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ὑα^λο-ειδής , ές,
A.like glass, glassy, transparent, ὑγρόν vitreous humour, Gal.UP14.6, cf. Id.19.358; “ἥλιος” Philol. ap. Placit.2.20.12 (also ὑελ- ib. 2.25.11); ὁ ὑ. χιτὼν ὀφθαλμοῦ the crystalline lens of the eye, Medici ap.Poll.2.71.
2. ἡ ὑ. λίθος a precious stone, perh. topaz, Thphr.Lap.30; “ὑαλοειδέες . . τόπαζοι” Orph.L.280. [v. ὕαλος fin.]
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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