Cryer Cry"er noun [ French faucon gruyer a falcon trained to fly at the crane, from crye crane, from Latin crus crane. Confer Cryal .] The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil.

Crying Cry"ing adjective Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil.

Too much fondness for meditative retirement is not the crying sin of our modern Christianity.
I. Taylor.

Cryohydrate Cry`o·hy"drate noun [ Greek kry`os cold + E. hydrate .] (Chemistry) A substance, as salt, ammonium chloride, etc., which crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water. F. Guthrie.

Cryolite Cry"o·lite noun [ Greek kry`os icy cold, frost + -lite : confer French cryolithe .] (Min.) A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.

Cryometer Cry·om"e·ter noun [ Greek ... cold, frost + -meter .] (Physics) A thermometer for the measurement of low temperatures, esp. such an instrument containing alcohol or some other liquid of a lower freezing point than mercury.

Cryophorus Cry·oph"o·rus (kri*ŏf"o*rŭs) noun [ New Latin , from Greek kry`os icy cold, frost + fe`rein to bear.] (Chemistry) An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs, connected by a tube of the same material, and containing only a quantity of water and its vapor, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below 32° Fahr.

Crypt Crypt (krĭpt) noun [ Latin crypta vault, crypt, Greek kry`pth , from kry`ptein to hide. See Grot , Grotto .] 1. A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.

Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning.
Motley.

My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine.
Tennyson.

2. (Anat.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberkühn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.

Cryptal Crypt"al (- a l) adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to crypts.

Cryptic Cryp"tic (krĭp"tĭk), Cryp"tic*al (-t?-k a l) adjective [ Latin crypticus , Greek kryptiko`s , from kry`ptein to hide.] Hidden; secret; occult. "Her [ nature's] more cryptic ways of working." Glanvill.

Cryptically Cryp"tic·al·ly adverb Secretly; occultly.

Cryptidine Cryp"ti·dine noun [ Greek krypto`s hidden.] (Chemistry) One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C ₁₁ H ₁₁ N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper.

Cryptobranchiata Cryp`to·bran`chi·a"ta noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek krypto`s hidden + Latin branchia a gill.] (Zoology) (a) A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata. (b) A group of nudibranch mollusks.

Cryptobranchiate Cryp`to·bran"chi·ate adjective (Zoology) Having concealed or rudimentary gills.

Cryptocrystalline Cryp`to·crys"tal·line adjective [ Greek krypto`s hidden + English 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.

Cryptogam Cryp"to·gam noun [ Confer F. cryptogame . See Cryptogamia .] (Botany) A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia. Henslow.

Cryptogamia Cryp`to·ga"mi·a noun ; plural Cryptogamiæ (-...). [ New Latin , from Greek krypto`s hidden, secret + ga`mos marriage.] (Botany) The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.

» The subdivisions have been variously arranged. The following arrangement recognizes four classes: --

I. Pteridophyta , or Vascular Acrogens . These include Ferns , Equiseta or Scouring rushes, Lycopodiaceæ or Club mosses, Selaginelleæ , and several other smaller orders. Here belonged also the extinct coal plants called Lepidodendron , Sigillaria , and Calamites .

II. Bryophita , or Cellular Acrogens . These include Musci , or Mosses, Hepaticæ , or Scale mosses and Liverworts, and possibly Characeæ , the Stoneworts.

III. Algæ , which are divided into Florideæ , the Red Seaweeds, and the orders Dictyoteæ , Oösporeæ , Zoösporeæ , Conjugatæ , Diatomaceæ , and Cryptophyceæ .

IV. Fungi . The molds, mildews, mushrooms, puffballs, etc., which are variously grouped into several subclasses and many orders. The Lichenes or Lichens are now considered to be of a mixed nature, each plant partly a Fungus and partly an Alga.

Cryptogamian Cryp`to·ga"mi·an (kr?p`t?-g?"m?-a]/> n), Cryp`to*gam"ic (kr?p`t?-g?m"?k), Cryp*to"gam*ous adjective Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series.

Cryptogamist Cryp·tog"a·mist noun One skilled in cryptogamic botany.

Cryptogram Cryp"to·gram noun A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph .

Cryptograph Cryp"to·graph noun [ Greek krypto`s hidden + -graph : confer French cryptographe .] Cipher; something written in cipher. "Decipherers of cryptograph ." J. Earle.

Cryptographal Cryp·tog"ra·phal adjective Pertaining to cryptography; cryptographical. Boyle.

Cryptographer Cryp·tog"ra·pher noun One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.

Cryptographic Cryp`to·graph"ic (kr?p`t?-gr?f"?k), Cryp`to*graph"ic*al (kr?p`t?-gr?f"?-k a l) adjective Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink.

Cryptographist Cryp·tog"ra·phist noun Same as Cryptographer .

Cryptography Cryp·tog"ra·phy noun [ Confer French cryptographie .] The act or art of writing in secret characters; also, secret characters, or cipher.

Cryptology Cryp·tol"o·gy noun [ Greek krypto`s hidden + -logy .] Secret or enigmatical language. Johnson.

Cryptonym Cryp"to·nym noun [ Greek ............ secret + ............ name.] A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to the initiated.

Cryptopine Cryp"to·pine noun [ Greek krypto`s hidden + English op ium.] (Chemistry) A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium.

Crypturi Cryp·tu"ri (krĭp*tū"rī) noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek krypto`s hidden + o'yra` tail.] (Zoology) An order of flying, dromæognathous birds, including the tinamous of South America. See Tinamou .

Crystal Crys"tal (krĭs"t a l) noun [ Middle English cristal , F. cristal , Latin crystallum crystal, ice, from Greek kry`stallos , from kry`os icy cold, frost; confer Anglo-Saxon crystalla , from Latin crystallum ; probably akin to E. crust . See Crust , Raw .] 1. (Chem. & Min.) The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization .

2. The material of quartz, in crystallization transparent or nearly so, and either colorless or slightly tinged with gray, or the like; -- called also rock crystal . Ornamental vessels are made of it. Confer Smoky quartz , Pebble ; also Brazilian pebble , under Brazilian .

3. A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint glass .

4. The glass over the dial of a watch case.

5. Anything resembling crystal, as clear water, etc.

The blue crystal of the seas.
Byron.

Blood crystal . See under Blood . -- Compound crystal . See under Compound . -- Iceland crystal , a transparent variety of calcite, or crystallized calcium carbonate, brought from Iceland, and used in certain optical instruments, as the polariscope. -- Rock crystal , or Mountain crystal , any transparent crystal of quartz, particularly of limpid or colorless quartz.

Crystal Crys"tal adjective Consisting of, or like, crystal; clear; transparent; lucid; pellucid; crystalline.

Through crystal walls each little mote will peep.
Shak.

By crystal streams that murmur through the meads.
Dryden.

The crystal pellets at the touch congeal,
And from the ground rebounds the ratting hail.
H. Brooks.

Crystallin Crys"tal·lin noun (Physiol. Chem.) See Gobulin .

Crystalline Crys"tal·line adjective [ Latin crystallinus , from Greek ............: confer F. cristallin . See Crystal .] 1. Consisting, or made, of crystal.

Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline .
Shak.

2. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture.

Their crystalline structure.
Whewell.

3. Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline , while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized.

4. Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid. "The crystalline sky." Milton.

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.

Crystalline Crys"tal·line noun 1. A crystalline substance.

2. See Aniline . [ Obsolete]

Crystallite Crys"tal·lite noun [ See Crystal .] (Min.) A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form crystallites are called trichites , belonites , globulites , etc.

Crystallizable Crys"tal·li`za·ble (krĭs"t a l*lī`zȧ*b'l) adjective Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.

Crystallization Crys`tal·li·za"tion (krĭs`t a l*lĭ*zā"shŭn) noun [ Confer French cristallization .] 1. (Chem. & Min.) The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.

2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations .

» The systems of crystallization are the several classes to which the forms are mathematically referable. They are most simply described according to the relative lengths and inclinations of certain assumed lines called axes; but the real distinction is the degree of symmetry characterizing them. 1. The Isometric, or Monometric, system has the axes all equal, as in the cube, octahedron, etc. 2. The Tetragonal, or Dimetric, system has a varying vertical axis, while the lateral are equal, as in the right square prism. 3. The Orthorhombic, or Trimetric, system has the three axes unequal, as in the rectangular and rhombic prism. In this system, the lateral axes are called, respectively, macrodiagonal and brachydiagonal . -- The preceding are erect forms, the axes intersecting at right angles. The following are oblique. 4. The Monoclinic system , having one of the intersections oblique, as in the oblique rhombic prism. In this system, the lateral axes are called respectively, clinodiagonal and orthodiagonal . 5. The Triclinic system , having all the three intersections oblique, as in the oblique rhomboidal prism. There is also: 6. The Hexagonal system (one division of which is called Rhombohedral ), in which there are three equal lateral axes, and a vertical axis of variable length, as in the hexagonal prism and the rhombohedron.

» The Diclinic system , sometimes recognized, with two oblique intersections, is only a variety of the Triclinic .

Crystallize Crys"tal·lize (krĭs"t a l*līz) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Crystallized (-līzd); present participle & verbal noun Crystallizing .] [ Confer F. cristalliser . See Crystal .] To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.

Crystallize Crys"tal·lize intransitive verb To be converted into a crystal; to take on a crystalline form, through the action of crystallogenic or cohesive attraction.

Crystallogenic Crys`tal·lo·gen"ic (-l?-j?n"?k), Crys`tal*lo*gen"ic*al (-?-k a l) adjective Pertaining to the production of crystals; crystal-producing; as, crystallogenic attraction.

Crystallogeny Crys`tal·log"e·ny noun [ Greek kry`stallos crystal + root of gi`gnesqai to be born.] The science which pertains to the production of crystals.

Crystallographer Crys`tal·log"ra·pher (krĭs"t a l*lŏg"rȧ*fẽr) noun One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography.

Crystallographic Crys`tal·lo·graph"ic (-l?-gr?f"?k), Crys`tal*lo*graph"ic*al (-?-k a l) adjective [ Confer French crystallographique .] Pertaining to crystallography.

Crystallographically Crys`tal·lo·graph"ic·al·ly adverb In the manner of crystallography.

Crystallography Crys`tal·log"ra·phy (krĭs"t a l*lŏg"rȧ*fȳ) noun [ Greek kry`stallos crystal + - graphy : confer F. cristallographie . See Crystal .] 1. The doctrine or science of crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation.

2. A discourse or treatise on crystallization.

Crystalloid Crys"tal·loid (krĭs"t a l*loid) adjective [ Greek kry`stallos crystal + - oid .] Crystal-like; transparent like crystal.

Crystalloid Crys"tal·loid noun 1. (Chemistry) A body which, in solution, diffuses readily through animal membranes, and generally is capable of being crystallized; -- opposed to colloid .

2. (Botany) One of the microscopic particles resembling crystals, consisting of protein matter, which occur in certain plant cells; -- called also protein crystal .

Crystallology Crys`tal·lol"o·gy (krĭs`t a l*lŏl"o*jȳ) noun [ Greek kry`stallos crystal + - logy .] The science of the crystalline structure of inorganic bodies.

Crystallomancy Crys"tal·lo·man`cy noun [ Greek kry`stallos crystal + -mancy .] Divination by means of a crystal or other transparent body, especially a beryl.

Crystallometry Crys`tal·lom"e·try noun [ Greek kry`stallos crystal + -metry .] The art of measuring crystals.

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