crystal, crestel cristal, cristalle, crystalle

& a. [Fr. cristal; Sp. & Port. cristal, from Lat. crystal lum, from Gr. krystallos = ice, crystal, kryos =ice.] A. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. Lit .: In the same sense as II. "The gold and the crystal cannot equal it, Job xxviii. 17. 2. Figuratively : .." (1) A body or substance resembling crystal in purity, transparency brightne , as water. ". the blue crystal of the seas." *(2) Pl .: The eyes. Byron: The Giaour. "Therefore cave to be thy counsellor. Go, clear thy crystals .' Shakesp .: Henry V. , ii. 3. +(3) The gla of a watch-case. *(4) It is used by Wycliffe to expre the appearance of frost. "He sendes his cristal [ crystal lum , Vulg. hoar-frost, A. Vaandeels, cristalerystallumii. 17. IMG:content-1477.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1478.png:[blocks in formation] Applied(1) To water. IMG:content-1479.png:[blocks in formation] Min: An old name for Iceland Spar (q. v.). (2) Rock crystal : A general term for quite or nearly colorle quartz, whether in distinct crystals or not. Dana makes it identical with ordinary crystallized quartz, the first sub-variety of his Phenocrystalline, or Vitreous varieties of Quartz. Obvious compounds. Crystal form crystal girded. Crystal Palace. A well-known building at Sydenham, England, for public instruction and entertainment, one of the greatest attractions of the suburbs of London. The Great Exhibition, opened by Queen Victoria on February 25, 1851, and the great promoter of which was Prince Albert, was held in Hyde Park. Important as it was, it could not be allowed to occupy that site permanently, and on October 11 it was closed to the public, and soon afterward emptied and taken down. A com pany formed for the purpose bought the materials, and erected on a site obtained in perpetuity at Sydenham, in Kent, a building in various respects resembling its predece or. Both were built mainly of gla , and were poetically called crystal palaces. The term Crystal Palace has now become the every day name of the Sydenham edifice, and has to a certain extent been used also of all subsequent buildings of a similar kind erected throughout the British empire. The Sydenham Crystal Palace was opened by Queen Victoria on June 10, 1854. The name was also given to a large building erected in New York city in 1853 for exhibition purposes, which after a succe ful career of five years was burned in the year 1858. Its site was Reservoir Square. hydration.]