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Hyaline

Hyaline \Hy"a*line\, a. [L. hyalinus, Gr. ?, fr. "y`alos glass: cf. F. hyalin.] Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal. ``Hyaline spaces.''
--Carpenter.

Hyaline

Hyaline \Hy"a*line\, n.

  1. A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere. ``The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.''
    --Milton.

    Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline.
    --Mrs. Browning.

  2. (Biol.) The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleus originates.

  3. (Physiol. Chem.) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation.
    --Gamgee.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hyaline

1660s, from Latin hyalinus, from Greek hyalinos "of glass or crystal," from hyalos "glass" (see hyalo-).

Wiktionary
hyaline

a. glassy, transparent; amorphous. alt. glassy, transparent; amorphous. n. 1 Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky. 2 (context zoology anatomy English) A clear translucent substance in tissues. 3 (context biochemistry English) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation.

WordNet
hyaline

adj. resembling glass in transparency or translucency; "the morning is as clear as diamond or as hyaline"-Sacheverell Sitwell [syn: hyaloid]

hyaline

n. a glassy translucent material that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions [syn: hyalin]

Wikipedia
Hyaline

A hyaline substance is one with a glassy appearance. The word is derived from transparent and crystal, glass.

Usage examples of "hyaline".

HERALD OF ETERNITY: It is the day when all the sons of God Wait in the roofless senate-house, whose floor Is Chaos, and the immovable abyss Frozen by His steadfast word to hyaline .

These swelled and became hyaline, exactly like those exposed to the secretion of Drosera, but were not dissolved.

Many of the points on the infolded rims also had their lining of protoplasm similarly shrunk, and contained spherical granules of hyaline matter.

Most of the cells, however, included hyaline, motionless little spheres, which did not seem to consist of protoplasm, but, I suppose, of some balsam or essential oil.

The spherical glands were still white, but their utricles were broken up into three or four small hyaline spheres, with an irregularly contracted mass in the middle of the basal part.

On the other hand, the contents of the larger spherical glands often separated into small hyaline globules or irregularly shaped masses, which changed their forms very slowly and ultimately coalesced, forming a central shrunken mass.

Through the hyaline membrane of each egg a hypodermic needle had inserted a living virus.

So Nature shapes her hyaline vesicles and modifies them to serve the needs of the part where they are found.

Through green hyaline panels he could see the lift of the EAMH, the Experimental Applied Mutation Hospital, moving, leaving him here isolated.

Purple dust and niveous spiral galaxy, a plain of hyaline rock broken by pyrgoidal clusters ringed in fire, temperatures sliding a groove betwixt boiling and freezing.

They returned with two hyaline goblets and a tall flask made of interwoven multicolored glass ropes.

Prince to a great banquet to be held on board our own galleon, the Spendour Hyaline, tomorrow night?

For the Splendour Hyaline could sink anything he has to send after her - if we were overtaken at all.

And what then remains but to sit there till the Splendour Hyaline puts in, with Queen Susan on board, catch my strayed bird as she sets foot ashore, swing her into the saddle, and then, ride, ride, ride back to Anvard?

Smoke or fog was rolling into the room in great swirling clouds, lit with the hyaline colors of sorcerous energy.