general, something composed of, or resembling, crystal. See Crystal.

Crystalline Heaven, in ancient astronomy, two spheres, imagined between the primum mobile and the firmament, in the Ptolemaic system, which supposes the heavens solid, and only susceptible of a single motion. See Astronomy, n° 72.

Crystalline Humour. See Anatomy, n° 406. p.

Crystallines, in medicine, are putrefies filled with water, and so called on account of their transparency. They are one of the worst symptoms attendant on a gonorrhoea. They are