Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.