousness.
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For thy sake I admit
That a Scot may have humor, I'd almost said wit.
--Goldsmith.
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A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the
perplexities of mine host. --W. Irving.
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Aqueous humor, Crystalline humor or Crystalline lens,
Vitreous humor. (Anat.) See Eye.
Out of humor, dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant
frame of mind.
Syn: Wit; satire; pleasantry; temper; disposition; mood;
frame; whim; fancy; caprice. See Wit.
[1913 Webster]Lens \Lens\ (l[e^]nz), n.; pl. Lenses (-[e^]z). [L. lens a
lentil. So named from the resemblance in shape of a double
convex lens to the seed of a lentil. Cf. Lentil.] (Opt.)
A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with
two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one
curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly
or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the
direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or
otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces
are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some
other figure.
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Note: Of spherical lenses, there are six varieties, as shown
in section in the figures herewith given: viz., a
plano-concave; b double-concave; c plano-convex; d
double-convex; e converging concavo-convex, or
converging meniscus; f diverging concavo-convex, or
diverging meniscus.
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Crossed lens (Opt.), a double-convex lens with one radius
equal to six times the other.
Crystalline lens. (Anat.) See Eye.
Fresnel lens (Opt.), a compound lens formed by placing
around a central convex lens rings of glass so curved as
to have the same focus; used, especially in lighthouses,
for concentrating light in a particular direction; -- so
called from the inventor.
Multiplying lens or Multiplying glass (Opt.), a lens one
side of which is plane and the other convex, but made up
of a number of plane faces inclined to one another, each
of which presents a separate image of the object viewed
through it, so that the object is, as it were, multiplied.
Polyzonal lens. See Polyzonal.
[1913 Webster]Crystalline \Crys"tal*line\ (kr?s"tal-l?n or -l?n; 277), a. [L.
crystallinus, from Gr. ????: cf. F. cristallin. See
Crystal.]
1. Consisting, or made, of crystal.
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Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. --Shak.
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2. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture.
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Their crystalline structure. --Whewell.
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3. Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline,
while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized.
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4. Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid.
"The crystalline sky." --Milton.
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Crystalline heavens, or Crystalline spheres, in the
Ptolemaic system of astronomy, two transparent spheres
imagined to exist between the region of the fixed stars
and the primum mobile (or outer circle of the heavens,
which by its motion was supposed to carry round all those
within it), in order to explain certain movements of the
heavenly bodies.
Crystalline lens (Anat.), the capsular lenslike body in the
eye, serving to focus the rays of light. It consists of
rodlike cells derived from the external embryonic
epithelium.
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Crystalline sphere
(gcide) | Sphere \Sphere\, n. [OE. spere, OF. espere, F. sph[`e]re, L.
sphaera,. Gr. ??? a sphere, a ball.]
1. (Geom.) A body or space contained under a single surface,
which in every part is equally distant from a point within
called its center.
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2. Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial
one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth.
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Of celestial bodies, first the sun,
A mighty sphere, he framed. --Milton.
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3. (Astron.)
(a) The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed
to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in
which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places,
and on which the various astronomical circles, as of
right ascension and declination, the equator,
ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal
geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and
geographical circles in their proper positions on it.
(b) In ancient astronomy, one of the concentric and
eccentric revolving spherical transparent shells in
which the stars, sun, planets, and moon were supposed
to be set, and by which they were carried, in such a
manner as to produce their apparent motions.
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4. (Logic) The extension of a general conception, or the
totality of the individuals or species to which it may be
applied.
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5. Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence;
compass; province; employment; place of existence.
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To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen
to move in 't. --Shak.
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Taking her out of the ordinary relations with
humanity, and inclosing her in a sphere by herself.
--Hawthorne.
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Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe
Our hermit spirits dwell. --Keble.
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6. Rank; order of society; social positions.
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7. An orbit, as of a star; a socket. [R.] --Shak.
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Armillary sphere, Crystalline sphere, Oblique sphere,.
See under Armillary, Crystalline,.
Doctrine of the sphere, applications of the principles of
spherical trigonometry to the properties and relations of
the circles of the sphere, and the problems connected with
them, in astronomy and geography, as to the latitudes and
longitudes, distance and bearing, of places on the earth,
and the right ascension and declination, altitude and
azimuth, rising and setting, etc., of the heavenly bodies;
spherical geometry.
Music of the spheres. See under Music.
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Syn: Globe; orb; circle. See Globe.
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Crystalline spheres
(gcide) | Crystalline \Crys"tal*line\ (kr?s"tal-l?n or -l?n; 277), a. [L.
crystallinus, from Gr. ????: cf. F. cristallin. See
Crystal.]
1. Consisting, or made, of crystal.
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Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. --Shak.
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2. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture.
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Their crystalline structure. --Whewell.
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3. Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline,
while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized.
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4. Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid.
"The crystalline sky." --Milton.
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Crystalline heavens, or Crystalline spheres, in the
Ptolemaic system of astronomy, two transparent spheres
imagined to exist between the region of the fixed stars
and the primum mobile (or outer circle of the heavens,
which by its motion was supposed to carry round all those
within it), in order to explain certain movements of the
heavenly bodies.
Crystalline lens (Anat.), the capsular lenslike body in the
eye, serving to focus the rays of light. It consists of
rodlike cells derived from the external embryonic
epithelium.
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Forestalling
(gcide) | Forestall \Fore*stall"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forestalled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Forestalling.] [OE. forstallen to stop, to
obstruct; to stop (goods) on the way to the market by buying
them beforehand, from forstal obstruction, AS. forsteal,
foresteall, prop., a placing one's self before another. See
Fore, and Stall.]
1. To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.
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What need a man forestall his date of grief,
And run to meet what he would most avoid? --Milton.
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2. To take possession of, in advance of some one or something
else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get
ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or
prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in
advance.
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An ugly serpent which forestalled their way.
--Fairfax.
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But evermore those damsels did forestall
Their furious encounter. --Spenser.
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To be forestalled ere we come to fall. --Shak.
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Habit is a forestalled and obstinate judge. --Rush.
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3. To deprive; -- with of. [R.]
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All the better; may
This night forestall him of the coming day! --Shak.
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4. (Eng. Law) To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the
passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods
on the way to market.
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To forestall the market, to buy or contract for merchandise
or provision on its way to market, with the intention of
selling it again at a higher price; to dissuade persons
from bringing their goods or provisions there; or to
persuade them to enhance the price when there. This was an
offense at law in England until 1844. --Burrill.
Syn: To anticipate; monopolize; engross.
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Haematocrystallin
(gcide) | Haematocrystallin \H[ae]m`a*to*crys"tal*lin\, n.
Same as Hematocrystallin.
[1913 Webster]Hemoglobin \Hem"o*glo"bin\, n. [Hemo- + globe.] (Physiol.)
The normal coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of
vertebrate animals. It is composed of hematin and globulin,
and is also called h[ae]matoglobulin. In arterial blood, it
is always combined with oxygen, and is then called
oxyhemoglobin. It crystallizes under different forms from
different animals, and when crystallized, is called
h[ae]matocrystallin. See Blood crystal, under Blood.
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haematocrystallin
(gcide) | Haematocrystallin \H[ae]m`a*to*crys"tal*lin\, n.
Same as Hematocrystallin.
[1913 Webster]Hemoglobin \Hem"o*glo"bin\, n. [Hemo- + globe.] (Physiol.)
The normal coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of
vertebrate animals. It is composed of hematin and globulin,
and is also called h[ae]matoglobulin. In arterial blood, it
is always combined with oxygen, and is then called
oxyhemoglobin. It crystallizes under different forms from
different animals, and when crystallized, is called
h[ae]matocrystallin. See Blood crystal, under Blood.
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Hematocrystallin
(gcide) | Hematocrystallin \Hem`a*to*crys"tal*lin\, n. [Hemato +
crystalline.] (Physiol.)
See Hemoglobin.
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Holocrystalline
(gcide) | Holocrystalline \Hol`o*crys"tal*line\, a. [Holo + crystalline.]
(Min.)
Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all
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Hypocrystalline
(gcide) | Hypocrystalline \Hyp`o*crys"tal*line\, a. [Pref. hypo- +
crystalline.] (Crystallog.)
Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of
crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
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Installing
(gcide) | Install \In*stall"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Installed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Installing.] [F. installer, LL. installare, fr.
pref. in- in + OHG. stal a place, stall, G. stall, akin to E.
stall: cf. It. installare. See Stall.] [Written also
instal.]
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1. To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a
place.
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She installed her guest hospitably by the fireside.
--Sir W.
Scott.
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2. To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any
charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as,
to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to
install a college president.
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Unworthily
Thou wast installed in that high degree. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]installing \installing\ n.
1. the act of installing something (as equipment).
Syn: installation, setting up.
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installing
(gcide) | Install \In*stall"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Installed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Installing.] [F. installer, LL. installare, fr.
pref. in- in + OHG. stal a place, stall, G. stall, akin to E.
stall: cf. It. installare. See Stall.] [Written also
instal.]
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1. To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a
place.
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She installed her guest hospitably by the fireside.
--Sir W.
Scott.
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2. To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any
charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as,
to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to
install a college president.
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Unworthily
Thou wast installed in that high degree. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]installing \installing\ n.
1. the act of installing something (as equipment).
Syn: installation, setting up.
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Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
(gcide) | Ice plant \Ice" plant`\ (Bot.)
A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with
pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is
native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South
Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic; its
ashes are used in Spain in making glass.
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Metalline
(gcide) | Metalline \Met"al*line\, a. [Cf. F. m['e]tallin.] (Chem.)
(a) Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as,
metalline properties.
(b) Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as,
metalline water. [R.]
[1913 Webster]Metalline \Met"al*line\ (? or ?), n. (Chem.)
A substance of variable composition, but resembling a soft,
dark-colored metal, used in the bearings of machines for
obviating friction, and as a substitute for lubricants.
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Metalling
(gcide) | Metal \Met"al\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Metaled (? or ?) or
Metalled; p. pr. & vb. n. Metaling or Metalling.]
To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a
road.
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Microcrystalline
(gcide) | Microcrystalline \Mi`cro*crys"tal*line\, a. [Micro- +
crystalline.] (Crystallog.)
Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of
fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is
microcrystalline.
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Phanerocrystalline
(gcide) | Phanerocrystalline \Phan`er*o*crys"tal*line\, a. [Gr. fanero`s
visible + E. crystalline.] (Geol.)
Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to
cryptocrystalline.
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Semicrystalline
(gcide) | Semicrystalline \Sem`i*crys"tal*line\, a. (Min.)
Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed
partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
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Stalling
(gcide) | Stalling \Stall"ing\ (st[add]l"[i^]ng), n.
Stabling. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]Stall \Stall\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stalled (st[add]ld); p. pr.
& vb. n. Stalling.] [Cf. Sw. stalla, Dan. stalde.]
1. To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or
stalls; as, to stall an ox.
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Where King Latinus then his oxen stalled. --Dryden.
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2. To fatten; as, to stall cattle. [Prov. Eng.]
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3. To place in an office with the customary formalities; to
install. [Obs.] --Shak.
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4. To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get
on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart. --Burton.
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His horses had been stalled in the snow. --E. E.
Hale.
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5. To forestall; to anticipate. [Obs.]
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This is not to be stall'd by my report. --Massinger.
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6. To keep close; to keep secret. [Obs.]
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Stall this in your bosom. --Shak.
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Subcrystalline
(gcide) | Subcrystalline \Sub*crys"tal*line\, a.
Imperfectly crystallized.
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Totalling
(gcide) | Total \To"tal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Totaledor Totalled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Totaling or Totalling.]
1. To bring to a total; also, to reach as a total; to amount
to. [Colloq.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. to determine the total of (a set of numbers); to add; --
often used with up; as, to total up the bill.
[PJC]
3. To damage beyond repair; -- used especially of vehicles
damaged in an accident; as, he skid on an ice patch and
totaled his Mercedes against a tree. From total loss.
[colloq.]
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Uncrystalline
(gcide) | Uncrystalline \Uncrystalline\
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crystalline
(wn) | crystalline
adj 1: consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals;
"granite is crystalline" [ant: noncrystalline]
2: distinctly or sharply outlined; "crystalline sharpness of
outline"- John Buchan
3: transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity;
"the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear
skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid
pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent crystal"
[syn: crystalline, crystal clear, limpid, lucid,
pellucid, transparent] |
crystalline lens
(wn) | crystalline lens
n 1: biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the
eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light
on the retina [syn: lens, crystalline lens, {lens of
the eye}] |
forestalling
(wn) | forestalling
n 1: the act of preventing something by anticipating and
disposing of it effectively [syn: obviation,
forestalling, preclusion] |
installing
(wn) | installing
n 1: the act of installing something (as equipment); "the
telephone installation took only a few minutes" [syn:
installation, installing, installment, instalment] |
mesembryanthemum crystallinum
(wn) | Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
n 1: Old World annual widely naturalized in warm regions having
white flowers and fleshy foliage covered with hairs that
resemble ice [syn: ice plant, icicle plant,
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum] |
microcrystalline
(wn) | microcrystalline
adj 1: containing crystals that are visible only under a
microscope |
noncrystalline
(wn) | noncrystalline
adj 1: not crystalline [ant: crystalline] |
polycrystalline
(wn) | polycrystalline
adj 1: composed of aggregates of crystals; "polycrystalline
metals" |
stalling
(wn) | stalling
n 1: a tactic used to mislead or delay [syn: stall,
stalling] |
tallin
(wn) | Tallin
n 1: a port city on the Gulf of Finland that is the capital and
largest city of Estonia [syn: Tallinn, Tallin, {capital
of Estonia}] |
tallinn
(wn) | Tallinn
n 1: a port city on the Gulf of Finland that is the capital and
largest city of Estonia [syn: Tallinn, Tallin, {capital
of Estonia}] |
FORESTALLING
(bouvier) | FORESTALLING, crim. law. Every practice or device, by act, conspiracy,
words, or news, to enhance the price of victuals or other provisions. 3
Inst. 196; Bac. Ab. h.t.; 1 Russ. Cr. 169; 4 Bl. Com. 158.
2. All endeavors whatever to enhance the common price of any
merchandise, and all kinds of practices which have that tendency, whether by
spreading false rumors, or buying things in a market before the accustomed
hour, are offences at common law, and come under the notion of forestalling,
which includes all kind of offences of this nature. Hawk. P. C. b. 1 c. 8 0,
s. 1. Vide 13 Vin. Ab. 430; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 4 Com. Dig. 391 1 East,
Rep. 132.
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