Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hyaline

Hyaline , adjective

[Latin hyalinus, Greek {not transcribed}, from "y`alos glass: compare French hyalin.]

Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal.
Hyaline spaces. — Carpenter

Hyaline , noun

1.
A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere.
The clear hyaline, the glassy sea. — Milton
Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline. — Mrs. Browning
2.
(Biology) The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleus originates.
3.
(Physiology Chemistry) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation. — Gamgee