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vitreous Adjective 1. of or like glass 2. of or relating to the vitreous humour [Latin vitrum glass]
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| At first I thought it was one vast, unbroken chamber, so clear and transparent were the walls of the winding corridors, but after I had nearly brained myself a couple of times by attempting to pass through solid vitreous walls I went more carefully. It was composed of black and vitreous lava, mixed with fragments of felspar. In other crustaceans the transparent cones which are coated by pigment, and which properly act only by excluding lateral pencils of light, are convex at their upper ends and must act by convergence; and at their lower ends there seems to be an imperfect vitreous substance. |
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