crystallineadj.n.
/ˈkrɪstəlʌɪn/, /ˈkrɪstl̩ʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈkrɪstələn/, /ˈkrɪstəˌlaɪn/ A. adj.
1. History of Science. In the medieval form of the Ptolemaic system: designating a sphere held to exist beyond the sphere of fixed stars, usually accounted the ninth sphere and located between the fixed stars and the primum mobile, but sometimes regarded as two in number. In later use also: each of the spheres in this system; = sphere n. 2a; (chiefly historical in retrospective use). Chiefly in crystalline heaven (also sphere, circle).The nature of the sphere varied with different writers. Some held it to have an icy solidity or to consist of crystalline stone; others held it to be not hard but transparent, luminous, or immutable.For the possibility that the idea of a crystalline sphere derives from Genesis 1:7 (‘God made the firmament; and diuided the waters, which were vnder the firmament, from the waters, which were aboue the firmament’ (King James Bible)), see E. Grant Planets, Stars, & Orbs (1994) xiii. 320–3 and xiv. 332–4.
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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > sphere of ancient astronomy > [noun] > crystalline sphere
crystalline heaven (also sphere, circle)a1398
crystalline1483
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 107 Þat heuen is clepid wattyry and cristallyne by cause of ablenes to meovinge & of clernes, ffor hit is clere as cristall..þe heuen cristalline.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 7574 Þese hevens er oboven us... Ane other es, þat clerkes calles cristallyne [rhyme schyne], Þat next oboven þe sterned heven es.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde iii. xxii. 184 Aboue this..ther is another heuene..lyke as it were of the colour of whyte crystall..And is called the heuen crystalyn.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 38 The nynte spere callit the hauyn cristellyne.
1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 10 The .x. heauen or Primum mobile, comprehendeth the .ix. heauen callid also Cristalline.
1631 R. Knevet Rhodon & Iris i. i. sig. B Blind Ignorance..That want'st those glorious spectacles of Nature, Those Chrystalline spheres that should illumine Thy Microcosmus.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 482 They..pass the fixt, And that Crystalline Sphear whose ballance weighs The Trepidation talkt, and that first mov'd. View more context for this quotation
1772 B. Martin Young Gentleman & Lady's Philos. (ed. 2) i. ii. 9 Next above Saturn he placed the Firmament of the fixed Stars; and above these, two solid crystalline Spheres, one moving from East to West, the other from North to South.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 27 Above the starry sphere were imagined to be the two crystalline spheres.
1847 Ld. Lindsay Sketches Hist. Christian Art I. p. xxxii The crystalline, or ninth heaven, of pure ether.
1902 J. C. Fernald Sci. Side-lights 689/2 The heavenly bodies were set in a number of crystalline spheres, in the common center of which the earth was placed.
1988 T. Ferris Coming of Age in Milky Way (1989) i. iv. 79 Kepler had arrived at a fully realized Copernican system, focused on the sun and unencumbered by epicycles or crystalline spheres.
2005 L. Kassell Med. & Magic in Elizabethan London ii. 46 For most Renaissance astronomers the cosmos was divided into ten celestial crystalline spheres or heavens (some authors argued that there were nine).
2.
a. Esp. of water: resembling crystal in being clear or transparent.
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the world > matter > light > transparency or translucence > [adjective]
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brightOE
through-shineOE
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crystalc1425
crystallinec1425
crystal-clear?a1439
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through-shining1526
diaphane1561
thorough-seeable1562
pellucid1563
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translucent1568
liquid1590
tralucent?1592
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thorough light1601
diaphanic1614
diaphanous1614
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diaphanal1616
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perlucid1647
dioptrical1760
dioptric1801
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see-through1851
pellucent1886
pool-clear1924
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) Prol. l. 43 (MED) Hir sustren dwelle..by Elicon the welle, Rennyng ful clere wyth stemys [read stremys] cristallyn.
c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees (Sloane 2464) l. 425 Wellys of philosophye, With Crystallyn sprynges.
1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 184 Wp sprang the goldyn candill matutyne, With clere depurit bemes cristallyne.
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. xi. 259 A garden plotte of delighte, full of swiete rindles of Christalline watre.
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 1 The Sepias inkie humor does make turbulent the cristallinest fountaine.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 546 Nor did the dancing Rubie Sparkling, out-pow'rd..Allure thee from the cool Crystalline stream. View more context for this quotation
1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Seventh 28 A crystalline Transparency prevails.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 3 I drink the virgin lymph, pure and crystalline as it gushes from the rock.
1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 35 Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea.
1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 13 Queen of the crystalline lake.
1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise ii. v. 305 He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky.
1965 Listener 30 Dec. 1063/1 The notes of Colonel Bogey, played by a military band.., sounding so clearly in the crystalline mountain air.
1992 Destination Québec 50 Or they can just relax by a crystalline waterfall and listen to the cicadas sing.
b. Made from or consisting of rock crystal or crystal glass.
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the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > [adjective] > consisting or made of
crystalc1400
crystalline?a1439
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > rock crystal > [adjective]
crystalc1400
crystalline?a1439
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [adjective] > crystal glass
crystalline?a1439
crystal1580
beryl1594
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [adjective] > quartz > rock crystal
crystalc1400
crystalline?a1439
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) viii. l. 3107 (MED) He sit crownid..Amyd the paleis of stonis cristallyne.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xxxviii. x The cristallyne wyndowes of great bryghtnes.
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Kvij Cristallyne cuppes, and suche other iewelles.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. i. ii. 62 Besides those other heauens, whether they bee Christalline or watery.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall ix. 70 Small Receivers blown of Crystalline Glass.
a1751 D. Fordyce Temple of Virtue (1757) 39 My guide held in her hand a crystalline cup, full of a clear and sparkling liquor.
1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France II. lv. 57 Broad crystalline mirrors.
1883 J. Badcock Vignettes from Invisible Life v. 42 Imagine if you will, a lovely flower-like animal within a fine crystalline goblet.
1911 W. P. Jervis Pottery Primer xxiii. 160 A beautiful pink is a characteristic of their crystalline vases.
1989 Art Line Apr. 24/2 An elongated woman..pushes elaborate crystalline machinery throughout a wasteland.
2004 Collect It! Feb. 16/3 It was a tiny crystalline mouse which launched the incredibly popular..range of miniature..figurines.
c. figurative. Pure, unsullied; clear and defined.
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society > morality > virtue > purity > [adjective]
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unwemmedc950
clean971
lightOE
whiteOE
unfiledc1200
shire?c1225
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wemlessc1275
undefouled13..
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spotless?a1430
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uncorruptc1450
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incorrupted1529
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crystallinec1550
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unstained1573
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stainless1599
unsmirched1604
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indepravate1609
chastea1616
uncurseda1628
undishonested1631
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Adamical1649
sincere1649
undebaucheda1656
unaccurseda1674
amiantal1674
unsoiled1699
unpolluted1732
c1550 Clariodus (1830) v. l. 2184 Full gudlie knightis cleir and cristallyne.
1599 R. Linche Fountaine Anc. Fiction sig. Bivv Princes and Magistrates ought to be..immaculate from all corruptible vice, carrying in themselue a christalline and clear conscience.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Rr1v Rules..howe Christallyne they may bee made at the first. View more context for this quotation
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy Pref. sig. A5v An uncorruptible and pure Crystalline Church.
1857–8 E. H. Sears Athanasia xi. 91 A sermon..in which his crystalline style is even more than usually radiant with momentous truths.
1906 Mrs. C. Kernahan Sinnings of Seraphine ix. 89 It was wonderful to see anyone arrive at Seraphine's age and preserve that crystalline purity of thought and look.
1973 Southerly i. 7 Multi-lingual translators from the Foreign News Service, all with crystalline English accents.
2003 Dreamwatch Aug. 62/1 This is pure crystalline joy, every minute.
3.
a. Of the nature of a crystal; having the ordered structure which is the result of crystallization. Cf. crystal n. 5a. Contrasted with amorphous.
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the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > [adjective] > crystallinity
crystalline1558
crystallic1659
the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adjective] > shaped like a crystal
crystalline1558
crystalliform1740
1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount vi. f. 103v There be some naughty personnes that putte Arsenic Cristallyne [It. arsenico cristallino, Fr. arsenic cristalin] to distille with Quicke Syluer, a thinge practised of to many men.
1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 286 Sal Nitri Is the Christalline salt purified from grosse Salt-peeter.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 82 A multitude of little Crystalline or Adamantine bodies.
1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 136 The crystalline grains are scarcely discernible.
1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. xviii. 155 Many naturally occurring minerals exhibit very perfect crystalline forms.
1906 Jrnl. Soc. Chem. Industry 31 May 484/1 The bright deposit is formed by causing the metal to retain its amorphous condition and preventing it from becoming crystalline.
1934 C. C. Steele Introd. Plant Biochem. iii. viii. 73 When pure, glucose is a colourless crystalline solid.
1967 E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage i. 6 Many symmetrical forms are found in nature, e.g. crystalline structures and snowflake patterns.
2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 May 41/1 Plutonium comes in at least six different crystalline forms—allotropes—that manifest themselves at different temperature.
b. Geology. Of rocks: composed of crystals or aggregates of crystals.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral structure or appearance > [adjective] > crystalline
crystalline1665
cryptocrystalline1849
holocrystalline1884
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > texture or colour > [adjective] > texture > crystalline
crystalline1665
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 10 One is a kind of Crystalline Stone, and almost all good Leads the other not so rich and more farinaceous.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 90 A Scovan Lode, is formed of a hard compact crystalline Stone, either of a brown or black hue.
1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 334 A more compact and crystalline texture, which will be considered when we speak of the strata termed ‘primary’.
1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. viii. 81 The natural crystalline rocks.
1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xxix. 485 Rhyolite..is more minutely crystalline than granite and may contain some uncrystallised glass.
2000 J. N. Wilford Mapmakers (2002) xvii. 310 These were solidified igneous ‘plutons’ that had intruded in molten form into the already formed rocks that make up most of the crystalline basement in that area.
4. Of or relating to crystals or their formation.
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the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > [adjective]
crystalline1745
macrocrystalline1909
the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystallization > [adjective]
crystalline1833
1745 R. James Medicinal Dict. II. at Camphora They take it from the Wood itself..in its proper and natural crystalline Appearance.
1833 W. Whewell Astron. & Gen. Physics ix. 77 Snow being apparently frozen vapour, aggregated by a confused action of crystalline laws.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. iv. 51 The marvels of crystalline force.
1922 J. J. Sudborough Bernthsen's Text-bk. Org. Chem. (new ed.) x. 263 Hemihedral faces..are not perfectly symmetrically situated with respect to the other crystalline faces.
2001 R. W. Cahn Coming of Materials Sci. iii. 66 Crystals can diffract X-rays and..this allows the investigator to establish just where the atoms are situated in the crystalline unit cell.
5. Designating a type of light silk fabric; made of this fabric.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from silk > [adjective] > other
pelong1687
zephyrine1819
pongee1830
chiné1841
shot-silk1850
crystalline1860
Henan1880
frisé1884
Spitalfields1894
Jap1895
météor1909
1860 Daily News 19 May 5/5 The Princess Alice wore a train of rich white crystalline silk.
1883 Times 2 Apr. 3/6 (advt.) The new crystalline dress fabric, in all the leading shades.
1957 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 4 Aug. 3a/1 She wore an aqua crystalline gown which featured a square neckline.
2001 Ebony Dec. 1 The special 2001 holiday edition of Celebration Barbie in her shimmering crystalline gown and tiara.
B. n.† 2. The crystalline sphere (see sense A. 1). Obsolete.† 3. † 4. A vesicle filled with clear or white fluid; spec. one appearing on the penis, attributed to venereal disease. Cf. crystal n. 7. Obsolete.
1. = crystalline lens n. at Compounds. Also figurative (rare).
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the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > other parts
whitec1390
crystalline humoura1398
crystalloida1398
crystalline?a1425
eyeball1575
eyeglassa1616
crystalline lens1654
crystal1657
lens1719
membranula1821
zonule1828
angle1830
disc1861
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 11 v Þe ynnermore partie is seid rethina; þe uttermore aboue þe cristalline is said aranea.
1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. E.iv It is thin, because the nutritiue blood of the Crystalline might passe, as water through a sponge should be clensed and made pure.
1657 W. Rand tr. P. Gassendi Mirrour of Nobility v. 97 The Image which was inverted in the Retina was..received by the Crystalline in its right posture.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 100 Behold thy self by inward Opticks and the Crystalline of thy Soul.
1793 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 174 In the ox's eye, the diameter of the crystalline is 700 thousandths of an inch.
1868 P. M. Duncan tr. L. Figuier Insect World Introd. 3 These cones..play the part of the crystalline, or lens, in the eyes of animals.
1922 Southwestern Reporter 237 904/1 Plaintiff in this eye has no crystalline, the lens substance having been absorbed.
1985 M. Baxandall Patterns Intention iii. 84 When this external tension is released internal tensions make the crystalline take on a more convex form.
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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > sphere of ancient astronomy > [noun] > crystalline sphere
crystalline heaven (also sphere, circle)a1398
crystalline1483
1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) v. i. 71 The entre, that is, the Crystallyn, that yett is not ouerpassed.
1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 6045 in Wks. (1931) I. 377 Boith sterny heuin and Christellyng.
1634 W. Habington Castara i. 4 In a bright orbe beyond the Christalline.
1663 A. Cowley Extasie in Pindaric Odes ix The Transparent Rocks o' th' Heav'nly Chrystalline.
1840 E. B. Browning Drama of Exile (1850) I. 6 What if I stand up And strike my brow against the crystalline Roofing the creatures.
1890 E. McLennan Cosmical Evol. 30 The smallest sphere or crystalline surrounded the Earth and its elements, and carried the Moon.
a. Originally and chiefly Scottish. Crystal, as a precious material. Cf. crystal n. 2a. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz > crystalline quartzes > rock crystal
crystalOE
irisa1387
crystalline1539
rainbow-stone1587
Cornish diamond1591
diamond1591
mountain crystal1598
rock crystal1598
pebble1688
Cornish stone1695
Welsh diamond1705
rainbow crystal1748
quartz crystal1770
Irish diamond1774
1539 in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. (1890) 24 49 Ane pair of tabillis of silvir ourgilt with gold, indentit with jasp and cristallyne.
1586 Edinb. Test. XVI. f. 205, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Cristalline Of doublettis, garnettis, wermeillis, & cristalleine, xij dissone.
a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) 7452 Ane scalbert... Wondourlie wrocht with gold of cristillyne.
1654 N. Culpeper tr. S. Partlitz New Method of Physick iii. 151 More Transparant are Crystalline, Diamond, Saphire, Emerald, Sardonix.
b. A crystal. Cf. crystal n. 2c. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > rock crystal > [noun] > piece of
crystal stonea1387
crystala1393
rock crystal1660
crystalline1842
1842 E. B. Barrett in Graham's Mag. Dec. 303/2 All thy tears..like pure crystallines.
1849 F. Walpole Four Years in Pacific II. x. 234 Large sulphur beds, which contained all the water we had:..it has formed crystallines of every shape and variety.
1850 E. B. Browning Sonnets from Portuguese xv, in Poems (new ed.) II. 452 On me thou lookest, with no doubting care, As on a bee shut in a crystalline.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [noun] > other venereal diseases
Winchester goose1598
crystalline1674
chancroid1858
soft chancre1858
soft sore1860
genital herpes1877
genital wart1881
bubo1896
granulomatosis1911
trichomoniasis1915
granuloma inguinale1918
LGV1949
chlamydia1984
1674 S. Butler Epist. to Sidrophel in Hudibras (new ed.) ii. 395 Recov'ring Shankers, Chrystallines, And Nodes and Botches in their Rindes.
1713 W. Cockburn Symptoms Gonorrhoea v. 165 The Crystallin is to be touched with this Tincture Five Times, at most, after it is first humbled with sublimate or precipitate Mercury.
1726 P. Shaw New Pract. Physic I. 151 The purples and crystallines together, or the purples alone, shew an universal tendency to mortification.
1795 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children (ed. 3) I. 274 It [sc. miliary fever] is sometimes intermixed, from the beginning, with very small pimples of a pellucid appearance, called crystallines.
1816 Encycl. Perthensis (ed. 2) VI. 623/1 Crystallinæ, or Crystallines, in medicine, are pustules filled with water, and so called on account of their transparency. They are one of the worst symptoms attendant on a gonorrhœa.
5. Geology. A crystalline rock or rock formation. Cf. sense A. 3b.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > mineral or chemical composition > [noun] > rock containing specific mineral
alum rockc1637
silver-spat1668
salt-rock1670
tin-spar1681
garnet-rock1794
mimophyre1824
crystalline1856
haüynophyr1865
minette1866
phosphate rock1869
1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. v. viii. 109 The rocks which are destitute of mica, or in which the mica lies irregularly, or in which it is altogether absent, I shall call Compact Crystallines. The rocks in which the mica lies regularly I shall call Slaty Crystallines.
1905 Amer. Geologist 36 117 There are in this region a score of prominent mountain ranges in which the basal crystallines are exposed to view.
1925 N. E. Odell in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 299 I found a large series of limestones overlapping on to the crystallines to the south.
2008 Earth & Planetary Sci. Lett. 274 15/1 The Greater Himalayan Crystallines.., a high grade metasedimentary sequence that has been exhumed between the reverse sense Main Central Thrust..and normal sense South Tibetan Detachment.
6. A type of light silk fabric. Cf. sense A. 5.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [noun] > thin, light, or delicate > for clothing
crisp1397
peeling1671
barége1828
Henrietta cloth1842
Tibet1857
piuma1858
crystalline1867
fluff1875
nun's veiling1882
zenana1890
voilette1908
Palm Beach1911
1867 Belfast News-let. 1 Feb. Train and corsage of magnificent green and white striped crystalline lined with white Florence silk.
1903 Daily Chron. 25 July 8/4 Crystalline differs very little from mousseline de soie, for it is a thin fabric with a silky sheen upon it, and a very charming one for afternoon summer frocks.
1923 Daily Mail 8 May 14 Soft crepe finish crystalline.
1966 Chicago Tribune 6 Aug. 4/3 Mrs. Johnson's street length dress and coat ensemble of lemon sherbet silk crystalline.
2003 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 11 Feb. (Living section) 2 Long gowns of pink crystalline.
Compounds
crystalline cone n. Zoology (in the compound eyes of many insects, crustacea, and other arthropods) a hard, refractive, conical body below the cornea of each ommatidium.
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1830 Jrnl. Royal Inst. Great Brit. 1 153 In many Crustacea, the existence of crystalline cones or prisms between the facets of the cornea and the fibrils of the optic nerve has long been known.
1885 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 25 229 The term ‘pseudocone’ was given by Grenacher to the structure corresponding to the crystalline cones of the majority of insects.
1947 A. D. Imms Outl. Entomol. (ed. 3) ii. 38 Four transparent cone cells..either contain fluid or secrete a body known as the crystalline cone.
2006 Science 28 Apr. 557/1 Each ommatidium consists of a light-diffracting facet lens, a crystalline cone, and photoreceptor cells with a wave-guiding rhabdom.
crystalline humour Anatomy (now historical) = crystalline lens n.
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the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > other parts
whitec1390
crystalline humoura1398
crystalloida1398
crystalline?a1425
eyeball1575
eyeglassa1616
crystalline lens1654
crystal1657
lens1719
membranula1821
zonule1828
angle1830
disc1861
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. v. 181 Þe humour albugineus þat kinde settiþ þere to make þe spirit clere and to ȝeue kinde of moisture to þe humour cristallyn.
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 43 Of þe þre humours, þe firste is þe cristallyne humour, ysette in þe myddes of þe eyȝe, of the colour of cristal, of þe schappe of a hayle stoon.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 33 The cristalline and glassy humors of the eye.
1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xiv. 129 The very Crystalline Humour of a Horse's Eye has been forced out of its Capsula or little Bag.
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 172/1 Within this hollow sphere..is fixed a double convex lens, called the crystalline lens or crystalline humour.
1976 Science 3 Dec. 1047/3 By a happy choice one of these was Felix Platter, who had asserted the sensitivity of the retina and denied that of the crystalline humor.
crystalline lens n. Anatomy and Zoology = lens n. 2a; cf. crystalline humour.
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the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > other parts
whitec1390
crystalline humoura1398
crystalloida1398
crystalline?a1425
eyeball1575
eyeglassa1616
crystalline lens1654
crystal1657
lens1719
membranula1821
zonule1828
angle1830
disc1861
1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. iii. 164 The Chrystalline Lens protruded somewhat outwardly.
1724 J. Crawford Cursus Medicinæ 190 In the cavity formed in the middle superficies of the fore side of the vitreous humor, lies, on the lower part of that surface, the crystalline lens.
1856 H. B. Jones & A. W. Hoffman Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 6) 650 Globulin exists in concentrated solution in the crystalline lens.
1907 D. S. Jordan Fishes i. 5 The pupil is round, and if we could cut open the eye we should see that the crystalline lens is almost a perfect sphere.
2005 R. Stollery et al. Ophthalmic Nursing (ed. 3) xi. 149 A cataract is an opacity of the crystalline lens.
crystalline style n. Zoology (in various molluscs, esp. bivalves) a long, transparent mucoid rod that projects from a sac into the stomach, where it rotates to aid mixing and gradually dissolves providing enzymes for digestion.
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1827 R. T. Gore tr. C. G. Carus Introd. Compar. Anat. Animals II. ii. i. 310 The crystalline style, before mentioned,..may probably in that case have the same character in these animals as the peculiar dart of Snails.
1864 W. Houghton in Intellectual Observer No. 32. 70 This body, called the crystalline style.
1866 R. Tate Plain & Easy Acct. Mollusks Great Brit. ii. 14 The stomach contains a jelly-like body termed the crystalline style.
1942 Physiol. Zoöl. 15 212 The crystalline style, which is always present when oysters are actively feeding, was absent.
2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. vii. 237 They [sc. monoplacophorans] do have a crystalline style and a radula, though only a small head.
crystalline stylet n. Zoology (now rare) = crystalline style n.
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1850 G. Johnston Introd. Conchol. xvii. 301 I have purposely omitted to notice a very remarkable organ connected with digestion, and called the crystalline stylet.
1889 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 25 213/1 A crystalline stylet..found in the stomach of some snails.
1905 A. G. Mayer Sea-shore Life x. 119 A long gelatinous rod called the crystalline stylet is often found in the stomach, but its exact nature and function are unknown.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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- to overdo it
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- to overdraw the bow
- to overegg the pudding
- to overgo one's bed
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- to owe a grudge
- to owe a knee
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