Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
crystal .
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Examples
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A Chess Boarde of ebanie, with checkars of christall and other stones, layed with silver, garnished with beares and ragged staves, and cinquefoiles of silver.
Kenilworth 2004
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The xxxij men likewyse of christall and other stones sett, the one sort in silver white, the other gilte, in a case gilded and lyned with green cotton.
Kenilworth 2004
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Faire christall, guilded with his glorious eye, Fearing some usurpation in his stead, Or least his Loue should too-long daliance spy Tweene him and _Virgo_, whose attractiue face, Had newly made him leaue the _Lyons_ chase.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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His numberlesse great infinits of fame, Haue shut against me heauens great christall dore, The clouds, which once my feets dust had to name, Hang ore my forhead, threatning euermore Death to my praise; life to my infant shame, Whilst I with sighes mediate a new restore.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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It is enchased in a shrine, and is to be seene but thorow a christall glasse, and on the side which may be noated, appeareth nothing but a head.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 563, August 25, 1832 Various
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She was, as he prettily says, an Arethusa "who passed through all those turbulent waters without so much as the least stain or tincture in her christall."
Essays Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884
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She was, as he prettily says, an Arethusa "who passed through all those turbulent waters without so much as the least stain or tincture in her christall."
The Children Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884
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They take great pleasure to decke their harps and clairschoes with silver and precious stones; the poore ones that cannot attayne hereunto, decke them with christall.
The Lady of the Lake 1810
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A CHESS BOARDE of ebanie, with checkars of christall and other stones, layed with silver, garnished with beares and ragged staves, and cinquefoiles of silver.
Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801
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The xxxij men likewyse of christall and other stones sett, the one sort in silver white, the other gilte, in a case gilded and lyned with green cotton.
Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801
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