Defn: An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consist 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 32º Fahr.
CRYPT
Crypt (krpt), n. Etym: [L. crypta vault, crypt, Gr. Crot, Crotto.]
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.)
Defn: A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the cryps of Lieberk.
CRYPTAL
Crypt"al (-al), a. (Anat.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to crypts.
CRYPTIC; CRYPTICAL
Cryp"tic (krp"tk), Cryp"tic*al (-t-kal), a. Etym: [L. crypticus, Gr.
Defn: Hidden; secret; occult. "Her [nature's] more cryptic ways of working." Glanvill.
CRYPTICALLY
Cryp"tic*al*ly, adv.