crystalline

n. பளிங்கு, பளிங்கு இயல்புடைய பொருள், பட்டாலும் கம்பளியாலும் ஆன பளபளப்பான துணி வகை, (பெ.) பளிங்கு போன்ற, படிகம் போன்ற, பளிங்கியலான, மாசுமறுவற்ற, படிகம்போன்ற அமைப்புடைய, பளிங்காலான, பளிங்குப் பகுதிகளையுடைய, படிகப் பகுதிகள் கொண்ட.

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Crys"tal*line (krs"tal-ln or -ln; 277), a. Etym: [L. crystallinus, from Gr. 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 perfectlly 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 heavently 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. Crys"tal*line, n. 1. A crystalline substance. 2. See Aniline. [Obs.]

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