macled, ppl. a.
(ˈmæk(ə)ld)
Also mackled.
[f. macle + -ed.]
a. Of a crystal: Hemitropic. b. Marked like chiastolite (Webster Suppl. 1880). c. Her. = mascled (Webster 1897).
| 1822 Cleaveland Mineral. & Geol. II. 793 Macled Crystal, a hemitrope crystal is sometimes thus called. a 1852 Macgillivray Nat. Hist. Dee Side (1855) 455 Garnet..In pentagonal dodecahedrons, single or macled. 1858 Maury Phys. Geog. Sea xiii. §761 Organisms as delicate as the macled frost. 1862 G. P. Scrope Volcanos 33 note, The crystals being..many of them mackled. 1865 [see macle 2]. |