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.
Crys"tal, a. 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.
Crys"tal*lin (-l?n), n. (Physiol. Chem.) See Gobulin.
Crys"tal*line (kr?s"tal-l?n or -l?n; 277), a. [L. crystallinus, from Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;: cf. F. cristallin. See Crystal.] 1. Consisting, or made, of crystal.
Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline.
Shak.