Hyaline

Hy"a*line

, n. 1. A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere. "The clear hyaline, the glassy sea." Milton.
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Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline.

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