Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 156
Crushing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crush
Crush (v. t.) 壓碎，壓壞；碾碎；榨；弄皺 To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes.
Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut. -- Lev. xxii. 24.
The ass . . . thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall. -- Num. xxii. 25.
Crush (v. t.) To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.
Crush (v. t.) To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
To crush the pillars which the pile sustain. -- Dryden.
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again. -- Bryant.
Crush (v. t.) To oppress or burden grievously.
Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway. -- Deut. xxviii. 33.
Crush (v. t.) To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
Speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels. -- Sir. W. Scott.
Crush (v. t.) To subdue or overwhelm (a person) by argument or a cutting remark; to cause (a person) to feel chagrin or humiliation; to squelch.
To crush a cup, To drink. [Obs.]
To crush out. To force out or separate by pressure, as juice from grapes.
To crush out. To overcome or destroy completely; to suppress.
Crush (v. i.) 被壓碎，被壓壞；被碾碎；起皺 To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.
Crush (n.) 壓碎，毀壞；壓皺；壓榨；鎮壓 [U] [C]；極度擁擠；擁擠的人群 [S] A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. -- Addison.
Crush (n.) Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a reception.
{Crush hat}, A hat which collapses, and can be carried under the arm, and when expanded is held in shape by springs; hence, any hat not injured by compressing.
{Crush room}, A large room in a theater, opera house, etc., where the audience may promenade or converse during the intermissions; a foyer.
Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush room of the opera at night. -- Macaulay.
Crush (n.) Leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated [syn: crushed leather, crush].
Crush (n.) A dense crowd of people [syn: crush, jam, press].
Crush (n.) Temporary love of an adolescent [syn: puppy love, calf love, crush, infatuation].
Crush (n.) The act of crushing [syn: crush, crunch, compaction].
Crush (v.) Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists" [syn: oppress, suppress, crush].
Crush (v.) To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon" [syn: squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze].
Crush (v.) Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" [syn: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish].
Crush (v.) Break into small pieces; "The car crushed the toy".
Crush (v.) Humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her" [syn: crush, smash, demolish].
Crush (v.) Crush or bruise; "jam a toe" [syn: jam, crush].
Crush (v.) Make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination" [syn: break down, crush].
Crush (v.) Become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure; "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall".
Crusher (n.) One who, or that which, crushes.
Crusher gauge, An instrument for measuring the explosive force of gunpowder, etc., by its effect in compressing a piece of metal.
Crusher (n.) A device that crushes something.
Crushing (a.) That crushes; overwhelming. "The blow must be quick and crushing." -- Macualay.
Crushing (a.) Physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing" [syn: crushing, devastating].
Crushing (n.) Forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent" [syn: suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling].
Crust (n.) 麵包皮；乾麵包片；派餅皮 [C] [U]；硬外皮，外殼；冰面；雪殼 [C] [U]；地殼 [the S] The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.
I have known the statute of an emperor quite hid under a crust of dross. -- Addison.
Below this icy crust of conformity, the waters of infidelity lay dark and deep as ever. -- Prescott.
Crust (n.) (Cookery) The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.
Crust (n.) (Cookery) The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft contents.
Crust (n.) (Cookery) The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling.
Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies. -- Dryden.
He that keeps nor crust nor crumb. -- Shak.
They . . . made the crust for the venison pasty. -- Macaulay.
Crust (n.) (Geol.) The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.
Crust (n.) (Zool.) The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
Crust (n.) (Med.) A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.
Crust (n.) An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing.
Crusted (imp. & p. p.) of Crust
Crusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crust
Crust (v. t.) 用硬皮覆蓋；在……上結硬皮 To cover with a crust; to cover or line with an incrustation; to incrust.
The whole body is crusted over with ice. -- Boyle.
And now their legs, and breast, and bodies stood Crusted with bark. -- Addison.
Very foul and crusted bottles. -- Swift.
Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock. -- Felton.
Crust (v. i.) To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted.
The place that was burnt . . . crusted and healed. -- Temple.
Crust (n.) The outer layer of the Earth [syn: crust, Earth's crust].
Crust (n.) A hard outer layer that covers something [syn: crust, incrustation, encrustation].
Crust (n.) The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties [syn: crust, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, cheekiness, freshness].
Crust (v.) Form a crust or form into a crust; "The bread crusted in the oven".
Crusta (n.) A crust or shell.
Crusta (n.) A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for inlaying a vase or other object.
Crustacea (n. pl.) 甲殼類 One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered.
Note: The body usually consists of an anterior part, made up of the head and thorax combined, called the cephalothorax, and of a posterior jointed part called the abdomen, postabdomen, and (improperly) tail. They breathe by means of gills variously attached to some of the limbs or to the sides the body, according to the group. They are divisible into two subclasses, Entomostraca and Malacostraca, each of which includes several orders.
Crustacea (n.) Class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas [syn: Crustacea, class Crustacea].
Crustacean (a.) (Zool.) 甲殼綱的 Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous.
Crustacean (n.) (Zool.) 甲殼綱動物 An animal belonging to the class Crustacea.
Crustacean (a.) Of or belonging to the class Crustacea [syn: crustaceous, crustacean].
Crustacean (n.) Any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton.
Crustaceological (a.) Pertaining to crustaceology.
Crustaceologist (n.) One versed in crustaceology; a crustalogist.
Crustaceology (n.) That branch of Zoology which treats of the Crustacea; malacostracology; carcinology.
Carcinology (n.) (Zool.) 【動】甲殼類學 The department of Zoology which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology.
Crustaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell.
Crustaceous (a.) (Zool.) Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean.
Crustaceous (a.) Of or belonging to the class Crustacea [syn: crustaceous, crustacean].
Crustaceous (a.) Being or having or resembling a hard crust or shell.
Crustaceousness (n.) The state or quality of being crustaceous or having a crustlike shell.
Crustal (a.) Relating to a crust.
Crustal (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of the crust of the earth or moon.
Crustalogical (a.) Pertaining to crustalogy.
Crustalogist (n.) One versed in crustalogy.
Crustalogy (n.) Crustaceology.
Crustated (a.) Covered with a crust; as, crustated basalt.
Crustation (n.) An adherent crust; an incrustation. -- Pepys.
Crusted (a.) Incrusted; covered with, or containing, crust; as, old, crusted port wine.
Crusted (a.) Having a hardened crust as a covering [syn: crusted, encrusted, crusty, crustlike].
Crustific (a.) Producing or forming a crust or skin. [R.]
Crustily (adv.) In a crusty or surly manner; morosely.
Crustiness (n.) The state or quality of having crust or being like crust; hardness.
Crustiness (n.) The quality of being crusty or surly.
Old Christy forgot his usual crustiness. -- W. Irving.
Crusty (a.) 像外殼一樣的；有殼的；硬的；粗暴的；易怒的 Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance.
Crusty (a.) Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly.
Thou crusty batch of nature, what's the news? -- Shak.
Crusty (a.) Having a hardened crust as a covering [syn: crusted, encrusted, crusty, crustlike].
Crusty (a.) Brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply" [syn: crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured].
Crut (n.) The rough, shaggy part of oak bark.
Crutches (n. pl. ) of Crutch
Crutch (n.) [C] 丁形柺杖，（支在腋下的）撐拐；支撐物，支架；叉架 A staff with a crosspiece at the head, to be placed under the arm or shoulder, to support the lame or infirm in walking.
I'll lean upon one crutch, and fight with the other. -- Shak.
Rhyme is a crutch that lifts the weak alone. -- H. Smith.
Crutch (n.) A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.
Crutch (n.) (Naut.) A knee, or piece of knee timber.
Crutch (n.) (Naut.) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch. See Crotch.
Crutch (v. t.) 用撐拐支撐；支持 To support on crutches; to prop up. [R.]
Two fools that crutch their feeble sense on verse. -- Dryden.
Compare: Crotch
Crotch (n.; pl. Crotches) The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree. more specifically, the space on the human torso between the two legs; also, the corresponding part between the legs of a pair of pants, which is in contact with the crotch of the wearer; as, pants with a tight crotch have become very popular.
Crotch (n.; pl. Crotches) (Naut.) A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; -- called also crane and crutch. -- Totten.
Crotch (n.; pl. Crotches) (Billiards) In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table. See Crotched, below.
Crutch (n.) A wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground; used by disabled person while walking.
Crutch (n.) Anything that serves as an expedient; "he uses drugs as a psychological crutch".
Crutched (a.) Supported upon crutches.
Crutched (a.) Marked with the sign of the cross; crouched.
Crutched friar (Eccl.), One of a religious order, so called because its members bore the sign of the cross on their staves and habits; -- called also crossed friar and crouched friar.
Cruth (n.) (Mus.) See 4th Crowd.
Compare: Crowd
Crowd (n.) An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow. [Written also croud, crowth, cruth, and crwth.]
A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little. -- B. Jonson.
Cruxes (n. pl. ) of Crux
Cruces (n. pl. ) of Crux
Crux (n.) 緊要關頭；關鍵；要點；難題 Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain. -- Dr. Sheridan.
The perpetual crux of New Testament chronologists. -- Strauss.
Crux (n.) A small conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere in the Milky Way near Centaurus [syn: Southern Cross, Crux, Crux Australis].
Crux (n.) The most important point [syn: crux, crux of the matter].
Cruzado (n.) A coin. See Crusado.
Crwth (n.) [W.] (Mus.) See 4th Crowd.
Compae: Crowd
Crowd (n.) An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow. [Written also croud, crowth, cruth, and crwth.]
A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little. -- B. Jonson.
Cried (imp. & p. p.) of Cry
Crying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cry
Cry (v. i.) To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.
And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice. -- Matt. xxvii. 46.
Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice. -- Shak.
Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee. -- Ps. xxviii. 2.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord. -- Is. xl. 3.
Some cried after him to return. -- Bunyan.
Cry (v. i.) To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child.
Ye shall cry for sorrow of heart. -- Is. lxv. 14.
I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman. -- Shak.
Cry (v. i.) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals.
The young ravens which cry. -- Ps. cxlvii. 9.
In a cowslip's bell I lie There I couch when owls do cry. -- Shak.
To cry on or To cry upon, To call upon the name of; to beseech. "No longer on Saint Denis will we cry." -- Shak.
To cry out. To exclaim; to vociferate; to scream; to clamor.
To cry out. To complain loudly; to lament.
To cry out against, To complain loudly of; to censure; to blame.
To cry out on or To cry out upon, To denounce; to censure. "Cries out upon abuses." -- Shak.
To cry to, To call on in prayer; to implore.
To cry you mercy, To beg your pardon. "I cry you mercy, madam; was it you?" -- Shak.
Cry (v. t.) To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly.
All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I 'll speak. -- Shak.
The man . . . ran on,crying, Life! life! Eternal life! -- Bunyan.
Cry (v. t.) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.
Cry (v. t.) To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc.
Love is lost, And thus she cries him. -- Crashaw.
Cry (v. t.) Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath. -- Judd.
{To cry aim}. See under {Aim}.
{To cry down}, To decry; to depreciate; to dispraise; to condemn.
Men of dissolute lives cry down religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it. -- Tillotson.
{To cry out}, To proclaim; to shout. "Your gesture cries it out." -- Shak.
{To cry quits}, To propose, or declare, the abandonment of a contest.
{To cry up}, To enhance the value or reputation of by public and noisy praise; to extol; to laud publicly or urgently.
Cry (n.) A loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience" [syn: cry, outcry, call, yell, shout, vociferation].
Cry (n.) A loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate); "a cry of rage"; "a yell of pain" [syn: cry, yell].
Cry (n.) A slogan used to rally support for a cause; "a cry to arms"; "our watchword will be `democracy'" [syn: war cry, rallying cry, battle cry, cry, watchword].
Cry (n.) A fit of weeping; "had a good cry".
Cry (n.) The characteristic utterance of an animal; "animal cries filled the night".
Cry (v.) Utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me" [syn: shout, shout out, cry, call, yell, scream, holler, hollo, squall].
Cry (v.) Shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain; "She cried bitterly when she heard the news of his death"; "The girl in the wheelchair wept with frustration when she could not get up the stairs" [syn: cry, weep] [ant: express joy, express mirth, laugh].
Cry (v.) Utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy; "`I won!' he exclaimed"; "`Help!' she cried"; "`I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost" [syn: exclaim, cry, cry out, outcry, call out, shout].
Cry (v.) Proclaim or announce in public; "before we had newspapers, a town crier would cry the news"; "He cried his merchandise in the market square" [syn: cry, blazon out].
Cry (v.) Demand immediate action; "This situation is crying for attention".
Cry (v.) Utter a characteristic sound; "The cat was crying".
Cry (v.) Bring into a particular state by crying; "The little boy cried himself to sleep".
Cries (n. pl. ) of Cry
Cry (n.) A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves.
Cry (n.) Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.
Again that cry was found to have been as unreasonable as ever. -- Macaulay.
Cry (n.) Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation.
There shall be a great cry throughout all the land. -- Ex. xi. 6.
An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light; And with no language but a cry. -- Tennyson.
Cry (n.) Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor. -- Swift.
The cry went once on thee. -- Shak.
Cry (n.) Importunate supplication.
O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls. -- Shak.
Cry (n.) Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.
The street cries of London. -- Mayhew.
Cry (n.) Common report; fame.
The cry goes that you shall marry her. -- Shak.
Cry (n.) A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories.
All now depends upon a good cry. -- Beaconsfield.
Cry (n.) A pack of hounds. -- Milton.
A cry more tunable was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn. -- Shak.
Cry (n.) A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt.
Would not this . . . get me a fellowship in a cry of players? -- Shak.
Cry (n.) The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.
{A far cry}, A long distance; -- in allusion to the sending of criers or messengers through the territory of a Scottish clan with an announcement or summons.
Cryal (n.) The heron [Obs.] -- Ainsworth.
Cryer (n.) The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil.
Cryer, () Practice. An officer in a court whose duty it is to make various proclamations ordered by the court.
Crying (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.
Crying (a.) Demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous" -- H. L. Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need" [syn: clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instant].
Crying (a.) Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank].
Crying (n.) The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying of a child"; "she was in tears" [syn: crying, weeping, tears].
Cryohydrate (n.) (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 (n.) (Min.) A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.
Cryolite (n.) A white mineral consisting of fluorides of aluminum and sodium; a source of fluorine [syn: cryolite, Greenland spar].
Cryophorus (n.) (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[deg] Fahr.
Cryosphere (n.) (Ecology) 冰圈；永凍圈 The part of the earth's surface where water exists as ice; the entire region of the natural environment that is below 0°C, especially permanently.
Compare: Ecology
Ecology (n.) 【生】生態學；生態，環境；【社】社會生態學，人文生態學 The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
Crypt (n.) 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.
Crypt (n.) (Anat.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk["u]hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.
Crypt (n.) A cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church).
Crypt, () Unix command to perform encryption and decryption.
Cryptal (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to crypts.
Cryptic (a.) Alt. of Cryptical
Cryptical (a.) Hidden; secret; occult. "Her [nature's] more cryptic ways of working." -- Glanvill.
Cryptical (a.) Incomprehensible to those not familiar with the culture or jargon; as, the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms.
Syn: inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying.
Cryptical (a.) having a secret or hidden meaning; as, cryptic symbols engraved in stone; cryptic writings.
Syn: cabalistic, occult, secret, sibylline.
Cryptical (a.) Having a puzzling terseness; as, a cryptic note.
Cryptical (a.) Not evident; unrecognized; as, a cryptic infection.
Cryptical (a.) Written in a code or cipher; as, a cryptic message.
Syn: encoded, enciphered, encrypted.
Cryptic (a.) Of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life" - Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands" [syn: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying].
Cryptic (a.) Having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther [syn: cabalistic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, sibylline].
Cryptic (a.) having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note".
Cryptically (adv.) Secretly; occultly ; in a manner so as to hide or obscure meaning.
Cryptically (adv.) In a cryptic manner; "we will meet again," he said cryptically [syn: cryptically, enigmatically, mysteriously].
Cryptidine (n.) (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 (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata.
Cryptobranchiata (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of nudibranch mollusks.
Cryptobranchiate (a.) (Zool.) Having concealed or rudimentary gills.
Cryptocrystalline (a.) (Geol.) 【礦】潛結晶的；潛晶質 ; 隱晶質 Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope.
Cryptocrystalline (a.) Having a crystalline structure visible only when magnified.
‘Nonporous cryptocrystalline limestone.’