Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CRY-OPH'O-RUS, n. [Gr. κρυος, frost, and φορεω, to bear.]

Frost-bearer; an instrument for showing the relation between evaporation at low temperatures and the production of cold. – Wollaston.

CRYPT, n. [Gr. κρυπτω, to hide.]

A subterranean cell or cave, especially under a church for the interment of persons; also, a subterranean chapel, or oratory, and the grave of a martyr.

CRYP'TIC, or CRYP'TIC-AL, a. [supra.]

Hidden; secret; occult. – Watts.

CRYP'TIC-AL-LY, adv.

Secretly.

CRYP'TO-GAM, n. [Sec Cryptogamy.]

In botany, a plant whose stamens and pistils are not distinctly visible.

CRYP-TO-GAM'I-AN, or CRYP-TO-GAM'IC, a. [or CRYP-TOG'A-MOUS]

Pertaining to plants of the class Cryptogamia, including ferns, mosses, sea-weeds, mushrooms, &c.

CRYP-TOG'A-MIST, n.

One who is skilled in cryptogamic botany; one who favors the system of cryptogamy in plants. – Lindley.

CRYP-TOG'A-MY, n. [Gr. κρυπτος, concealed, and γαμος, marriage.]

Concealed fructification, a term applied to plants whose stamens and pistils are not well ascertained, or too small to be numbered with certainty. – Smith. Ed. Encyc.

CRYP-TOG'RA-PHER, n.

One who writes in secret characters.

CRYP-TO-GRAPH'IC-AL, a.

Written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink.

CRYP-TOG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. κρυπτος, hidden, and γραφω, to write.]

The act or art of writing in secret characters; also, secret characters or cipher.

CRYP-TOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. κρυπτος, secret, and λογος, discourse.]

Secret or enigmatical language.

CRYS'TAL, a.

Consisting of crystal, or like crystal; clear; transparent; lucid; pellucid. By crystal streams that murmur through the meads. – Dryden.

CRYS'TAL, n. [L. crystallus; Gr. κρυσταλλος; Fr. cristal; Sp. cristal; It. cristallo; D. kristal; G. krystall; W. crisial, from cris, it is said, a hard crust. It is from the same root as crisp, and W. cresu, to parch, crest, a crust, crasu, to roast. The Greek, from which we have the word, is composed of the root of κρυος, frost, a contracted word, probably from the root of the Welsh words, supra, and στελλω, to set. The primary sense of the Welsh words is to shrink, draw, contract; a sense equally applicable to the effects of heat and cold. Qu. Ar. قَرَسَ karasa, Ch. קרש kerash, to congeal. Class Rd, No. 83, 85.]

1. In chimistry and mineralogy, an inorganic body, which, by the operation of affinity, has assumed the form of a regular solid, terminated by a certain number of plane and smooth surfaces. Cleaveland.
2. A factitious body, cast in glass-houses, called crystal glass; a species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture, than common glass. The best kind is the Venice crystal. It is called also factitious crystal or paste. – Encyc. Nicholson.
3. A substance of any kind having the form of a crystal.
4. The glass of a watch-case. Rock crystal, or mountain crystal, a general name for all the transparent crystals of quartz, particularly of limpid or colorless quartz. Iceland crystal, a variety of calcarious spar, or crystalized carbonate of lime, brought from Iceland. It occurs in laminated masses, easily divisible into rhombs, and is remarkable for its double refraction. – Cleaveland.

CRYS'TAL-FORM, a.

Having the form of crystal. – Encyc.

CRYS'TAL-INE, a. [L. crystallinus; Gr. κρυσταλλινος.]

1. Consisting of crystal; as, a crystaline palace. – Shak.
2. Resembling crystal; pure; clear; transparent; pellucid; as, a crystaline sky. – Milton. Crystaline heavens, in ancient astronomy, two spheres imagined between the primum mobile and the firmament, in the Ptolemaic system, which supposed the heavens to be solid and only susceptible of a single motion. – Encyc. Crystaline humor, or crystaline lens, a lentiform pellucid body, composed of a very white, transparent, firm substance, inclosed in a membranous capsule, and situated in a depression in the anterior part of the vitreous humor of the eye. It is somewhat convex, and serves to transmit and refract the rays of light to the vitreous humor. – Encyc. Hooper.

CRYS'TAL-ITE, n.

A name given to whinstone, cooled slowly after fusion. – Hall. Thomson.

CRYS'TAL-IZ-A-BLE, a. [from crystalize.]

That may be crystalized; that may form or be formed into crystals. – Clavigero. Lavoisier.

CRYS-TAL-IZ-A'TION, n. [from crystalize.]

1. The act or process by which the parts of a solid body, separated by the intervention of a fluid or by fusion, again coalesce or unite, and form a solid body. If the process is slow and undisturbed, the particles assume a regular arrangement, each substance taking a determinate and regular form, according to its natural laws; but if the process is rapid or disturbed, the substance takes an irregular form. This process is the effect of refrigeration or evaporation. – Lavoisier. Kirwan.
2. The mass or body formed by the process of crystalizing. – Woodward.

CRYS'TAL-IZE, v.i.

To be converted into a crystal; to unite, as the separate particles of a substance, and form a determinate and regular solid. Each species of salt crystalizes in a peculiar form. – Lavoisier.

CRYS'TAL-IZE, v.t.

To cause to form crystals. Common salt is crystalized by the evaporation of sea water.

CRYS'TAL-IZ-ED, pp.

Formed into crystals.

CRYS'TAL-IZ-ING, ppr.

Causing to crystalize; forming or uniting in crystals.

CRYS-TAL'LI-NA, n.

An alkaloid obtained from Indigofera tinctoria, the Indigo plant.

CRYS-TAL-OG'RA-PHER, n. [infra.]

One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation.