Crying
(Cry"ing), a. 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) n. kry`os cold + E. hydrate.]—> (Chem.) 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) n. [Gr. kry`os icy cold, frost + -lite: cf. F. cryolithe.] (Min.) A fluoride of sodium
and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; — used as a source of soda and alumina.
Cryophorus
(Cry*oph"o*rus) n. [NL., fr. Gr. kry`os icy cold, frost + fe`rein to bear.] (Chem.) 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) n. [L. crypta vault, crypt, Gr. kry`pth, fr. 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. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to crypts.
Cryptic
(Cryp"tic) Cryptical
(Cryp"tic*al) a. [L. crypticus, Gr. kryptiko`s, fr. kry`ptein to hide.] Hidden; secret; occult.
"Her [nature's] more cryptic ways of working." Glanvill.
Cryptically
(Cryp"tic*al*ly), adv. Secretly; occultly.
Cryptidine
(Cryp"ti*dine) n. krypto`s hidden.]—> (Chem.) One of the quinoline bases, obtained from
coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling,
cryptidine proper.
Cryptobranchiata
(||Cryp`to*bran`chi*a"ta) (kr?p`t?-bra?`k?- ?"t?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. krypto`s hidden +
L. branchia a gill.] (Zoöl.) (a) A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata. (b) A group of nudibranch
mollusks.
Cryptobranchiate
(Cryp`to*bran"chi*ate) a. (Zoöl.) Having concealed or rudimentary gills.
Cryptocrystalline
(Cryp`to*crys"tal*line) a. [Gr. krypto`s hidden + E. 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) n. [Cf. F. cryptogame. See Cryptogamia.] (Bot.) A plant belonging to the
Cryptogamia. Henslow.
Cryptogamia
(||Cryp`to*ga"mi*a) n.; pl. Cryptogamiæ [NL., fr. Gr. krypto`s hidden, secret + ga`mos
marriage.] (Bot.) The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and
pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.
