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word: Cough
definition:
Cough

Cough
(k?f)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Coughed (k?ft); p. pr. & vb. n. Coughing.]
[Cf. D. kuchen, MHG. k_;chen to breathe, G. keuchen to pant, and E.  chincough, the first part of which is prob. akin to cough; cf. also E. choke.]
To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.


word: Cough₂
definition:
Cough

Cough
v. t.
1.
To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.

2.
To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse.

To cough down, to silence or put down (an objectionable speaker) by simulated coughing.


word: Cough₃
definition:
Cough

Cough
n.
[Cg. D.  kuch. See Cough, v. i. ]
1.
A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.

2.
The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease.

Stomach cough, Ear cough, cough due to irritation in the stomach or ear.


word: Could
definition:
Could

Could
(k??d)
imp.
of Can
[OF. coude. The l was inserted by mistake, under the influence of should and would.]
Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.


word: Coulee
definition:
Coulee

Cou`lee"
(k??`l?")
n.
[F. coulée, fr. couler to run or flow.]
A stream
(Geol.)
a stream of lava. Also, in the Western United States, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a cañon, which has precipitous sides.


word: Couleur
definition:
Couleur

Cou`leur"
(?)
n.
[F.]
1.
Color; -- chiefly used in a few French phrases, as couler de rose, color of rose; and hence, adjectively, rose-colored; roseate.

2.
A suit of cards, as hearts or clubs; -- used in some French games.


word: Coulisse
definition:
Coulisse

Cou*lisse"
(kŏ*lĭs"; F. kō`le̝s")
n.
[F., fr. couler to flow, glide.]
1.
A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.

2.
One of the side scenes of the stage in a theater, or the space included between the side scenes.


word: Coulisse₂
definition:
Coulisse

Cou*lisse"
(kō*lēs")
n.
1.
A fluting in a sword blade.

2.
The outside stock exchange, or “curb market,” of Paris.
[French Use]


word: Couloir
definition:
Couloir

Cou`loir"
(k??`lw?r")
n.
[F., a strainer.]
1.
A deep gorge; a gully.

2.
(Hydraul. Engin.)
A dredging machine for excavating canals, etc.


word: Coulomb
definition:
Coulomb

Cou`lomb"
(k??`l?n")
n.
[From Coulomb, a French physicist and electrican.]
(Physics)
The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantity transferred by one ampère in one second. Formerly called weber.


word: Coulomb meter
definition:
Coulomb meter

Cou`lomb" me"ter
(?)
(Elec.)
Any instrument by which electricity can be measured in coulombs.


word: Coulomb's law
definition:
Coulomb's law

Cou`lomb's" law
(?)
(Physics)
The law that the force exerted between two electric or magnetic charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely to the square of the distance between them.


word: Coulure
definition:
Coulure

Cou*lure"
(?)
n.
[F., prop., a dropping.]
(Hort.)
A disease affecting grapes, esp. in California, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit.


word: Coumaric
definition:
Coumaric

Cou*mar"ic
(k??-m?r"?k)
a.
Relating to, derived from, or like, the Dipterix odorata, a tree of Guiana.

Coumaric acid (Chem.), one of a series of aromatic acids, related to cinnamic acid, the most important of which is a white crystalline substance, HO.C6H4.C2H2.CO2H, obtained from the tonka bean, sweet clover, etc., and also produced artificially.


word: Coumarin
definition:
Coumarin

Cou"ma*rin
(kō"mȧ*rĭn)
n.
[F., fr. coumarou, a tree of Guiana.]
(Chem.)
The concrete essence of the tonka bean, the fruit of Dipterix (formerly Coumarouna) odorata and consisting essentially of coumarin proper, which is a white crystalline substance, C9H6O2, of vanilla-like odor, regarded as an anhydride of coumaric acid, and used in flavoring. Coumarin in also made artificially.


word: Coumarou
definition:
Coumarou

Cou"ma*rou
(?)
n.
[See Coumarin.]
(Bot.)
The tree (Dipteryx odorata) which bears the tonka bean; also, the bean itself.


word: Council
definition:
Council

Coun"cil
(koun"sĭl)
n.
[F. concile, fr. L. concilium; con- + calare to call, akin to Gr. _;_;_; to call, and E. hale, v., haul. Cf. Conciliate. This word is often confounded with counsel, with which it has no connection.]

1.
An assembly of men summoned or convened for consultation, deliberation, or advice; as, a council of physicians for consultation in a critical case.

2.
A body of man elected or appointed to constitute an advisory or a legislative assembly; as, a governor's council; a city council.

An old lord of the council rated me the other day.
Shak.

3.
Act of deliberating; deliberation; consultation.

Satan . . . void of rest,
His potentates to council called by night.
Milton.

O great in action and in council wise.
Pope.

Aulic council. See under Aulic. -- Cabinet council. See under Cabinet. -- City council, the legislative branch of a city government, usually consisting of a board of aldermen and common council, but sometimes otherwise constituted. -- Common council. See under Common. -- Council board, Council table, the table round which a council holds consultation; also, the council itself in deliberation. -- Council chamber, the room or apartment in which a council meets. -- Council fire, the ceremonial fire kept burning while the Indians hold their councils. [U.S.] Bartlett. -- Council of war, an assembly of officers of high rank, called to consult with the commander in chief in regard to measures or importance or nesessity. -- Ecumenical council (Eccl.), an assembly of prelates or divines convened from the whole body of the church to regulate matters of doctrine or discipline. -- Executive council, a body of men elected as advisers of the chief magistrate, whether of a State or the nation. [U.S.] -- Legislative council, the upper house of a legislature, usually called the senate. -- Privy council. See under Privy. [Eng.]


word: Councilist
definition:
Councilist

Coun"cil*ist
(koun"s?l-?st)
n.
One who belongs to a council; one who gives an opinion.
[Obs.]

I will in three months be an expert counsilist.
Milton.


word: Councilman
definition:
Councilman

Coun"cil*man
(koun"sĭl*man)
n.
pl. Councilmen (koun"sĭl*men)
A member of a council, especially of the common council of a city; a councilor.


word: Councilor
definition:
Councilor

Coun"cil*or
(koun"s?l-?r)
n.
A member of a council.
[Written also councillor.]

&hand_; The distinction between councilor, a member of a council, and counselor, one who gives counsel, was not formerly made, but is now very generally recognized and observed.


word: councillorship
definition:
councillorship

councilorship

councilorship, councillorship
n.
1.
the position of council member.

Syn. -- councilorship.


word: Counsel
definition:
Counsel

Coun"sel
(koun"sĕl)
n.
[OE. conseil, F.  conseil, fr. L. consilium, fr. the root of consulere to consult, of uncertain origin. Cf. Consult, Consul.]
1.
Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation.

All the chief priest and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death.
Matt. xxvii. 1.

2.
Examination of consequences; exercise of deliberate judgment; prudence.

They all confess, therefore, in the working of that first cause, that counsel is used.
Hooker.

3.
Result of consultation; advice; instruction.

I like thy counsel; well hast thou advised.
Shak.

It was ill counsel had misled the girl.
Tennyson.

4.
Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.

The counsel of the Lord standeth forever.
Ps. xxxiii. 11.

The counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Prov. xii. 5.

5.
A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.

Thilke lord . . . to whom no counsel may be hid.
Gower.

6.
One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel.

The King found his counsel as refractory as his judges.
Macaulay.

&hand_; In some courts a distinction is observed between the attorney and the counsel in a cause, the former being employed in the management of the more mechanical parts of the suit, the latter in attending to the pleadings, managing the cause at the trial, and in applying the law to the exigencies of the case during the whole progress of the suit. In other courts the same person can exercise the powers of each. See Attorney.
Kent.

In counsel, in secret. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To keep counsel, or To keep one's own counsel, to keep one's thoughts, purposes, etc., undisclosed.

The players can not keep counsel: they 'll tell all.
Shak.


word: Counsel₂
definition:
Counsel

Coun"sel
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Counseled (-sĕld) or Counselled; p. pr. & vb. n. Counseling or Counselling.]
[OE. conseilen, counseilen, F.  conseiller, fr. L. consiliari, fr. consilium counsel.]
1.
To give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person.

Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you
To leave this place.
Shak.

2.
To advise or recommend, as an act or course.

They who counsel war.
Milton.

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb,
Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth.
Milton.


word: Counselable
definition:
Counselable

Coun"sel*a*ble
(-ȧ*b'l)
a.
[Written also counsellable.]
1.
Willing to receive counsel or follow advice.
[R.]

Few men of so great parts were upon all occasions more counselable than he.
Clarendon.

2.
Suitable to be advised; advisable, wise.
[Obs.]

He did not believe it counselable.
Clarendon.


word: counseling
definition:
counseling

counseling
n.
direction or advice as to a decision or course of action.

Syn. -- guidance, counsel, direction.


word: counsellorship
definition:
counsellorship

counsellorship
n.
the position of counselor; same as counselorship.

Syn. -- counselorship.


word: Counselor
definition:
Counselor

Coun"sel*or
(koun"sĕl*ẽr)
n.
[Written also counsellor.]
[OE. conseiler, F.  conseiller, fr. L. consiliarius, fr. consilium counsel.]
1.
One who counsels; an adviser.

Can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good counselor, or no?
Shak.

2.
A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign or chief magistrate. [See under Consilor.]

3.
One whose profession is to give advice in law, and manage causes for clients in court; a barrister.

Syn. -- advocate, counsel, counselor, counselor-at-law; attorney.

Good counselors lack no clients.
Shak.

4.
someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp.


word: counselor-at-law
definition:
counselor-at-law

counselor-at-law
n.
a lawyer who pleads cases in court.

Syn. -- advocate, counsel, counselor, counsellor.


word: Counselorship
definition:
Counselorship

Coun"sel*or*ship
(koun"s?l-?r-sh?p)
n.
The function and rank or office of a counselor.
Bacon.


word: Count
definition:
Count

Count
(kount)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Counted; p. pr. & vb. n. Counting.]
[OF. conter, and later (etymological spelling) compter, in modern French thus distinguished; conter to relate (cf. Recount, Account), compter to count; fr. L. computuare to reckon, compute; com- + putare to reckon, settle, order, prune, orig., to clean. See Pure, and cf. Compute.]
1.
To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon.

Who can count the dust of Jacob?
Num. xxiii. 10.

In a journey of forty miles, Avaux counted only three miserable cabins.
Macaulay.

2.
To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.

Abracham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Rom. iv. 3.

3.
To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.

I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends.
Shak.

To count out. (a) To exclude (one) from consideration; to be assured that (one) will not participate or cannot be depended upon. (b) (House of Commons) To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present. (c) To prevent the accession of (a person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes cast; -- said of a candidate really elected. [Colloq.]


word: Count₂
definition:
Count

Count
v. i.
1.
To number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing.

This excellent man . . . counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.
J. A. Symonds.

2.
To reckon; to rely; to depend; -- with on or upon.

He was brewer to the palace; and it was apprehended that the government counted on his voice.
Macaulay.

I think it a great error to count upon the genius of a nation as a standing argument in all ages.
Swift.

3.
To take account or note; -- with
of
[Obs.]
counts
Shak.

4.
(Eng. Law)
To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
Burrill.


word: Count₃
definition:
Count

Count
n.
[F. conte and compte, with different meanings, fr. L. computus a computation, fr. computare. See Count, v. t.]
1.
The act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number ascertained by counting.

Of blessed saints for to increase the count.
Spenser.

By this count, I shall be much in years.
Shak.

2.
An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
[Obs.]
count
Spenser.

3.
(Law)
A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution.
Wharton.

&hand_; In the old law books, count was used synonymously with declaration. When the plaintiff has but a single cause of action, and makes but one statement of it, that statement is called indifferently count or declaration, most generally, however, the latter. But where the suit embraces several causes, or the plaintiff makes several different statements of the same cause of action, each statement is called a count, and all of them combined, a declaration.
Bouvier. Wharton.


word: Count₄
definition:
Count

Count
n.
[F. conte, fr. L. comes, comitis, associate, companion, one of the imperial court or train, properly, one who goes with another; com- + ire to go, akin to Skr. i to go.]
A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl.

&hand_; Though the tittle Count has never been introduced into Britain, the wives of Earls have, from the earliest period of its history, been designated as Countesses.
Brande & C.

Count palatine. (a) Formerly, the proprietor of a county who possessed royal prerogatives within his county, as did the Earl of Chester, the Bishop of Durham, and the Duke of Lancaster. [Eng.] See County palatine, under County. (b) Originally, a high judicial officer of the German emperors; afterward, the holder of a fief, to whom was granted the right to exercise certain imperial powers within his own domains. [Germany]


word: Countenance
definition:
Countenance

Coun"te*nance
(koun"te̝*nans)
n.
[OE. contenance, countenaunce, demeanor, composure, F. contenance demeanor, fr. L. continentia continence, LL. also, demeanor, fr. L. continere to hold together, repress, contain. See Contain, and cf. Continence.]
1.
Appearance or expression of the face; look; aspect; mien.

So spake the Son, and into terror changed
His countenance.
Milton.

2.
The face; the features.

In countenance somewhat doth resemble you.
Shak.

3.
Approving or encouraging aspect of face; hence, favor, good will, support; aid; encouragement.

Thou hast made him . . . glad with thy countenance.
Ps. xxi. 6.

This is the magistrate's peculiar province, to give countenance to piety and virtue, and to rebuke vice.
Atterbury.

4.
Superficial appearance; show; pretense.
[Obs.]

The election being done, he made countenance of great discontent thereat.
Ascham.

In countenance, in an assured condition or aspect; free from shame or dismay. “It puts the learned in countenance, and gives them a place among the fashionable part of mankind.” Addison. -- Out of countenance, not bold or assured; confounded; abashed. “Their best friends were out of countenance, because they found that the imputations . . . were well grounded.” Clarendon. -- To keep the countenance, to preserve a composed or natural look, undisturbed by passion or emotion. Swift.


word: Countenance₂
definition:
Countenance

Coun"te*nance
(koun"t?-nans)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Countenanced (-nanst); p. pr. & vb. n. Countenancing.]
1.
To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.

This conceit, though countenanced by learned men, is not made out either by experience or reason.
Sir T. Browne.

Error supports custom, custom countenances error.
Milton.

2.
To make a show of; to pretend.
[Obs.]

Which to these ladies love did countenance.
Spenser.


word: Counter-
definition:
Counter-

Coun"ter-
(koun"tẽr-)
[See Counter, adv. ]
A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.


word: Counter
definition:
Counter

Count"er
(koun"tẽr)
n.
[OE. countere, countour, a counter (in sense 1), OF.  contere, conteor, fr. conter to count. See Count, v. t. ]
1.
One who counts, or reckons up; a calculator; a reckoner.

2.
A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc.

The old gods of our own race whose names . . . serve as counters reckon the days of the week.
E. B. Tylor.

What comes the wool to? . . . I can not do it without counters.
Shak.

3.
Money; coin; -- used in contempt.
[Obs.]

To lock such rascal counters from his friends.
Shak.

4.
A prison; either of two prisons formerly in London.

Anne Aysavugh . . . imprisoned in the Counter.
Fuller.

5.
A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
Knight.


word: Counter₂
definition:
Counter

Coun"ter
n.
[OE. countour, OF. contouer, comptouer, F. comptoir, LL. computatorium, prop., a computing place, place of accounts, fr. L. computare. See Count, v. t.]
A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.

Over the counter (a) (Stock Exchanges), in an office; -- said of business so done, as distinguished from that done at an exchange. [Cant] -- (a) without a prescription; needing no prescription; -- said of medicines that can be legally bought without a physician's prescription.


word: Counter₃
definition:
Counter

Coun"ter
adv.
[F. contre, fr. L. contra against. Cf. Contra-.]
1.
Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; -- used chiefly with run or go.

Running counter to all the rules of virtue.
Locks.

2.
In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter.

This is counter, you false Danish dogs!
Shak.

3.
At or against the front or face.
[R.]

Which [darts] they never throw counter, but at the back of the flier.
Sandys.


word: Counter₄
definition:
Counter

Coun"ter
a.
Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue.
counter
I. Taylor.

Counter approach (Fort.), a trench or work pushed forward from defensive works to meet the approaches of besiegers. See Approach. -- Counter bond (Law), in old practice, a bond to secure one who has given bond for another. -- Counter brace. See Counter brace, in Vocabulary. -- Counter deed (Law), a secret writing which destroys, invalidates, or alters, a public deed. -- Counter distinction, contradistinction. [Obs.] -- Counter drain, a drain at the foot of the embankment of a canal or watercourse, for carrying off the water that may soak through. -- Counter extension (Surg.), the fixation of the upper part of a limb, while extension is practiced on the lower part, as in cases of luxation or fracture. -- Counter fissure (Surg.) Same as Contrafissure. -- Counter indication. (Med.) Same as Contraindication. -- Counter irritant (Med.), an irritant to produce a blister, a pustular eruption, or other irritation in some part of the body, in order to relieve an existing irritation in some other part. “Counter irritants are of as great use in moral as in physical diseases.” Macaulay. -- Counter irritation (Med.), the act or the result of applying a counter irritant. -- Counter opening, an aperture or vent on the opposite side, or in a different place. -Counter parole (Mil.), a word in addition to the password, given in time of alarm as a signal. -- Counter plea (Law), a replication to a plea. Cowell. -- Counter pressure, force or pressure that acts in a contrary direction to some other opposing pressure. -- Counter project, a project, scheme, or proposal brought forward in opposition to another, as in the negotiation of a treaty. Swift. -- Counter proof, in engraving, a print taken off from another just printed, which, by being passed through the press, gives a copy in reverse, and of course in the same position as that of plate from which the first was printed, the object being to enable the engraver to inspect the state of the plate. -- Counter revolution, a revolution opposed to a former one, and restoring a former state of things. -- Counter revolutionist, one engaged in, or befriending, a counter revolution. -- Counter round (Mil.), a body of officers whose duty it is to visit and inspect the rounds and sentinels. -- Counter sea (Naut.), a sea running in an opposite direction from the wind. -- Counter sense, opposite meaning. -- Counter signal, a signal to answer or correspond to another. -- Counter signature, the name of a secretary or other officer countersigned to a writing. Tooke. -- Counter slope, an overhanging slope; as, a wall with a counter slope. Mahan. -- Counter statement, a statement made in opposition to, or denial of, another statement. -- Counter surety, a counter bond, or a surety to secure one who has given security. -- Counter tally, a tally corresponding to another. -- Counter tide, contrary tide.


word: Counter₅
definition:
Counter

Coun"ter
n.
[See Counter, adv., Contra.]
1.
(Naut.)
The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.

2.
(Mus.)
Same as Contra. Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor.

3.
(Far.)
The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.

4.
The back leather or heel part of a boot.


word: Counter₆
definition:
Counter

Coun"ter
(koun"t?r)
n.
An encounter.
[Obs.]

With kindly counter under mimic shade.
Spenser.


word: Counter₇
definition:
Counter

Coun"ter
v. i.
(Boxing)
To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.

His left hand countered provokingly.
C. Kingsley.


word: Counteract
definition:
Counteract

Coun`ter*act"
(koun`t?r-?kt")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Counteracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Counteracting.]
To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.


word: Counteraction
definition:
Counteraction

Coun`ter*ac"tion
(koun`t?r-?k"sh?n)
n.
Action in opposition; hindrance resistance.

[They] do not . . . overcome the counteraction of a false principle or of stubborn partiality.
Johnson.


word: Counterbalance
definition:
Counterbalance

Coun`ter*bal"ance
(-b?l"ans)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Counterbalanced (-anst); p. pr. & vb. n. Counterbalancing.]
To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.

The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder.
Boyle.

The study of mind is necessary to counterbalance and correct the influence of the study of nature.
Sir W. Hamilton.


word: Counterbalance₂
definition:
Counterbalance

Coun"ter*bal`ance
(koun"t?r-b?l`ans)
n.
A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another
(a)
A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel
(b)
A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.

Money is the counterbalance to all other things purchasable by it.
Locke.


word: counterbalanced
definition:
counterbalanced

counter-balanced

counter-balanced counterbalanced
adj.
brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another.

Syn. -- counterpoised.


word: counterblast
definition:
counterblast

counterblast
n.
a vigorous and unrestrained verbal response; as, her tirade provoked a counterblast from her husband.


word: Counterbore
definition:
Counterbore

Coun"ter*bore`
(-b?r`)
n.
1.
A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.

2.
A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.


word: Counterbore₂
definition:
Counterbore

Coun`ter*bore"
(koun`t?r-b?r")
v. t.
To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.


word: Counter brace
definition:
Counter brace

Coun"ter brace`
(br?s`)
1.
(Naut.)
The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.

2.
(Engin.)
A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive.

&hand_; In a quadrilateral system of bracing, the main brace is usually in the direction of one diagonal, and the counter brace in the direction of the other. Strains in counter braces are occasioned by the live load only, as, in a roof, by the wind, or, in a bridge, by a moving train.


word: Counterbrace
definition:
Counterbrace

Coun"ter*brace`
v. t.
1.
(Naut.)
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.

2.
(Engin.)
To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to.


word: Counterbuff
definition:
Counterbuff

Coun`ter*buff"
(koun`t?r-b?f")
v. t.
To strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front.
Dryden.


word: Counterbuff₂
definition:
Counterbuff

Coun"ter*buff`
(koun"t?r-b?f`)
n.
A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.


word: Countercaster
definition:
Countercaster

Coun"ter*cast`er
(-?r)
n.
A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- used contemptuously.


word: Counterchange
definition:
Counterchange

Coun`ter*change"
(koun`tẽr*chānj)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Counterchanged (-ch?njd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Counterchanging.]
1.
To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.

2.
To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2.

Witch-elms, that counterchange the floor
Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright.
Tennyson.


word: Counterchanged
definition:
Counterchanged

Coun`ter*changed"
(-ch?njd")
a.
1.
Exchanged.

2.
(Her.)
Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure.


word: Countercharm
definition:
Countercharm

Coun`ter*charm"
(koun`t?r-ch?rm")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Countercharmed (-ch?rmd`); p. pr. & vb. n. Countercharming.]
To destroy the effect of a charm upon.


word: Countercharm₂
definition:
Countercharm

Coun"ter*charm`
(koun"t?r-ch?rm`)
n.
That which has the power of destroying the effect of a charm.


word: Countercheck
definition:
Countercheck

Coun`ter*check"
(koun`t?r-ch?k")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Counterchecked (-ch?ckt"); p. pr. & vb. n. Counterchecking.]
To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.


word: Countercheck₂
definition:
Countercheck

Coun"ter*check`
(koun"t?r-ch?k`)
n.
1.
A check; a stop; a rebuke, or censure to check a reprover.

2.
Any force or device designed to restrain another restraining force; a check upon a check.

The system of checks and counterchecks.
J. H. Newton.


word: Counterclaim
definition:
Counterclaim

Coun"ter*claim`
(-klām`)
n.
(Law)
A claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made on him.


word: counterclockwise
definition:
counterclockwise

coun"ter*clock"wise
adj. & adv.
in the opposite direction to that in which the hands of a clock rotate, as viewed from in front of the clock face; -- of rotatory motion or spiral direction.  Opposite of clockwise, or right-handed
[Narrower terms: sinistral levororotary, levorotatory]

Syn. -- left-handed.


word: Counter-couchant
definition:
Counter-couchant

Coun"ter-couch`ant
(koun"tẽr*kouch"ant)
a.
(Her.)
Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.


word: Counter-courant
definition:
Counter-courant

Coun"ter-cou*rant"
(-k??-r?nt")
a.
(Her.)
Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.


word: Countercurrent₂
definition:
Countercurrent

Coun"ter*cur`rent
n.
A current running in an opposite direction to the main current.


word: Counterdraw
definition:
Counterdraw

Coun`ter*draw"
(koun`tẽr*dr&asuml_;")
v. t.
[imp. Counterdrew (-dr&usuml_;"); p. p. Counterdrawn (-dr?n"); p. pr. & vb. n. Counterdrawing.]
To copy, as a design or painting, by tracing with a pencil on oiled paper, or other transparent substance.


word: Counterfeit
definition:
Counterfeit

Coun"ter*feit
(koun"t?r-f?t)
a.
[F. contrefait, p. p. of contrefaire to counterfeit; contre (L. contra) + faire to make, fr. L. facere. See Counter, adv., and Fact.]

1.
Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.

Look here upon this picture, and on this-
The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
Shak.

2.
Fabricated in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as, counterfeit antiques; counterfeit coin.
counterfeit
Robinson (More's Utopia).

3.
Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist.
counterfeit
Shak.


word: Counterfeit₂
definition:
Counterfeit

Coun"ter*feit
n.
1.
That which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.

Thou drawest a counterfeit
Best in all Athens.
Shak.

Even Nature's self envied the same,
And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame
The thing itself.
Spenser.

2.
That which is made in imitation of something, with a view to deceive by passing the false for the true; as, the bank note was a counterfeit.

Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit.
Shak.

Some of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals.
Macaulay.

3.
One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.

I fear thou art another counterfeit;
And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.
Shak.


word: Counterfeit₃
definition:
Counterfeit

Coun"ter*feit
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Counterfeited; p. pr. & vb. n. Counterfeiting.]
1.
To imitate, or put on a semblance of; to mimic; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person.

Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he.
Goldsmith.

2.
To imitate with a view to deceiving, by passing the copy for that which is original or genuine; to forge; as, to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.


word: Counterfeit₄
definition:
Counterfeit

Coun"ter*feit
v. i.
1.
To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

The knave counterfeits well; a good knave.
Shak.

2.
To make counterfeits.


word: Counterfeiter
definition:
Counterfeiter

Coun"ter*feit`er
(-f?t`?r)
n.
1.
One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger.

The coin which was corrupted by counterfeiters.
Camden.

2.
One who assumes a false appearance or semblance; one who makes false pretenses.

Counterfeiters of devotion.
Sherwood.


word: Counterfesance
definition:
Counterfesance

Coun"ter*fe`sance
(-f?"zans)
n.
[OF. contrefaisance, fr. contrefaire. See Counterfeit, a.]
The act of forging; forgery.
[Obs.]
[Written also counterfaisance.]


word: Counterflory
definition:
Counterflory

Coun"ter*flo`ry
(-fl?`r?)
a.
[See Counterfleury.]
(Her.)
Adorned with flowers (usually fleurs-de-lis) so divided that the tops appear on one side and the bottoms on the others; -- said of any ordinary.


word: Counterfoil
definition:
Counterfoil

Coun"ter*foil`
(-foil)
n.
[Counter- + foil a leaf.]

1.
That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account; -- called also counterstock.
[Eng.]

2.
The part of a writing (as the stub of a bank check) in which are noted the main particulars contained in the corresponding part, which has been issued.


word: Counterfort
definition:
Counterfort

Coun"ter*fort`
(-f?rt`)
n.
1.
(Fort.)
A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.

2.
A spur or projection of a mountain.
Imp. Dict.


word: Countergage
definition:
Countergage

Coun"ter*gage`
(-gāj`)
n.
(Carp.)
An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made.
Knight.


word: Counterglow
definition:
Counterglow

Coun"ter*glow`
(?)
n.
(Astron.)
An exceedingly faint roundish or somewhat oblong nebulous light near the ecliptic and opposite the sun, best seen during September and October, when in the constellations Sagittarius and Pisces. Its cause is not yet understood. Called also Gegenschein.


word: Counterguard
definition:
Counterguard

Coun"ter*guard`
(koun"tẽr*gärd`)
n.
(Fort.)
A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.


word: Counterirritation
definition:
Counterirritation

Counterirritant

Coun"ter*ir`ri*tant (-?r"r?-tant), n., Coun"ter*ir`ri*ta"tion, n.
See Counter irritant, etc., under Counter, a.


word: Counterirritate
definition:
Counterirritate

Coun"ter*ir"ri*tate
(koun"tẽr-?r"r?-t?t)
v. t.
(Med.)
To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.


word: Counterjumper
definition:
Counterjumper

Coun"ter*jump`er
(koun"tẽr-j?mp`?r)
n.
A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemptuously.
[Slang]


word: Counterlath
definition:
Counterlath

Coun"ter*lath`
(?)
n.
(Building)
(a)
A batten laid lengthwise between two rafters to afford a bearing for laths laid crosswise.
(b)
Any lath laid without actual measurement between two gauged laths.
(c)
Any of a series of laths nailed to the timbers to raise the sheet lathing above their surface to afford a key for plastering.
(d)
One of many laths used in preparing one side of a partition or framed wall, when the other side has been covered in and finished.


word: Counterman
definition:
Counterman

Coun"ter*man
(koun"tẽr*man)
n.
pl. Countermen (-men).
A man who attends at the counter of a shop to sell goods.
[Eng.]


word: Countermand
definition:
Countermand

Coun`ter*mand"
(koun`tẽr*mȧnd")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Countermanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Countermanding.]
[F. contremander; contre (L. contra) + mander to command, fr. L. mandare. Cf. Mandate.]
1.
To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods.

2.
To prohibit; to forbid.
[Obs.]

Avicen countermands letting blood in choleric bodies.
Harvey.

3.
To oppose; to revoke the command of.

For us to alter anything, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him.
Hooker.


word: Countermand₂
definition:
Countermand

Coun"ter*mand
(koun"tẽr*mȧnd)
n.
A contrary order; revocation of a former order or command.

Have you no countermand for Claudio yet,
But he must die to-morrow?
Shak.


word: Countermandable
definition:
Countermandable

Coun`ter*mand"a*ble
(-m?nd"?-b'l)
a.
Capable of being countermanded; revocable.
Bacon.


word: Countermarch
definition:
Countermarch

Coun`ter*march"
(koun`t?r-m?rch")
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Countermarched (-m?rcht"); p. pr. & vb. n. Countermarching.]
(Mil.)
To march back, or to march in reversed order.

The two armies marched and countermarched, drew near and receded.
Macaulay.


word: Countermarch₂
definition:
Countermarch

Coun"ter*march`
(koun"t?r-m?rch`)
n.
1.
A marching back; retrocession.

2.
(Mil.)
An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front one, either with or without changing the right to the left.

3.
A change of measures; alteration of conduct.

Such countermarches and retractions as we do not willingly impute to wisdom.
T. Burnet.


word: Countermark
definition:
Countermark

Coun"ter*mark`
(-m?rk`)
n.
1.
A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark put upon a package of goods belonging to several persons, that it may not be opened except in the presence of all; a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths' Company of London, to attest the standard quality of the gold or silver; a mark added to an ancient coin or medal, to show either its change of value or that it was taken from an enemy.

2.
(Far.)
An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.


word: Countermark₂
definition:
Countermark

Coun`ter*mark"
(koun`tẽr*märk")
v. t.
To apply a countermark to; as, to countermark silverware; to countermark a horse's teeth.


word: Countermine
definition:
Countermine

Coun"ter*mine`
(koun"tẽr*mīn`)
n.
[Counter- + mine underground gallery: cf. F. contermine.]
1.
(Mil.)
An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.

2.
A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated.

Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror.
Sir P. Sidney.


word: Countermine₂
definition:
Countermine

Coun`ter*mine"
(koun`tẽr*mīn")
v. t.
[Cf. F. contreminer.]
[imp. & p. p. Countermined; p. pr. & vb. n. Countermining.]
1.
(Mil.)
To oppose by means of a countermine; to intercept with a countermine.

2.
To frustrate or counteract by secret measures.


word: Countermine₃
definition:
Countermine

Coun`ter*mine"
v. i.
To make a countermine or counterplot; to plot secretly.

'Tis hard for man to countermine with God.
Chapman.


word: Countermovement
definition:
Countermovement

Countermove

{ Coun"ter*move` (-m??v`), n. Coun"ter*move`ment (-ment). }
A movement in opposition to another.


word: Countermure
definition:
Countermure

Coun"ter*mure`
(-m?r`)
n.
[Counter- + mure: cf. F. contremur.]
(Fort.)
A wall raised behind another, to supply its place when breached or destroyed. [R.] Cf. Contramure.
Knolles.


word: Countermure₂
definition:
Countermure

Coun`ter*mure"
(koun`t?r-m?r")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Countermured (-m?rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Countermuring.]
[Cf. F. contremurer.]
To fortify with a wall behind another wall.
[R.]
Kyd.


word: Counter-paly
definition:
Counter-paly

Coun"ter-pa`ly
(-p?`l?)
a.
[F. contre-palé.]
(Her.)
Paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors used alternately or counterchanged. Thus the escutcheon in the illustration may also be blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure.


word: Counterpane
definition:
Counterpane

Coun"ter*pane`
(koun"t?r-p?n`)
n.
[See Counterpoint, corrupted into counterpane, from the employment of pane-shaped figures in these coverlets. ]
A coverlet for a bed, -- originally stitched or woven in squares or figures.

On which a tissue counterpane was cast.
Drayton.


word: Counterpane₂
definition:
Counterpane

Coun"ter*pane`
n.
[OF. contrepan a pledge, security; contre + pan a skirt, also, a pawn or gage, F. pan a skirt. See Pane, and cf. Pawn.]
(O. Law)
A duplicate part or copy of an indenture, deed, etc., corresponding with the original; -- now called counterpart.

Read, scribe; give me the counterpane.
B. Jonson.


word: Counterpart
definition:
Counterpart

Coun"ter*part`
(koun"tẽr*pärt`)
n.
1.
A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile.

In same things the laws of Normandy agreed with the laws of England, so that they seem to be, as it were, copies or counterparts one of another.
Sir M. Hale.

2.
(Law)
One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate.

3.
A person who closely resembles another.

4.
A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another thing, or which supplements it; that which serves to complete or complement anything; hence, a person or thing having qualities lacking in another; an opposite.

O counterpart
Of our soft sex, well are you made our lords.
Dryden.


word: Counterpassant
definition:
Counterpassant

Coun"ter*pas`sant
(-p?s"sant)
a.
[Counter- + passant: cf. F.  contrepassant.]
(Her.)
Passant in opposite directions; -- said of two animals.


word: Counterplead
definition:
Counterplead

Coun`ter*plead"
(koun`t?r-pl?d")
v. t.
To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.


word: Counterplot
definition:
Counterplot

Coun`ter*plot"
(koun`t?r-pl?t")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Counterplotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Counterplotting.]
To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.

Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted.
De Quinsey.


word: Counterpoint
definition:
Counterpoint

Coun"ter*point`
(koun"t?r-point`)
n.
[Counter- + point.]
An opposite point
[Obs.]
Sir E. Sandys.


word: Counterpoint₂
definition:
Counterpoint

Coun"ter*point`
n.
[F. contrepoint; cf. It. contrappunto. Cf. Contrapuntal.]
(Mus.)
(a)
The setting of note against note in harmony; the adding of one or more parts to a given canto fermo or melody
(b)
The art of polyphony, or composite melody, i. e., melody not single, but moving attended by one or more related melodies.
(c)
Music in parts; part writing; harmony; polyphonic music. See Polyphony.

Counterpoint, an invention equivalent to a new creation of music.
Whewell.


word: Counterpoint₃
definition:
Counterpoint

Coun"ter*point`
n.
[OF.  contrepoincte, corruption of earlier counstepointe, countepointe, F. courtepointe, fr. L.  culcita cushion, mattress (see Quilt, and cf. Cushion) +  puncta, fem. p. p. of pungere to prick (see Point). The word properly meant a stitched quilt, with the colors broken one into another.]
A coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane.  See 1st Counterpane.

Embroidered coverlets or counterpoints of purple silk.
Sir T. North.


word: Counterpoise
definition:
Counterpoise

Coun"ter*poise`
(koun"t?r-poiz`; 277)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Counterpoised (-poizd`); p. pr. & vb. n. Counterpoising.]
[OE.  countrepesen, counterpeisen, F.  contrepeser. See Counter, adv., and Poise, v. t. ]
1.
To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.

Weights, counterpoising one another.
Sir K. Digby.

2.
To act against with equal power; to balance.

So many freeholders of English will be able to beard and counterpoise the rest.
Spenser.


word: Counterpoise₂
definition:
Counterpoise

Coun"ter*poise`
(koun"t?r-poiz`)
n.
[OE. countrepese, OF.  contrepois, F.  contrepods. See Counter, adv., and Poise, n.]
1.
A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight.

Fastening that to our exact balance, we put a metalline counterpoise into the opposite scale.
Boyle.

2.
An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force.

The second nobles are a counterpoise to the higher nobility, that they grow not too potent.
Bacon.

3.
The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium; equiponderance.

The pendulous round eart, with balanced air,
In counterpoise.
Milton.


word: Counterpole
definition:
Counterpole

Coun"ter*pole`
(-p?l`)
n.
The exact opposite.

The German prose offers the counterpole to the French style.
De Quincey.


word: Counterponderate
definition:
Counterponderate

Coun`ter*pon"der*ate
(-p?n"d?r-?t)
v. t.
To equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate.


word: Counterprove
definition:
Counterprove

Coun`ter*prove"
(koun`t?r-pr??v")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Counterproved (-pr??vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Counterproving.]
To take a counter proof of, or a copy in reverse, by taking an impression directly from the face of an original.  See Counter proof, under Counter.


word: Counter-roll
definition:
Counter-roll

Coun"ter-roll`
(-r?l`)
n.
[Cf. Control.]
(O. Eng. Law)
A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.
Burrill.

&hand_; As a verb this word is contracted into control. See Control.


word: Counterrolment
definition:
Counterrolment

Coun`ter*rol"ment
(koun`tẽr-r?l"ment)
n.
A counter account. See Control.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: counter-sabotage
definition:
counter-sabotage

counter-sabotage
n.
counterintelligence designed to detect and counteract sabotage.


word: Counter-salient
definition:
Counter-salient

Coun`ter-sa"li*ent
(koun`tẽr-sā"lĭ*e>nt or -sāl"yent; 106)
a.
(Her.)
Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coat of arms.


word: Counterscale
definition:
Counterscale

Coun"ter*scale`
(koun`tẽr-skāl`)
n.
Counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against another.
[Obs.]
Howell.


word: Counterscarp
definition:
Counterscarp

Coun"ter*scarp`
(koun`tẽr*skärp`)
n.
[Counter- + scarp: cf. F. contrescarpe.]
(Fort.)
The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.


word: Counterseal
definition:
Counterseal

Coun`ter*seal"
(koun`tẽr*sēl")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Countersealed (koun`tẽr*sēld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Countersealing.]
To seal or ratify with another or others.
Shak.


word: Countershaft
definition:
Countershaft

Coun"ter*shaft`
(koun"t?r-sh?ft`)
n.
(Mach.)
An intermediate shaft; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine.


word: Countersign
definition:
Countersign

Coun`ter*sign"
(-s?n`; 277)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Countersigned (-s?nd`); p. pr. & vb. n. Countersigning.]
[Counter- + sign: cf. F.  contresigner.]
To sign on the opposite side of (an instrument or writing); hence, to sign in addition to the signature of a principal or superior, in order to attest the authenticity of a writing.


word: Countersign₂
definition:
Countersign

Coun"ter*sign`
a.
1.
The signature of a secretary or other officer to a writing signed by a principal or superior, to attest its authenticity.

2.
(Mil.)
A private signal, word, or phrase, which must be given in order to pass a sentry; a watchword.


word: countersignature
definition:
countersignature

countersignature
n.
a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed.

Syn. -- countersign.


word: Countersink
definition:
Countersink

Coun"ter*sink`
(koun"tẽr*sĭ&nsmacr_;k`; 277)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Countersunk (-sŭ&nsmacr_;k`); p. pr. & vb. n. Countersinking.]
1.
To chamfer or form a depression around the top of (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below the surface, either wholly or in part; as, to countersink a hole for a screw.

2.
To cause to sink even with or below the surface; as, to countersink a screw or bolt into woodwork.


word: Countersink₂
definition:
Countersink

Coun"ter*sink`
n.
1.
An enlargement of the upper part of a hole, forming a cavity or depression for receiving the head of a screw or bolt.

&hand_; In the United States a flaring cavity formed by chamfering the edges of a round hole is called a countersink, while a cylindrical flat-bottomed enlargement of the mouth of the hole is usually called a conterbore.

2.
A drill or cutting tool for countersinking holes.


word: Counterstand
definition:
Counterstand

Coun"ter*stand`
(-st_;nd`)
n.
Resistance; opposition; a stand against.

Making counterstand to Robert Guiscard.
Longfellow.


word: Counterstep
definition:
Counterstep

Coun"ter*step`
(koun"t?r-st?p`)
n.
A contrary method of procedure; opposite course of action.


word: counter-subversion
definition:
counter-subversion

counter-subversion
n.
the aspect of counterintelligence designed to detect and prevent subversive activities.

Syn. -- countersubversion.


word: Countersunk
definition:
Countersunk

Coun"ter*sunk`
(-s?nk`)
p. p. & a.
from Countersink
1.
Chamfered at the top; -- said of a hole.

2.
Sunk into a chamfer; as, a countersunk bolt.

3.
Beveled on the lower side, so as to fit a chamfered countersink; as, a countersunk nailhead.


word: Countersway
definition:
Countersway

Coun"ter*sway`
(-swā`)
n.
A swaying in a contrary direction; an opposing influence.
[Obs.]

A countersway of restraint, curbing their wild exorbitance.
Milton.


word: Counter tenor
definition:
Counter tenor

Coun"ter ten`or
(t?n`?r)
[OF. contreteneur. Cf. Contratenor, and see Tenor a part in music.]
(Mus.)
One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor.

Counter-tenor clef (Mus.), the C clef when placed on the third line; -- also called alto clef.


word: Counterterm
definition:
Counterterm

Coun"ter*term`
(-t?rm`)
n.
A term or word which is the opposite of, or antithesis to, another; an antonym; -- the opposite of synonym; as, “foe” is the counterterm of “friend”.
C. J. Smith.


word: Countertime
definition:
Countertime

Coun"ter*time`
(-t?m`)
n.
1.
(Man.)
The resistance of a horse, that interrupts his cadence and the measure of his manege, occasioned by a bad horseman, or the bad temper of the horse.

2.
Resistance; opposition.
[Obs.]

Give not shus the countertime to fate.
Dryden.


word: Countertrippant
definition:
Countertrippant

Coun"ter*trip`pant
(-tr?p`pant)
a.
(Her.)
Trippant in opposite directions. See Trippant.


word: Counterturn
definition:
Counterturn

Coun"ter*turn`
(-t_;rn`)
n.
The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties.
Dryden.


word: Countervail
definition:
Countervail

Coun`ter*vail"
(koun`t?r-v?l")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Countervailed (-v?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Countervailing.]
[OF.  contrevaloir; contre (L. contra) +  valoir to avail, fr. L.  valere to be strong, avail. See Vallant.]
To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate.

Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences that go allong with it.
L'Estrange.


word: Countervail₂
definition:
Countervail

Coun"ter*vail`
(koun"t?r-v?l`)
n.
Power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital.
[Obs.]

Surely, the present pleasure of a sinful act is a poor countervail for the bitterness of the review.
South.


word: Counterview
definition:
Counterview

Coun"ter*view`
(koun"t?r-v?`)
n.
1.
An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other.

Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin,
In counterview.
Milton

M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendix.
Sir W. Hamilton.

2.
A position in which two dissimilar things illustrate each other by opposition; contrast.

I have drawn some lines of Linger's character, on purpose to place it in counterview, or contrast with that of the other company.
Swift.


word: Countervote
definition:
Countervote

Coun`ter*vote"
(koun`tẽr*v&omacrt")
v. t.
To vote in opposition to; to balance or overcome by voting; to outvote.
Dr. J. Scott.


word: Counterwait
definition:
Counterwait

Coun`ter*wait"
(koun`tẽr*wāt")
v. t.
To wait or watch for; to be on guard against.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Counterwheel
definition:
Counterwheel

Coun`ter*wheel"
(-hwēl")
v. t.
(Mil.)
To cause to wheel or turn in an opposite direction.


word: Counterwork
definition:
Counterwork

Coun`ter*work"
(-wûrk")
v. t.
To work in opposition to; to counteract.

That counterworks each folly and caprice.
Pope.


word: Countess
definition:
Countess

Count"ess
(kount"?s)
n.
pl. Countesses (-_;s).
[F.  comtesse.  See Count a nobleman.]
The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count.


word: Countingroom
definition:
Countingroom

Countinghouse

{ Count"ing*house` (kount"?ng-hous`), Count"ing*room` (kount"?ng-r??m`), }
n.
[See Count, v.]
The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business; the offices used by the accountants of a business.


word: Countor
definition:
Countor

Count"or
(kount"?r)
n.
[From Count, v. t. (in sense 4).]
(O. Eng. Law)
An advocate or professional pleader; one who counted for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause.
[Obs.]
Burrill.


word: Countourhouse
definition:
Countourhouse

Countour

{ Coun*tour" (k??n-t??r"), Coun*tour"house` (-hous`), }
n.
[See 2d Counter.]
A merchant's office; a countinghouse.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Countreplete
definition:
Countreplete

Coun`tre*plete"
(-pl?t")
v. t.
[Countre- + plete to plead.]
To counterplead.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Countretaille
definition:
Countretaille

Coun"tre*taille`
(koun"t?r-t?l`)
n.
[F. contretaille; contre (L. contra) +  taille cut. See Tally.]
A counter tally; correspondence (in sound).
[Obs.]

At the countretaille, in return. Chaucer.


word: Countrified
definition:
Countrified

Coun"tri*fied
(kŭn"trĭ*fīd)
p. a.
[Also spelled countryfied.]
Having the appearance and manners of a rustic; rude; as, countrified clothes.

As being one who took no pride,
And was a deal too countrified.
Lloyd.

2.
rendered in a manner resembling rural style; as, countrified rock music.

3.
unsophisticated.


word: Countrify
definition:
Countrify

Coun"tri*fy
(k?n"tr?-f?)
v. t.
To give a rural appearance to; to cause to appear rustic.
Lamb.


word: Country
definition:
Country

Coun"try
(k?n"tr?)
n.
pl. Countries (-tr_;z).
[F. contrée, LL. contrata, fr. L.  contra over against, on the opposite side. Cf. Counter, adv., Contra.]
1.
A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.

Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred.
Gen. xxxxii. 9.

I might have learned this by my last exile,
that change of countries cannot change my state.
Stirling.

Many a famous realm
And country, whereof here needs no account
Milton.

2.
Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.

As they walked, on their way into the country.
Mark xvi. 12 (Rev. Ver. ).

God made the covatry, and man made the town.
Cowper.

Only very great men were in the habit of dividing the year between town and country.
Macaulay.

3.
The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country.

All the country in a general voice
Cried hate upon him.
Shak.

4.
(Law)
(a)
A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.
(b)
The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.

5.
(Mining.)
The rock through which a vein runs.

Conclusion to the country. See under Conclusion. -- To put one's self upon the country, or To throw one's self upon the country, to appeal to one's constituents; to stand trial before a jury.


word: Country₂
definition:
Country

Coun"try
a.
1.
Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.

2.
Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.

3.
Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.

She, bowing herself towards him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language.
2 Macc. vii. 27.


word: Country club
definition:
Country club

Coun"try club
A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports, and usually having an attached golf course.


word: Country cousin
definition:
Country cousin

Coun"try cousin
A relative from the country visiting the city and unfamiliar with city manners and sights.


word: Country-dance
definition:
Country-dance

Coun"try-dance`
(-d?ns`)
n.
[Prob. an adaptation of contradance.]
See Contradance.

He had introduced the English country-dance to the knowledge of the Dutch ladies.
Macaulay.


word: Countryman
definition:
Countryman

Coun"try*man
(kŭn"trĭ-man)
n.
pl. Countrymen (-men).
1.
An inhabitant or native of a region.
Shak.

2.
One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun.

In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen.
2 Cor. xi. 26.

3.
One who dwells in the country, as distinguished from a townsman or an inhabitant of a city; a rustic; a husbandman or farmer.

A simple countryman that brought her figs.
Shak.


word: Country seat
definition:
Country seat

Coun"try seat`
(k?n"tr? s?t`)
A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.


word: Countryside
definition:
Countryside

Coun"try*side`
(-s?d`)
n.
A particular rural district; a country neighborhood.
[Eng.]
W. Black. Blackmore.


word: country-style
definition:
country-style

country-style
adj.
of a style associated with rural areas; as, country-style sausage.

Syn. -- country(prenominal).


word: Countrywoman
definition:
Countrywoman

Coun"try*wom`an
(-w??m`an)
n.
pl. Countrywomen (-w_;m`_;n).
A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant.
Shak.


word: Count-wheel
definition:
Count-wheel

Count"-wheel`
(kount"hw?l`)
n.
The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.


word: countrywide
definition:
countrywide

countrywide
adj.
extending throughout a country or nation as a whole; as, a countrywide fund-raising campaign.

Syn. -- nationwide.


word: County
definition:
County

Coun"ty
(koun"t&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Counties (-tĭz).
[F. comté, fr. LL.  comitatus. See Count.]
1.
An earldom; the domain of a count or earl.
[Obs.]

2.
A circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs; -- called also a shire. See Shire.

Every county, every town, every family, was in agitation.
Macaulay.

3.
A count; an earl or lord.
[Obs.]
Shak.

County commissioners. See Commissioner. -- County corporate, a city or town having the privilege to be a county by itself, and to be governed by its own sheriffs and other magistrates, irrespective of the officers of the county in which it is situated; as London, York, Bristol, etc. [Eng.] Mozley & W. -- County court, a court whose jurisdiction is limited to county. -- County palatine, a county distinguished by particular privileges; -- so called a palatio (from the palace), because the owner had originally royal powers, or the same powers, in the administration of justice, as the king had in his palace; but these powers are now abridged. The counties palatine, in England, are Lancaster, Chester, and Durham. -- County rates, rates levied upon the county, and collected by the boards of guardians, for the purpose of defraying the expenses to which counties are liable, such as repairing bridges, jails, etc. [Eng.] -- County seat, a county town. [U.S.] -- County sessions, the general quarter sessions of the peace for each county, held four times a year. [Eng.] -- County town, the town of a county, where the county business is transacted; a shire town.


word: countywide
definition:
countywide

countywide
adj.
including or occurring in all parts of a county; as, a countywide war on drugs; countywide elections.


word: Coup
definition:
Coup

Coup
(kō)
n.
[F., fr.L.  colaphus a cuff, Gr. ko`lafos.]
1.
A sudden stroke delivered with promptness and force; -- used also in various ways to convey the idea of an unexpected, clever, and successful tactic or stratagem.

2.
A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal at rouge et noir.
[Cant]

3.
Among some tribes of North American Indians especially of the Great Plains, the act of striking or touching an enemy in warfare with the hand or at close quarters, as with a short stick, in such a manner as by custom to entitle the doer to count the deed an act of bravery; hence, any of various other deeds recognized by custom as acts of bravery or honor.
While the coup was primarily, and usually, a blow with something held in the hand, other acts in warfare which involved great danger to him who performed them were also reckoned coups by some tribes.
G. B. Grinnell.
Among the Blackfeet the capture of a shield, bow, gun, war bonnet, war shirt, or medicine pipe was deemed a coup.
G. B. Grinnell.

Coup de grace (kō` de grȧs") [F.], the stroke of mercy with which an executioner ends by death the sufferings of the condemned; hence, a decisive, finishing stroke. -- Coup de main (kō` de măN") [F.] (Mil.), a sudden and unexpected movement or attack. -- Coup de soleil (k&omacr` de so̝*la̝l or -la̝"y') [F.] (Med.), a sunstroke. See Sunstroke. -- Coup d'état (kō" da̝*tä") [F.] (Politics), a sudden, decisive exercise of power whereby the existing government is subverted without the consent of the people; an unexpected measure of state, more or less violent; a stroke of policy. -- Coup d'œil (kō` dẽl"). [F.] (a) A single view; a rapid glance of the eye; a comprehensive view of a scene; as much as can be seen at one view. (b) The general effect of a picture. (c) (Mil.) The faculty or the act of comprehending at a glance the weakness or strength of a military position, of a certain arrangement of troops, the most advantageous position for a battlefield, etc.


word: Coup₂
definition:
Coup

Coup
v. i.
To make a coup.
Woe to the Sioux if the Northern Cheyennes get a chance to coup !
F. Remington.


word: Coupe
definition:
Coupe

Cou`pé"
(kō`pa̝")
n.
[F., fr.  coupé, p. p. of couper to cut. See Coppice.]
1.
The front compartment of a French diligence; also, the front compartment (usually for three persons) of a car or carriage on British railways.

2.
A four-wheeled enclosed carriage for two persons inside, with an outside seat for the driver; -- so called because giving the appearance of a larger carriage cut off.

3.
a two-door automobile with front seats and a luggage compartment.


word: Couped
definition:
Couped

Couped
(kōpt)
a.
[F.  couper to cut.]
(Her.)
Cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased; -- used especially for the head or limb of an animal. See Erased.


word: Coupee
definition:
Coupee

Cou*pee"
(kō*pē"; F. kō`pa̝")
n.
[F. coupé, n., properly p. p. of couper to cut. Cf. Coupé, Coopee.]
A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent, and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made.
Chambers.


word: Coupe-gorge
definition:
Coupe-gorge

Coupe`-gorge"
(kōp`gôrzh")
n.
[F., cut throat.]
(Mil.)
Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces.
Farrow.


word: Couple
definition:
Couple

Cou"ple
(kŭp"'l)
n.
[F. couple, fr. L. copula a bond, band; co- + apere, aptum, to join. See Art, a., and cf. Copula.]
1.
That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
[Obs.]

It is in some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples; they should be of the same size and humor.
L'Estrange.

I'll go in couples with her.
Shak.

2.
Two of the same kind connected or considered together; a pair; a brace.
couple
Sir P. Sidney.
couple
Addison.
couple
Dickens.
couple
Carlyle.

Adding one to one we have the complex idea of a couple.
Locke.

[Ziba] met him with a couple of asses saddled.
2 Sam. xvi. 1.

3.
A male and female associated together; esp., a man and woman who are married or betrothed.

Such were our couple, man and wife.
Lloyd.

Fair couple linked in happy, nuptial league.
Milton.

4.
(Arch.)
See Couple-close.

5.
(Elec.)
One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; -- called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.

6.
(Mech.)
Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes.

&hand_; The effect of a couple of forces is to produce a rotation. A couple of rotations is equivalent to a motion of translation.


word: Couple₂
definition:
Couple

Cou"ple
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Coupled (kŭp"'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Coupling (kŭp"lĭng).]
[F. coupler, fr. L.  copulare. See Couple, n., and cf. Copulate, Cobble, v.]

1.
To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join.

Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds, . . . 
And couple Clowder with the deep-mouthed brach.
Shak.

2.
To join in wedlock; to marry.
[Colloq.]

A parson who couples all our beggars.
Swift.


word: Couple-beggar
definition:
Couple-beggar

Cou"ple-beg`gar
(-b?g`g?r)
n.
One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other.
Swift.


word: Couple-close
definition:
Couple-close

Cou"ple-close`
(kŭp"'l*kl&omacrs`)
n.
pl. Couple-closes (kŭp"'l*kl&omacr"sĕz).
1.
(Her.)
A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the  blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised.

2.
(Arch.)
A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam.
[Engl.]


word: coupled
definition:
coupled

coupled
adj.
1.
joined together especially in a pair or pairs.

Syn. -- conjugate, conjugated.

2.
connected by a physical link, as railway cars or trailer trucks.  Opposite of unconnected or unlinked

Syn. -- joined, linked.


word: Couplement
definition:
Couplement

Cou"ple*ment
(k?p"'l-ment)
n.
[Cf. OF.  couplement.]
Union; combination; a coupling; a pair.
[Obs.]
Shak.

And forth together rode, a goodly couplement.
Spenser.


word: Coupler
definition:
Coupler

Coup"ler
(k?p"l?r)
n.
One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars.

Coupler of an organ, a contrivance by which any two or more of the ranks of keys, or keys and pedals, are connected so as to act together when the organ is played.


word: Couplet
definition:
Couplet

Coup"let
(-l?t)
n.
[F.  couplet, dim. of couple.  See Couple, n. ]
Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.

A sudden couplet rushes on your mind.
Crabbe.


word: Coupling
definition:
Coupling

Coup"ling
(-l?ng)
n.
1.
The act of bringing or coming together; connection; sexual union.

2.
(Mach.)
A device or contrivance which serves to couple or connect adjacent parts or objects; as, a belt coupling, which connects the ends of a belt; a car coupling, which connects the cars in a train; a shaft coupling, which connects the ends of shafts.

Box coupling, Chain coupling. See under Box, Chain. -- Coupling box, a coupling shaped like a journal box, for clamping together the ends of two shafts, so that they may revolve together. -- Coupling pin, a pin or bolt used in coupling or joining together railroad cars, etc.


word: Coupon
definition:
Coupon

Cou"pon
(k??"p?n; F. k??`p?n")
n.
[F., fr.  couper to cut, cut off. See Coppice.]
1.
(Com.)
A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.

2.
A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.

3.
a ticket or form allowing the bearer to purchase a specific quantity of rationed goods; -- such coupons are typically issued by a governmental agency.

4.
a printed form, often distributed as part of an advertisement, entitling the bearer to purchase a specific item of merchandise at a discount; or, a similar form which may be submitted to the issuer to obtain goods or information.  Such coupons may be issued by the manufacturer (manufacturer's coupon) or by a retail establishment; in the latter case they may then be redeemed only at that particular retail store.


word: Coupstick
definition:
Coupstick

Coup"stick`
(kō"stĭk`)
n.
[Coup + stick.]
A stick or switch used among some American Indians in making or counting a coup.


word: Coupure
definition:
Coupure

Cou*pure"
(k??-p?r")
n.
[F., fr. couper to cut.]
(Fort.)
A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged.
Wilhelm.


word: Courage
definition:
Courage

Cour"age
(kŭr"a̝j; 48)
n.
[OE.  corage heart, mind, will, courage, OF. corage, F.  courage, fr. a LL. derivative of L. cor heart. See Heart.]
1.
The heart; spirit; temper; disposition.
[Obs.]

So priketh hem nature in here corages.
Chaucer.

My lord, cheer up your spirits; our foes are nigh,
and this soft courage makes your followers faint.
Shak.

2.
Heart; inclination; desire; will.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

I'd such a courage to do him good.
Shak.

3.
That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution.

The king-becoming graces . . . 
Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
I have no relish of them.
Shak.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it.
Addison.


word: Courage₂
definition:
Courage

Cour"age
v. t.
To inspire with courage; to encourage.
[Obs.]

Paul writeth unto Timothy . . . to courage him.
Tyndale.


word: Courageous
definition:
Courageous

Cour*a"geous
(k?r-?"j?s)
a.
[F. courageux.]
Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold.

With this victory, the women became most courageous and proud, and the men waxed . . . fearful and desperate.
Stow.


word: Courant
definition:
Courant

Cou*rant"
(k??-r?nt")
a.
[F., p. pr. of courir to run, L.  currere. Cf. Current.]
(Her.)
Represented as running; -- said of a beast borne in a coat of arms.


word: Courant₂
definition:
Courant

Cou*rant"
(k??-r?nt")
n.
[F.  courante, fr.  courant, p. pr.]
1.
A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto.

2.
A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper.


word: Courap
definition:
Courap

Cou*rap"
(k??-r?p)
n.
(Med.)
A skin disease, common in India, in which there is perpetual itching and eruption, esp. of the groin, breast, armpits, and face.


word: Courb
definition:
Courb

Courb
(k??rb)
a.
[F.  courbe, fr. L.  curvus. See Curve, a.]
Curved; rounded.
[Obs.]

Her neck is short, her shoulders courb.
Gower.


word: Courb₂
definition:
Courb

Courb
(k??rb)
v. i.
[F.  courber. See Curs.]
To bend; to stop; to bow.
[Obs.]

Then I courbed on my knees.
Piers Plowman.


word: Courche
definition:
Courche

Courche
(k??rsh)
n.
[Cf. Kerchief.]
A square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of a cap; a kerchief.
[Scot.]
[Written also curch.]
Jamieson.


word: courgette
definition:
courgette

courgette
n.
1.
a marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small; -- called also zucchini.
[Chiefly Brit.]

Syn. -- zucchini.

2.
a small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green; -- called also zucchini.
[Chiefly Brit.]

Syn. -- zucchini.


word: Courier
definition:
Courier

Cou"ri*er
(k??"r?-?r)
n.
[F. courrier, fr. courre, courir, to run, L.  currere. See Course, Current.]
1.
A messenger sent with haste to convey letters or dispatches, usually on public business.

The wary Bassa . . . by speedy couriers, advertised Solyman of the enemy's purpose.
Knolles.

2.
An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way.


word: Courlan
definition:
Courlan

Cour"lan
(k??r"l?n)
n.
(Zool.)
A South American bird, of the genus Aramus, allied to the rails.


word: Course
definition:
Course

Course
(k&omacrrs)
n.
[F. cours, course, L.  cursus, fr. currere to run. See Current.]
1.
The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais.
Acts xxi. 7.

2.
The ground or path traversed; track; way.

The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
Pennant.

3.
Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.

A light by which the Argive squadron steers
Their silent course to Ilium's well known shore.
Dennham.

Westward the course of empire takes its way.
Berkeley.

4.
Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race.

5.
Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.

The course of true love never did run smooth.
Shak.

6.
Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.

By course of nature and of law.
Davies.

Day and night,
Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost,
Shall hold their course.
Milton.

7.
Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.

My lord of York commends the plot and the general course of the action.
Shak.

By perseverance in the course prescribed.
Wodsworth.

You hold your course without remorse.
Tennyson.

8.
A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.

9.
The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.

He appointed . . . the courses of the priests
2 Chron. viii. 14.

10.
That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.

He [Goldsmith] wore fine clothes, gave dinners of several courses, paid court to venal beauties.
Macaulay.

11.
(Arch.)
A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
Gwilt.

12.
(Naut.)
The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.

13.
pl.
(Physiol.)
The menses.

In course, in regular succession. -- Of course, by consequence; as a matter of course; in regular or natural order. -- In the course of, at same time or times during. “In the course of human events.”  T. Jefferson.


word: Course₂
definition:
Course

Course
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Coursed (k?rst)); p. pr. & vb. n. Coursing.]
1.
To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.

We coursed him at the heels.
Shak.

2.
To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.

3.
To run through or over.

The bounding steed courses the dusty plain.
Pope.


word: Course₃
definition:
Course

Course
v. i.
1.
To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.

2.
To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.
Shak.


word: Coursed
definition:
Coursed

Coursed
(k?rst)
a.
1.
Hunted; as, a coursed hare.

2.
Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.


word: Courser
definition:
Courser

Cours"er
(k?rs"?r)
n.
[F.  coursier.]
1.
One who courses or hunts.

 leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a courser leads his greyhound.
Hanmer.

2.
A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger.
[Poetic.]
Pope.

3.
(Zool.)
A grallatorial bird of Europe (Cursorius cursor), remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running birds of the Ostrich family.


word: Coursey
definition:
Coursey

Cour"sey
(k?r"s?)
n.
[Cf. OF.  corsie, coursie, passage way to the stern. See Course, n. ]
(Naut.)
A space in the galley; a part of the hatches.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.


word: Coursing
definition:
Coursing

Cours"ing
(k?rs"?ng)
n.
The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent.

In coursing of a deer, or hart, with greyhounds.
Bacon


word: Court
definition:
Court

Court
(k&omacrrt)
n.
[OF.  court, curt, cort, F. cour, LL.  cortis, fr. L.  cohors, cors, chors, gen.  cohortis, cortis, chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to Gr. chorto`s inclosure, feeding place, and to E.  garden, yard, orchard. See Yard, and cf. Cohort, Curtain.]
1.
An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.

The courts of the house of our God.
Ps. cxxxv. 2.

And round the cool green courts there ran a row
Of cloisters.
Tennyson.

Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court.
Macaulay.

2.
The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace.

Attends the emperor in his royal court.
Shak.

This our court, infected with their manners,
Shows like a riotous inn.
Shak.

3.
The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.

My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you.
Shak.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove.
Sir. W. Scott.

4.
Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court.

The princesses held their court within the fortress.
Macaulay.

5.
Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.

No solace could her paramour intreat
Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance.
Spenser.

I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle.
Evelyn.

6.
(Law)
(a)
The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
(b)
The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.
(c)
A tribunal established for the administration of justice.
(d)
The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.

Most heartily I do beseech the court
To give the judgment.
Shak.

7.
The session of a judicial assembly.

8.
Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.

9.
A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.

Christian court, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. -- Court breeding, education acquired at court. -- Court card. Same as Coat card. -- Court circular, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] Edwards. -- Court of claims (Law), a court for settling claims against a state or government; specif., a court of the United States, created by act of Congress, and holding its sessions at Washington. It is given jurisdiction over claims on contracts against the government, and sometimes may advise the government as to its liabilities. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] -- Court day, a day on which a court sits to administer justice. -- Court dress, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. -- Court fool, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. -- Court guide, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. -- Court hand, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. Shak. -- Court lands (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. -- Court marshal, one who acts as marshal for a court. -- Court party, a party attached to the court. -- Court rolls, the records of a court. SeeRoll. -- Court in banc, or Court in bank, The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius. -- Court of Arches, audience, etc. See under Arches, Audience, etc. -- Court of Chancery. See Chancery, n. -- Court of Common pleas. (Law) See Common pleas, under Common. -- Court of Equity. See under Equity, and Chancery. -- Court of Inquiry (Mil.) , a court appointed to inquire into and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer. -- Court of St. James, the usual designation of the British Court; -- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. -- The court of the Lord, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. -- General Court, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] -- To pay one's court, to seek to gain favor by attentions. “Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his court to Tissaphernes.” Jowett. -- To put out of court, to refuse further judicial hearing.


word: Court₂
definition:
Court

Court
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Courted; p. pr. & vb. n. Courting.]
1.
To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.

By one person, hovever, Portland was still assiduously courted.
Macaulay.

2.
To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.

If either of you both love Katharina . . . 
Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.
Shak.

3.
To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.

They might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdom.
Prescott.

Guilt and misery . . . court privacy and solitude.
De Quincey.

4.
To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

A well-worn pathway courted us
To one green wicket in a privet hedge.
Tennyson.


word: Court-baron
definition:
Court-baron

Court"-bar`on
(-b?r`?n)
n.
(Law)
An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse.


word: Court-cupboard
definition:
Court-cupboard

Court"-cup`board
(-k?b`b?rd)
n.
A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions.
[Obs.]

A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate.
Shak.


word: Courteous
definition:
Courteous

Cour"te*ous
(k?r"t?-?s; 277)
a.
[OE.  cortais, corteis, cortois, rarely corteous, OF. corties, corteis, F. courtois. See Court.]
Of courtlike manners; pertaining to, or expressive of, courtesy; characterized by courtesy; civil; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant.

A patient and courteous bearing.
Prescott.

His behavior toward his people is grave and courteous.
Fuller.


word: Courtepy
definition:
Courtepy

Cour"te*py
(k??r"t?-p?)
n.
[D.  kort short + pije a coarse cloth.]
A short coat of coarse cloth.
[Obs.]

Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy.
Chaucer.


word: Courter
definition:
Courter

Court"er
(k?rt"?r)
n.
One who courts; one who plays the lover, or who solicits in marriage; one who flatters and cajoles.
Sherwood.


word: Courtesan
definition:
Courtesan

Cour"te*san
(k?r"t?-z?n; 277)
n.
[F.  courtisane, fr. courtisan courtier, It.  cortigiano; or directly fr. It.  cortigiana, or Sp.  cortesana. See Court.]
A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.

Lasciviously decked like a courtesan.
Sir H. Wotton.


word: Courtesy
definition:
Courtesy

Cour"te*sy
(k?r"t?-s?)
n.
pl. Courtesies (-s_;z).
[OE. cortaisie, corteisie, courtesie, OF.  curteisie, cortoisie, OF. curteisie, cortoisie, F. courtoisie, fr.  curteis, corteis.  See Courteous.]
1.
Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness.

And trust thy honest-offered courtesy,
With oft is sooner found in lowly sheds,
With smoky rafters, than in tapestry walls
And courts of princes, where it first was named,
And yet is most pretended.
Milton.

Pardon me, Messer Claudio, if once more
I use the ancient courtesies of speech.
Longfellow.

2.
An act of civility or respect; an act of kindness or favor performed with politeness.

My lord, for your many courtesies I thank you.
Shak.

3.
Favor or indulgence, as distinguished from right; as, a title given one by courtesy.

Courtesy title, a title assumed by a person, or popularly conceded to him, to which he has no valid claim; as, the courtesy title of Lord prefixed to the names of the younger sons of noblemen.


word: Courtesy₂
definition:
Courtesy

Courte"sy
(kûrt"s&ybreve_;)
n.
[See the preceding word.]
An act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the knees.
[Written also curtsy and curtsey.]

The lady drops a courtesy in token of obedience, and the ceremony proceeds as usual.
Golgsmith.


word: Courtesy₃
definition:
Courtesy

Courte"sy
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Courtesied (-sĭd); p. pr. & vb. n. Courtesying.]
To make a respectful salutation or movement of respect; esp. (with reference to women), to bow the body slightly, with bending of the knes.


word: Courthouse
definition:
Courthouse

Court"house`
(k&omacrrt"hous`)
n.
1.
A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings.
[U.S.]

2.
A county town; -- so called in Virginia and some others of the Southern States.

Providence, the county town of Fairfax, is unknown by that name, and passes as Fairfax Court House.
Barlett.


word: Courtier
definition:
Courtier

Court"ier
(k&omacrrt"yẽr)
n.
[From Court.]
1.
One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court.

You know I am no courtier, nor versed in state affairs.
Bacon.

This courtier got a frigate, and that a company.
Macaulay.

2.
One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters.

There was not among all our princes a greater courtier of the people than Richard III.
Suckling.


word: Court-leet
definition:
Court-leet

Court"-leet`
(-l?t`)
n.
(Eng. Law)
A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet.
Blackstone.


word: Courtliness
definition:
Courtliness

Court"li*ness
(-l?-n?s)
n.
[From Courtly.]
The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners.


word: Courtly
definition:
Courtly

Court"ly
(-l?)
a.
[From Court.]
1.
Relating or belonging to a court.

2.
Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering.

In courtly company or at my beads.
Shak.

3.
Disposed to favor the great; favoring the policy or party of the court; obsequious.
Macaulay.


word: Courtly₂
definition:
Courtly

Court"ly
adv.
In the manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly.

They can produce nothing so courtly writ.
Dryden


word: Court-martial
definition:
Court-martial

Court`-mar"tial
(k?rt`m?r"shal)
n.
pl. Courts-martial (k_;rts`-).
A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.


word: Court-martial₂
definition:
Court-martial

Court`-mar"tial
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Court-martialed (-shald); p. pr. & vb. n. Court-martialing.]
To subject to trial by a court-martial.


word: Court-plaster
definition:
Court-plaster

Court"-plas`ter
(k?rt"pl?s`t?r)
n.
Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.


word: Courtship
definition:
Courtship

Court"ship
(k?rt"sh?p)
n.
1.
The act of paying court, with the intent to solicit a favor.
Swift.

2.
The act of wooing in love; solicitation of woman to marriage.

This method of courtship, [by which] both sides are prepared for all the matrimonial adventures that are to follow.
Goldsmith.

3.
Courtliness; elegance of manners; courtesy.
[Obs.]

Trim gallants, full of courtship and of state.
Shak.

4.
Court policy; the character of a courtier; artifice of a court; court-craft; finesse.
[Obs.]

She [the Queen] being composed of courtship and Popery.
Fuller.


word: Couscous
definition:
Couscous

Cous"cous`
(k??s"k??s`)
n.
A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called also lalo.


word: Cousin
definition:
Cousin

Cous"in
(kŭz"'n)
n.
[F. cousin, LL. cosinus, cusinus, contr. from L.  consobrinus the child of a mother's sister, cousin; con- + sobrinus a cousin by the mother's side, a form derived fr. soror (for sosor) sister. See Sister, and cf. Cozen, Coz.]
1.
One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.

&hand_; The children of brothers and sisters are usually denominated first cousins, or cousins-german. In the second generation, they are called second cousins. See Cater-cousin, and Quater-cousin.

Thou art, great lord, my father's sister's son,
A cousin-german to great Priam's seed.
Shak.

2.
A title formerly given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl.

My noble lords and cousins, all, good morrow.
Shak.


word: Cousinage
definition:
Cousinage

Cous"in*age
(-?j)
n.
[F.  cousinage, OF., also, cosinage. Cf. Cosinage, Cozenage.]
Relationship; kinship.
[Obs.]
Wyclif.


word: Cousin-german
definition:
Cousin-german

Cous"in-ger"man
(-j?r"man)
n.
[Cousin + german closely akin.]
A first cousin. See Note under Cousin, 1.


word: Cousinhood
definition:
Cousinhood

Cous"in*hood
(-h??d)
n.
The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.


word: Cousinry
definition:
Cousinry

Cous"in*ry
(k?z"'n-r?)
n.
A body or collection of cousins; the whole number of persons who stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or persons.


word: Cousinship
definition:
Cousinship

Cous"in*ship
n.
The relationship of cousins; state of being cousins; cousinhood.
G. Eliot.


word: Coussinet
definition:
Coussinet

Cous"si*net`
(k??s"s?-n?t`)
n.
[F., dim. of coussin cushion. See Cushionet.]
(Arch.)
(a)
A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch.
(b)
That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute.
Gwilt.


word: Couth
definition:
Couth

Couth
(k??th)
imp. & p. p.
of Can
[See Can, and cf. Uncouth.]
Could; was able; knew or known; understood.
[Obs.]

Above all other one Daniel
He loveth, for he couth well
Divine, that none other couth;
To him were all things couth,
As he had it of God's grace.
Gower.


word: couturier
definition:
couturier

couturier
n.
someone who designs clothing.

Syn. -- fashion designer, clothes designer, designer.


word: Couvade
definition:
Couvade

Cou`vade"
(kō`vȧd")
n.
[F., fr. couver. See Covey.]
A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.

The world-wide custom of the couvade, where at childbirth the husband undergoes medical treatment, in many cases being put to bed for days.
Tylor.


word: Couveuse
definition:
Couveuse

Cou`veuse"
(?)
n.
[F.]
(Med.)
An incubator for sickly infants, esp. those prematurely born.


word: covariance
definition:
covariance

covariance
n.
a statistical measure of the relationship of two variables, formed by multiplying the difference of each variable from its mean, both variables being measured at the same time, and averaging all such products.


word: Covariant
definition:
Covariant

Co*va"ri*ant
(k?-v?"r?-ant)
n.
(Higher Alg.)
A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.


word: Cove
definition:
Cove

Cove
(k&omacrv)
n.
[AS.  cofa room; akin to G.  koben pigsty, orig., hut, Icel. kofi hut, and perh. to E. cobalt.]

1.
A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.

Vessels which were in readiness for him within secret coves and nooks.
Holland.

2.
A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
[U.S.]

3.
(Arch.)
(a)
A concave molding.
(b)
A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.


word: Cove₂
definition:
Cove

Cove
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Coved (k?vd); p. pr. & vb. n. Coving.]
(Arch.)
To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.

The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs.
H. Swinburne.

Coved ceiling, a ceiling, the part of which next the wail is constructed in a cove. -- Coved vault, a vault composed of four coves meeting in a central point, and therefore the reverse of a groined vault.


word: Cove₃
definition:
Cove

Cove
v. t.
[CF. F.  couver, It. covare. See Covey.]
To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
[Obs.]

Not being able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she [the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel.
Holland.


word: Cove₄
definition:
Cove

Cove
n.
[A gypsy word, covo that man, covi that woman.]
A boy or man of any age or station.
[Slang]

There's a gentry cove here.
Wit's Recreations (1654).

Now, look to it, coves, that all the beef and drink
Be not filched from us.
Mrs. Browning.


word: Covellite
definition:
Covellite

Covelline

{ Co*vel"line (k?-v?l"l?n), Co*vel"lite  }
(-l?t)
n.
[After Covelli, the discoverer.]
(Min.)
A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.


word: Covenable
definition:
Covenable

Cov"e*na*ble
(k?v"?-n?-b'l)
a.
[OF. covenable, F.  convenable. See Covenant.]
Fit; proper; suitable.
[Obs.]
covenable
Wyclif (Mark vi. 21).


word: Covenant
definition:
Covenant

Cov"e*nant
(k?v"?-nant)
n.
[OF. covenant, fr. F. & OF. convenir to agree, L. convenire. See Convene.]

1.
A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement.

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant.
1 Sam. xviiii. 3.

Let there be covenants drawn between us.
Shak.

If we conclude a peace,
It shall be with such strict and severe covenants
As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby.
Shak.

2.
(Eccl. Hist.)
An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the “Solemn League and Covenant.”

He [Wharton] was born in the days of the Covenant, and was the heir of a covenanted house.
Macaulay.

3.
(Theol.)
The promises of God as revealed in the Scriptures, conditioned on certain terms on the part of man, as obedience, repentance, faith, etc.

I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Gen. xvii. 7.

4.
A solemn compact between members of a church to maintain its faith, discipline, etc.

5.
(Law)
(a)
An undertaking, on sufficient consideration, in writing and under seal, to do or to refrain from some act or thing; a contract; a stipulation; also, the document or writing containing the terms of agreement.
(b)
A form of action for the violation of a promise or contract under seal.


word: Covenant₂
definition:
Covenant

Cov"e*nant
(k?v"?-n?nt)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Covenanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Covenanting.]
To agree (with); to enter into a formal agreement; to bind one's self by contract; to make a stipulation.

Jupiter covenanted with him, that it should be hot or cold, wet or dry, . . . as the tenant should direct.
L'Estrange.

And they covenanted with him for thyrty pieces of silver.
Matt. xxvi. 15.


word: Covenant₃
definition:
Covenant

Cov"e*nant
v. t.
To grant or promise by covenant.

My covenant of peace that I covenanted with you.
Wyclif.


word: Covenanter
definition:
Covenanter

Cov"e*nant*er
(k?v"?-n?nt-?r)
n.
1.
One who makes a covenant.

2.
(Eccl. Hist.)
One who subscribed and defended the “Solemn League and Covenant.” See Covenant.


word: Covenanting
definition:
Covenanting

Cov"e*nant*ing
a.
Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters.

Be they covenanting traitors,
Or the brood of false Argyle?
Aytoun.


word: Covent
definition:
Covent

Cov"ent
(k?v"ent)
n.
[OF. covent, F. couvent. See Convent.]
A convent or monastery.
[Obs.]
Bale.

Covent Garden, a large square in London, so called because originally it was the garden of a monastery.


word: Coventry
definition:
Coventry

Cov"en*try
(k?v"en-tr?)
n.
A town in the county of Warwick, England.

To send to Coventry, to exclude from society; to shut out from social intercourse, as for ungentlemanly conduct. -- Coventry blue, blue thread of a superior dye, made at Coventry, England, and used for embroidery.


word: Cover
definition:
Cover

Cov"er
(k?v"?r)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Covered (-?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Covering.]
[OF.  covrir, F.  couvrir, fr. L.  cooperire; co-  +  operire to cover; probably fr.  ob towards, over + the root appearing in aperire to open. Cf. Aperient, Overt, Curfew.]
1.
To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

2.
To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak.

And with the majesty of darkness round
Covers his throne.
Milton.

All that beauty than doth cover thee.
Shak.

3.
To invest (one's self with something); to bring upon (one's self); as, he covered himself with glory.

The powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland.
Brougham.

4.
To hide sight; to conceal; to cloak; as, the enemy were covered from our sight by the woods.

A cloud covered the mount.
Exod. xxiv. 15.

In vain shou striv'st to cover shame with shame.
Milton.

5.
To brood or sit on; to incubate.

While the hen is covering her eggs, the male . . . diverts her with his songs.
Addison.

6.

The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen.
Ex. xiv. 28.

7.
To shelter, as from evil or danger; to protect; to defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat.

His calm and blameless life
Does with substantial blessedness abound,
And the soft wings of peace cover him round.
Cowley.

8.
To remove from remembrance; to put away; to remit.
covered
Ps. xxxii. 1.

9.
To extend over; to be sufficient for; to comprehend, include, or embrace; to account for or solve; to counterbalance; as, a mortgage which fully covers a sum loaned on it; a law which covers all possible cases of a crime; receipts than do not cover expenses.

10.
To put the usual covering or headdress on.

Cover thy head . . . ; nay, prithee, be covered.
Shak.

11.
To copulate with (a female); to serve; as, a horse covers a mare; -- said of the male.

To cover ground or To cover distance, to pass over; as, the rider covered the ground in an hour. -- To cover one's short contracts (Stock Exchange), to buy stock when the market rises, as a dealer who has sold short does in order to protect himself. -- Covering party (Mil.), a detachment of troops sent for the protection of another detachment, as of men working in the trenches. -- To cover into, to transfer to; as, to cover into the treasury.


word: Cover₂
definition:
Cover

Cov"er
(k?v"?r)
n.
1.
Anything which is laid, set, or spread, upon, about, or over, another thing; an envelope; a lid; as, the cover of a book.

2.
Anything which veils or conceals; a screen; disguise; a cloak.
cover
 Macaulay.

A handsome cover for imperfections.
Collier.

3.
Shelter; protection; as, the troops fought under cover of the batteries; the woods afforded a good cover.

Being compelled to lodge in the field . . . whilst his army was under cover, they might be forced to retire.
Clarendon.

4.
(Hunting)
The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover.

5.
Knight.

6.
(Steam Engine)
The lap of a slide valve.

7.
[Cf. F. couvert.]
A tablecloth, and the other table furniture; esp., the table furniture for the use of one person at a meal; as, covers were laid for fifty guests.

To break cover, to start from a covert or lair; -- said of game. -- Under cover, in an envelope, or within a letter; -- said of a written message.

Letters . . . dispatched under cover to her ladyship.
Thackeray.


word: Coverage
definition:
Coverage

Cov"er*age
(?)
n.
1.
the range of items covered.  Coverage may be small (narrow coverage}, or large (broad coverage or wide coverage).

2.
The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance.

3.
the state of being insured; insurance.

4.
the areas reached by a radio transmission signal, or group of people reached by a communications medium, such as television or a newspaper.

5.
the range of topics treated in a discourse or document, or the depth to which a subject is discussed; as, a news program may have extensive coverage of an event.
coverage

6.
the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio of television; as, they accused the paper of biased coverage of race relations.

Syn. -- reporting, reportage.


word: coverall
definition:
coverall

coverall
n.
a loose-fitting one-piece garment that is worn over other clothing, especially one with trouser-like pants legs.


word: Covercle
definition:
Covercle

Cov"er*cle
(k?v"?r-k'l)
n.
[OF. covercle, F. couvercle, fr. L. cooperculum fr. cooperire. See cover]
A small cover; a lid.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Cover crop
definition:
Cover crop

Cov"er crop
A catch crop planted, esp. in orchards. as a protection to the soil in winter, as well as for the benefit of the soil when plowed under in spring.


word: Covered
definition:
Covered

Cov"ered
(k?v"?rd)
a.
Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden.

Covered way (Fort.), a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrison an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. See Illust.  of Ravelin.


word: Covering
definition:
Covering

Cov"er*ing
n.
Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc.

Noah removed the covering of the ark.
Gen. viii. 13.

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
Job. xxiv. 7.

A covering over the well's mouth.
2 Sam. xvii. 19.


word: Coverlet
definition:
Coverlet

Cov"er*let
(k?v"?r-l?t)
n.
[F.  couvre-lit; couvrir to cover + lit bed, fr. L. lectus bed. See Cover.]
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture.

Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . 
And odored sheets and arras coverlets.
Spenser.


word: Cover-point
definition:
Cover-point

Cov"er-point`
(-point!)
n.
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports “point.”


word: Coversed sine
definition:
Coversed sine

Co*versed" sine
(k?-v?rst" s?n`)
[Co- (=co- in co- sine) +  versed sine.]
(Geom.)
The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.


word: Covert
definition:
Covert

Cov"ert
(k?v"?rt)
a.
[OF. covert, F.  couvert, p. p. of couvrir. See Cover, v. t.]
1.
Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.

How covert matters may be best disclosed.
Shak.

Whether of open war or covert guile.
Milton

2.
Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook.
 Wordsworth.

Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley.
Bacon.

3.
(Law)
Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband.

Covert way, (Fort.) See Covered way, under Covered.


word: Covert₂
definition:
Covert

Cov"ert
n.
[OF. See Covert, a.]
1.
A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.

A tabernacle . . . for a covert from storm.
Is. iv. 6.

The highwayman has darted from his covered by the wayside.
Prescott.

2.
[Cf. F. couverte.]
(Zool.)
One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.


word: Coverture
definition:
Coverture

Cov"er*ture
(k?v"?r-t?r; 135)
n.
[OF.  coverture,F.couverture.]
1.
Covering; shelter; defense; hiding.

Protected by walls or other like coverture.
Woodward.

Beatrice, who even now
Is couched in the woodbine coverture.
Shak.

2.
(Law)
The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte.


word: Covet
definition:
Covet

Cov"et
(k?v"?t)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Covered; p. pr. & vb. n. Coveting.]
[OF. coveitier, covoitier, F. convoiter, from a derivative fr. L. cupere to desire; cf. Skr.  kup to become excited. Cf.  Cupidity.]

1.
To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sense.

Covet earnestly the best gifts.
1. Cor. xxii. 31.

If it be a sin to covet honor,
I am the most offending soul alive.
Shak.

2.
To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house.
Ex. xx. 17.


word: Covet₂
definition:
Covet

Cov"et
v. i.
To have or indulge inordinate desire.

Which [money] while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith.
1 Tim. vi. 10.


word: Covetise
definition:
Covetise

Cov"et*ise
(-?s)
n.
[OF.  coveitise, F.  convoitise. See Covet, v. t. ]
Avarice.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Covetous
definition:
Covetous

Cov"et*ous
(k?v"?t-?s)
a.
[OF. coveitos, F.  convoiteux. See Covet, v. t.]
1.
Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense.
[Archaic]

Covetous of wisdom and fair virtue.
Shak.

Covetous death bereaved us all,
To aggrandize one funeral.
Emerson.

2.
Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (esp. money); avaricious; -- in a bad sense.

The covetous person lives as if the world were madealtogether for him, and not he for the world.
South.


word: Covetousness
definition:
Covetousness

Cov"et*ous*ness
n.
1.
Strong desire.
[R.]

When workmen strive to do better than well,
They do confound their skill in covetousness.
Shak.

2.
A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense.

Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess itself of the true end of getting.
Sprat.


word: Covey
definition:
Covey

Cov"ey
(k?v"?)
n.
[OF.  cov_;e, F.  couv_;e, fr.  cover, F.  couver, to sit or brood on, fr. L.  cubare to lie down; cf. E.  incubate. See Cubit, and cf.  Cove to brood.]
1.
A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges.
Darwin.

2.
A company; a bevy; as, a covey of girls.
Addison.


word: Covey₂
definition:
Covey

Cov"ey
v. i.
To brood; to incubate.
[Obs.]

[Tortoises]  covey a whole year before they hatch.
Holland.


word: Covin
definition:
Covin

Cov"in
(k?v"?n)
n.
[OF. covine, covaine, fr.  covenir to agree. See Covenant.]
1.
(Law)
A collusive agreement between two or more persons to prejudice a third.

2.
Deceit; fraud; artifice.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Coving
definition:
Coving

Cov"ing
(?)
n.
(Arch.)
(a)
A cove or series of coves, as the concaved surface under the overhang of a projecting upper story.
(b)
The splayed jambs of a flaring fireplace.


word: Cow
definition:
Cow

Cow
n.
pl. Cows (kouz); old pl. Kine (kīn).
[OE. cu, cou, AS. cū; akin to D.  koe, G. kuh, OHG. kuo, Icel. k&ymacr_;r, Dan. & Sw.  ko, L.  bos ox, cow, Gr. boy^s, Skr. g&omacr. √223. Cf.  Beef, Bovine, Bucolic, Butter, Nylghau.]

1.
The mature female of bovine animals.

2.
The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals, etc.


word: Cow₃
definition:
Cow

Cow
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cowed (koud); p. pr. & vb. n. Cowing.]
[Cf. Icel.  kuga, Sw.  kufva to check, subdue, Dan.  kue.  Cf. Cuff, v. t.]
To depress with fear; to daunt the spirits or courage of; to overawe.

To vanquish a people already cowed.
Shak.

THe French king was cowed.
J. R. Green.


word: Cow₄
definition:
Cow

Cow
n.
[Prob. from same root as cow, v. t.]
(Mining)
A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock.
Knight.


word: Cowalker
definition:
Cowalker

Co`walk"er
(?)
n.
A phantasmic or “astral” body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelgänger.


word: Cowan
definition:
Cowan

Cow"an
(kou"an)
n.
[Cf. OF.  couillon a coward, a cullion.]
One who works as a mason without having served a regular apprenticeship.
[Scot.]
Among Freemasons, it is a cant term for pretender, interloper.


word: Coward
definition:
Coward

Cow"ard
(kou"?rd)
a.
[OF.  couard, coard, coart, n. and adj., F.  couard, fr. OF.  coe, coue, tail, F.  queue (fr. L.  coda, a form of cauda tail) + -ard; orig., short-tailed, as an epithet of the hare, or perh., turning tail, like a scared dog. Cf. Cue, Queue, Caudal.]
1.
(Her.)
Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.

2.
Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly.

Fie, coward woman, and soft-hearted wretch.
Shak.

3.
Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity.

He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
Shak.

Invading fears repel my coward joy.
Proir.


word: Coward₂
definition:
Coward

Cow"ard
n.
A person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon.

A fool is nauseous, but a coward worse.
Dryden.


word: Coward₃
definition:
Coward

Cow"ard
v. t.
To make timorous; to frighten.
[Obs.]

That which cowardeth a man's heart.
Foxe.


word: Cowardice
definition:
Cowardice

Cow"ard*ice
(-ĭs)
n.
[F. couardise, fr. couard. See Coward.]
Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.

The cowardice of doing wrong.
Milton.

Moderation was despised as cowardice.
Macaulay.


word: Cowardize
definition:
Cowardize

Cow"ard*ize
(-_;z)
v. t.
To render cowardly
[Obs.]

God . . . cowardizeth . . . insolent spirits.
Bp. Hall.


word: Cowardly
definition:
Cowardly

Cow"ard*ly
a.
1.
Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.

The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle.
Shak.

2.
Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity.
Macaulay.

The cowardly rashness of those who dare not look danger in the face.
Burke.


word: Cowbane
definition:
Cowbane

Cow"bane`
(kou"bān`)
n.
(Bot.)
A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. See Water hemlock.


word: Cowberry
definition:
Cowberry

Cow"ber`ry
(-bĕr`r&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Cowberries (-rĭz).
(Bot.)
A species of Vaccinium (Vaccinium Vitis-idæa), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry.


word: Cowbird
definition:
Cowbird

Cow"bird`
(-bẽrd`)
n.
(Zool.)
The cow blackbird (Molothrus ater), an American starling. Like the European cuckoo, it builds no nest, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds; -- so called because frequently associated with cattle.


word: Cowboy
definition:
Cowboy

Cow"boy`
(-boi`)
n.
1.
A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.

2.
One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.


word: Cowcatcher
definition:
Cowcatcher

Cow"catch`er
(-k?ch`?r)
n.
A strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot.
[U.S.]

Syn. -- fender, buffer, pilot.


word: cow-cockle
definition:
cow-cockle

cow-cockle
n.
a European annual (Vaccaria hispanica) with pale rose-colored flowers; cultivated flower or self-sown grainfield weed; introduced in North America; sometimes classified as a soapwort.

Syn. -- cowherb, cow cockle, Vaccaria hispanica, Vaccaria pyramidata, Saponaria vaccaria.


word: cowed
definition:
cowed

cowed
adj.
frightened into submission or compliance.

Syn. -- browbeaten, bullied, hangdog, intimidated.


word: Cower
definition:
Cower

Cow"er
(kou"ẽr)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Cowered (kou"ẽrd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cowering.]
[Cf. Icel. kera to doze, liequiet, Sw. kura, Dan.  kure, G.  kauern to cower, W. cwrian.]
To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear.

Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire.
Dryden.

Like falcons, cowering on the nest.
Goldsmith.


word: cowering
definition:
cowering

cowering
adj.
characterized by or showing abject fear.
[prenominal]

Syn. -- craven, cringing(prenominal), fearful, recreant.


word: Cowfish
definition:
Cowfish

Cow"fish`
(kou"fĭsh`)
n.
(Zool.)
(a)
The grampus.
(b)
A California dolphin (Tursiops Gillii).
(c)
A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.


word: Cowhage
definition:
Cowhage

Cow"hage
(kou"ha̝j)
n.
[Cf. Hind. kawānch, koānch.]
(Bot.)
A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spiculæ are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge.
[Written also couhage, cowage, and cowitch.]


word: Cowhearted
definition:
Cowhearted

Cow"heart`ed
(-h?rt`?d)
a.
Cowardly.

The Lady Powis . . . patted him with her fan, and called him a cowhearted fellow.
R. North.


word: cowherb
definition:
cowherb

cowherb
n.
a European annual with pale rose-colored flowers; cultivated flower or self-sown grainfield weed; introduced in North America; sometimes classified as a soapwort; -- also called the cow-cockle.

Syn. -- cow cockle, cow-cockle, Vaccaria hispanica, Vaccaria pyramidata, Saponaria vaccaria.


word: Cowherd
definition:
Cowherd

Cow"herd`
(-h?rd`)
n.
[AS. cūhyrde; cū cow + hyrde a herder.]
One whose occupation is to tend cows.


word: Cowhide
definition:
Cowhide

Cow"hide`
(-h?d`)
n.
1.
The hide of a cow.

2.
Leather made of the hide of a cow.

3.
A coarse whip made of untanned leather.


word: Cowhide₂
definition:
Cowhide

Cow"hide`
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cowhided; p. pr. & vb. n. Cowhiding.]
To flog with a cowhide.


word: Cowish₂
definition:
Cowish

Cow"ish
n.
(Bot.)
An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon.
[Written also cous.]


word: Cowl
definition:
Cowl

Cowl
(koul)
n.
[AS. cuhle, cugle, cugele; cf. dial. G.  kogel, gugel, OF.  coule, goule; all fr. LL.  cuculla, cucullus, fr. L.  cucullus cap, hood; perh. akin to celare to conceal, cella cell. Cf. Cucullate.]
1.
A monk's hood; -- usually attached to the gown. The name was also applied to the hood and garment together.

What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl?
Pope.

2.
A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilating shaft, etc.

3.
A wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive.

4.
(aviation)
a removable metal covering for an aircraft engine, providing streamlining to minimize wind resistance; -- also called cowling.

5.
a covering for a chimney or other ventilating shaft functioning to increase the draft.


word: Cowl₂
definition:
Cowl

Cowl
n.
[Cf. OF.  cuvele, cuvel, dim. of F.  cuve tub, vat, fr. L.  cupa. See Cup.]
A vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for conveyance of water.
Johnson.


word: Cowleech
definition:
Cowleech

Cow"leech`
(kou"l?ch`)
n.
[2d cow + leech a physician.]
One who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor.


word: Cowlick
definition:
Cowlick

Cow"lick`
(-l?k`)
n.
A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow.


word: Cowlstaff
definition:
Cowlstaff

Cowl"staff`
(koul"st?f`)
n.
[Cowl a vessel + staff.]
A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons.
Suckling.


word: coworker
definition:
coworker

co-worker

co`-work"er, co`work"er
(k?`w?rk"?r)
n.
One who works with another; a cooperator.

Syn. -- colleague, coworker, fellow worker, fellow-worker, workfellow.


word: Cow parsley
definition:
Cow parsley

Cow" pars`ley
(kou` p?rs`l?)
(Bot.)
An umbelliferous plant of the genus Chærophyllum (Chærophyllum temulum and Chærophyllum sylvestre).


word: Cow parsnip
definition:
Cow parsnip

Cow" pars`nip
(-n?p)
(Bot.)
A coarse umbelliferous weed of the genus Heracleum (Heracleum sphondylium in England, and Heracleum lanatum in America).


word: Cowpea
definition:
Cowpea

Cow"pea`
(kou"pē`)
n.
1.
The seed of one or more leguminous plants of the genus Dolichos; also, the plant itself. Many varieties are cultivated in the southern part of the United States.

2.
(Bot.)
A leguminous plant (Vigna Sinensis, syn. Vigna Catjang) found throughout the tropics of the Old World. It is extensively cultivated in the Southern United States for fodder, and the seed is used as food for man.


word: Cowper's glands
definition:
Cowper's glands

Cow"per's glands`
(kou"p?rz gl?ndz`)
[After the discoverer, William Cowper, an English surgeon.]
(Anat.)
Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.


word: Cow-pilot
definition:
Cow-pilot

Cow"-pi`lot
(kou"pī`lŭt)
n.
(Zool.)
A handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of Florida and the West Indies (Pomacentrus saxatilis); -- called also mojarra.


word: cowpoke
definition:
cowpoke

cowpoke
n.
a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback; -- an informal name for cowboy.

Syn. -- cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman, cowhand, cowherd.


word: Cowpox
definition:
Cowpox

Cow"pox`
(-p&obreve_;ks`)
n.
(Med.)
A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock.
Dunglison.


word: Cowry
definition:
Cowry

Cowrie

{ Cow"rie Cow"ry }
(kou"r&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Cowries (-rĭz).
[Hind. kaurī.]
(Zool.)
A marine shell of the genus Cypræa.

&hand_; There are numerous species, many of them ornamental. Formerly Cypræa moneta and several other species were largely used as money in Africa and some other countries, and they are still so used to some extent.  The value is always trifling, and varies at different places.


word: cows
definition:
cows

cows
n. pl.
[pl. of cow.]
domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; as, wait till the cows come home.

Syn. -- cattle, kine, oxen, Bos taurus.


word: Cowslip
definition:
Cowslip

Cow"slip`
(-slĭp`)
n.
[AS.  cūslyppe, cūsloppe, prob. orig., cow's droppings. Cf. Slop, n.]
(Bot.)
1.
A common flower in England (Primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States.

2.
In the United States, the marsh marigold (Caltha palustris), appearing in wet places in early spring and often used as a pot herb. It is nearer to a buttercup than to a true cowslip. See Illust. of Marsh marigold.

American cowslip (Bot.), a pretty flower of the West (Dodecatheon Meadia), belonging to the same order (Primulaceæ) with the English cowslip. -- French cowslip (Bot.), bear's-ear (Primula Auricula).


word: Cow tree
definition:
Cow tree

Cow" tree`
(kou" tr?`)
[Cf. SP.  palo de vaca.]
(Bot.)
A tree (Galactodendron utile or Brosimum Galactodendron) of South America, which yields, on incision, a nourishing fluid, resembling milk.


word: Cowwheat
definition:
Cowwheat

Cow"wheat`
(-hw?t`)
n.
(Bot.)
A weed of the genus Melampyrum, with black seeds, found on European wheatfields.


word: Cox
definition:
Cox

Cox
(k?ks)
n.
[OE.  cokes. Cf. Coax.]
A coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull.
[Obs.]

Go; you're a brainless cox, a toy, a fop.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Coxa
definition:
Coxa

Cox"a
(k?ks"?)
n.
[L., the hip.]
(Zool.)
The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.


word: Coxalgy
definition:
Coxalgy

Coxalgia

{ &VerbarCox*al"gi*a (-?l"j?-?), Cox"al`gy (k?ks"?l`j?), }
n.
[NL. coxalgia, fr. L. coxa hip. + Gr. _;_;_; pain: cf. F. coxalgie.]
(Med.)
Pain in the hip.


word: Coxcomb
definition:
Coxcomb

Cox"comb`
(k?ks"k?m`)
n.
[A corrupted spelling of cock's comb.]
1.
(a)
A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.
(b)
The cap itself.

2.
The top of the head, or the head itself

We will belabor you a little better,
And beat a little more care into your coxcombs.
Beau  & Fl.

3.
A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop.

Fond to be seen, she kept a bevy
Of powdered coxcombs at her levee.
Goldsmith.

Some are bewildered in the maze of schools,
And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools.
Pope.

4.
(Bot.)
A name given to several plants of different genera, but particularly to Celosia cristata, or garden cockscomb. Same as Cockscomb.


word: Coxcombical
definition:
Coxcombical

Cox*comb"ic*al
(k?ks-k?m"?-kal)
a.
Befitting or indicating a coxcomb; like a coxcomb; foppish; conceited.
Cox*comb"ic*al*ly, adv.

Studded all over in coxcombical fashion with little brass nails.
W. Irving.


word: Coy
definition:
Coy

Coy
(koi)
a.
[OE.  coi quiet, still, OF.  coi, coit, fr.L. quietus quiet, p. p. of quiescere to rest, quie rest; prob. akin to E. while. See While, and cf. Quiet, Quit, Quite.]
1.
Quiet; still.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
Shrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful; shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry.

Coy, and difficult to win.
Cowper.

Coy and furtive graces.
W. Irving.

Nor the coy maid, half willings to be pressed,
Shall kiss the cup, to pass it to the rest.
Goldsmith.

3.
Soft; gentle; hesitating.

Enforced hate,
Instead of love's coy touch, shall rudely tear thee.
Shak.


word: Coy₂
definition:
Coy

Coy
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Coyed (koid); p. pr. & vb. n. Coying.]
1.
To allure; to entice; to decoy.
[Obs.]

A wiser generation, who have the art to coy the fonder sort into their nets.
Bp. Rainbow.

2.
To caress with the hand; to stroke.

Come sit thee down upon this flowery bed,
While I thy amiable cheeks do coy.
Shak.


word: Coy₃
definition:
Coy

Coy
v. i.
1.
To behave with reserve or coyness; to shrink from approach or familiarity.
[Obs.]

Thus to coy it,
With one who knows you too!
Rowe.

2.
To make difficulty; to be unwilling.
[Obs.]

If he coyed
To hear Cominius speak, I 'll keep at home.
Shak.


word: Coyness
definition:
Coyness

Coy"ness
n.
The quality of being coy; feigned o_; bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve.

When the kind nymph would coyness feign,
And hides but to be found again.
Dryden.


word: coyol
definition:
coyol

coyol
n.
a tropical American palm (Acrocomia vinifera) having edible nuts and yielding a useful fiber.

Syn. -- coyol palm, Acrocomia vinifera.


word: Coyote
definition:
Coyote

Coy"o*te
(k?"?-t? or k?"?t)
n.
[Spanish Amer., fr. Mexican coyotl.]
(Zool.)
A carnivorous animal (Canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of North America; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl.


word: Coyotillo
definition:
Coyotillo

Co`yo*til"lo
(?)
n.
[Mex. Sp. dim. See Coyote.]
A low rhamnaceous shrub (Karwinskia humboldtiana) of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Its berries are said to be poisonous to the coyote.


word: Coypu
definition:
Coypu

Coy"pu
(koi"p??)
n.
[Native name.]
(Zool.)
A South American rodent (Myopotamus coypus), allied to the beaver. It produces a valuable fur called nutria.
[Written also coypou.]


word: Cozen
definition:
Cozen

Coz"en
(k?z"'n)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cozened (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cozening (-'n-?ng). ]
[From cousin, hence, literally, to deceive through pretext of relationship, F. cousiner.]
To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.

He had cozened the world by fine phrases.
Macaulay.

Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters.
Locke.

Goring loved no man so well but that he would cozen him,
and expose him to public mirth for having been cozened.
Clarendon.


word: Cozenage
definition:
Cozenage

Coz"en*age
(-a̝j)
n.
[See Cozen, and cf. Cousinage.]
The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud.
Shak.


word: Cozy
definition:
Cozy

Co"zy
(k?"z?)
a.
[Compar. Cozier (-z?-?r); superl. Coziest.]
[Cf. Scot.  cosie, cozie, prob. from Gael. cosach abounding in hollows, or cosagach full of holes or crevices, snug, sheltered, from cos a hollow, a crevice.]

1.
Snug; comfortable; easy; contented.
[Written also cosey and cosy.]

2.
[Cf. F. causer to chat, talk.]
Chatty; talkative; sociable; familiar.
[Eng.]


word: Cozy₂
definition:
Cozy

Co"zy
n.
[See Cozy,a.]
A wadded covering, often decorative, for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot.  Also called tea cozy


word: CPA
definition:
CPA

CPA
n.
a certified public accountant; an accountant certified by the state.
[acronym]

Syn. -- certified public accountant.


word: CPI
definition:
CPI

CPI
n.
the consumer price index, an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.  The increase of this value each year is one measure of monetary inflation.
[acronym]

Syn. -- consumer price index, cost-of-living index.

&hand_;  For a table of values from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the CPI over time, see CPI-U from 1913 to 1998.


word: c.p.u.
definition:
c.p.u.

CPU

CPU, c.p.u.
n.
abbr.
1.
(Computers)
The central processing unit, that part of the electronic circuitry of a computer in which the arithmetic and logical operations are performed on input data, which are thereby converted to output data; it is usually located on the mainboard, or motherboard, of a computer.  The CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached.  Most personal computers as of 1998 had only one CPU, but some computers may have more than one CPU.
[acronym]

Syn. -- central processing unit, CPU, C.P.U., central processor, processor.


word: C Q D
definition:
C Q D

C Q D
In radiotelegraphy, the letters signified by the code call formerly used (cf. S O S) by ships in distress, formed by combining the code call C Q (formerly used as a general call for all stations) with D for distress.


word: Crab
definition:
Crab

Crab
(krăb)
n.
[AS. crabba; akin to D. krab, G.  krabbe, krebs, Icel. krabbi, Sw. krabba, Dan. krabbe, and perh. to E. cramp. Cf. Crawfish.]
1.
(Zool.)
One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.

&hand_; The name is applied to all the Brachyura, and to certain Anomura, as the hermit crabs.  Formerly, it was sometimes applied to Crustacea in general. Many species are edible, the blue crab of the Atlantic coast being one of the most esteemed. The large European edible crab is Cancer padurus. Soft-shelled crabs are blue crabs that have recently cast their shells. See Cancer; also, Box crab, Fiddler crab, Hermit crab, Spider crab, etc., under Box, Fiddler. etc.

2.
The zodiacal constellation Cancer.

3.
[See Crab, a.]
(Bot.)
A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.

When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
Then nightly sings the staring owl.
Shak.

4.
A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
[Obs.]
Garrick.

5.
(Mech.)
(a)
A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
(b)
A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
(c)
A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
(d)
A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

Calling crab. (Zool.) See Fiddler., n., 2. -- Crab apple, a small, sour apple, of several kinds; also, the tree which bears it; as, the European crab apple (Pyrus Malus var. sylvestris); the Siberian crab apple (Pyrus baccata); and the American (Pyrus coronaria). -- Crab grass. (Bot.) (a) A grass (Digitaria sanguinalis syn. Panicum sanguinalis); -- called also finger grass. (b) A grass of the genus Eleusine (Eleusine Indica); -- called also dog's-tail grass, wire grass, etc. -- Crab louse (Zool.), a species of louse (Phthirius pubis), sometimes infesting the human body. -- Crab plover (Zool.), an Asiatic plover (Dromas ardeola). -- Crab's eyes, or Crab's stones, masses of calcareous matter found, at certain seasons of the year, on either side of the stomach of the European crawfishes, and formerly used in medicine for absorbent and antacid purposes; the gastroliths. -- Crab spider (Zool.), one of a group of spiders (Laterigradæ); -- called because they can run backwards or sideways like a crab. -- Crab tree, the tree that bears crab applies. -- Crab wood, a light cabinet wood obtained in Guiana, which takes a high polish. McElrath. -- To catch a crab (Naut.), a phrase used of a rower: (a) when he fails to raise his oar clear of the water; (b) when he misses the water altogether in making a stroke.


word: Crab₂
definition:
Crab

Crab
(krăb)
v. t.
1.
To make sour or morose; to embitter.
[Obs.]

Sickness sours or crabs our nature.
Glanvill.

2.
To beat with a crabstick.
[Obs.]
J. Fletcher.


word: Crab₄
definition:
Crab

Crab
a.
[Prob. from the same root as crab, n.]
Sour; rough; austere.

The crab vintage of the neighb'ring coast.
Dryden.


word: Crabbed
definition:
Crabbed

Crab"bed
(kr?b"b?d)
a.
[See Crab,n.]
1.
Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.

Crabbed age and youth can not live together.
Shak.

2.
Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.

3.
Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author.
Crabbed
Chaucer.

How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose.
Milton.

4.
Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting.


word: Crabbing
definition:
Crabbing

Crab"bing
n.
1.
The act or art of catching crabs.

2.
(Falconry)
The fighting of hawks with each other.

3.
(Woolen Manuf.)
A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.


word: Crabbish
definition:
Crabbish

Crab"bish
(krăb"bĭsh)
a.
Somewhat sour or cross.

The whips of the most crabbish Satyristes.
Decker.


word: Crabeater
definition:
Crabeater

Crab"eat`er
(krăb"ēt`ẽr)
n.
(Zool.)
(a)
The cobia.
(b)
An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus).
(c)
A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species).


word: Crab-yaws
definition:
Crab-yaws

Crab"-yaws`
(kr?b"y?z`)
n.
(Med.)
A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws.
Dunglison.


word: Crack
definition:
Crack

Crack
(krăk)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cracked (krăkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cracking.]
[OE. cracken, craken, to crack, break, boast, AS. cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D.  kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crake, Cracknel, Creak.]

1.
To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

2.
To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.

O, madam, my old heart is cracked.
Shak.

He thought none poets till their brains were cracked.
Roscommon.

3.
To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.

4.
To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
B. Jonson.

5.
To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.
[Low]

To crack a bottle, to open the bottle and drink its contents. -- To crack a crib, to commit burglary. [Slang] -- To crack on, to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more steam. [Colloq.]


word: Crack₂
definition:
Crack

Crack
v. i.
1.
To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.

By misfortune it cracked in the coling.
Boyle.

The mirror cracked from side to side.
Tennyson.

2.
To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
[Collog.]

The credit . . . of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out.
Dryden.

3.
To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.

As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.
Shak.

4.
To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of.
[Archaic.]

Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack.
Shak.


word: Crack₃
definition:
Crack

Crack
n.
1.
A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass.

2.
Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.

My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.
Shak.

3.
A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip.

Will the stretch out to the crack of doom?
Shak.

4.
The tone of voice when changed at puberty.

Though now our voices
Have got the mannish crack.
Shak.

5.
Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.

6.
A crazy or crack-brained person.
[Obs.]

I . . . can not get the Parliament to listen to me, who look upon me as a crack and a projector.
Addison.

7.
A boast; boasting.
[Obs.]
Crack
Burton.
cracks
Spenser.

8.
Breach of chastity.
[Obs.]
Shak.

9.
A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
[Obs.]

Val. 'T is a noble child. Vir. A crack, madam.
Shak.

10.
A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.
[Eng. & Scot. Colloq.]

11.
Free conversation; friendly chat.
[Scot.]

What is crack in English? . . . A crack is . . . a chat with a good, kindly human heart in it.
P. P. Alexander.

12.
a witty remark; a wisecrack.

13.
a chance or opportunity to do something; an attempt; as, I'll take a crack at it.

14.
a form of cocaine, highly purified and prepared as small pellets, especially suitable for smoking; -- also called rock.  Used in this form it appears to be more addicting than cocaine powder.
[slang]


word: Crack₄
definition:
Crack

Crack
a.
Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of; as, a crack shot.
[Colloq.]

One of our crack speakers in the Commons.
Dickens.


word: Crackajack
definition:
Crackajack

Crack"a*jack`
(?)
n.
[Now usually spelled crackerjack.]
[prob. from crack + jack, a man.]
1.
An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis.
[Slang]

2.
A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes.
[U. S.]


word: Crackajack₂
definition:
Crackajack

Crack"a*jack`
a.
[Now usually spelled crackerjack.]
Of marked ability or excellence.
[Slang]


word: Crack-brained
definition:
Crack-brained

crackbrained

crackbrained, Crack"-brained`
(-brānd`)
a.
Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; extremely foolish; crazy; as, crackbrained notions.
Pope.

Syn. -- idiotic.


word: Cracked
definition:
Cracked

Cracked
(krăkt)
a.
1.
Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.

2.
Crack-brained.
[Colloq.]


word: Cracker
definition:
Cracker

Crack"er
(krăk"ẽr)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, cracks.

2.
A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
[Obs.]

What cracker is this same that deafs our ears?
Shak.

3.
A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- usually called firecracker.

4.
A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.

5.
A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
Bartlett.

6.
(Zool.)
The pintail duck.

7.
pl.
(Mach.)
A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
Knight.


word: cracker-barrel
definition:
cracker-barrel

cracker-barrel
adj.
characteristic of country life; as, cracker-barrel philosophy.

Syn. -- folksy, homespun.


word: crackerberry
definition:
crackerberry

crackerberry
n.
a creeping red-berried perenial herb (Cornus canadensis) distinguished by clustered leaf whorls at tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska.

Syn. -- bunchberry, dwarf cornel, pudding berry, Cornus canadensis.


word: Crackerjack
definition:
Crackerjack

Crack"er*jack`
(?)
n.
[also spelled crackerjack.]
[prob. from crack + jack, a man.]
1.
An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis.
[Slang]

Syn. -- jimdandy, jimhickey.

2.
A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes.  The name Cracker Jack(TM) is now a trademark for a similar confection.
[U. S.]

3.
something excellent of its kind.

Syn. -- jimdandy, jimhickey.


word: crackers
definition:
crackers

crackers
adj.
crazy.
[informal or slang]

Syn. -- balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, wacky.


word: cracking
definition:
cracking

cracking
n.
1.
the act of cracking something.

Syn. -- fracture, crack.

2.
(Chem.)
the process of making lower molecular weight hydrocarbons from heavier hydrocarbons in petroleum, by exposure to heat and catalysts.  It is used to convert heavier alkanes into gasoline, or to improve the octane number of an alkane mixture.


word: cracking₂
definition:
cracking

cracking
adj.
same as groovy, sense 1.
[informal]

Syn. -- bang-up, bully, cool, corking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad(predicate), peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing.


word: Crackle
definition:
Crackle

Crac"kle
(krăk"k'l)
v. i.
[Dim. of crack.]
To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.

The unknown ice that crackles underneath them.
Dryden.


word: Crackle₂
definition:
Crackle

Crac"kle
n.
1.
The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.

The crackle of fireworks.
Carlyle.

2.
(Med.)
A kind of crackling sound or râle, heard in some abnormal states of the lungs; as, dry crackle; moist crackle.
Quain.

3.
(Fine Arts)
A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.


word: Crackled
definition:
Crackled

Crac"kled
(-k'ld)
a.
(Fine Arts)
Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.


word: Crackling
definition:
Crackling

Crac"kling
(kr?k"kl?ng)
n.
1.
The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.

As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool.
Eccl. vii. 6.

2.
The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork.

For the first time in his life he tested crackling.
Lamb.

3.
pl.
Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.


word: Crackaloo
definition:
Crackaloo

Crack-loo

{ Crack"-loo` (?), n. Also Crack"a*loo`  }
A kind of gambling game consisting in pitching coins to or towards the ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor.
[Gamblers' Cant, U. S.]


word: Cracknel
definition:
Cracknel

Crack"nel
(kr?k"n?l)
n.
[F. craquelin, fr. D.  krakeling, fr. krakken to crack. See Crack, v. t.]
A hard brittle cake or biscuit.
Spenser.


word: Cracovienne
definition:
Cracovienne

Cra*co`vi*enne"
(kr?-k?`v?-?n")
n.
[F., fr. Cracow, the city.]
(Mus.)
A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time.


word: Cracowes
definition:
Cracowes

Cra"cowes
(kr?"k?z)
n. pl.
Long-toed boots or shoes formerly worn in many parts of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century.
Fairholt.


word: Cradle
definition:
Cradle

Cra"dle
(krād'l)
n.
[AS. cradel, cradol, prob. from Celtic; cf. Gael. creathall, Ir. craidhal, W. cryd a shaking or rocking, a cradle; perh. akin to E. crate.]
1.
A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty.

The cradle that received thee at thy birth.
Cowper.

No sooner was I crept out of my cradle
But I was made a king, at nine months old.
Shak.

2.
Infancy, or very early life.

From their cradles bred together.
Shak.

A form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles.
Clarendon.

3.
(Agric.)
An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.

4.
(Engraving)
A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.

5.
A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.

6.
(Med.)
(a)
A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
(b)
A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.

7.
(Mining)
(a)
A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker.
[U.S.]
(b)
A suspended scaffold used in shafts.

8.
(Carp.)
The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
Knight.

9.
(Naut.)
The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.

Cat's cradle. See under Cat. -- Cradle hole, a sunken place in a road, caused by thawing, or by travel over a soft spot. -- Cradle scythe, a broad scythe used in a cradle for cutting grain.


word: Cradle₂
definition:
Cradle

Cra"dle
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cradled (-d'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Cradling (-dl?ng).]
1.
To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking.

It cradles their fears to sleep.
D. A. Clark.

2.
To nurse or train in infancy.

He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars.
Glanvill.

3.
To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.

4.
To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.

In Lombardy . . . boats are cradled and transported over the grade.
Knight.

To cradle a picture, to put ribs across the back of a picture, to prevent the panels from warping.


word: Cradle₃
definition:
Cradle

Cra"dle
v. i.
To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.

Withered roots and husks wherein the acorn cradled.
Shak.


word: Cradleland
definition:
Cradleland

Cra"dle*land`
(krā"d'l*lănd`)
n.
Land or region where one was cradled; hence, land of origin.


word: Cradling
definition:
Cradling

Cra"dling
(-dl?ng)
n.
1.
The act of using a cradle.

2.
(Coopering)
Cutting a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterward united and rehooped.

3.
(Carp.)
The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed.
Knight.


word: Craft
definition:
Craft

Craft
(krȧft)
n.
[AS. cræft strength, skill, art, cunning; akin to OS., G., Sw., & Dan. kraft strength, D. kracht, Icel. kraptr; perh. originally, a drawing together, stretching, from the root of E. cramp.]
1.
Strength; might; secret power.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.

Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
Acts xix. 25.

A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill or craft of making.
B. Jonson.

Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations,
Has the craft of the smith been held in repute.
Longfellow.

3.
Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers.

The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds to the new craft guilds.
J. R. Green.

4.
Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices.

You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft.
Hobbes.

The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
Mark xiv. 1.

5.
(Naut.)
A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense.

The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving over the lake.
Prof. Wilson.

Small crafts, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets.


word: Craftiness
definition:
Craftiness

Craft"i*ness
(kr?ft"?-n?s)
n.
Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Job. v. 13.


word: Craftless
definition:
Craftless

Craft"less
(-l?s)
a.
Without craft or cunning.

Helpless, craftless, and innocent people.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Craftsman
definition:
Craftsman

Crafts"man
(kr?fts"man)
n.
pl. Craftsmen (-men).
One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.


word: Craftsmaster
definition:
Craftsmaster

Crafts"mas`ter
(-m?s`t?r)
n.
One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning.

In cunning persuasion his craftsmaster.
Holland.


word: Crafty
definition:
Crafty

Craft"y
(kr?ft"?)
a.
[AS.  cræftig.]
1.
Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.
[Obs.]
Crafty
Piers Plowman.

2.
Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.

A noble crafty man of trees.
Wyclif.

3.
Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
crafty
Shak.

With anxious care and crafty wiles.
J. Baillie.


word: Crag
definition:
Crag

Crag
(krăg)
n.
[W. craig; akin to Gael. creag, Corn. karak, Armor. karrek.]
1.
A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.

From crag to crag the signal flew.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
(Geol.)
A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.


word: Crag₂
definition:
Crag

Crag
n.
[A form of craw: cf. D.  kraag neck, collar, G.  kragen. See Craw.]
1.
The neck or throat
[Obs.]

And bear the crag so stiff and so state.
Spenser.

2.
The neck piece or scrag of mutton.
Johnson.


word: Cragged
definition:
Cragged

Crag"ged
(-gĕd)
a.
Full of crags, or steep, broken rocks; abounding with prominences, points, and inequalities; rough; rugged.

Into its cragged rents descend.
J. Baillie.


word: Craggy
definition:
Craggy

Crag"gy
(krăg"g&ybreve_;)
a.
Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain.
craggy
Tennyson.


word: Cragsman
definition:
Cragsman

Crags"man
(krăgz"man)
n.
pl. Cragsmen (-men).
One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.


word: Craig flounder
definition:
Craig flounder

Craig" floun`der
(krāg" floun`dẽr)
[Scot.  craig a rock. See 1st Crag.]
(Zool.)
The pole flounder.


word: Crake
definition:
Crake

Crake
(krāk)
v. t. & i.
[See Crack.]
1.
To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.

2.
To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
[Obs.]

Each man may crake of that which was his own.
Mir. for Mag.


word: Crake₃
definition:
Crake

Crake
n.
[Cf. Icel.  krāka crow, krākr raven, Sw. kråka, Dan.  krage; perh. of imitative origin.  Cf. Crow.]
(Zool.)
Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.


word: Cram
definition:
Cram

Cram
(krăm)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crammed (krămd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cramming.]
[AS.  crammian to cram; akin to Icel.  kremja to squeeze, bruise, Sw.  krama to press. Cf. Cramp.]
1.
To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.

Their storehouses crammed with grain.
Shak.

He will cram his brass down our throats.
Swift.

2.
To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.

Children would be freer from disease if they were not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers.
Locke.

Cram us with praise, and make us
As fat as tame things.
Shak.

3.
To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.


word: Cram₂
definition:
Cram

Cram
v. i.
1.
To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.

Gluttony . . . .
Crams, and blasphemes his feeder.
Milton.

2.
To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.
[Colloq.]


word: Cram₃
definition:
Cram

Cram
n.
1.
The act of cramming.

2.
Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.
[Colloq.]

3.
(Weaving)
A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.


word: Crambo
definition:
Crambo

Cram"bo
(-bo̝)
n.
[Cf. Cramp, a., difficult.]
1.
A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme.

I saw in one corner . . . a cluster of men and women, diverting themselves with a game at crambo. I heard several double rhymes . . . which raised a great deal of mirth.
Addison.

2.
A word rhyming with another word.

His similes in order set
And every crambo he could get.
Swift.

Dumb crambo, a game in which one party of players give a word which rhymes with another, which last to be guessed by the opposing party, who represent in dumb show what they think it to be.


word: Crammer
definition:
Crammer

Cram"mer
(krăm"mẽr)
n.
One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared.
Dickens.


word: Cramoisy
definition:
Cramoisy

Cramoisie

{ Cra*moi"sie Cra*moi"sy}
(kr?-moi"z?)
a.
[F.  cramoisi crimson. See Crimson.]
Crimson.
[Obs.]

A splendid seignior, magnificent in cramoisy velevet.
Motley.


word: Cramp
definition:
Cramp

Cramp
(krămp)
n.
[OE.  crampe, craumpe; akin to D. & Sw. kramp, Dan. krampe, G. krampf (whence F. crampe), Icel. krappr strait, narrow, and to E. crimp, crumple; cf. cram. See Grape.]
1.
That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.

A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.
L'Estrange.

Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear.
Cowper.

2.
(Masonry)
A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.

3.
(Carp.)
A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.

4.
A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.

5.
(Med.)
A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.

The cramp, divers nights, gripeth him in his legs.
Sir T. More.

6.
(Med.)
A paralysis of certain muscles due to excessive use; as, writer's cramp; milker's cramp, etc.

Cramp bone, the patella of a sheep; -- formerly used as a charm for the cramp. Halliwell. “He could turn cramp bones into chess men.” Dickens. -- Cramp ring, a ring formerly supposed to have virtue in averting or curing cramp, as having been consecrated by one of the kings of England on Good Friday.


word: Cramp₂
definition:
Cramp

Cramp
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cramped (krămt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Cramping.]
1.
To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.

The mind my be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance.
Layard.

2.
To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.

3.
to bind together; to unite.

The . . . fabric of universal justic is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.
Burke.

4.
To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.

5.
To afflict with cramp.

When the gout cramps my joints.
Ford.

To cramp the wheels of wagon, to turn the front wheels out of line with the hind wheels, so that one of them shall be against the body of the wagon.


word: Cramp₃
definition:
Cramp

Cramp
a.
[See Cramp, n.]
Knotty; difficult.
[R.]

Care being taken not to add any of the cramp reasons for this opinion.
Coleridge.


word: crampbark
definition:
crampbark

crampbark
n.
a deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub (Viburnum opulus) with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries.

Syn. -- guelder rose, European cranberrybush, European cranberry bush, cranberry-tree, Viburnum opulus.


word: cramped
definition:
cramped

cramped
adj.
inconveniently small; restricting movement; -- of living quarters or workspace; as, cramped quarters; a cramped office.

Syn. -- constricted, inconvenient, uncomfortably small.


word: Crampet
definition:
Crampet

Cram"pet
(kr?m"p?t)
n.
[See Cramp,n.]
1.
(Mil.)
A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard.
[Written also crampit and crampette.]

2.
One of the plates of iron, with attached spikes, forming a pair of crampoons
hence
(Curling)
an iron plate for a player to stand on when delivering the stones.


word: Crampfish
definition:
Crampfish

Cramp"fish`
(kr?mp"f?sh`)
n.
(Zool.)
The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.


word: Crampon
definition:
Crampon

Cram"pon
(krăm"p&obreve_;n)
n.
[F. See Crampoons.]
1.
(Bot.)
An aërial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.

2.
a device with pointed metal projections worn over the shoes to provide traction when walking over ice, or in mountaineering; -- usually used in the plural.

3.
same as crampoon.


word: Cramponee
definition:
Cramponee

Cram`po*nee"
(krăm`p?-n?")
a.
[F.  cramponné. See Crampoons.]
(Her.)
Having a cramp or square piece at the end; -- said of a cross so furnished.


word: Crampoons
definition:
Crampoons

Cram*poons"
(krăm*pōnz")
n. pl.
[F.  crampon, fr. OHG. chramph crooked; akin to G. krampf cramp. See Cramp,n., and cf. Crampon.]
1.
A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.

2.
Iron instruments with sharp points, worn on the shoes to assist in gaining or keeping a foothold.


word: Crampy
definition:
Crampy

Cramp"y
(krămp"&ybreve_;)
1.
Affected with cramp.

2.
Productive of, or abounding in, cramps.
crampy
Howitt.


word: Crane
definition:
Crane

Cran

{ Cran (krăn), Crane (krān) }
n.
[Scot., fr. Gael. crann.]
A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel.
[Scot.]
H. Miller.


word: Cranage
definition:
Cranage

Cran"age
(krān"a̝j)
n.
[See Crane.]
1.
The liberty of using a crane, as for loading and unloading vessels.

2.
The money or price paid for the use of a crane.


word: Cranberry
definition:
Cranberry

Cran"ber*ry
(krăn"bĕr*r&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Cranberries (-rĭz).
[So named from its fruit being ripe in the spring when the cranes return. Dr. Prior.]
(Bot.)
A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a species of Viburnum (Viburnum Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it.


word: cranberry-tree
definition:
cranberry-tree

cranberry tree

cranberry tree, cranberry-tree
n.
a deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub (Viburnum opulus) with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries.  It is sometimes called high cranberry to distinguish it from the marsh cranberry or low cranberry.

Syn. -- guelder rose, European cranberrybush, European cranberry bush, crampbark, Viburnum opulus.


word: Crandall
definition:
Crandall

Cran"dall
(krăn"dal)
n.
[Prob. from Crandall, a proper name.]
(Stonecutting)
A kind of hammer having a head formed of a group of pointed steel bars, used for dressing ashlar, etc.
v. t. To dress with a crandall.


word: Crane₂
definition:
Crane

Crane
(krān)
n.
[AS. cran; akin to D. & LG. craan, G.  kranich, krahn (this in sense 2), Gr. ge`ranos, L. grus, W. & Armor. garan, OSlav. zeravĭ, Lith. gerve, Icel.  trani, Sw. trana, Dan. trane. √24. Cf. Geranium.]
1.
(Zool.)
A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck.

&hand_; The common European crane is Grus cinerea. The sand-hill crane (Grus Mexicana) and the whooping crane (Grus Americana) are large American species. The Balearic or crowned crane is Balearica pavonina. The name is sometimes erroneously applied to the herons and cormorants.

2.
Any arm which swings about a vertical axis at one end, used for supporting a suspended weight.

3.
A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. of Derrick.

4.
An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire.

5.
A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.

6.
(Naut.)
A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2.

7.
(Zool.)
The American blue heron (Ardea herodias).
[Local, U. S.]

Crane fly (Zool.), a dipterous insect with long legs, of the genus Tipula. -- Derrick crane. See Derrick. -- Gigantic crane. (Zool.) See Adjutant, n., 3. -- Traveling crane, Traveler crane, Traversing crane (Mach.), a crane mounted on wheels; esp., an overhead crane consisting of a crab or other hoisting apparatus traveling on rails or beams fixed overhead, as in a machine shop or foundry. -- Water crane, a kind of hydrant with a long swinging spout, for filling locomotive tenders, water carts, etc., with water.


word: Crane₃
definition:
Crane

Crane
(krān)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Craned (krānd); p. pr. & vb. n. Craning.]
1.
To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; -- with up.
[R.]

What engines, what instruments are used in craning up a soul, sunk below the center, to the highest heavens.
Bates.

An upstart craned up to the height he has.
Massinger.

2.
To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck; as, to crane the neck disdainfully.
G. Eliot.


word: crane
definition:
crane

crane
v. i.
to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap.
Beaconsfield. Thackeray.

The passengers eagerly craning forward over the bulwarks.
Howells.


word: Crane's-bill
definition:
Crane's-bill

Crane's"-bill`
(kr?nz"b?l`)
n.
1.
(Bot.)
The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane.
Dr. Prior.

2.
(Surg.)
A pair of long-beaked forceps.


word: Crania
definition:
Crania

Cra"ni*a
(kr?"n?-?)
n.
[NL.]
(Zool.)
A genus of living Brachiopoda; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.


word: Cranioclasm
definition:
Cranioclasm

Cra"ni*o*clasm
(kr?"n?-?-kl?z'm)
n.
[Cranium + Gr. _;_;_; to break.]
(Med.)
The crushing of a child's head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery.
Dunglison.


word: Cranioclast
definition:
Cranioclast

Cra"ni*o*clast
(-kl?st)
n.
(Med.)
An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases.


word: Craniofacial
definition:
Craniofacial

Cra`ni*o*fa"cial
(-f?"shal)
a.
Of or pertaining to the cranium and face; as, the craniofacial angle.


word: Craniognomy
definition:
Craniognomy

Cra`ni*og"no*my
(-?g"n?-m?)
n.
[Cranium + Gr. _;_;_;_;, _;_;_;_;_;. to know.]
The science of the form and characteristics of the skull.
[R.]


word: Craniology
definition:
Craniology

Cra`ni*ol"o*gy
(-j?)
n.
[Cranium + -logy.]
The department of science (as of ethnology or archæology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls.


word: Craniometer
definition:
Craniometer

Cra`ni*om"e*ter
(kr?`n?-?m"?-t?r)
n.
[Cranium  +  -meter.]
An instrument for measuring the size of skulls.


word: Craniometrical
definition:
Craniometrical

Craniometric

{ Cra`ni*o*met"ric (-?-m?t"r?k), Cra`ni*o*met"ric*al (-r?-kal), }
a.
Pertaining to craniometry.


word: Cranioscopist
definition:
Cranioscopist

Cra`ni*os"co*pist
(kr?`n?-?s"k?-p?st)
n.
One skilled in, or who practices, cranioscopy.

It was found of equal dimension in a literary man whose skull puzzied the cranioscopists.
Coleridge.


word: Craniota
definition:
Craniota

Cra`ni*o"ta
(kr?`n?-?t?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr.  cranium.]
(Zool.)
A comprehensive division of the Vertebrata, including all those that have a skull.


word: Craniotomy
definition:
Craniotomy

Cra`ni*ot"o*my
(kr?`n?-?t"?-m?)
n.
[Cranium  + Gr. _;_;_;_; to cut off.]
(Med.)
The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.


word: Cranium
definition:
Cranium

Cra"ni*um
(kr?"n?-?m)
n.
pl.  E.  Craniums (-_;mz), L. Crania (-_;).
[NL., fr. Gr. _;_;_;_;; akin to ka`ra head.]
The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull.


word: Crank
definition:
Crank

Crank
(kră&nsmacr_;k)
n.
[OE. cranke; akin to E.  cringe, cringle, crinkle, and to crank, a., the root meaning, probably, “to turn, twist.” See Cringe.]
1.
(Mach.)
A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank.

2.
Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.

So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks.
Spenser.

3.
A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.

Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.
Milton.

4.
A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
[Prov. Eng.]

Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks.
Carlyle.

5.
A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter.
[Colloq.]

6.
A sick person; an invalid.
[Obs.]

Thou art a counterfeit crank, a cheater.
Burton.

Crank axle (Mach.), a driving axle formed with a crank or cranks, as in some kinds of locomotives. -- Crank pin (Mach.), the cylindrical piece which forms the handle, or to which the connecting rod is attached, at the end of a crank, or between the arms of a double crank. -- Crank shaft, a shaft bent into a crank, or having a crank fastened to it, by which it drives or is driven. -- Crank wheel, a wheel acting as a crank, or having a wrist to which a connecting rod is attached.


word: Crank₂
definition:
Crank

Crank
(kră&nsmacr_;k)
a.
[AS.  cranc weak; akin to Icel. krangr, D. & G. krank sick, weak (cf. D. krengen to careen). Cf.  Crank, n.]
1.
Sick; infirm.
[Prov. Eng.]

2.
(Naut.)
Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail.

3.
Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.

He who was, a little before, bedrid, . . . was now crank and lusty.
Udall.

If you strong electioners did not think you were among the elect, you would not be so crank about it.
Mrs. Stowe.


word: Crank₃
definition:
Crank

Crank
v. i.
[See Crank, n.]
To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

See how this river comes me cranking in.
Shak.


word: crankcase
definition:
crankcase

crankcase
n.
the housing for a crankshaft and connecting parts in an internal-combustion engine.


word: Crankle
definition:
Crankle

Cran"kle
(kr?n"k'l)
v. t.
[Cf. Crinkle.]
To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.

Old Veg's stream . . . drew her humid train aslope,
Crankling her banks.
J. Philips.


word: Crankness
definition:
Crankness

Crank"ness
(kr?nk"n?s)
n.
1.
(Naut.)
Liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other vessel.

2.
Sprightliness; vigor; health.


word: Cranky
definition:
Cranky

Crank"y
(-?)
a.
1.
Full of spirit; crank.

2.
Addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions; crotchety.
[Colloq.]

3.
Unsteady; easy to upset; crank.


word: Crannied
definition:
Crannied

Cran"nied
(kr?n"n?d)
a.
Having crannies, chinks, or fissures; as, a crannied wall.
Tennyson.


word: Crannoge
definition:
Crannoge

Crannog

{ Cran"nog (kr?n"n?g), Cran"noge (kr?n"n?j) }
n.
[From Celtic; cf. Gael. crann a tree.]
One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings, under Lake.
Encyc. Brit.


word: Cranny
definition:
Cranny

Cran"ny
(krăn"n&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Crannies (-nĭz).
[F. cran notch, prob. from L. crena (a doubful word).]
1.
A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as  in a wall, or other substance.

In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies.
Dryden.

He peeped into every cranny.
Arbuthnot.

2.
(Glass Making)
A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.


word: Cranny₂
definition:
Cranny

Cran"ny
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Crannied (-n?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Crannying.]
1.
To crack into, or become full of, crannies.
[R.]

The ground did cranny everywhere.
Golding.

2.
To haunt, or enter by, crannies.

All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.
Byron.


word: Cranny₃
definition:
Cranny

Cran"ny
a.
[Perh. for cranky. See Crank, a. ]
Quick; giddy; thoughtless.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Crantara
definition:
Crantara

Cran*ta"ra
(kr?n-t?"r? or -t?"r?)
n.
[Gael. cranntara.]
The fiery cross, used as a rallying signal in the Highlands of Scotland.


word: Crants
definition:
Crants

Crants
(krănts)
n.
[Cf. D.  krans, G.  kranz.]
A garland carried before the bier of a maiden.
[Obs.]

Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants, Her maiden strewments.
Shak.


word: Crap
definition:
Crap

Crap
(krăp)
n.
1.
In the game of craps, a first throw of the dice in which the total is two, three, or twelve, in which case the caster loses.  Also called craps.

2.
same as excrement and feces.
[vulgar]

Syn. -- shit.
3.
nonsense; balderdash; bullshit; -- also used as an expletive.
[vulgar]

Syn. -- bullshit.


word: Crapaud
definition:
Crapaud

Cra*paud"
(?)
n.
[Written also crapawd, crapald, crepaud, etc.]
[F. crapaud.]
1.
A toad.
[Obs.]

2.
Pronounced
krȧ`p&omacr"
As a proper name, Johnny Crapaud, or Crapaud, a nickname for a Frenchman.

3.
large toothed frog of South and Central America (Leptodactylus pentadactylus) resembling the bullfrog.

Syn. -- South American bullfrog, Leptodactylus pentadactylus.


word: Crapaudine
definition:
Crapaudine

Crap"au*dine
(kr?p"?-d?n)
a.
[F., n.]
(Arch.)
Turning on pivots at the top and bottom; -- said of a door.


word: Crape
definition:
Crape

Crape
(krāp)
n.
[F.  crêpe, fr. L.  crispus curled, crisped. See Crisp.]
A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill.  Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for the dress of some clergymen.

A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
Pope.

Crape myrtle (Bot.), a very ornamental shrub (Lagerstroemia Indica) from the East Indies, often planted in the Southern United States. Its foliage is like that of the myrtle, and the flower has wavy crisped petals. -- Oriental crape. See Canton crape.


word: Crape₂
definition:
Crape

Crape
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Craped (krāpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Craping.]
[F. crêper, fr. L. crispare to curl, crisp, fr. crispus. See Crape, n.]
To form into ringlets; to curl; to crimp; to friz; as, to crape the hair; to crape silk.

The hour for curling and craping the hair.
Mad. D'Arblay.


word: crape fern
definition:
crape fern

crape fern
n.
a fern of New Zealand (Leptopteris superba) with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todea.

Syn. -- crape fern, Prince-of-Wales fern, Prince-of-Wales feather, Prince-of-Wales plume, Leptopteris superba, Todea superba.


word: crape jasmine
definition:
crape jasmine

crape jasmine
n.
a tropical shrub (Tabernaemontana divaricata), native to India, having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; Northern India to Thailand.

Syn. -- crepe jasmine, crepe gardenia, pinwheel flower, East Indian rosebay, Adam's apple, Nero's crown, coffee rose, Tabernaemontana divaricata.


word: crape myrtle
definition:
crape myrtle

crape myrtle
n.
an tall East Indian and Chinese shrub (Lagerstroemia indica of the loosestrife family, commonly planted in Southern and Western  U. S. as an ornamental shrub.  It has clusters of red, white, purple, or pink flowers.

Syn. -- crepe myrtle, crepe flower, Lagerstroemia indica.


word: crapette
definition:
crapette

crapette
n.
a game in which two play solitaire with separate packs.

Syn. -- Russian bank.


word: crapper
definition:
crapper

crap"per
(krăp"pẽr)
n.
a toilet.
[vulgar]

Syn. -- toilet, can, commode, pot, potty, stool, throne.


word: Crappie
definition:
Crappie

Crap"pie
(kr?p"p?)
n.
(Zool.)
A kind of fresh-water bass of the genus Pomoxys, found in the rivers of the Southern United States and Mississippi valley. There are several species.
[Written also croppie.]


word: crap out
definition:
crap out

crap out
(krăp` out")
v. i.
(Games)
to throw a 2, 3, or 12 on the first throw in the game of craps, thereby losing that turn.


word: Craps
definition:
Craps

Craps
(krăps)
n.
A gambling game with dice.  It is one of the more popular games in casinos.
[Local, U.S.]


word: Crapule
definition:
Crapule

Crapula

{ &VerbarCrap"u*la (kr?p"?-l?), Crap"ule (kr?p"?l), }
n.
[L. crapula intoxication.]
Same as Crapulence.


word: Crapulous
definition:
Crapulous

Crapulent

{ Crap"u*lent (-lent), Crap"u*lous (-l?s), }
a.
[L. crapulentus, crapulosus: cf. F.  crapuleux.]
Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in liquor; drunk; given to excesses.
[R.]


word: Crare
definition:
Crare

Crare
(kr?r)
n.
[OF. craier, creer, croyer, ship of war, LL. craiera, creyera, perh. from G. krieger warrior, or D. krijger.]
A slow unwieldy trading vessel.
[Obs.]
[Written also crayer, cray, and craie.]
Shak.


word: Crash
definition:
Crash

Crash
(krăsh)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crashed (krăsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Crashing.]
[OE. crashen, the same word as crasen to break, E.  craze. See Craze.]
To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.
[R.]

He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire.
Fairfax.


word: Crash₂
definition:
Crash

Crash
v. i.
1.
To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.

Roofs were blazing and walls crashing in every part of the city.
Macaulay.

2.
To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.


word: Crash₃
definition:
Crash

Crash
n.
1.
A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.

The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds.
Addison.

2.
Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise; as, the stock market crash of 1929.

    The last week of October 1929 remains forever imprinted in the American memory.  It was, of course, the week of the Great Crash, the stock market collapse that signaled the collapse of the world economy and the Great Depression of the 1930s. From an all-time high of 381 in early September 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average drifted down to a level of 326 on October 22, then, in a series of traumatic selling waves, to 230 in the course of the following six trading days.
    The stock market's drop was far from over; it continued its sickening slide for nearly three more years, reaching an ultimate low of 41 in July 1932. But it was that last week of October 1929 that burned itself into the American consciousness. After a decade of unprecedented boom and prosperity, there suddenly was panic, fear, a yawning gap in the American fabric.  The party was over.
Wall street Journal, October 28, 1977.


word: Crash₄
definition:
Crash

Crash
n.
[L. crassus coarse. See Crass.]
Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.


word: Crashing
definition:
Crashing

Crash"ing
n.
The noise of many things falling and breaking at once.

There shall be . . . a great crashing from the hills.
Zeph. i. 10.


word: Crasis
definition:
Crasis

Cra"sis
(kr?"s?s)
n.
[LL., temperament, fr. Gr. _;_;_;_;, fr. _;_;_;_; to mix.]
1.
(Med.)
A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.

2.
(Gram.)
A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; synæresis; as, cogo for coago.


word: Craspedota
definition:
Craspedota

Cras`pe*do"ta
(kr?s`p?-d?"t?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;_;_;_; to be bordered or edged.]
(Zool.)
The hydroid or naked-eyed medusæ. See Hydroidea.


word: Crass
definition:
Crass

Crass
(kr?s)
a.
[L. crassus thick, fat, gross, prob. orig., closely woven.  See Grease animal fat, and cf. Crate, Hurdle.]
Gross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined.
Crass
Sir. T. Browne.
Crass
Cudworth.


word: Crassamentum
definition:
Crassamentum

Crassament

{ Cras"sa*ment (kr?s"s?-ment), &VerbarCras`sa*men"tum (-m?n"t?m), }
n.
[L. crassamentum, fr.  crassare to make thick. See Crass, a.]
A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.


word: Crassitude
definition:
Crassitude

Cras"si*tude
(-t?d)
n.
[L. crassitudo.]
Grossness; coarseness; thickness; density.
Bacon.


word: Crastination
definition:
Crastination

Cras`ti*na"tion
(kr?s`t?-n?"sh?n)
n.
[L.  crastinus of to-morrow, from cras to-morrow.]
Procrastination; a putting off till to-morrow.
[Obs.]


word: Crataegus
definition:
Crataegus

Cra*tæ"gus
(kr?-t?"g?s)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. krataigo`s.]
(Bot.)
A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes.


word: Cratch
definition:
Cratch

Cratch
(kr?ch; 224)
n.
[OE. cracche, crecche, F. crèche crib, manger, fr. OHG. krippa, krippea, G. krippe crib. See Crib.]
A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack.
[Obs.]

Begin from first where He encradled was,
In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay.
Spenser.

Cratch cradle, a representation of the figure of the cratch, made upon the fingers with a string; cat's cradle; -- called also scratch cradle.


word: Crate
definition:
Crate

Crate
(krāt)
n.
[L. cratis hurdle; perh. akin to E.  cradle.  See Hurdle, and cf. Crate a framework.]
1.
A large basket or hamper of wickerwork, used for the transportation of china, crockery, and similar wares.

2.
A box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces, -- used especially for transporting fruit.


word: crate
definition:
crate

crate
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crated; p. pr. & vb. n. Crating.]
To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches.


word: Crater
definition:
Crater

Cra"ter
(krā"tẽr)
n.
[L.  crater, cratera, a mixing vessel, the mouth of a volcano, Gr. krath`r, fr. keranny`nai to mix; cf. Skr. çrī to mix, çir to cook, çrā to cook. Cf. Grail, in Holy Grail.]
1.
The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.

2.
(Mil.)
The pit left by the explosion of a bomb, shell, or mine.

3.
(Astron.)
A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also the Cup.


word: Crateriform
definition:
Crateriform

Cra*ter"i*form
(kr?-t?r"?-f?rm)
a.
[L. cratera + -form.]
(Bot.)
Having the form of a shallow bowl; -- said of a corolla.


word: Craunch
definition:
Craunch

Craunch
(kr?nch)
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Craunched (kr?ncht); p. pr. & vb. n. Craunching.]
[See Crunch.]
To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch.
Swift.


word: Cravat
definition:
Cravat

Cra*vat"
(kr?-v?t")
n.
[F. cravate, fr. Cravate a Croat, an inhabitant of Croatia, one of a body of Austrian troops, from whom, in 1636, this article of dress was adopted in France.]
A neckcloth; a piece of silk, fine muslin, or other cloth, worn by men about the neck.

While his wig was combed and his cravat tied.
Macaulay.


word: Cravatted
definition:
Cravatted

Cra*vat`ted
(kr?-v?t"t?d)
a.
Wearing a cravat.

The young men faultlessly appointed, handsomely cravatted.
Thackeray.


word: Crave
definition:
Crave

Crave
(krāv)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Craved (krāvd); p pr. & vb. n. Craving.]
[AS. crafian; akin to Icel. krefja, Sw. kräfva, Dan.  kræve.]
1.
To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.

I crave your honor's pardon.
Shak.

Joseph . . . went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
Mark xv. 43.

2.
To call for, as a gratification; to long for; hence, to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food.

His path is one that eminently craves weary walking.
Edmund Gurney.


word: Crave₂
definition:
Crave

Crave
v. i.
To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite.

Once one may crave for love.
Suckling.


word: Craven
definition:
Craven

Cra"ven
(kr?"v'n)
a.
[OE.  cravant, cravaunde, OF. cravant_; struck down, p. p. of cravanter, crevanter, to break, crush, strike down, fr. an assumed LL.  crepantare, fr. L.  crepans, p. pr. of crepare to break, crack, rattle. Cf. Crevice, Crepitate.]
Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless.
craven
Shak.

The poor craven bridegroom said never a word.
Sir. W. Scott.

In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset.
Macaulay.


word: Craven₂
definition:
Craven

Cra"ven
n.
[Formerly written also cravant and cravent.]
A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow. See Recreant, n.

King Henry.  Is it fit this soldier keep his oath?
Fluellen.  He is a craven and a villain else.
Shak.


word: Craven₃
definition:
Craven

Cra"ven
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cravened (-v'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cravening.]
To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly.
[Obs.]

There is a prohibition so divine,
That cravens my weak hand.
Shak.


word: Craving
definition:
Craving

Crav"ing
(-?ng)
n.
Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching.

A succession of cravings and satiety.
L'Estrange.


word: Craw
definition:
Craw

Craw
(kr&asuml_;)
n.
[Akin to D.  kraag neck, collar, G.  kragen, Sw.  kräfva craw, Dan.  kro, and possibly to Gr. _;_;_;_; (E. bronchus), or bro`chqos throat. √25. Cf. Crag neck.]
(Zool.)
(a)
The crop of a bird.
(b)
The stomach of an animal.


word: crawdaddy
definition:
crawdaddy

crawdad

craw"dad (kr&asuml_;"dăd), craw"dad*dy
(kr&asuml_;"dăd*d&ybreve_;)
n.
(Zool.)
same as crawfish


word: Crayfish
definition:
Crayfish

Crawfish

{ Craw"fish` (kr&asuml_;"fĭsh`), Cray"fish` (krā"fĭsh`) }
n.
pl. -fishes or -fish.
[Corrupted fr. OE.  crevis, creves, OF.  crevice, F.  écrevisse, fr. OHG.  krebiz crab, G.  krebs. See Crab. The ending -fish arose from confusion with E. fish.]
(Zool.)
Any decapod crustacean of the family Astacidæ (genera Cambarus and Cambarus), resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mammoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The common European species is Astacus fluviatilis.

Syn. -- crawdad, crawdaddy.

2.
tiny lobsterlike crustaceans usually boiled briefly.

Syn. -- crawdad, ecrevisse.

3.
a large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters.

Syn. -- spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish, sea crawfish.


word: crawfish
definition:
crawfish

crawfish
v. i.
to back out in a humilating manner; as, We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him.

Syn. -- retreat, back out, back away, crawfish out, withdraw.


word: Crawford
definition:
Crawford

Craw"ford
(kr&asuml_;"fẽrd)
n.
A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, with yellow flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey.


word: Crawl
definition:
Crawl

Crawl
(kr&asuml_;l)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Crawled (kr&asuml_;ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crawling.]
[Dan.  kravle, or Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw. kräla to crawl; cf. LG.  krabbeln, D.  krabbelen to scratch.]
1.
To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.

A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another.
Grew.

2.
to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.

He was hardly able to crawl about the room.
Arbuthnot.

The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes.
Byron.

3.
To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.

Secretly crawling up the battered walls.
Knolles.

Hath crawled into the favor of the king.
Shak.

Absurd opinions crawl about the world.
South.

4.
To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls.  See Creep, v. i., 7.


word: Crawl₃
definition:
Crawl

Crawl
n.
[Cf. Kraal.]
A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.


word: Crawl stroke
definition:
Crawl stroke

Crawl stroke
(Swimming)
A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.


word: Crayon
definition:
Crayon

Cray"on
(kr?"?n)
n.
[F., a crayon, a lead pencil (crayon Conté Conté's pencil, i. e., one made a black compound invented by Conté), fr. craie chalk, L.  creta; said to be, properly, Cretan earth, fr. Creta the island Crete.  Cf. Cretaceous.]
1.
An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.

Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.
Dryden.

&hand_; The black crayon gives a deeper black than the lead pencil. This and the colored crayons are often called chalks. The red crayon is also called sanguine. See Chalk, and Sanguine.

2.
A crayon drawing.

3.
(Electricity)
A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

Crayon board, cardboard with a surface prepared for crayon drawing. -- Crayon drawing, the act or art of drawing with crayons; a drawing made with crayons.


word: Crayon₂
definition:
Crayon

Cray"on
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crayoned (-?nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crayoning.]
[Cf. F.  crayonner.]
To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.

He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably to the plan which he had crayoned out.
Malone.


word: Craze
definition:
Craze

Craze
(krāz)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crazed (krāzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crazing.]
[OE.  crasen to break, fr. Scand., perh. through OF.; cf. Sw.  krasa to crackle, slå i kras, to break to pieces, F. écraser to crush, fr. the Scand. Cf. Crash.]
1.
To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.

God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels.
Milton.

2.
To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
[Obs.]

Till length of years,
And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs.
Milton.

3.
To derange the intellect of; to render insane.

Any man . . . that is crazed and out of his wits.
Tilloston.

Grief hath crazed my wits.
Shak.


word: Craze₂
definition:
Craze

Craze
v. i.
1.
To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.

She would weep and he would craze.
Keats.

2.
To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.


word: Craze₃
definition:
Craze

Craze
n.
1.
Craziness; insanity.

2.
A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.

It was quite a craze with him [Burns] to have his Jean dressed genteelly.
Prof. Wilson.

3.
A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the æsthetic craze.

Various crazes concerning health and disease.
W. Pater.

4.
(Ceramics)
A crack in the glaze or enamel such as is caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.


word: Crazedness
definition:
Crazedness

Craz"ed*ness
(-?d-n?s)
n.
A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the intellect.


word: Crazing-mill
definition:
Crazing-mill

Craze-mill

{ Craze"-mill` (krāz"mĭl`), Craz"ing-mill` (kr?"z?ng-) }
n.
[See 1st Craze.]
A mill for grinding tin ore.


word: Craziness
definition:
Craziness

Cra"zi*ness
n.
1.
The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs.

2.
The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement.


word: Crazing
definition:
Crazing

Craz"ing
(?)
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Craze, v.
Hence:
n.
Fine cracks resulting from shrinkage on the surface of glazed pottery, concrete, or other material. The admired crackle in some Oriental potteries and porcelains is crazing produced in a foreseen and regulated way. In common pottery it is often the result of exposure to undue heat, and the beginning of disintegration.


word: Crazy
definition:
Crazy

Cra"zy
(krā"z&ybreve_;)
a.
[From Craze.]
1.
Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.

Piles of mean andcrazy houses.
Macaulay.

One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.
Addison.

They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.
Jeffrey.

2.
Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged.

Over moist and crazy brains.
Hudibras.

3.
Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager.
[Colloq.]

The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.
R. B. Kimball.

Crazy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; -- so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; -- called also funny bone. -- Crazy quilt, a bedquilt made of pieces of silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement.


word: crazyweed
definition:
crazyweed

crazyweed
n.
any of several leguminous plants of Western North America causing locoism in livestock.

Syn. -- locoweed, crazy weed.


word: Creable
definition:
Creable

Cre"a*ble
(kr?"?-b'l)
a.
[L. creabilis, from creare to create. See Create.]
Capable of being created.
[Obs.]
I. Watts.


word: Creak
definition:
Creak

Creak
(krēk)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Creaked (krēkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Creaking.]
[OE.  creken, prob. of imitative origin; cf. E.  crack, and. D. krieken to crackle, chirp.]
To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak.

The creaking locusts with my voice conspire.
Dryden.

Doors upon their hinges creaked.
Tennyson.


word: Creak₂
definition:
Creak

Creak
v. t.
To produce a creaking sound with.

Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry.
Shak.


word: Creaking
definition:
Creaking

Creak"ing
n.
A harsh grating or squeaking sound, or the act of making such a sound.

Start not at the creaking of the door.
Longfellow.


word: creaky
definition:
creaky

creaky
adj.
1.
worn down with age or use; in poor condition.

Syn. -- decrepit, flea-bitten, run-down, rundown, woebegone.

2.
producing a rasping or grating sound under some circumsatance; as, they were alerted by the creaky stairs; my creaky kitchen door needs oiling.

Syn. -- creaking, screaky.

3.
aching when flexed; -- of body parts; as, my creaky old joints.

Syn. -- arthritic, rheumatic, rheumatoid.


word: Cream
definition:
Cream

Cream
(krēm)
n.
[F. crême, perh. fr. LL. crema cream of milk; cf. L. cremor thick juice or broth, perh. akin to cremare to burn.]
1.
The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.

2.
The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.
[R.]

3.
A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.

4.
A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.

In vain she tries her paste and creams,
To smooth her skin or hide its seams.
Goldsmith.

5.
The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures.

Welcome, O flower and cream of knights errant.
Shelton.

Bavarian cream, a preparation of gelatin, cream, sugar, and eggs, whipped; -- to be eaten cold. -- Cold cream, an ointment made of white wax, almond oil, rose water, and borax, and used as a salve for the hands and lips. -- Cream cheese, a kind of cheese made from curd from which the cream has not been taken off, or to which cream has been added. -- Cream gauge, an instrument to test milk, being usually a graduated glass tube in which the milk is placed for the cream to rise. -- Cream nut, the Brazil nut. -- Cream of lime. (a) A scum of calcium carbonate which forms on a solution of milk of lime from the carbon dioxide of the air. (b) A thick creamy emulsion of lime in water. -- Cream of tartar (Chem.), purified tartar or argol; so called because of the crust of crystals which forms on the surface of the liquor in the process of purification by recrystallization. It is a white crystalline substance, with a gritty acid taste, and is used very largely as an ingredient of baking powders; -- called also potassium bitartrate, acid potassium tartrate, etc.


word: Cream₂
definition:
Cream

Cream
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Creamed (kr?md); p. pr. & vb. n. Creaming.]
1.
To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.

2.
To take off the best or choicest part of.

3.
To furnish with, or as with, cream.

Creaming the fragrant cups.
Mrs. Whitney.

To cream butter (Cooking), to rub, stir, or beat, butter till it is of a light creamy consistency.


word: Cream₃
definition:
Cream

Cream
v. i.
To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle.

There are a sort of men whose visages
Do cream and mantle like a standing pool.
Shak.


word: Creamcake
definition:
Creamcake

Cream"cake`
(-k?k`)
n.
(Cookery)
A kind of cake filled with custard made of cream, eggs, etc.


word: Cream-colored
definition:
Cream-colored

Cream"-col`ored
(-k?l`?rd)
a.
Of the color of cream; light yellow.
Cream-colored
Hazlitt.


word: creamcups
definition:
creamcups

creamcups
n.
a California plant (Platystemon californicus) with small pale yellow flowers.

Syn. -- Platystemon californicus.


word: creamer
definition:
creamer

creamer
n.
a small pitcher for serving cream; as, the coffee set included a sugar bowl and creamer.

Syn. -- cream pitcher.


word: Creamery
definition:
Creamery

Cream"er*y
(-?r-?)
n.
pl. Creameries (-_;z).
[CF. F. cr_;meric.]
1.
A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market.

2.
A place or apparatus in which milk is set for raising cream.

3.
An establishment where cream is sold.


word: Cream-faced
definition:
Cream-faced

Cream"-faced`
(kr?m"f?st`)
a.
White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion.

Thou cream-faced loon.
Shak.


word: Cream-fruit
definition:
Cream-fruit

Cream"-fruit`
(kr?m"fr?t`)
n.
(Bot.)
A plant of Sierra Leone which yields a wholesome, creamy juice.


word: Cream-slice
definition:
Cream-slice

Cream"-slice`
(-sl?s`)
n.
A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream.


word: Creamy
definition:
Creamy

Cream"y
(kr?m"?)
a.
Full of, or containing, cream; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous.
Creamy
Collins.
creamy
Tennyson.
creamy
Beau. & Fl.


word: Creance
definition:
Creance

Cre"ance
(krē"ans)
n.
[F. créance, lit., credence, fr. L. credere to trust. See Credence.]
1.
Faith; belief; creed.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
(Falconry)
A fine, small line, fastened to a hawk's leash, when it is first lured.


word: Creant
definition:
Creant

Cre"ant
(krē"ant)
a.
[L.  creans, p. pr. of creare to create.]
Creative; formative.
[R.]
Mrs. Browning.


word: Crease₂
definition:
Crease

Crease
n.
[Cf. LG. krus, G.  krause, crispness, krausen, kräusen, to crisp, curl, lay on folds; or perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. kriz a wrinkle, crease, kriza to wrinkle, fold, W. crych a wrinkle, crychu to rumple, ripple, crease.]
1.
A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.

2.
(Cricket)
One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker.

3.
(Lacrosse)
The combination of four lines forming a rectangle inclosing either goal, or the inclosed space itself, within which no attacking player is allowed unless the ball is there; -- called also goal crease.

Bowling crease (Cricket), a line extending three feet four inches on each side of the central strings at right angles to the line between the wickets. -- Return crease (Cricket), a short line at each end of the bowling crease and at right angles to it, extending toward the bowler. -- Popping crease (Cricket),, a line drawn in front of the wicket, four feet distant from it, parallel to the bowling crease and at least as long as the latter. J. H. Walsh (Encyc. of Rural Sports).


word: Crease₃
definition:
Crease

Crease
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Creased (kr?st); p. pr. & vb. n. Creasing.]
To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling.

Creased, like dog's ears in a folio.
Gray.


word: Creaser
definition:
Creaser

Creas"er
(kr?s"?r)
n.
1.
A tool, or a sewing-machine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by.

2.
A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet iron, or for rounding small tubes.

3.
(Bookbinding)
A tool for making the band impression distinct on the back.
Knight.


word: Creat
definition:
Creat

Cre"at
(krē"ăt)
n.
[F. créat, ultimately fr. L. creatus created, begotten; cf. It.  creato pupil, servant, Sp.  criado a servant, client.]
(Man.)
An usher to a riding master.


word: Create
definition:
Create

Cre*ate"
(kre̝*āt")
a.
[L. creatus, p. p. of creare to create; akin to Gr. krai`nein to accomplish, Skr. k&rsdot_; to make, and to E. ending -cracy in aristocracy, also to crescent, cereal.]
Created; composed; begotten.
[Obs.]

Hearts create of duty and zeal.
Shak.


word: Create₂
definition:
Create

Cre*ate"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Created; p. pr. & vb. n. Creating.]
1.
To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist.

In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
Gen. i. 1.

2.
To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew.

Your eye in Scotland
Would create soldiers.
Shak.

Create in me a clean heart.
Ps. li. 10.

3.
To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer.
create
Shak.


word: Creatic
definition:
Creatic

Cre*at"ic
(kr?-?t"?k)
a.
[Gr. _;_;_;, _;_;_;, flesh.]
Relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food; as, creatic nausea.
[Written also kreatic.]


word: Creatin
definition:
Creatin

Cre"a*tin
(kr?"?-t?n)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_; flesh.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance found abundantly in muscle tissue.
[Written also kreatine.]


word: Creatinin
definition:
Creatinin

Cre*at"i*nin
(kr?-?t"?-n?n)
n.
(Physiol. Chem.)
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous body closely related to creatin but more basic in its properties, formed from the latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine.
[Written also kretinine.]


word: Creation
definition:
Creation

Cre*a"tion
(kr?-A"sh?n)
n.
[L.  creatio: cf. F.  cr_;ation. See Create.]
1.
The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.

From the creation to the general doom.
Shak.

As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation.
Locke.

2.
That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature.

We know that the whole creation groaneth.
Rom. viii. 22.

A dagger of the mind, a false creation.
Shak.

Choice pictures and creations of curious art.
Beaconsfield.

3.
The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation.

An Irish peer of recent creation.
Landor.


word: Creationism
definition:
Creationism

Cre*a"tion*ism
(-?z'm)
n.
The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism.


word: Creative
definition:
Creative

Cre*a"tive
(-t?v)
a.
Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation.
Creative
W. Irving.

The creative force exists in the germ.
Whewell.


word: Creator
definition:
Creator

Cre*a"tor
(kre̝*ā"tẽr)
n.
[L.  creator: cf. F. créateur.]
One who creates, produces, or constitutes. Specifically, the Supreme Being.

To sin's rebuke and my Creater's praise.
Shak.

The poets and artists of Greece, who are at the same time its prophets, the creators of its divinities, and the revealers of its theological beliefs.
Caird.


word: Creatural
definition:
Creatural

Crea"tur*al
(kr?"t?r-al; 135)
a.
Belonging to a creature; having the qualities of a creature.
[R.]


word: Creature
definition:
Creature

Crea"ture
(krē"tūr; 135)
n.
[F.  créature, L.  creatura. See Create.]
1.
Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him.
Fuller.

God's first creature was light.
Bacon.

On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol
Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Milton.

And most attractive is the fair result
Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.
Cowper.

2.
A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature.

The world hath not a sweeter creature.
Shak.

3.
A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.

A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen.
Shak.

Both Charles himself and his creature, Laud.
Macaulay.

4.
A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.

Creature comforts, those objects, as food, drink, and shelter, which minister to the comfort of the body.


word: Creatureless
definition:
Creatureless

Crea"ture*less
a.
Without created beings; alone.

God was alone And creatureless at first.
Donne.


word: Creaturize
definition:
Creaturize

Crea"tur*ize
(-īz)
v. t.
To make like a creature; to degrade
[Obs.]

Degrade and creaturize that mundane soul.
Cudworth.


word: Creaze
definition:
Creaze

Creaze
(krēz)
n.
(Mining)
The tin ore which collects in the central part of the washing pit or buddle.


word: Crebricostate
definition:
Crebricostate

Cre`bri*cos"tate
(krē`brĭ*k&obreve_;s"ta̝t)
a.
[L. creber close + costa rib.]
(Zool.)
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.


word: Crebrisulcate
definition:
Crebrisulcate

Cre`bri*sul"cate
(krē`brĭ*sŭl"ka̝t)
a.
[L. creber close + sulcus furrow.]
(Zool.)
Marked with closely set transverse furrows.


word: Crebritude
definition:
Crebritude

Creb"ri*tude
(krēb"rĭ*tūd)
n.
[L. crebritudo, fr. creber close.]
Frequency.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Crebrous
definition:
Crebrous

Cre"brous
(krē"brŭs)
a.
[L. creber close set, frequent.]
Frequent; numerous.
[Obs.]
Goodwin.


word: Creche
definition:
Creche

Crèche
(kra̝sh)
n.
[F.]
1.
A public nursery, where the young children of poor women are cared for during the day, while their mothers are at work.

2.
a day-care center for young children.

3.
a three-dimensional model of the scene described in the Bible at the birth of Jesus Christ in a stable at Bethlehem, with Mary and Joseph near a manger in which a model of the infant Christ child is lain, and usually including figures of animals, shepherds, and the three wise men; -- also called a Nativity scene.  The figures in the scene are typically made as individual statues or figurines.  Smaller models are displayed in homes and other indoor locations during the Christmans season, and larger models, often life-size, may be displayed out of doors.

4.
(Biol.)
a nest where the young of several animals are cared for in a communal fashion.


word: Crecy
definition:
Crecy

Crecy
n.
1.
the first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War; in 1346 the English under Edward III defeated the French under King Philip of Valois.

Syn. -- battle of Crecy.


word: Credence
definition:
Credence

Cre"dence
(krē"dens)
n.
[LL. credentia, fr. L. credens, -entis, p. pr. of credere to trust, believe: cf. OF. credence. See Creed, and cf. Credent, Creance.]

1.
Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence.

To give credence to the Scripture miracles.
Trench.

An assertion which might easily find credence.
Macaulay.

2.
That which gives a claim to credit, belief, or confidence; as, a letter of credence.

3.
(Eccl.)
The small table by the side of the altar or communion table, on which the bread and wine are placed before being consecrated.

4.
A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one intended for the display of rich vessels or plate, and consisting chiefly of open shelves for that purpose.


word: Credendum
definition:
Credendum

Cre*den"dum
(kr?-d?n"d?m)
n.
pl. Credenda (-d_;).
[L., fr. credere to believe.]
(Theol.)
A thing to be believed; an article of faith; -- distinguished from agendum, a practical duty.

The great articles and credenda of Christianity.
South.


word: Credent
definition:
Credent

Cre"dent
(kr?"dent)
a.
[. credens, -entis, p. pr. of credere to trust, believe. See Creed.]
1.
Believing; giving credence; credulous.
[R.]

If with too credent ear you list songs.
Shak.

2.
Having credit or authority; credible.
[Obs.]

For my authority bears of a credent bulk.
Shak.


word: Credential
definition:
Credential

Cre*den"tial
(kre̝*dĕn"shal)
a.
[Cf. It. credenziale, fr. LL. credentia. See Credence.]
Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting.

Their credential letters on both sides.
Camden.


word: Credential₂
definition:
Credential

Cre*den"tial
n.
[Cf. It. credenziale.]
1.
That which gives a title to credit or confidence.

2.
pl.
Testimonials showing that a person is entitled to credit, or has right to exercise official power, as the letters given by a government to an ambassador or envoy, or a certificate that one is a duly elected delegate.

The committee of estates excepted against the credentials of the English commissioners.
Whitelocke.

Had they not shown undoubted credentials from the Divine Person who sent them on such a message.
Addison.


word: credentialed
definition:
credentialed

credentialed
adj.
having an official document certifying fitness for a particular task.

Syn. -- certificated, documented.


word: credenza
definition:
credenza

credenza
n.
1.
a credence{3}.

Syn. -- credence.

2.
a buffet or sideboard similar to a credence{4}, especially one without legs.
MW10


word: Credibility
definition:
Credibility

Cred`i*bil"i*ty
(krĕd`ĭ*bĭl"ĭ*t&ybreve_;)
n.
[Cf. F. crédibilité.]
The quality of being credible; credibleness; as, the credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses.


word: Credible
definition:
Credible

Cred"i*ble
(krĕd"ĭ*b'l)
a.
[L. credibilis, fr. credere. See Creed.]
Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entitled to confidence; trustworthy.

Things are made credible either by the known condition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves.
Hooker.

A very diligent and observing person, and likewise very sober and credible.
Dampier.


word: Credibleness
definition:
Credibleness

Cred"i*ble*ness
n.
The quality or state of being credible; worthiness of belief; credibility.
[R.]
Boyle.


word: Credibly
definition:
Credibly

Cred"i*bly
adv.
In a manner inducing belief; as, I have been credibly informed of the event.


word: Credit
definition:
Credit

Cred"it
(krĕd"ĭt)
n.
[F. crédit (cf. It. credito), L. creditum loan, prop. neut. of creditus, p. p. of credere to trust, loan, believe. See Creed.]
1.
Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.

When Jonathan and the people heard these words they gave no credit unto them, nor received them.
1 Macc. x. 46.

2.
Reputation derived from the confidence of others; esteem; honor; good name; estimation.

John Gilpin was a citizen
Of credit and renown.
Cowper.

3.
A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority derived from character or reputation.

The things which we properly believe, be only such as are received on the credit of divine testimony.
Hooker.

4.
That which tends to procure, or add to, reputation or esteem; an honor.

I published, because I was told I might please such as it was a credit to please.
Pope.

5.
Influence derived from the good opinion, confidence, or favor of others; interest.

Having credit enough with his master to provide for his own interest.
Clarendon.

6.
(Com.)
Trust given or received; expectation of future playment for property transferred, or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantile reputation entitling one to be trusted; -- applied to individuals, corporations, communities, or nations; as, to buy goods on credit.

Credit is nothing but the expectation of money, within some limited time.
Locke.

7.
The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust; as, a long credit or a short credit.

8.
(Bookkeeping)
The side of an account on which are entered all items reckoned as values received from the party or the category named at the head of the account; also, any one, or the sum, of these items; -- the opposite of debit; as, this sum is carried to one's credit, and that to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B.

Bank credit, or Cash credit. See under Cash. -- Bill of credit. See under Bill. -- Letter of credit, a letter or notification addressed by a banker to his correspondent, informing him that the person named therein is entitled to draw a certain sum of money; when addressed to several different correspondents, or when the money can be drawn in fractional sums in several different places, it is called a circular letter of credit. -- Public credit. (a) The reputation of, or general confidence in, the ability or readiness of a government to fulfill its pecuniary engagements. (b) The ability and fidelity of merchants or others who owe largely in a community.

He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
D. Webster.


word: Credit₂
definition:
Credit

Cred"it
(krĕd"ĭt)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Credited; p. pr. & vb. n. Crediting.]
1.
To confide in the truth of; to give credence to; to put trust in; to believe.

How shall they credit
A poor unlearned virgin?
Shak.

2.
To bring honor or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.

You credit the church as much by your government as you did the school formerly by your wit.
South.

3.
(Bookkeeping)
To enter upon the credit side of an account; to give credit for; as, to credit the amount paid; to set to the credit of; as, to credit a man with the interest paid on a bond.

To credit with, to give credit for; to assign as justly due to any one.

Crove, Helmholtz, and Meyer, are more than any others to be credited with the clear enunciation of this doctrine.
Newman.


word: Creditable
definition:
Creditable

Cred"it*a*ble
(-?-b'l)
a.
1.
Worthy of belief.
[Obs.]

Divers creditable witnesses deposed.
Ludlow.

2.
Deserving or possessing reputation or esteem; reputable; estimable.

This gentleman was born of creditable parents.
Goldsmith.

3.
Bringing credit, reputation, or honor; honorable; as, such conduct is highly creditable to him.
Macaulay.

He settled him in a good creditable way of living.
Arbuthnot.


word: Credit foncier
definition:
Credit foncier

Cré`dit" fon`cier"
(kr?d?" f?n`s??")
[F. crédit credit & foncier relating to land, landed.]
A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out improvements, by means of loans and advances upon real securities.


word: Credit mobilier
definition:
Credit mobilier

Cré`dit" mo`bi`lier"
(m?`b?`ly?")
[F. crédit credit & mobilier personal, pertaining to personal property.]
A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the crédit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed.


word: Creditor
definition:
Creditor

Cred"it*or
(kr?d"?t-?r)
n.
[L.: cf. F. cr_;diteur. See Credit.]
1.
One who credits, believes, or trusts.

The easy creditors of novelties.
Daniel.

2.
One who gives credit in business matters; hence, one to whom money is due; -- correlative to debtor.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Franklin.


word: Creditrix
definition:
Creditrix

Creditress

{ Cred"it*ress (kr?d"?t-r?s), Cred"i*trix (kr?d"?-tr?ks), }
n.
[L. creditrix.]
A female creditor.


word: creditworthy
definition:
creditworthy

credit-worthy

credit-worthy creditworthy
adj.
having an acceptable credit rating; worthy of having credit extended; as, a credit-worthy customer.

Syn. -- responsible.


word: Credo
definition:
Credo

Cre"do
(kr?"d?)
n.
[L. See Creed.]
The creed, as sung or read in the Roman Catholic church.

He repeated Aves and Credos.
Macaulay.


word: Credulity
definition:
Credulity

Cre*du"li*ty
(kr?-d?"l?-t?)
n.
[L. credulitas, fr. credulus: cf. F. crédulité. See Credulous.]
Readiness of belief; a disposition to believe on slight evidence.

That implict credulity is the mark of a feeble mind will not be disputed.
Sir W. Hamilton.


word: Credulous
definition:
Credulous

Cred"u*lous
(kr?d"?-l?s; 135)
a.
[L. credulus, fr. credere. See Creed.]
1.
Apt to believe on slight evidence; easily imposed upon; unsuspecting.
Landor.

Eve, our credulous mother.
Milton.

2.
Believed too readily.
[Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.


word: Credulousness
definition:
Credulousness

Cred"u*lous*ness
n.
Readiness to believe on slight evidence; credulity.

Beyond all credulity is the credulousness of atheists.
S. Clarke.


word: Creed
definition:
Creed

Creed
(krēd)
n.
[OE. credo, crede, AS. creda, fr. L. credo I believe, at the beginning of the Apostles' creed, fr. credere to believe; akin to OIr. cretim I believe, and Skr. çraddadhāmi; çrat trust + dhā to put. See Do, v. t., and cf. Credo, Grant.]
1.
A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive.

In the Protestant system the creed is not coordinate with, but always subordinate to, the Bible.
Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

2.
Any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.

I love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed.
Shak.

Apostles' creed, Athanasian creed, Nicene creed. See under Apostle, Athanasian, Nicene.


word: Creed₂
definition:
Creed

Creed
v. t.
To believe; to credit.
[Obs.]

That part which is so creeded by the people.
Milton.


word: Creek
definition:
Creek

Creek
(krēk)
n.
[AS. crecca; akin to D. kreek, Icel. kriki crack, nook; cf. W. crig crack, crigyll ravine, creek. Cf. Crick, Crook.]
1.
A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.

Each creek and cavern of the dangerous shore.
Cowper.

They discovered a certain creek, with a shore.
Acts xxvii. 39.

2.
A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.

Lesser streams and rivulets are denominated creeks.
Goldsmith.

3.
Any turn or winding.

The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands.
Shak.


word: Creeks
definition:
Creeks

Creeks
(krēks)
n. pl.
sing. Creek
(Ethnol.)
A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.


word: Creeky
definition:
Creeky

Creek"y
(krēk"&ybreve_;)
a.
Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding.
creeky
Spenser.


word: Creel
definition:
Creel

Creel
(krēl)
n.
[Gael. craidhleag basket, creel.]

1.
An osier basket, such as anglers use.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
(Spinning)
A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.


word: Creep
definition:
Creep

Creep
(krēp)
v. t.
[imp. Crept (krĕpt) (Crope (kr&omacrp), Obs.); p. p. Crept; p. pr. & vb. n. Creeping.]
[OE. crepen, creopen, AS. creópan; akin to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. Cripple, Crouch.]
1.
To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.

Ye that walk
The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep.
Milton.

2.
To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.

The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail,
Unwillingly to school.
Shak.

Like a guilty thing, I creep.
Tennyson.

3.
To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us.

The sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument.
Locke.

Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women.
2. Tim. iii. 6.

4.
To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.

5.
To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.

To come as humbly as they used to creep.
Shak.

6.
To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length.
Dryden.

7.
To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i., 4.

8.
To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.


word: Creep₂
definition:
Creep

Creep
n.
1.
The act or process of creeping.

2.
A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.

A creep of undefinable horror.
Blackwood's Mag.

Out of the stillness, with gathering creep,
Like rising wind in leaves.
Lowell.

3.
(Mining)
A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.


word: Creeper
definition:
Creeper

Creep"er
(krēp"ẽr)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing.

Standing waters are most unwholesome, . . . full of mites, creepers; slimy, muddy, unclean.
Burton.

2.
(Bot.)
A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia).

3.
(Zool.)
A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is Certhia familiaris, a variety of which (var. Americana) inhabits America; -- called also tree creeper and creeptree.  The American black and white creeper is Mniotilta varia.

4.
A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from slipping.

5.
pl.
A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers.

6.
A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons.

7.
pl.
An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there.

8.
Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.

9.
pl.
(Arch.)
Crockets. See Crocket.


word: Creephole
definition:
Creephole

Creep"hole`
(-h?l`)
n.
1.
A hole or retreat into which an animal may creep, to escape notice or danger.

2.
A subterfuge; an excuse.


word: Creepiness
definition:
Creepiness

Creep"i*ness
(-ĭ-nĕs)
n.
An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin.

She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness.
Mrs. Alexander.


word: Creeping
definition:
Creeping

Creep"ing
a.
1.
Crawling, or moving close to the ground.
creeping
Gen. vi. 20.

2.
Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.

Casements lined with creeping herbs.
Cowper.

Ceeping crowfoot (Bot.), a plant, the Ranunculus repens. -- Creeping snowberry, an American plant (Chiogenes hispidula) with white berries and very small round leaves having the flavor of wintergreen.


word: Creepingly
definition:
Creepingly

Creep"ing*ly
adv.
by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly.

How slily and creepingly did he address himself to our first parents.
South.


word: Creeple
definition:
Creeple

Cree"ple
(krē"p'l)
n.
[See Cripple.]
1.
A creeping creature; a reptile.
[Obs.]

There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age.
Morton (1632).

2.
One who is lame; a cripple.
[Obs.]

Thou knowest how lame a creeple this world is.
Donne.


word: Creepy
definition:
Creepy

Creep"y
(krēp"&ybreve_;)
a.
Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin.
[Colloq.]

One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy.
R. Browning.


word: Crees
definition:
Crees

Crees
(krēz)
n. pl.
sing. Cree
(Ethnol.)
An Algonquin tribe of Indians, inhabiting a large part of British America east of the Rocky Mountains and south of Hudson's Bay.


word: Creese
definition:
Creese

Creese
(krēs)
n.
[Malay. kris.]
A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade.
[Written also crease and kris.]

From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife.
Julian Hawthorne.


word: Cremaillere
definition:
Cremaillere

Cré`mail`lère"
(kr?`m?`ly?r" or -m?`y?r")
n.
[F.]
(Fort.)
An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.


word: Cremaster
definition:
Cremaster

Cre*mas"ter
(kr?-m?s"t?r)
n.
[NL., from Gr. _;_;_;, fr. _;_;_;_; to hang.]
1.
(Anat.)
A thin muscle which serves to draw up the testicle.

2.
(Zool.)
The apex of the last abdominal segment of an insect.


word: Cremasteric
definition:
Cremasteric

Crem`as*ter"ic
(kr?m`3s-t?r"?k)
a.
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.


word: Cremate
definition:
Cremate

Cre"mate
(kr?"m?t or kr?-m?t")
v. t.
[L. crematus, p. p. of cremare to burn; cf. Skr. cr_; to cook.]
To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.


word: Cremation
definition:
Cremation

Cre*ma"tion
(kr?-m?"sh?n)
n.
[L. crematio.]
A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead.

Without cremation . . . of their bodies.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Crematory
definition:
Crematory

Crematorium

{ Crem`a*to"ri*um (kr?m`?-t?"r?-?m), Crem"a*to*ry (kr?m"?-t?-r?), }
n.
pl. Crematoriums (-ŭmz), Crematories (-r_;z).
[NL.  crematorium, fr. L.  cremator.]
A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace.


word: Cremocarp
definition:
Cremocarp

Crem"o*carp
(krĕm"o̝*kärp or krē"mo̝-)
n.
[Gr. kremanny`nai to hang + karpo`s fruit.]
(Bot.)
The peculiar fruit of fennel, carrot, parsnip, and the like, consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting axis.


word: Cremona
definition:
Cremona

Cre*mo"na
(kre̝*m&omacr"nȧ)
n.
A superior kind of violin, formerly made at Cremona, in Italy.


word: Crenated
definition:
Crenated

Crenate

{ Cre"nate (krē"na̝t), Cre"na*ted (krē"na̝*tĕd), }
a.
[L. crena notch. See Cranny.]
(Bot.)
Having the margin cut into rounded teeth notches, or scallops.


word: Crenation
definition:
Crenation

Cre*na"tion
(kr?-n?"sh?n)
n.
1.
(Bot.)
A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.

2.
The condition of being crenate.


word: Crenature
definition:
Crenature

Cren"a*ture
(kr?n"?-t?r or kr?"n?-; 135)
n.
1.
(Bot.)
A rounded tooth or notch of a crenate leaf, or any part that is crenate; -- called also crenelle.

2.
The state of being crenated or notched.


word: Crenelate
definition:
Crenelate

Cren"el*ate
(kr?n"?l-?t or  kr?"n?l-?t)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crenelated (-?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Crenelating (-?`t?ng).]
[LL.  crenellare, kernellare: cf. F.  cr_;neler to indent. See Crenelle.]
[Written also crenellate.]
1.
To furnish with crenelles.

2.
To indent; to notch; as, a crenelated leaf.

Crenelated molding (Arch.), a kind of indented molding used in Norman buildings.


word: crenelated
definition:
crenelated

crenelated
adj.
1.
having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; as, a crenelated molding.

Syn. -- embattled, crenelate, crenellated, crenellate, indented.

2.
having turrets and battlements in the style of a castle; -- of a building.

Syn. -- battlemented, castellated, castled, crenellated.


word: Crenelation
definition:
Crenelation

Cren`el*a"tion
(-?"sh?n)
n.
The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.
[Written also crenellation.]


word: Crenel₂
definition:
Crenel

Crenelle

{ Cre*nelle", Cre*nel"  }
(kr?-n?l")
n.
[OF. crenel, F.  cr_;neau, LL. crenellus, kernellus, dim. (prob.) fr. L.  crena notch. See Crenny.]
1.
An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement.

2.
(Bot.)
Same as Crenature.


word: Crenulated
definition:
Crenulated

Crenulate

{ Cren"u*late (kr?n"?-l?t), Cren"u*la`ted (-l?`t?d), }
a.
[Dim. of crenate.]
(Bot.)
Minutely crenate.


word: Crenulation
definition:
Crenulation

Cren`u*la"tion
(-l?"sh?n)
n.
1.
A minute crenation.

2.
The state of being minutely scalloped.


word: Creole
definition:
Creole

Cre"ole
(kr?"?l)
n.
[F. cr_;ole, Sp. criollo, from an American negro word, perh. a corruption of a Sp.  criadillo, dim. of criado servant, formerly also, child, fr. L. creatus, p. p. of creare to create. Cf. Create.]
One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of Louisiana, or one of the States adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of Mexico.

&hand_; “The term creole negro is employed in the English West Indies to distinguish the negroes born there from the Africans imported during the time of the slave trade. The application of this term to the colored people has led to an idea common in some parts of the United States, though wholly unfounded, that it implies an admixture greater or less of African blood.”
R. Hildreth.

&hand_; “The title [Creole] did not first belong to the descendants of Spanish, but of French, settlers, But such a meaning implied a certain excellence of origin, and so came early to include any native of French or Spanish descent by either parent, whose nonalliance with the slave race entitled him to social rank. Later, the term was adopted by, not conceded to, the natives of mixed blood, and is still so used among themselves.  . . .  Besides French and Spanish, there are even, for convenience of speech, 'colored' Creoles; but there are no Italian, or Sicilian, nor any English, Scotch, Irish, or 'Yankee' Creoles, unless of parentage married into, and themselves thoroughly proselyted in, Creole society.”
G. W. Cable.


word: Creole₂
definition:
Creole

Cre"ole
(kr?"?l)
a.
Of or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles.

&hand_; In New Orleans the word Creole is applied to any product, or variety of manufacture, peculiar to Louisiana; as, Creole ponies, chickens, cows, shoes, eggs, wagons, baskets, etc.


word: Creolian
definition:
Creolian

Creolean

{ Cre*o"le*an (kr?-?"l?-an), Cre*o"li*an  }
a.
Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Creoles.
n. A Creole.


word: Creosol
definition:
Creosol

Cre"o*sol
(krē"o̝*s&omacrl)
n.
[Creosote + phenol.]
(Chem.)
A colorless liquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum.
[Written also creasol.]


word: Creosote
definition:
Creosote

Cre"o*sote
(krē"o̝*s&omacrt)
n.
[Gr. kre`as, gen. kre`ws, flesh + sw`zein to preserve.]
(Chem.)
Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure.  It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood.

&hand_; It is remarkable as an antiseptic and deodorizer in the preservation of wood, flesh, etc., and in the prevention of putrefaction; but it is a poor germicide, and in this respect has been overrated.  Smoked meat, as ham, owes its preservation and taste to a small quantity of creosote absorbed from the smoke to which it is exposed. Carbolic acid is phenol{1} proper, while creosote is a mixture of several phenols.

Coal-tar creosote (Chem.), a colorless or yellow, oily liquid, obtained in the distillation of coal tar, and resembling wood-tar oil, or creosote proper, in composition and properties.


word: Creosote₂
definition:
Creosote

Cre"o*sote
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Creosoted (-s?"t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Creosoting.]
To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay.


word: Creosote bush
definition:
Creosote bush

Cre"o*sote bush
A shrub (Covillea mexicana) found in desert regions from Colorado to California and southward through Mexico. It has yellow flowers and very resinous foliage with a strong odor of creosote.


word: Crepane
definition:
Crepane

Crepance

{ Cre"pance (kr?"pans), Cre"pane (kr?"p?n), }
n.
[Cf. L. crepare to crack.]
(Far.)
An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg. It sometimes forms an ulcer.


word: Crepe
definition:
Crepe

Crêpe
(kra̝p)
[F.]
n.
1.
Same as Crape.
[Also spelled crepe.]

2.
(krâp; Eng. krāp)
Any of various crapelike fabrics, whether crinkled or not.
3.
A small thin pancake.
[wns16=2]

4.
Paper with a finely crinkle texture, usually sold in rolls of 2-3 inches width; crepe paper; -- it is usually colored brightly and used for decoration.
[wns16=1]

Crêpe de Chine (_;), n. [F. de Chine of China], Canton crape or an inferior gauzy fabric resembling it. [Also spelled crepe de Chine.] -- Crêpe lisse (lēs) [F. lisse smooth], smooth, or unwrinkled, crape{2}.


word: crepe paper
definition:
crepe paper

crepe` pa"per
(krāp` pā"pẽr)
Paper with a finely crinkle texture, usually sold in rolls of 2-3 inches width; crepe paper; -- it is usually colored brightly and used for decoration.  Same as crepe{4}.


word: Crepe Suzettes
definition:
Crepe Suzettes

Crepes Suzette

Crepe Suzette

Crêpe` Su*zette"
(kr?p` s?*zĕt")
pl. Crêpes` Su*zette" or Crêpe` Su*zettes"
[F.]
n.
A rolled or folded crepe{3}, heated in an orange-flavored liqueur (or in a hot orange-butter sauce and moistened with a liqueur) and set on fire when served.


word: Crepis
definition:
Crepis

Crepis
prop. n.
A genus of plants including the hawk's beard; cosmopolitan in the northern hemisphere.

Syn. -- genus Crepis.


word: crepitant
definition:
crepitant

crep"i*tant
(kr?p"?-tant)
a.
[See Crepitate.]
Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling.

Crepitant rale (Med.), a peculiar crackling sound audible with inspiration in pneumonia and other lung disease.


word: Crepitate
definition:
Crepitate

Crep"i*tate
(kr_;p"_;-t_;t)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Crepitated (-t_;`t_;d); p. pr. & vb. n. Crepitating (-t_;`t_;ng).]
[L. crepitatus, p. p. of crepitare to crackle, v. intensive of crepare to crack. Cf. Crevice.]
To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.


word: Crepitation
definition:
Crepitation

Crep`i*ta"tion
(kr?p`?-t?"sh?n)
n.
[Cf. F. crépitation.]
1.
The act of crepitating or crackling.

2.
(Med.)
(a)
A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air.
(b)
A crepitant râle.


word: Crepitus
definition:
Crepitus

Crep"i*tus
(kr?p"?-t?s)
n.
[L., fr.  crepare to crack.]
(Med.)
(a)
The noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels.
(b)
Same as Crepitation, 2.


word: Crepon
definition:
Crepon

Cre"pon
(kr?"p?n; F. kr?`p?n")
n.
[F.]
A thin stuff made of the finest wool or silk, or of wool and silk.


word: Crepuscule
definition:
Crepuscule

Crepuscle

{ Cre*pus"cle (kre̝*pŭs"s'l), Cre*pus"cule (kre̝*pŭs"k&uuptack_;l), }
n.
[L. crepusculum, fr. creper dusky, dark: cf. F.  crépuscule.]
Twilight.
Bailey.


word: Crepusculous
definition:
Crepusculous

Crepuscular

{ Cre*pus"cu*lar (-k?-l?r), Cre*pus"cu*lous (-l?s), }
a.
[Cf. F. crépusculaire.]
1.
Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous.

This semihistorical and crepuscular period.
Sir G. C. Lewis.

2.
(Zool.)
Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise; -- said certain birds and insects.

Others feed only in the twilight, as bats and owls, and are called crepuscular.
Whewell.


word: Crescence
definition:
Crescence

Cres"cence
(krĕs"sens)
n.
[See Crescent.]
Increase; enlargement.
[Obs.]

And toward the moon's attractive crescence bend.
H. Brooke.


word: Crescendo
definition:
Crescendo

Cres*cen"do
(kr?s-s?n"d?; It. kr?-sh?n"d?)
a. & adv.
[It., from crescere to increase. See Crescent.]
(Mus.)
With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.


word: Crescendo₂
definition:
Crescendo

Cres*cen"do
n.
(Mus.)
(a)
A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed.
(b)
A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone.


word: Crescent
definition:
Crescent

Cres"cent
(krĕs"sent)
n.
[OE.  cressent, cressaunt, crescent (in sense 1), OF.  creissant increasing, F.  croissant, p. pr. of croître, OF.  creistre, fr. L. crescere to increase, v. incho.; akin to creare to create. See Create, and cf. Accrue, Increase, Crescendo.]
1.
The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state.

2.
Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon.

3.
A representation of the increasing moon, often used as an emblem or badge
(a)
A symbol of Artemis, or Diana.
(b)
The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople.
(c)
The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople.

The cross of our faith is replanted,
The pale, dying crescent is daunted.
Campbell.

4.
Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by René of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services.
Brande & C.

5.
(Her.)
The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.


word: Crescent₂
definition:
Crescent

Cres"cent
(krĕs"sent)
a.
1.
Shaped like a crescent.

Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns.
Milton.

2.
Increasing; growing.

O, I see the crescent promise of my spirit hath not set.
Tennyson.


word: Crescent₃
definition:
Crescent

Cres"cent
v. t.
1.
To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent.
[R.]
Anna Seward.

2.
To adorn with crescents.


word: Crescentwise
definition:
Crescentwise

Cres"cent*wise`
(krĕs"sent*wīz`)
adv.
In the form of a crescent; like a crescent.
Tennyson.


word: Crescive
definition:
Crescive

Cres"cive
(kr?s"s?v)
a.
[L.  crescere to increase.]
Increasing; growing.
[R.]

Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.
Shak.


word: Cresol
definition:
Cresol

Cre"sol
(krē"s&omacrl)
n.
[From Creosote.]
(Chem.)
Any one of three metameric substances, CH3.C6H4.OH, homologous with and resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids. [Called also cresylic acid.]


word: Cress
definition:
Cress

Cress
(krĕs)
n.
pl. Cresses (krĕs"ĕz).
[OE. ces, cresse, kers, kerse, AS. cresse, cerse; akin to D. kers, G. kresse, Dan. karse, Sw. krasse, and possibly also to OHG. chresan to creep.]
(Bot.)
A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.

&hand_; The garden cress, called also peppergrass, is the Lepidium sativum; the water cress is the Nasturtium officinale. Various other plants are sometimes called cresses.

To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread.
Goldsmith.

Bitter cress. See under Bitter. -- Not worth a cress, or “not worth a kers.” a common old proverb, now turned into the meaningless “not worth a curse.” Skeat.


word: Cresselle
definition:
Cresselle

Cres*selle"
(kr?s-s?l")
n.
[F. crécelle rattle.]
(Eccl.)
A wooden rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a bell, in the Roman Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy Week, or the last week of Lent.


word: Cresset
definition:
Cresset

Cres"set
(kr?s"s?t)
n.
[OF. crasset, cresset, sort of lamp or torch; perh. of Dutch or German origin, and akin to E. cruse, F.  creuset crucible, E.  crucible.]
1.
An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions.

Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed
With naphtha and asphaltus.
Milton.

As a cresset true that darts its length
Of beamy luster from a tower of strength.
Wordsworth.

2.
(Coopering)
A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.
Knight.


word: Cressy
definition:
Cressy

Cress"y
(krĕs"&ybreve_;)
a.
Abounding in cresses.

The cressy islets white in flower.
Tennyson.


word: Crest
definition:
Crest

Crest
(krĕst)
n.
[OF. creste, F. crête, L.  crista.]
1.
A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.
Darwin.

[Attack] his rising crest, and drive the serpent back.
C. Pitt.

2.
The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet, indicating the rank of the wearer; hence, also, the helmet.

Stooping low his lofty crest.
Sir W. Scott.

And on his head there stood upright
A crest, in token of a knight.
Gower.

3.
(Her.)
A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually above it, or separately as an ornament for plate, liveries, and the like. It is a relic of the ancient cognizance. See Cognizance, 4.

4.
The upper curve of a horse's neck.

Throwing the base thong from his bending crest.
Shak.

5.
The ridge or top of a wave.

Like wave with crest of sparkling foam.
Sir W. Scott.

6.
The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.

7.
The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.

Now the time is come
That France must vail her lofty plumed crest.
Shak.

8.
(Arch.)
The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.

The finials of gables and pinnacles are sometimes called crests.
Parker.

9.
(Engin.)
The top line of a slope or embankment.

Crest tile, a tile made to cover the ridge of a roof, fitting upon it like a saddle. -- Interior crest (Fort.), the highest line of the parapet.


word: Crest₂
definition:
Crest

Crest
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crested; p. pr. & vb. n. Cresting.]
1.
To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.

His legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm
Crested the world.
Shak.

Mid groves of clouds that crest the mountain's brow.
Wordsworth.

2.
To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes.

Like as the shining sky in summer's night, . . . 
Is crested with lines of fiery light.
Spenser.


word: Crested
definition:
Crested

Crest"ed
(krĕst"ĕd)
a.
1.
Having a crest.

But laced crested helm.
Dryden.

2.
(Zool.)
Having a crest of feathers or hair upon the head.
crested
Dryden.

3.
(Bott.)
Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft.
Gray.


word: Crestfallen
definition:
Crestfallen

Crest"fall`en
(-f?l`'n)
a.
1.
With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed.

Let it make thee crestfullen;
Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride.
Shak.

2.
Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; -- said of a horse.


word: Cresylic
definition:
Cresylic

Cre*syl"ic
(kre̝*sĭl"ĭk)
a.
[From Creosote.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, cresol, creosote, etc.

Cresylic acid. (Chem.) See Cresol.


word: Cretaceous
definition:
Cretaceous

Cre*ta"ceous
(kre̝*tā"shŭs)
a.
[L. cretaceus, fr.  creta chalk. See Crayon.]
1.
Having the qualities of chalk; abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk.


word: Cretacic
definition:
Cretacic

2.
(Geol.)
Of, pertaining to, or designating, the period of time following the Jurassic and preceding the Tertiary, generally given as from 144 million years b. p. to 65 million years b. p..  Also called Cre*tac"ic.

Cretaceous acid, an old name for carbonic acid. -- Cretaceous formation (Geol.), the series of strata of various kinds, including beds of chalk, green sand, etc., formed in the Cretaceous period; -- called also the chalk formation. See the Diagram under Geology. -- Cretaceous period (Geol.), the time in the latter part of the Mesozoic age during which the Cretaceous formation was deposited, and at the end of which the dinosaurs died out.  See Cretaceous.


word: Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary
definition:
Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

Cre*ta"ceous-Tert"i*ar*y boun"da*ry
(kre̝*tā"shŭs)
n.
a thin layer of geologic deposits, of varying thickness in different parts of the world, found between the geological strata identified as Cretaceous and the strata above, identified as Tertiary; also, the time point or period marking the boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods.

Syn. -- K/T boundary.

&hand_;According to a theory gaining acceptance (as of 1997), these deposits were formed as the debris of a large comet or meteorite impact on the earth, which threw up a large quantity of dust into the atmosphere, causing profound though temporary climatic change, and caused or hastened the extinction of numerous species, including the dinosaurs.  This hypothesis was first postulated by Luis and Walter Alvarez on the basis of an excess of iridium found in the boundary layer, and was later supported by additional evidence of various types.  The impact is believed to have occurred at the edge of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, forming what is termed the Chicxulub crater, which is partly under the Gulf of Mexico, is not evident from surface topography, and was detected primarily by gravity anomaly readings and subsurface geological characteristics.


word: Cretan
definition:
Cretan

Cre"tan
(krē"tan)
a.
Pertaining to Crete, or Candia.
n. A native or inhabitant of Crete or Candia.


word: Cretic
definition:
Cretic

Cre"tic
(krē"tĭk)
n.
[L. Creticus (sc. pes foot), Gr. Kritiko`s (sc. poy`s foot), prop., a Cretan (metrical) foot.]
(Gr. & Lat. Pros.)
A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (- &breve -).
Bentley.


word: Cretinism
definition:
Cretinism

Cre"tin*ism
(krē"tĭn*ĭz'm)
n.
[F. crétinisme.]
A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.


word: Cretism
definition:
Cretism

Cre"tism
(krē"tĭz'm)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_;_;_; lying, fr. _;_;_;_;_; to act like a Cretan, that is, to lie. “The Cretians are always liars.” Titus i. 12.]
A Cretan practice; lying; a falsehood.


word: Cretonne
definition:
Cretonne

Cre*tonne"
(kr?-t?n")
n.
[F., gr. Creton, its first manufacturer.]
1.
A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and weft of flax.

2.
A fabric with cotton warp and woolen weft.

3.
A kind of chintz with a glossy surface.


word: Creux
definition:
Creux

Creux
(kr?)
n.
[F., adj., hollow, n., a hollow.]
Used in English only in the expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design.


word: Crevalle
definition:
Crevalle

Cre`val*le"
(kr?`v?l-l?")
n.
[Prob. of same origin as cavally. See Cavally.]
(Zool.)
(a)
The cavally or jurel.
Cavally
Jurel
(b)
The pompano (Trachynotus Carolinus).


word: Crevasse
definition:
Crevasse

Cre`vasse"
(kr?`v?s")
n.
[F. See Crevice.]
1.
A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.

2.
A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi.
[U.S.]


word: Crevice
definition:
Crevice

Crev"ice
(kr?v"?s)
n.
[OE. crevace, crevice. F.  crevasse, fr. crever to break, burst, fr. L. crepare to crack,break. Cf. Craven, Crepitate, Crevasse.]
A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.

The mouse,
Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked,
Or from the crevice peered about.
Tennyson.


word: Creviced
definition:
Creviced

Crev"iced
(-?st)
a.
Having a crevice or crevices; as, a creviced structure for storing ears of corn.

Trickling through the creviced rock.
J. Cunningham.


word: Crew₂
definition:
Crew

Crew
(kr&usuml_;)
n.
[From older accrue accession, reenforcement, hence, company, crew; the first syllable being misunderstood as the indefinite article. See Accrue, Crescent.]
1.
A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.

There a noble crew
Of lords and ladies stood on every side.
Spenser.

Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew?
Milton.

2.
The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.

&hand_; The word crew, in law, is ordinarily used as equivalent to ship's company, including master and other officers. When the master and other officers are excluded, the context always shows it.
Story. Burrill.

3.
In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.


word: Crewel
definition:
Crewel

Crew"el
(kr&usuml_;"ĕl)
n.
[Perh. for clewel, dim. of clew a ball of thread; or cf. D.  krul curl, E.  curl. √26.]
Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.


word: Crewelwork
definition:
Crewelwork

Crew"el*work`
(-w?rk`)
n.
Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen.


word: crewman
definition:
crewman

crew"man
(kr&usuml_;"man)
n.
any member of a ship's crew.

Syn. -- sailor.

2.
a member of a flight crew.

Syn. -- crew member.

3.
a member of a work crew.


word: Crib
definition:
Crib

Crib
(krĭb)
n.
[AS. crybb; akin to OS. kribbja, D. krib, kribbe, Dan. krybbe, G. krippe, and perh. to MHG. krebe basket, G, korb, and E. rip a sort of wicker basket.]

1.
A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.

The steer lion at one crib shall meet.
Pope.

2.
A stall for oxen or other cattle.

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean.
Prov. xiv. 4.

3.
A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.

4.
A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.

5.
A hovel; a hut; a cottage.

Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . 
Than in the perfumed chambers of the great?
Shak.

6.
(Mining)
A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.

7.
A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.

8.
A small raft of timber.
[Canada]

9.
A small theft; anything purloined; a plagiarism; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.
[Colloq.]

The Latin version technically called a crib.
Ld. Lytton.

Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib.
Wilkie Collins.

10.
A miner's luncheon.
[Cant]
Raymond.

11.
(Card Playing)
The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.


word: Crib₂
definition:
Crib

Crib
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cribbed (krĭbd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cribbing.]
1.
To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped.
I. Taylor.

Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined.
Shak.

2.
To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.
[Colloq.]

Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace.
Dickens.


word: Crib₃
definition:
Crib

Crib
v. i.
1.
To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
[R.]

Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.
Gauden.

2.
To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.
[College Cant]

3.
To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.


word: Cribbage
definition:
Cribbage

Crib"bage
(kr?b"?j)
n.
[From Crib, v. t., 2.]
A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances.

A man's fancy would be summed up in cribbage.
John Hall.

Cribbage board, a board with holes and pegs, used by cribbage players to score their game.


word: Crib-biter
definition:
Crib-biter

Cribber

{ Crib"ber (kr?b"?r), Crib"-bit`er (-b?t"?r) }
n.
A horse that has the habit of cribbing.


word: Cribbing
definition:
Cribbing

Crib"bing
(kr?b"b?ng)
n.
1.
The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.

2.
Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing.
[Colloq.]

3.
(Mining)
A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc.

4.
A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound.


word: Cribble
definition:
Cribble

Crib"ble
(kr?b"b'l)
n.
[F. crible, LL. criblus sieve, fr. L. cribrum.]
1.
A coarse sieve or screen.

2.
Coarse flour or meal.
[Obs.]
Johnson.


word: Cribble₂
definition:
Cribble

Crib"ble
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cribbled (-b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Cribbling (-bl?ng).]
[Cf. F.  cribler.]
To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift.


word: Cribellum
definition:
Cribellum

Cri*bel"lum
(kr?b?l"l?m)
n.
[L., a small sieve, dim. of cribrum sieve.]
(Zool.)
A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (Ciniflonidæ), used for spinning a special kind of silk.


word: Cribrate
definition:
Cribrate

Crib"rate
(kr?b"r?t)
a.
[L. cribratus, p. p. of cribrare to sift, fr. cribrum a sieve.]
Cribriform.


word: Cribration
definition:
Cribration

Cri*bra"tion
(kr?-br?"sh?n)
n.
[Cf. F.  cribration, fr. L. cribrare to sift. See Cribble, n.]
(Pharmacy)
The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting.


word: Cribriform
definition:
Cribriform

Crib"ri*form
(kr?b"r?f?rm)
a.
[L. cribrum sieve + -form: cf. F. cribriforme.]
Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress.

Cribriform cells (Bot.), those which have here and there oblique or transverse sieve plates, or places perforated with many holes.


word: Cric
definition:
Cric

Cric
(krĭk)
n.
[prob. fr. F. cric a jackscrew.]
The ring which turns inward and condenses the flame of a lamp.
Knight.


word: Crick
definition:
Crick

Crick
(krĭk)
n.
[See Creak.]
The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.
[Obs.]
Johnson.


word: Crick₂
definition:
Crick

Crick
n.
[The same as creek a bending, twisting. See Creek, Crook.]
1.
A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part.

 To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei necks drawn backward.
Holland.

2.
[Cf. F. cric.]
A small jackscrew.
Knight.


word: Cricket
definition:
Cricket

Crick"et
(kr?k"?t)
n.
[OE. criket, OF.  crequet, criquet; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. creak; cf. D. kriek a cricket. See Creak.]
(Zool.)
An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings.

&hand_; The common European cricket is Gryllus domesticus; the common large black crickets of America are Gryllus niger, Gryllus neglectus, and others.

Balm cricket. See under Balm. -- Cricket bird, a small European bird (Silvia locustella); -- called also grasshopper warbler. -- Cricket frog, a small American tree frog (Acris gryllus); -- so called from its chirping.


word: Cricket₂
definition:
Cricket

Crick"et
n.
[AS.  cricc, crycc, crooked staff, crutch. Perh. first used in sense 1, a stool probably having been first used as a wicket. See Crutch.]
1.
A low stool.

2.
A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.

3.
(Arch.)
A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.


word: Cricoid
definition:
Cricoid

Cri"coid
(kr?"koid)
a.
[Gr. _;_;_;_; ring + -oid.]
(Anat.)
Resembling a ring; -- said esp. of the cartilage at the larynx, and the adjoining parts.


word: Cricothyroid
definition:
Cricothyroid

Cri`co*thy"roid
(-k?-th?"roid)
a.
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages.


word: Crier
definition:
Crier

Cri"er
(kr?"?r)
n.
[Cf. F. crieur. See Cry.]
One who cries; one who makes proclamation.
Specifically,
an officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a town-crier.

He openeth his mouth like a crier.
Ecclus. xx. 15.


word: Crime
definition:
Crime

Crime
(krīm)
n.
[F. crime, fr. L.  crimen judicial decision, that which is subjected to such a decision, charge, fault, crime, fr. the root of cernere to decide judicially. See Certain.]
1.
Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.

2.
Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong.
crime
Tennyson.

&hand_; Crimes, in the English common law, are grave offenses which were originally capitally punished (murder, rape, robbery, arson, burglary, and larceny), as distinguished from misdemeanors, which are offenses of a lighter grade. See Misdemeanors.

3.
Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.

No crime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love.
Pope.

4.
That which occasion crime.
[Obs.]

The tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall.
Spenser.

Capital crime, a crime punishable with death.


word: Criminal
definition:
Criminal

Crim"i*nal
(kr?m"?-nal)
a.
[L. criminalis, fr.  crimen: cf. F.  criminel. See Crime.]
1.
Guilty of crime or sin.

The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God.
Rogers.

2.
Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness.

Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications of vice, not criminal in themselves.
Addison.

3.
Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal code.

The officers and servants of the crown, violating the personal liberty, or other right of the subject . . . were in some cases liable to criminal process.
Hallam.

Criminal action (Law), an action or suit instituted to secure conviction and punishment for a crime. -- Criminal conversation (Law), unlawful intercourse with a married woman; adultery; -- usually abbreviated, crim. con. -- Criminal law, the law which relates to crimes.


word: Criminal₂
definition:
Criminal

Crim"i*nal
n.
One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon.


word: Criminality
definition:
Criminality

Crim`i*nal"i*ty
(kr?m`?-n?l"?-t?)
n.
[LL. criminalitas, fr. L. criminalis. See Criminal.]
The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt.

This is by no means the only criterion of criminality.
Blackstone.


word: criminalize
definition:
criminalize

criminalize
v. t.
to declare (an act) to be illegal.

Syn. -- outlaw, illegalize, ban.


word: Criminate
definition:
Criminate

Crim"i*nate
(kr_;m"_;-n_;t)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Criminated (-n_;`t_;d); p. pr. & vb. n. Criminating (-n_;"t_;ng).]
[L. criminatus, p. p. of criminare, criminari, to criminate, fr. crimen. See Crime.]
1.
To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.

To criminate, with the heavy and ungrounded charge of disloyalty and disaffection, an uncorrupt, independent, and reforming parliament.
Burke.

2.
To involve in a crime or in its consequences; to render liable to a criminal charge.

Impelled by the strongest pressure of hope and fear to criminate him.
Macaulay.


word: Crimination
definition:
Crimination

Crim`i*na"tion
(kr?m`?-n?"sh?n)
n.
[L. criminatio.]
The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint.

The criminations and recriminations of the adverse parties.
Macaulay.


word: Criminative
definition:
Criminative

Crim"i*na*tive
(kr?m"?-n?-t?v)
a.
Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory.
R. North.


word: Criminatory
definition:
Criminatory

Crim"i*na*to*ry
(-t?-r?)
a.
Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience.


word: Criminology
definition:
Criminology

Crim`i*nol"o*gy
(-n?l"?-j?)
n.
[L. crimen, crimenis, crime +  -logy.]
1.
A treatise on crime or the criminal population.

2.
The branch of sociology which studies crime and criminals.


word: Criminous
definition:
Criminous

Crim"i*nous
(kr?m"?-n?s)
a.
[L.  criminosus, fr.  crimen. See Crime.]
Criminal; involving great crime or grave charges; very wicked; heinous.
[Obs.]
Holland.


word: Crimp
definition:
Crimp

Crimp
(krĭmp)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crimped (krĭmt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Crimping.]
[Akin to D.  krimpen to shrink, shrivel, Sw. krympa, Dan.  krympe, and to E. cramp.  See Cramp.]
1.
To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle.  Cf. Crisp.

The comely hostess in a crimped cap.
W. Irving.

2.
To pinch and hold; to seize.

3.
to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.

Coaxing and courting with intent to crimp him.
Carlyle.

4.
(Cookery)
To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.

5.
(Firearms)
In cartridge making, to fold the edge of (a cartridge case) inward so as to close the mouth partly and confine the charge.

Crimping house, a low lodging house, into which men are decoyed and plied with drink, to induce them to ship or enlist as sailors or soldiers. -- Crimping iron. (a) An iron instrument for crimping and curling the hair. (b) A crimping machine. -- Crimping machine, a machine with fluted rollers or with dies, for crimping ruffles, leather, iron, etc. -- Crimping pin, an instrument for crimping or puckering the border of a lady's cap.


word: Crimp₂
definition:
Crimp

Crimp
a.
1.
Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
[R.]

Now the fowler . . . treads the crimp earth.
J. Philips.

2.
Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
[R.]

The evidence is crimp; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves.
Arbuthnot.


word: Crimp₃
definition:
Crimp

Crimp
n.
1.
A coal broker.
[Prov. Eng.]
De Foe.

2.
One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
 Marryat.

3.
A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

4.
Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.

5.
A game at cards.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.

Boot crimp. See under Boot.


word: Crimpage
definition:
Crimpage

Crimp"age
(-?j)
n.
The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.


word: Crimper
definition:
Crimper

Crimp"er
(-ãr)
n.
One who, or that which, crimps
(a)
A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
(b)
A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
(c)
A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.


word: Crimple
definition:
Crimple

Crim"ple
(kr?m"p'l)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crimpled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crimpling (-pl?ng).]
[Dim. of crimp, v. t. ]
To cause to shrink or draw together; to contract; to curl.
[R.]
Wiseman.


word: Crimpy
definition:
Crimpy

Crimp"y
(kr?mp"?)
a.
Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.


word: Crimson
definition:
Crimson

Crim"son
(krĭm"z'n)
n.
[OE. crimson, OF.  crimoisin, F.  cramoisi (cf. Sp. carmesi.) LL.  carmesinus, fr. Ar. qermazi, fr. qermez crimson, kermes, fr. Skr.  k&rsdot_;mija produced by a worm; k_;mi worm or insect +  jan to generate; akin to E.  kin. CF.  Carmine, Kermes.]
A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general.

Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Is. i. 18.

A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.
Shak.


word: Crimson₂
definition:
Crimson

Crim"son
a.
Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red.
crimson
Mrs. Hemans.

The blushing poppy with a crimson hue.
Prior.


word: Crimson₃
definition:
Crimson

Crim"son
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crimsoned (-z'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crimsoning.]
To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.

Signed in thy spoil and crimsoned in thy lethe.
Shak.


word: Crimson₄
definition:
Crimson

Crim"son
v. t.
To become crimson; to blush.

Ancient towers . . . beginning to crimson with the radiant luster of a cloudless July morning.
De Quincey.


word: Crinal
definition:
Crinal

Cri"nal
(krī"nal)
a.
[L. crinalis, fr. crinis the hair.]
Of or pertaining to the hair.
[R.]
Blount.


word: Crincum
definition:
Crincum

Crin"cum
(kr?n"k?m)
n.
[Cf. Crinkle.]
A twist or bend; a turn; a whimsey.
[Colloq.]
Hudibras.


word: Crined
definition:
Crined

Crined
(krīnd)
a.
[L. crinis hair.]
(Her.)
Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture.


word: Crinet
definition:
Crinet

Crinel

{ Cri"nel (kr?"nEl), Cri"net (kr?"n?t), }
n.
[L. crinis hair.]
A very fine, hairlike feather.
Booth.


word: Cringe
definition:
Cringe

Cringe
(krĭnj)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cringed (krĭnjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cringing.]
[As. crincgan, cringan, crincan, to jield, fall; akin to E.  crank.]
To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence, to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.

When they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad to cringe behind, for they were afraid of the lions.
Bunyan.

Sly hypocrite, . . . who more than thou
Once fawned and cringed, and servilely adored
Heaven's awful monarch?
Milton.

Flatterers . . . are always bowing and cringing.
Arbuthnot.


word: Cringe₂
definition:
Cringe

Cringe
v. t.
To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.
[Obs.]

Till like a boy you see him cringe his face,
And whine aloud for mercy.
Shak.


word: Cringe₃
definition:
Cringe

Cringe
n.
Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility.
cringe
Cowper.


word: Cringle
definition:
Cringle

Crin"gle
(krĭ&nsmacr_;"g'l)
n.
[Icel. kringla orb; akin to kring around, and to D.  kring circle, and to E.  cringe, crank.]
1.
A withe for fastening a gate.

2.
(Naut.)
An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural.  The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc.


word: Crinicultural
definition:
Crinicultural

Crin`i*cul"tur*al
(kr?n`?-k?l"t?r-al; 135)
a.
[L.  crinis hair + cultura.]
Relating to the growth of hair.
[R.]


word: Crinigerous
definition:
Crinigerous

Cri*nig"er*ous
(kr?-n?j"?r-?s)
a.
[L. criniger; crinis hair + gerere to bear.]
Bearing hair; hairy.
[R.]


word: Crinital
definition:
Crinital

Cri"ni*tal
(kr?"n?-tal)
a.
Same as Crinite, 1.

He the star crinital adoreth.
Stanyhurst.


word: Crinite
definition:
Crinite

Cri"nite
(kr?"n?t)
a.
[L. crinitus, p. p. of crinire to provide or cover with hair, fr. crinis hair.]
1.
Having the appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike tail or train.
crinite
Fairfax.

2.
(Bot.)
Bearded or tufted with hairs.
Gray.


word: Crinitory
definition:
Crinitory

Cri"ni*to*ry
(kr?"n?-t?-r?)
a.
Of or relating to hair; as, a crinitory covering.
T. Hook.


word: Crinkle
definition:
Crinkle

Crin"kle
(krĭ&nsmacr_;"k'l)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crinkled (-k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crinkling (-klĭng).]
[A dim., fr. the root of cringe; akin to D. krinkelen to wind or twist. Cf. Cringle, Cringe.]
To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.

The house_;s crinkled to and fro.
Chaucer.

Her face all bowsy,
Comely crinkled,
Wondrously wrinkled.
Skelton.

The flames through all the casements pushing forth,
Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes.
Mrs. Browning.


word: Crinkle₂
definition:
Crinkle

Crin"kle
v. i.
To turn or wind; to run in and out in many short bends or turns; to curl; to run in waves; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.

The green wheat crinkles like a lake.
L. T. Trowbridge.

And all the rooms
Were full of crinkling silks.
Mrs. Browning.


word: Crinkle₃
definition:
Crinkle

Crin"kle
n.
A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity.

The crinkles in this glass, making objects appear double.
A. Tucker.


word: Crinkled
definition:
Crinkled

Crin"kled
(kr?n"k'ld)
a.
Having short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag.
crinkled
Lowell.


word: crinkleroot
definition:
crinkleroot

crinkle root

crinkle root, crinkleroot
n.
a North American herb (Dentaria diphylla) with pungent scaly or toothed roots; -- called also toothwort.

Syn. -- pepper root, toothwort, Cardamine diphylla, Dentaria diphylla.


word: Crinoidal
definition:
Crinoidal

Cri*noid"al
(kri̝*noid"al)
a.
(Zool.)
Of pertaining to crinoids; consisting of, or containing, crinoids.


word: Crinoidea
definition:
Crinoidea

Cri*noid"e*a
(kri̝*noid"e̝*ȧ)
n. pl.
[NL., from Gr. kri`non lily + -oid: cf. F.  crinoïde.]
(Zool.)
A large class of Echinodermata, including numerous extinct families and genera, but comparatively few living ones.  Most of the fossil species, like some that are recent, were attached by a jointed stem.  See Blastoidea, Cystoidea, Comatula.


word: Crinoline
definition:
Crinoline

Crin"o*line
(kr?n"?-l?n)
n.
[F., fr. crin hair,L. crinis.]
1.
A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair.

2.
A lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt.


word: Crinum
definition:
Crinum

Cri"num
(krī"nŭm)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. kri`non lily.]
(Bot.)
A genus of bulbous plants, of the order Amaryllidaceæ, cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty.


word: Criosphinx
definition:
Criosphinx

Cri"o*sphinx`
(krī"o̝*sfĭ&nsmacr_;ks`)
n.
[Gr. krio`s ram + sfi`gx sphinx.]
A sphinx with the head of a ram.


word: Cripple
definition:
Cripple

Crip"ple
(krĭp"p'l)
n.
[OE.  cripel, crepel, crupel, AS. crypel (akin to D.  kreuple, G.  krüppel, Dan.  kröbling, Icel.  kryppill), prop., one that can not walk, but must creep, fr. AS. creópan to creep. See Creep.]
One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.

I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
Dryden.


word: Cripple₂
definition:
Cripple

Crip"ple
(krĭp"p'l)
n.
[Local. U. S.]
(a)
Swampy or low wet ground, often covered with brush or with thickets; bog.
The flats or cripple land lying between high- and low-water lines, and over which the waters of the stream ordinarily come and go.
Pennsylvania Law Reports.


word: Cripple₄
definition:
Cripple

Crip"ple
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crippled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crippling (-pl?ng).]
1.
To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.

He had crippled the joints of the noble child.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled.

More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay.
Palfrey.

An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic.
Macaulay.


word: Crippling
definition:
Crippling

Crip"pling
(-pl?ng)
n.
Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.


word: Crisis
definition:
Crisis

Cri"sis
(kr?"s?s)
n.
pl. Crises (-s_;z).
[L.  crisis, Gr. _;_;_;_;, fr. _;_;_;_; to separate. See Certain.]
1.
The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point.

This hour's the very crisis of your fate.
Dryden.

The very times of crisis for the fate of the country.
Brougham.

2.
(Med.)
That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat.

Till some safe crisis authorize their skill.
Dryden.


word: Crisp
definition:
Crisp

Crisp
(kr?sp)
a.
[AS. crisp, fr. L.  crispus; cf. carpere to pluck, card (wool), and E. harvest.  Cf. Crape.]
1.
Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.

2.
Curled with the ripple of the water.
[Poetic]

You nymphs called Naiads, of the winding brooks . . . 
Leave jour crisp channels.
Shak.

3.
Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow.

The cakes at tea ate short and crisp.
Goldsmith.

4.
Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition.

It [laurel] has been plucked nine months, and yet looks as hale and crisp as if it would last ninety years.
Leigh Hunt.

5.
Lively; sparking; effervescing.

Your neat crisp claret.
Beau. & Fl.

6.
Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively.

The snug, small room, and the crisp fire.
Dickens.


word: Crisp₂
definition:
Crisp

Crisp
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crisped (kr?spt); p. pr. & vb. n. Crisping.]
[L. crispare, fr.  crispus. See Crisp. a. ]
1.
To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.

2.
To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp.

The lover with the myrtle sprays
Adorns his crisped tresses.
Drayton.

Along the crisped shades and bowers.
Milton.

The crisped brooks,
Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold.
Milton.

3.
To make crisp or brittle, as in cooking.

Crisping iron, an instrument by which hair or any textile fabric is crisped. -- Crisping pin, the simplest form of crisping iron. Is. iii. 22.


word: Crisp₃
definition:
Crisp

Crisp
v. i.
To undulate or ripple.  Cf.  Crisp, v. t.

To watch the crisping ripples on the beach.
Tennuson.


word: Crisp₄
definition:
Crisp

Crisp
n.
That which is crisp or brittle; the state of being crisp or brittle; as, burned to a crisp; specifically, the rind of roasted pork; crackling.


word: Crispated
definition:
Crispated

Crispate

{ Cris"pate (kr?s"p?t), Cris"pa*ted (-p?-t?d), }
a.
[L.  crispatus, p. p. of crispare.]
Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.


word: Crispation
definition:
Crispation

Cris*pa"tion
(kr?s-p?"sh?n)
n.
[CF. F.  crispation.]
1.
The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled.
Bacon.

2.
A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, external or internal.

Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations.
O. W. Holmes.


word: Crisper
definition:
Crisper

Crisp"er
(kr?s"p?r)
n.
One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.


word: Crispin
definition:
Crispin

Cris"pin
(kr?s"p?n)
n.
1.
A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft.

2.
A member of a union or association of shoemakers.


word: Crispy
definition:
Crispy

Crisp"y
(-?)
a.
1.
Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks.

2.
Crisp; brittle; as, a crispy pie crust.


word: Crissal
definition:
Crissal

Cris"sal
(kr?s"sal)
a.
(Zool.)
1.
Pertaining to the crissum; as, crissal feathers.

2.
Having highly colored under tail coverts; as, the crissal thrasher.


word: Crisscross
definition:
Crisscross

Criss"cross`
(kr?s"kr?s`; 115)
n.
[A corruption of Christcross.]
1.
A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.

2.
A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.


word: Crisscross₂
definition:
Crisscross

Criss"cross`
v. t.
To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks.


word: Crisscross₃
definition:
Crisscross

Criss"cross`
(kr?s"kr?s`;115)
adv.
1.
In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways.

Logs and tree luing crisscross in utter confusion.
W. E. Boardman.

2.
With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross.


word: Crissum
definition:
Crissum

Cris"sum
(kr?s"s?m)
n.
pl. Crissa (-s_;).
[NL.; cf. L.  crisso to move the haunches.]
(Zool.)
That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts.


word: Criterion
definition:
Criterion

Cri*te"ri*on
(kr?-t?"r?-?n)
n.
pl. Criteria (-_;), sometimes Criterions (-_;nz).
[Gr. _;_;_;_;_; a means for judging, fr. _;_;_;_; decider, judge, fr. _;_;_;_;_; to separate. See Certain.]
A standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them.

Of the diseases of the mind there is no criterion.
Donne.

Inferences founded on such enduring criteria.
Sir G. C. Lewis.


word: Crith
definition:
Crith

Crith
(krĭth)
n.
[Gr. kriqh` a barleycorn, a small weight.]
(Chem.)
The unit for estimating the weight of aëriform substances; -- the weight of a liter of hydrogen at 0° centigrade, and with a tension of 76 centimeters of mercury. It is 0.0896 of a gram, or 1.38274 grains.


word: Crithomancy
definition:
Crithomancy

Crith"o*man`cy
(krĭth"o̝*măn`s&ybreve_;)
n.
[Gr. kriqai`, pl., barley + -mancy: cf. F. crithomancie.]
A kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims.


word: Critic
definition:
Critic

Crit"ic
(krĭt"ĭk)
n.
[L. criticus, Gr. kritiko`s, a critic; prop., an adj. meaning able to discuss, from kri`nein to judge, discern. See Certain, and cf. Critique.]
1.
One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer.

The opininon of the most skillful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's “Traveler”] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the “Dunciad.”
Macaulay.

2.
One who passes a rigorous or captious judgment; one who censures or finds fault; a harsh examiner or judge; a caviler; a carper.

When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.
I. Watts.

You know who the critics are? the men who have failed in literature and art.
Beaconsfield.

3.
The art of criticism.
[Obs.]
Locke.

4.
An act of criticism; a critique.
[Obs.]

And make each day a critic on the last.
Pope.


word: Critic₃
definition:
Critic

Crit"ic
v. i.
[Cf. F.  critiquer.]
To criticise; to play the critic.
[Obs.]

Syn. -- critique.

Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.
A. Brewer.


word: Critical
definition:
Critical

Crit"ic*al
(krĭt"ĭ*kal)
a.
[See Critic, n., Crisis.]

1.
Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions.

It is submitted to the judgment of more critical ears to direct and determine what is graceful and what is not.
Holder.

2.
Pertaining to criticism or the critic's art; of the nature of a criticism; accurate; as, critical knowledge; a critical dissertation.

3.
Inclined to make nice distinctions, or to exercise careful judgment and selection; exact; nicely judicious.

Virgil was so critical in the rites of religion, that he would never have brought in such prayers as these, if they had not been agreeable to the Roman customs.
Bp. Stillingfleet.

4.
Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.

O gentle lady, do not put me to 't,
For I am nothing, if not critical.
Shak.

5.
Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of a subject.

6.
[See Crisis.]
Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture; important as regards consequences; hence, of doubtful issue; attended with risk; dangerous; as, the critical stage of a fever; a critical situation.

Our circumstances are indeed critical.
Burke.

The small moment, the exact point, the critical minute, on which every good work so much depends.
South.

Critical angle (Optics), that angle of incidence of a luminous ray at which it is wholly reflected, and no portion of it transmitted. The sine of this angle is the reciprocal of the refractive index of the medium. -- Critical philosophy, the metaphysical system of Kant; -- so called from his most important work, the “Critique of Pure Reason.”


word: Critically
definition:
Critically

Crit"ic*al*ly
adv.
1.
In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly.

Critically to discern good writers from bad.
Dryden.

2.
At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation, place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification critically situated.

Coming critically the night before the session.
Bp. Burnet.


word: Criticalness
definition:
Criticalness

Crit"ic*al*ness
n.
1.
The state or quality of being critical, or of occurring at a critical time.

2.
Accuracy in examination or decision; exactness.


word: critical point
definition:
critical point

crit"ic*al point
(Physics)
That combination of volume and pressure, at the critical temperature of the substance, at which the liquid and gaseous phases of a given quantity of a substance have identical values for their densities and other properties.


word: critical temperature
definition:
critical temperature

crit"ic*al tem"per*a*ture
(Physics)
A certain temperature, different for different gases, but always the same for each gas, regarded as the temperature above which no amount of pressure can produce condensation to a liquid; the temperature above which a gas cannot be liquified.


word: Criticaster
definition:
Criticaster

Crit"ic*as`ter
(krĭt"ĭk*ăs`tẽr)
n.
A contemptible or vicious critic.

The rancorous and reptile crew of poeticules, who decompose into criticasters.
Swinburne.


word: Criticise
definition:
Criticise

Crit"i*cise
(kr?t"?-s?z)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Criticised (-s?zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Criticising.]
[Written also, more analogically, but less commonly, criticize.]
[Cf. G.  kritisiren. See Critic.]
1.
To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.

2.
To express one's views as to the merit or demerit of; esp., to animadvert upon; to find fault with; as, to criticise conduct.
Blackwood's Mag.

Syn. -- criticize, pick apart.


word: Criticise₂
definition:
Criticise

Crit"i*cise
v. i.
1.
To act as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment; to play the critic; -- formerly used with on or upon.

Several of these ladies, indeed, criticised upon the form of the association.
Addison.

2.
To discuss the merits or demerits of a thing or person; esp., to find fault.

Cavil you may, but never criticise.
 Pope.


word: Criticism
definition:
Criticism

Crit"i*cism
(kr?t"?-s?z'm)
n.
1.
The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism.

The elements ofcriticism depend on the two principles of Beauty and Truth, one of which is the final end or object of study in every one of its pursuits: Beauty, in letters and the arts; Truth, in history and sciences.
Brande & C.

By criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant a standard of judging well.
Dryden.

2.
The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination and review; a critique; animadversion; censure.

About the plan of “Rasselas” little was said by the critics; and yet the faults of the plan might seem to invite severe criticism.
Macaulay.


word: Critique
definition:
Critique

Cri*tique"
(krĭ*tēk")
n.
[F. critique, f., fr. Gr. kritikh` (sc. te`chnh) the critical art, from kritiko`s. See Critic.]

1.
The art of criticism.
[Written also critic.]
[R.]

2.
A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and thorough analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's “Critique of Pure Reason.”

I should as soon expect to see a critique on the poesy of a ring as on the inscription of a medal.
Addison.

3.
A critic; one who criticises.
[Obs.]

A question among critiques in the ages to come.
Bp. Lincoln.


word: critter
definition:
critter

crit"ter
(krĭt"tẽr)
n.
[from creature.]
[Also spelled crittur.]
1.
Any animal; as, lots of critters come out only at night.
[U. S., western dialect]

2.
Specifically:
A domestic animal or a non-predatory wild animal; -- contrasted with varmint, also dialectal.
[U. S., western dialect]


word: Crizzel
definition:
Crizzel

Criz"zel
(krĭz"z'l)
n.
[Cf.  grizzle darkish gray, or G. griselig gravelly, granular, speckled.]
A kind of roughness on the surface of glass, which clouds its transparency.
[Written also crizzeling and crizzle.]


word: CRO
definition:
CRO

CRO
n.
(Electronics)
acronym for cathode-ray oscilloscope, an electronic device which provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.  See oscilloscope.

Syn. -- oscilloscope, scope, cathode-ray oscilloscope.


word: Croak
definition:
Croak

Croak
(kr&omacrk)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Croaked. (kr&omacrkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Croaking.]
[From the primitive of AS.  cracettan to croak as a raven; akin to G.  krächzen to croak, and to E. creak, crake.]
1.
To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.

Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog,
And the hoarse nation croaked.
Pope.

2.
To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness.
Carlyle.


word: Croak₂
definition:
Croak

Croak
v. t.
To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster.

The raven himself is hoarse,
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.
Shak.

Two ravens now began to croak
Their nuptial song.
Wordsworth.


word: Croaker
definition:
Croaker

Croak"er
(-?r)
n.
1.
One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil.

2.
(Zool.)
(a)
A small American fish (Micropogon undulatus), of the Atlantic coast.
(a)
An American fresh-water fish (Aplodinotus grunniens); -- called also drum.
(c)
The surf fish of California.

&hand_; When caught these fishes make a croaking sound; whence the name, which is often corrupted into crocus.


word: croaky
definition:
croaky

croaky
adj.
like the sounds of frogs and crows; as, acres of croaky frogs.

Syn. -- croaking, guttural.


word: Croat
definition:
Croat

Cro"at
(kr?"?t)
n.
[Cf. Cravat.]
1.
A native or resident of Croatia.

2.
An irregular soldier, generally from Croatia.
[archaic]


word: Croatia
definition:
Croatia

Croatia
n.
a Slavic-speaking country on the Adriatic, part of the Balkan region.  It was formerly part of Yugoslavia.


word: Crocein
definition:
Crocein

Cro"ce*in
(kr?"s?-?n)
n.
[See Croceous.]
(Chem.)
A name given to any one of several yellow or scarlet dyestuffs of artificial production and complex structure.  In general they are diazo and sulphonic acid derivatives of benzene and naphthol.


word: Croceous
definition:
Croceous

Cro"ceous
(kr?"sh?s)
a.
[L. croceus, fr.  crocus saffron.  See Crocus.]
Of, pertaining to, or like, saffron; deep reddish yellow.
[R.]


word: Crocetin
definition:
Crocetin

Cro"ce*tin
(kr?"s?-t?n)
n.
(Chem.)
A dyestuff, obtained from the Chinese crocin, which produces a brilliant yellow.


word: Croche
definition:
Croche

Croche
(kr&omacrch)
n.
[OF. croche, equiv. to F. crochet, croc, hook. See Crotchet, Crook.]
A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler.


word: Crochet
definition:
Crochet

Cro*chet"
(kr?-sh?")
n.
[F.  crochet small hook. See Croche.]
A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively.

Crochet hook, Crochet needle, a small hook, or a hooked needle (often of bone), used in crochet work.


word: Crochet₂
definition:
Crochet

Cro*chet"
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Crocheted (shād"); p. pr. & vb. n. Crocheting (-shā"ĭng).]
To knit with a crochet needle or hook; as, to crochet a shawl.


word: crocheting
definition:
crocheting

crocheting
n.
1.
something created by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle.

Syn. -- crochet.

2.
creating a garment of needlework.


word: Crociary
definition:
Crociary

Cro"ci*a*ry
(kr?"sh?-?-r?)
n.
[See Crosier.]
(Eccl.)
One who carries the cross before an archbishop.
[Obs.]


word: Crocidolite
definition:
Crocidolite

Cro*cid"o*lite
(kr?-s?d"?-l?t)
n.
[Gr. kroky`s nap on cloth + -lite.]
(Min.)
A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.


word: Crocin
definition:
Crocin

Cro"cin
(kr?"s?n)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_;_; saffron.]
(Chem.)
(a)
The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora.
Watts.
(b)
A red powder (called also polychroite), which is made from the saffron (Crocus sativus). See Polychroite.


word: Crock
definition:
Crock

Crock
(kr&obreve_;k)
n.
[Cf. W. croeg cover, Scot.  crochit covered.]
The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth.


word: Crock₃
definition:
Crock

Crock
(kr&obreve_;k)
n.
[AS.  croc, croca, crog, croh; akin to D. kruik, G. krug, Icel.  krukka, Dan. krukke, Sw. kruka; but cf. W. crwc bucket, pail, crochan pot, cregen earthen vessel, jar. Cf. Cruet.]
Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher.

Like foolish flies about an honey crock.
Spenser.


word: Crock₄
definition:
Crock

Crock
n.
1.
a person who is worn out with age or illness.

2.
an old person who complains frequently about illness, especially imaginary ailments.


word: Crock₅
definition:
Crock

Crock
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crocked (kr&obreve_;kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Crocking.]
To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.


word: crocked
definition:
crocked

crocked
adj.
drunk, inebriated.  Opposite of sober.
[slang]

Syn. -- blotto, fuddled, loaded, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy, wet.


word: Crockery
definition:
Crockery

Crock"er*y
( kr?k"?r-?)
n.
[From Crock an earthen vessel.]
Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds.


word: Crocket
definition:
Crocket

Crock"et
(kr?k"?t)
n.
[OF.  croquet, F.  crochet, dim. of croc hook. See Crook, and cf. Crotchet.]
1.
(Arch.)
An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.

2.
A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler.

The antlers and the crockets.
W. Black.


word: Crocodile
definition:
Crocodile

Croc"o*dile
(kr&obreve_;k"o̝*dīl; 277)
n.
[L.  crocodilus, Gr. kroko`deilos: cf. F. crocodile. Cf.  Cookatrice.]
1.
(Zool.)
A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species.  They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America.  The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat.  The best known species is that of the Nile (Crocodilus vulgaris, or Crocodilus Niloticus).  The Florida crocodile (Crocodilus Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws.  The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.

2.
(Logic)
A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.

Crocodile bird (Zool.), an African plover (Pluvianus ægypticus) which alights upon the crocodile and devours its insect parasites, even entering its open mouth (according to reliable writers) in pursuit of files, etc.; -- called also Nile bird. It is the trochilos of ancient writers. -- Crocodile tears, false or affected tears; hypocritical sorrow; -- derived from the fiction of old travelers, that crocodiles shed tears over their prey.


word: Crocodilia
definition:
Crocodilia

Croc`o*dil"i*a
(-d?l"?-?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. crocodilus crocodile.]
(Zool.)
An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds.


word: Crocodilian
definition:
Crocodilian

Croc`o*dil"i*an
(kr?k`?-d?l"?-an)
a.
(Zool.)
Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile.
n. One of the Crocodilia.


word: Crocoite
definition:
Crocoite

Cro"co*ite
(kr?"k?-?t)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_;_; saffron.]
(Min.)
Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also red lead ore.


word: Croconate
definition:
Croconate

Cro"con*ate
(kr?"k?n-?t)
n.
(Chem.)
A salt formed by the union of croconic acid with a base.


word: Croconic
definition:
Croconic

Cro*con"ic
(kr?-k?n"?k)
a.
[Gr. _;_;_;_; saffron.]
1.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling saffron; having the color of saffron; as, croconic acid.

2.
Pertaining to, or derived from, croconic acid.

Croconic acid (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance, C5O3(OH)2, obtained from potassium carboxide, rhodizonic acid, and various phenol and quinone derivatives of benzene, and forming yellow or orange colored salts.


word: Crocose
definition:
Crocose

Cro"cose
(kr&omacr"k&omacrs)
n.
[Gr. kro`kos saffron.]
(Chem.)
A white crystalline sugar, metameric with glucose, obtained from the coloring matter of saffron.
[Written also crokose.]


word: Crocus
definition:
Crocus

Cro"cus
(kr&omacr"kŭs)
n.
[L., saffron, fr. Gr. kro`kos; cf. Heb.  kark&omacrm, Ar.  kurkum, Skr.  ku&ndot_;kuma.]
1.
(Bot.)
A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. Crocus vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; Crocus sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn.

2.
(Chem.)
A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colcothar) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing powder.

Crocus of Venus (Old Chem.), oxide of copper.


word: Croesus
definition:
Croesus

Crœ"sus
(krē"sŭs)
prop. n.
[L., fr. G. Kroi^sos.]
A king of Lydia who flourished in the 6th century b. c., and was renowned for his vast wealth; hence, a common appellation for a very rich man; as, he is a veritable Crœsus.


word: Croft
definition:
Croft

Croft
(kr&obreve_;ft; 115)
n.
[AS.  croft; akin to D. kroft hillock; cf. Gael. croit hump, croft.]
A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm.

A few small crofts of stone-encumbered ground.
Wordsworth.


word: Crofter
definition:
Crofter

Croft"er
(-?r)
n.
One who rents and tills a small farm or holding; as, the crofters of Scotland.


word: Crofting
definition:
Crofting

Croft"ing
n.
1.
Croftland.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.

2.
(Textile Manuf.)
Exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching.


word: Croftland
definition:
Croftland

Croft"land
(-l?nd)
n.
Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.


word: Crofton system
definition:
Crofton system

Crof"ton sys"tem
(?)
[After Sir Walter Crofton, Irish penologist.]
(Penology)
A system of prison discipline employing for consecutive periods cellular confinement, associated imprisonment under the mark system, restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.


word: Croisado
definition:
Croisado

Croisade

{ Croi*sade" (kroi-s?d"), Croi*sa"do (-s?"d?), }
n.
[F. criosade. See Crusade.]
A holy war; a crusade.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Croise
definition:
Croise

Croise
(krois)
n.
[F. croisé crusader, fr. OF.  crois, F.  croix, cross. See Cross.]
1.
A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross.
[Obs.]

2.
A crusader.
[Obs.]

The conquests of the croises extending over Palestine.
Burke.


word: Croissante
definition:
Croissante

Crois`san`té"
(krw?`s?n`t?")
a.
[F.  croissant, adj. & n., crescent.]
(Her.)
Terminated with crescents; -- said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated.


word: Croker
definition:
Croker

Cro"ker
(kr&omacr"kẽr)
n.
[Gr. kro`kos saffron.]
A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron.
[Obs.]
Holinshed.


word: Cro-magnon
definition:
Cro-magnon

Cro-magnon
prop. n.
1.
a race of human-like hominids of the Upper Paleolithic in Europe, considered of the same species as modern humans (Homo sapiens).  Their skeletal remains were found mostly in southern France.

2.
a member of the Cro-Magnon race.


word: Cromlech
definition:
Cromlech

Crom"lech
(kr&obreve_;m"lĕk)
n.
[W.  cromlech; crom bending or bent, concave + llech a flat stone; akin to Ir. cromleac.]
(Archæol.)
A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found chiefly in countries inhabited by the ancient Celts, and are of a period anterior to the introduction of Christianity into these countries.


word: cromorna
definition:
cromorna

cro*mor"na
(kro̝*môr"nȧ)
n.
[F.  cromorne (cf. It. cromorno), fr. G.  krummhorn crooked horn, cornet, an organ pipe turned like a trumpet; krumm crooked + horn horn.]
(Mus.)
A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe.
[Corruptly written cromona.]


word: Cronartium
definition:
Cronartium

Cronartium
n.
A genus of rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns.

Syn. -- genus Cronartium.


word: crone
definition:
crone

crone
(kr&omacrn)
n.
[OD.  kronie, karonie, an old sheep, OF. carogne, F.  charogne, carrion (also F.  carogne ill-natured woman.). See Carrion, and Crony.]
1.
An old ewe.
[Obs.]
Tusser.

2.
An old woman; -- usually in contempt.

But still the crone was constant to her note.
Dryden.

3.
An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman.
[R.]

The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel, . . . which his master had given him.
W. Irving.

A few old battered crones of office.
Beaconsfield.


word: cronel
definition:
cronel

cro"nel
(kr&omacr"nĕl)
n.
[Cf. Coronel spearhead, Crown.]
The iron head of a tilting spear.


word: Cronian
definition:
Cronian

Cro"ni*an
(kr&omacr"nĭ*an)
a.
[Gr. Kro`nios Saturnian, fr. Kro`nos Saturn.]
Saturnian; -- applied to the North Polar Sea.
[R.]
Milton.


word: cronstedtite
definition:
cronstedtite

cron"stedt*ite
(kr&obreve_;n"stĕt*īt)
n.
(Min.)
A mineral consisting principally of silicate of iron, and crystallizing in hexagonal prisms with perfect basal cleavage; -- so named from the Swedish mineralogist Cronstedt.


word: crony
definition:
crony

cro"ny
(kr&omacr"n&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Cronies (kr&omacr"nĭz).
[Orig., an old woman. See Crone.]
1.
A crone.
[Obs.]
crony
Burton.

2.
An intimate companion; a familiar friend
[Colloq.]

He soon found his former cronies, though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of time.
W. Irving.


word: croodle
definition:
croodle

croo"dle
(krō"d'l)
v. i.
[Cf. Cruddle, Crudle.]
1.
To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw.
[Prov. Eng.]
Wright. Forby.

A dove to fly home to her nest and croodle there.
C. Kingsley.

2.
To fawn or coax.
[Obs.]

3.
To coo.
[Scot.]


word: crook
definition:
crook

crook
(krŏk)
n.
[OE. crok; akin to Icel. kr&omacrkr hook, bend, SW. krok, Dan. krog, OD. krooke; or cf. Gael. crocan crook, hook, W. crwca crooked. Cf. Crosier, Crotchet, Crutch, Encroach.]
1.
A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

Through lanes, and crooks, and darkness.
Phaer.

2.
Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
Especially:
(a)
The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
(b)
A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.

He left his crook, he left his flocks.
Prior.

3.
A pothook.
crook
Sir W. Scott.

4.
An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

For all yuor brags, hooks, and crooks.
Cranmer.

5.
(Mus.)
A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

6.
A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
[Cant, U.S.]

By hook or by crook, in some way or other; by fair means or foul.


word: Crook
definition:
Crook

Crook
(kr??k)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crooked (kr??kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Crooking.]
[OE. croken; cf. Sw.  kr_;ka, Dan. kr_;ge. See Crook, n.]
1.
To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee.
Shak.

2.
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
[Archaic]

There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games.
Ascham.

What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends.
Bacon.


word: Crook₂
definition:
Crook

Crook
v. i.
To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
crooketh
Phaer.

Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards.
Camden.


word: Crookback
definition:
Crookback

Crook"back`
(krŏk"băk`)
n.
A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.


word: Crookbill
definition:
Crookbill

Crook"bill`
(krŏk"bĭl`)
n.
(Zool)
A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.


word: Crooked
definition:
Crooked

Crook"ed
(kr??k"?d)
a.
1.
Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
Crooked
Locke.

he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere.
Shak.

2.
Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.

They are a perverse and crooked generation.
Deut. xxxii. 5.

3.
False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.

Crooked whisky, whisky on which the payment of duty has been fraudulently evaded. [Slang, U.S.] Barlett.


word: Crookedness
definition:
Crookedness

Crook"ed*ness
n.
The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.


word: Crookes space
definition:
Crookes space

Crookes space
(krŏks)
[After Sir William Crookes, English chemist, who first described it.]
(Physics)
The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer.


word: Crookes tube
definition:
Crookes tube

Crookes" tube`
(kr??ks" t?b`)
(Phys.)
A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.


word: crookneck
definition:
crookneck

crook"neck`
(?)
n.
Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (Cucurbita moschata) and is smooth and often striped.
[U. S.]

Syn. -- crookneck squash.


word: Croon
definition:
Croon

Croon
(krōn)
v. i.
[OE. croinen, cf. D.  kreunen to moan. √24.]
1.
To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.

2.
To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly.

Here an old grandmother was crooning over a sick child, and rocking it to and fro.
Dickens.

3.
To sing in a soft, evenly modulated manner adapted to amplifying systems, especially to sing in such a way with exaggerated sentimentality.
MW10
RHUD


word: Croon₂
definition:
Croon

Croon
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crooned (krōnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crooning.]
1.
To sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum.

Hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise.
C. Bronté.

2.
To soothe by singing softly.

The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep.
Dickens.


word: crooning
definition:
crooning

crooning
n.
1.
singing in a soft low tone; as, her crooning soon put the child to sleep.

2.
the act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner.


word: Crop
definition:
Crop

Crop
(kr&obreve_;p)
n.
[OE.  crop, croppe, craw, top of a plant, harvest, AS.  crop, cropp, craw, top, bunch, ear of corn; akin to D. krop craw, G. kropf, Icel. kroppr hump or bunch on the body, body; but cf. also W. cropa, croppa, crop or craw of a bird, Ir. & Gael.  sgroban. Cf.  Croup, Crupper, Croup.]
1.
The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

2.
The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.
[Obs.]
Crop
Chaucer.

3.
That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.

Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop,
Corn, wine, and oil.
Milton.

4.
Grain or other product of the field while standing.

5.
Anything cut off or gathered.

Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free,
It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee.
Dryden.

6.
Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.

7.
(Arch.)
A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.
[Obs.]

8.
(Mining.)
(a)
Tin ore prepared for smelting.
(b)
Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
Knight.

9.
A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.

Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]


word: Crop₂
definition:
Crop

Crop
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cropped (kr&obreve_;pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cropping.]
1.
To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.

I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.
Ezek. xvii. 22.

2.
Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.

Death . . . .crops the growing boys.
Creech.

3.
To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.

4.
to cut off an unnecessary portion at the edges; -- of photographs and other two-dimensional images; as, to crop her photograph up to the shoulders.


word: Crop₃
definition:
Crop

Crop
v. i.
To yield harvest.

To crop out. (a) (Geol.) To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal. (b) To come to light; to be manifest; to appear; as, the peculiarities of an author crop out. -- To crop up, to sprout; to spring up; to appear suddenly. “Cares crop up in villas.”  Beaconsfield.


word: cropped
definition:
cropped

cropped
adj.
1.
cut very short; as, her cropped hair.

2.
having an unnecessary portion at the edges cut off; -- of photographs and other two-dimensional images.


word: Cropper
definition:
Cropper

Crop"per
(kr?p"p?r)
n.
1.
One that crops.

2.
A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.

3.
(Mech.)
A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.

4.
A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse.
[Slang.]


word: Cropsick
definition:
Cropsick

Crop"sick`
(kr?"s?k`)
a.
Sick from excess in eating or drinking.
[Obs.]
Cropsick
Tate.
Crop"sick`ness, n. [Obs.] Whitlock.


word: Croquet
definition:
Croquet

Cro*quet"
(kr?-k?")
n.
[From French; cf. Walloon croque blow, fillip. F. croquet a crisp biscuit, croquer to crunch, fr.  croc a crackling sound, of imitative origin. Croquet then properly meant a smart tap on the ball.]

1.
An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.

2.
The act of croqueting.


word: Croquet₂
definition:
Croquet

Cro*quet"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Croqueted (-k?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Croqueting (-k?"?ng).]
In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet.


word: Croquette
definition:
Croquette

Cro*quette"
(kr?-k?t")
n.
[F., fr.  croquer to crunch.]
(Cookery)
A ball of minced meat, fowl, rice, vegetables, or other ingredients, often in a thick white sauce, highly seasoned, breaded, and fried; as, a dish of crab croquettes.


word: Crore
definition:
Crore

Crore
(kr&omacrr)
n.
[Hind. karo&rsdot_;, Skr.  ko&tsdot_;i.]
Ten millions; as, a crore of rupees (which is nearly $5,000,000).
[East Indies]
Malcolm.


word: Crosier
definition:
Crosier

Cro"sier
(kr?"zh?r)
n.
[OE. rocer, croser, croyser, fr.  croce crosier, OF.  croce, croche, F.  crosse, fr. LL.  crocea, crocia, from the same German or Celtic sourse as F. croc hook; akin to E. crook.]
The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God.

&hand_; The true shape of the crosier was with a hooked or curved top; the archbishop's staff alone bore a cross instead of a crook, and was of exceptional, not of regular form.
Skeat.


word: Cross
definition:
Cross

Cross
(kr&obreve_;s; 115)
n.
[OE. crois, croys, cros; the former fr. OF.  crois, croiz, F.  croix, fr. L.  crux; the second is perh. directly fr. Prov.  cros, crotz. fr. the same L.  crux; cf. Icel.  kross. Cf. Crucial, Crusade, Cruise, Crux.]

1.
A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals.

Nailed to the cross
By his own nation.
Milton.

2.
The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom.

The custom of making the sign of the cross with the hand or finger, as a means of conferring blessing or preserving from evil, is very old.
Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

Before the cross has waned the crescent's ray.
Sir W. Scott.

Tis where the cross is preached.
Cowper.

3.
Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.

Heaven prepares a good man with crosses.
B. Jonson.

4.
A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also, that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.

I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse.
Shak.

5.
An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross; a badge or ornamental device of the general shape of a cross; hence, such an ornament, even when varying considerably from that form; thus, the Cross of the British Order of St. George and St. Michael consists of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it.

6.
(Arch.)
A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London.

Dun-Edin's Cross, a pillared stone,
Rose on a turret octagon.
Sir W. Scott.

7.
(Her.)
A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above.

8.
The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write.

Five Kentish abbesses . . . .subscribed their names and crosses.
Fuller.

9.
Church lands.
[Ireland]
[Obs.]
Sir J. Davies.

10.
A line drawn across or through another line.

11.
A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.

 Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler.
Lord Dufferin.

12.
(Surveying)
An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.

13.
(Mech.)
A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle.

Cross and pile, a game with money, at which it is put to chance whether a coin shall fall with that side up which bears the cross, or the other, which is called pile, or reverse; the game called heads or tails. -- Cross bottony or Cross bottoné. See under Bottony. -- Cross estoilé (Her.). a cross, each of whose arms is pointed like the ray of a star; that is, a star having four long points only. -- Cross of Calvary. See Calvary, 3. -- Southern cross. (Astron.) See under Southern. -- To do a thing on the cross, to act dishonestly; -- opposed to acting on the square. [Slang] -- To take up the cross, to bear troubles and afflictions with patience from love to Christ.


word: Cross₂
definition:
Cross

Cross
(kr&obreve_;s)
a.
1.
Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.

The cross refraction of the second prism.
Sir I. Newton.

2.
Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse.
cross
Jer. Taylor.

The cross and unlucky issue of my design.
Glanvill.

The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvelously cross to the common experience of mankind.
South.

We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross,
One must be happy by the other's loss.
Dryden.

3.
Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.

He had received a cross answer from his mistress.
Jer. Taylor.

4.
Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other.

Cross action (Law), an action brought by a party who is sued against the person who has sued him, upon the same subject matter, as upon the same contract. Burrill. -- Cross aisle (Arch.), a transept; the lateral divisions of a cruciform church. -- Cross axle.  (a) (Mach.) A shaft, windlass, or roller, worked by levers at opposite ends, as in the copperplate printing press. (b) A driving axle, with cranks set at an angle of 90° with each other. -- Cross bedding (Geol.), oblique lamination of horizontal beds. -- Cross bill. See in the Vocabulary. -- Cross bitt. Same as Crosspiece. -- Cross bond, a form of bricklaying, in which the joints of one stretcher course come midway between those of the stretcher courses above and below, a course of headers and stretchers intervening. See Bond, n., 8. -- Cross breed. See in the Vocabulary. -- Cross breeding. See under Breeding. -- Cross buttock, a particular throw in wrestling; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse. Smollet. -- Cross country, across the country; not by the road. “The cross-country ride.” Cowper. -- Cross fertilization, the fertilization of the female products of one physiological individual by the male products of another, -- as the fertilization of the ovules of one plant by pollen from another. See Fertilization. -- Cross file, a double convex file, used in dressing out the arms or crosses of fine wheels. --  Cross fire (Mil.), lines of fire, from two or more points or places, crossing each other. -- Cross forked. (Her.) See under Forked. -- Cross frog. See under Frog. -- Cross furrow, a furrow or trench cut across other furrows to receive the water running in them and conduct it to the side of the field. -- Cross handle, a handle attached transversely to the axis of a tool, as in the augur. Knight. -- Cross lode (Mining), a vein intersecting the true or principal lode. -- Cross purpose. See Cross-purpose, in the Vocabulary. -- Cross reference, a reference made from one part of a book or register to another part, where the same or an allied subject is treated of. -- Cross sea (Naut.), a chopping sea, in which the waves run in contrary directions. -- Cross stroke, a line or stroke across something, as across the letter t. -- Cross wind, a side wind; an unfavorable wind. -- Cross wires, fine wires made to traverse the field of view in a telescope, and moved by a screw with a graduated head, used for delicate astronomical observations; spider lines. Fixed cross wires are also used in microscopes, etc.


word: Cross₃
definition:
Cross

Cross
prep.
Athwart; across.
[Archaic or Colloq.]

A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village.
L'Estrange.

To go cross lots, to go across the fields; to take a short cut. [Colloq.]


word: Cross₄
definition:
Cross

Cross
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crossed (kr&obreve_;st; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. Crossing.]
1.
To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms.

2.
To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t.

3.
To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.

A hunted hare . . . crosses and confounds her former track.
 I. Watts.

4.
To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
crossed
J. D. Forbes.

5.
To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with.

In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing.
Shak.

An oyster may be crossed in love.
 Sheridan.

6.
To interfere and cut off; to debar.
[Obs.]

To cross me from the golden time I look for.
Shak.

7.
To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.

8.
To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name.

9.
To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.

To cross a check (Eng. Banking), to draw two parallel transverse lines across the face of a check, with or without adding between them the words “and company”, with or without the words “not negotiable”, or to draw the transverse lines simply, with or without the words “not negotiable” (the check in any of these cases being crossed generally). Also, to write or print across the face of a check the name of a banker, with or without the words “not negotiable” (the check being then crossed specially). A check crossed generally is payable only when presented through a bank; one crossed specially, only when presented through the bank mentioned. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] -- To cross one's path, to oppose one's plans. Macaulay.


word: Cross₅
definition:
Cross

Cross
v. i.
1.
To lie or be athwart.

2.
To move or pass from one side to the other, or from place to place; to make a transit; as, to cross from New York to Liverpool.

3.
To be inconsistent.
[Obs.]

Men's actions do not always cross with reason.
Sir P. Sidney.

4.
To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.

If two individuals of distinct races cross, a third is invariably produced different from either.
Coleridge.


word: Cross-banded
definition:
Cross-banded

Cross"-band`ed
(-b?nd`?d)
a.
A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surface of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface.


word: Crossbar
definition:
Crossbar

Cross"bar`
(-bär`)
n.
A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down.
Russell.

Crossbar shot, a projectile which folds into a sphere for loading, but on leaving the gun expands to a cross with a quarter ball at the end of each arm; -- used in naval actions for cutting the enemy's rigging.


word: Crossbarred
definition:
Crossbarred

Cross"barred`
(-bärd`)
a.
1.
Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars.
Milton.

2.
Made or patterned in lines crossing each other; as, crossbarred muslin.


word: Crossbeam
definition:
Crossbeam

Cross"beam`
(-bēm`)
n.
1.
(Arch.)
A girder.

2.
(Naut.)
A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.


word: Cross-bearer
definition:
Cross-bearer

Cross"-bear`er
(-b?r`?r)
n.
(R.C.Ch.)
A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.


word: crossbencher
definition:
crossbencher

crossbencher
n.
a member of the House of Commons of Great Britain who does not vote regularly with either the Government or the Opposition.


word: Crossbill
definition:
Crossbill

Cross"bill`
(-bĭl`)
(Law)
A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit.
Bouvier.

&hand_; In criminal practice, cross bills of indictment for assault, in which the prosecutor in once case is the defendant in another, may be tried together.


word: Crossbill₂
definition:
Crossbill

Cross"bill`
n.
(Zool.)
A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak.


word: Cross-birth
definition:
Cross-birth

Cross"-birth`
(kr&obreve_;s"bẽrth`)
n.
(Med.)
Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus.


word: Crossbones
definition:
Crossbones

Cross"bones`
(kr&obreve_;s"b&omacrnz`)
n. pl.
A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death.

Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality.
Hawthorne.


word: Crossbow
definition:
Crossbow

Cross"bow`
(kr&obreve_;s"b&omacr`)
n.
(Archery)
A weapon, used in discharging arrows or bolts, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.


word: Crossbreed
definition:
Crossbreed

Cross"breed`
(-brēd`)
n.
1.
A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stocks.

2.
Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.


word: Cross-bun
definition:
Cross-bun

Cross"-bun`
(-bŭn`)
n.
A bun or cake marked with a cross  of icing, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday; also, called hot cross bun, even when not hot.


word: Cross-buttock
definition:
Cross-buttock

Cross"-but`tock
n.
(Wrestling)
A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse.


word: cross-country
definition:
cross-country

cross-country
adj.
1.
from one side of a country to the other; as, a cross-country railway.

2.
moving across open country rather than following tracks or roads; as, a cross-country race.  Opposite of road.


word: cross-country₂
definition:
cross-country

cross-country
n.
a race over a course including countryside, rather than over roads or prepared paths.

Syn. -- cross country.


word: Cross-crosslet
definition:
Cross-crosslet

Cross`-cross"let
(-kr?s"l?t; 115)
n.
(Her.)
A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.


word: cross-cultural
definition:
cross-cultural

cross-cultural
adj.
dealing with or comparing two or more cultures; as, a cross-cultural survey.


word: crosscurrent
definition:
crosscurrent

crosscurrent
n.
1.
a stretch of turbulent water in the sea.

Syn. -- rip, riptide, tide rip.

2.
a tendency or sentiment within a group which conflicts with that of the majority; -- often used in the plural.


word: Crosscut₂
definition:
Crosscut

Cross"cut`
n.
1.
A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.

2.
(Mining)
A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.

Crosscut saw. (a) A saw, the teeth of which are so set as to adapt it for sawing wood crosswise of the grain rather than lengthwise. (b) A saw managed by two men, one at each end, for cutting large logs crosswise.


word: Cross-days
definition:
Cross-days

Cross"-days`
(-d?z`)
n. pl.
(Eccl.)
The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.


word: cross-division
definition:
cross-division

cross-division
n.
classification according to more than one attribute at the same time.

Syn. -- cross-classification.


word: cross-dresser
definition:
cross-dresser

cross-dresser
n.
someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex.

Syn. -- transvestite.


word: Crosse
definition:
Crosse

Crosse
(?)
n.
[F., crosier, hooked stick.]
The implement with which the ball is thrown and caught in the game of lacrosse.


word: Crossette
definition:
Crossette

Cros*sette"
(kr?s-s?t`)
n.
[F., dim. of crosse. See Crosier.]
(Arch.)
(a)
A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow.
(b)
The shoulder of a joggled keystone.


word: cross-eyed
definition:
cross-eyed

cross-eyed
adj.
having convergent strabismus.  Contrasted with walleyed.

Syn. -- crosseyed, boss-eyed[Brit. informal].


word: cross-eye
definition:
cross-eye

cross-eye
adj.
convergent strabismus; a disorder in which one or both eyes turn inward toward the nose rather than directly at the object of vision; crossed eyes.


word: cross-examination
definition:
cross-examination

cross"-ex*am`i*na"tion
(kr?s"?gz-?m`?-n?"sh?n; 115)
n.
(Law)
The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined. See Examination.

2.
[fig.]
close or detailed questioning.


word: Cross-examine
definition:
Cross-examine

Cross"-ex*am"ine
(-?m"?n)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cross-examined (-?nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cross-examining.]
(Law)
To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party.
cross-examine
Kent.


word: Cross-examiner
definition:
Cross-examiner

Cross"-ex*am"in*er
(-?r)
n.
One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.


word: cross-fertilization
definition:
cross-fertilization

cross-fertilisation

cross-fertilisation, cross-fertilization
n.
1.
fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individuals of the same species.


word: Cross-fertilize
definition:
Cross-fertilize

Cross"-fer"ti*lize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cross-fertilized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Cross-fertilizing (?).]
(Bot.)
To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual of the same species.


word: cross-file
definition:
cross-file

cross-file
v. i. & t.
to register as a candidate for more than one political party in the same election.


word: Crossflow
definition:
Crossflow

Cross"flow`
(-fl?`)
v. i.
To flow across, or in a contrary direction.
crossflowing
Milton.


word: Cross-garnet
definition:
Cross-garnet

Cross"-gar`net
(kr?s"g?r`n?t)
n.
A hinge having one strap perpendicular and the other strap horizontal giving it the form of an Egyptian or T cross.


word: Crossgrained
definition:
Crossgrained

Cross"grained
(-gr?nd`)
a.
1.
Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely and irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing.

If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way.
Moxon.

2.
Perverse; untractable; contrary; difficult to deal with.

Syn. -- balky, contrarious.

She was none of your crossgrained, termagant, scolding jades.
Arbuthnot.


word: Crosshatching
definition:
Crosshatching

Cross"hatch`ing
n.
In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle.


word: Crosshead
definition:
Crosshead

Cross"head`
(-h?d)
n.
(Mach.)
A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.


word: crossheading
definition:
crossheading

crossheading
n.
a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text.

Syn. -- crosshead.


word: cross-index
definition:
cross-index

cross-index
n.
a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work.

Syn. -- cross-reference.


word: cross-index₂
definition:
cross-index

cross-index
v. t.
to provide cross-references in (a book or other document).

Syn. -- cross-reference.


word: Crossing
definition:
Crossing

Cross"ing
n.
[See Cross, v. t. ]
1.
The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean.

2.
The act of making the sign of the cross.
Bp. Hall.

3.
The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.

4.
Intersection, as of two paths or roads.

5.
A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street, or a set of marks across the street pavement indicating that this is a designated location for pedestrians to cross.

6.
Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction.

I do not bear these crossings.
Shak.


word: crossing guard
definition:
crossing guard

cross"ing guard`
n.
a person who stands at a street crossing to assist children to cross the street safely; -- usually used near schools during the times that children are entering or leaving the school.
Crossing guards may be employed by a municipality as auxiliary police officers, or may be unpaid volunteers.  Some wear uniforms, others do not.   They are commonly older citizens who are retired or not employed full-time at other tasks.  At some schools, older students from the school are trained to perform the function of crossing guards.


word: Crossjack
definition:
Crossjack

Cross"jack`
(kr?s"j?k` or kr?"j?k`)
n.
(Naut.)
The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.


word: Crosslet
definition:
Crosslet

Cross"let
(-lEt)
n.
[Dim. of cross.]
1.
A small cross.
Spenser.

2.
[Cf. OF.  croisel crucible, and E. Cresset.]
A crucible.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Crosslet₂
definition:
Crosslet

Cross"let
a.
(Her.)
Crossed again; -- said of a cross the arms of which are crossed. SeeCross-crosslet.


word: cross-linguistic
definition:
cross-linguistic

cross-linguistic
adj.
of, relating to, or derived from more than one family of languages; as, cross-linguistic evidence.


word: cross-link
definition:
cross-link

cross-link
n.
(Chem., Biochem.)
a covalent bond that links two chains of atoms, or two sections of one chain, in a polymeric molecule; the cross-link is created by a third bond in a monomer unit in addition to the two bonds forming the polymeric chain; -- a cross-link may be internal to a single chain, rather than between two otherwise unlinked chains; as, ultraviolet irradiation creates cross-links between the two chains of a DNA double helix; many enzymes have cross-links formed by disulfide bonds; polystyrene resins have their porosity controlled by the proportion of cross-links.  Called also cross-linkage.

Syn. -- cross-linkage.


word: cross-link₂
definition:
cross-link

cross-link
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. cross-linked (?), p. pr. & vb. n. cross-linking.]
(Chem., Biochem.)
to create cross links in; -- of polymeric molecules.


word: cross-linked
definition:
cross-linked

cross-linked
a.
(Chem., Biochem.)
containing cross-links; -- of polymeric molecules.

Syn. -- cross-linkage.


word: cross-modality
definition:
cross-modality

cross-modality
n.
(Grammar)
ability to integrate information from different sense modalities.


word: Crossopterygian
definition:
Crossopterygian

Cros*sop`ter*yg"i*an
(kr?s-s?p`t?r-?j?-an)
a.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii.
n. One of the Crossopterygii.


word: Crossopterygii
definition:
Crossopterygii

Cros*sop`te*ryg"i*i
(kr?s-s?p`t?-r?j?-?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;_;_; tassels, a fringe + _;_;_;_;_;, dim. of _;_;_;_; wing, fin.]
(Zool.)
An order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir (Polypterus). See Brachioganoidei.


word: crossover
definition:
crossover

crossover
n.
1.
(genetics)
the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis.

Syn. -- crossing over.

2.
a structure, such as a bridge, bearing a path for crossing over a river or highway.

3.
votes from members of one political party cast for candidates of another party; -- called also crossover vote; as, there was a high crossover in this election.

4.
a member of one political party who votes for a candidate of another party; -- called also crossover voter.

5.
(Plumbing)
a U-shaped section of pipe which serves to pass one pipeline over another which is directly in its path.


word: Crosspatch
definition:
Crosspatch

Cross"patch`
(-p?ch`; 224)
n.
An ill-natured person.
[Colloq.]
Crosspatch
Mother Goose.


word: Crosspiece
definition:
Crosspiece

Cross"piece`
(kr?s"p?s`; 115)
n.
1.
A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.

2.
(Naut.)
A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts.


word: cross-pollination
definition:
cross-pollination

cross-pollination
n.
fertilization by transfer of pollen from the anthers of one flower to the stigma of another.


word: cross-purpose
definition:
cross-purpose

cross"-pur`pose
(-p?r`p?s)
n.
1.
A counter or opposing purpose; a contrary aim; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory.
Shaftesbury.

2.
pl.
A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas.
Pepys.

To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons.


word: Cross-question
definition:
Cross-question

Cross"-ques`tion
(-kw?s`ch?n)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cross-questioned (-ch?nd), p. pr. & vb. n. Cross-questioning.]
To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.


word: Cross-reading
definition:
Cross-reading

Cross"-read`ing
(r?d`?ng)
n.
The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.


word: cross-refer
definition:
cross-refer

cross-refer
v.
to refer from one entry to another, as in catalogues, books, and lists.


word: cross-reference
definition:
cross-reference

cross-reference
n.
a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work.

Syn. -- cross-index.


word: Crossroad
definition:
Crossroad

Cross"road`
(-r?d`)
n.
A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road.


word: Crossrow
definition:
Crossrow

Cross"row`
(-r?`)
n.
1.
The alphabet; -- called also Christcross-row.

And from the crossrow plucks the letter G.
 Shak.

2.
A row that crosses others.


word: Crossruff
definition:
Crossruff

Cross"ruff`
(-r?f`)
n.
(Whist)
The play in bridge or whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw.


word: cross section
definition:
cross section

cross section
n.
1.
a flat plane cutting through a three-dimensional object, usually at right angles to the longest axis of the object.

2.
any visual representation of a cross section{1}, showing the internal structure of the object in the plane of the cross section; as, the technician prepared a series of MRI cross sections of the skull.
Different cross sections created by different techniques may show different aspects of internal structure.  Thus computerized axial tomography using X-rays shows different structures than are visualized by MRI.

3.
a thin slice of an object made by cutting it transversely; as, to view a cross section of a bacterium with an electron microscope after staining the DNA; cross sections were prepared with a microtome.

4.
a representative sample of a complex group; as, the town contained a cross section of the American population.

5.
(Physics)
a measure of the probability that a nucleus will interact in a specified way with a bombarding particle, expressed as the effective area that the nucleus presents to the particle; -- called also nuclear cross section.


word: cross section₂
definition:
cross section

cross section
v. t.
to create one or a series of cross sections{3} by cutting (an object) into thin slices.


word: cross-sectional
definition:
cross-sectional

cross-sectional
adj.
of or pertaining to a cross section; as, a cross-sectional slice.


word: Cross-spall
definition:
Cross-spall

Cross-spale

{ Cross"-spale` (-sp?l`), Cross"-spall` (-sp?l`), }
n.
[See Spale & Spall.]
(Shipbuilding)
One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-pawl.


word: Cross-springer
definition:
Cross-springer

Cross"-spring`er
(-spr?ng`?r)
n.
(Arch.)
One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. [See Illustr. of Groined vault.]


word: Cross-staff
definition:
Cross-staff

Cross"-staff`
(-st?f`)
n.
1.
An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies.

2.
A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.


word: Cross-stitch
definition:
Cross-stitch

Cross"-stitch`
(-st?ch`; 224)
n.
1.
A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other.
cross-stitch
Sir W. Scott.
Cross"-stitch`, v. t. & i.

2.
embroidery done in cross-stitch.


word: Cross-tail
definition:
Cross-tail

Cross"-tail`
(-t?l`)
n.
(Steam Engine)
A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.


word: Cross-tie
definition:
Cross-tie

Cross"-tie`
(-t?`)
n.
(Railroad)
A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.


word: Cross-tining
definition:
Cross-tining

Cross"-tin`ing
(kr?s"t?n`?ng)
n.
(Agric.)
A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges.
Crabb.


word: Crosstrees
definition:
Crosstrees

Cross"trees`
(-tr?z`)
n. pl.
(Naut.)
Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds.  At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the “top.”


word: Cross-vaulting
definition:
Cross-vaulting

Cross"-vault`ing
(-v?lt`?ng)
n.
(Arch.)
Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.


word: Crosswort
definition:
Crosswort

Cross"wort`
(-w?rt`)
n.
(Bot.)
A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.


word: crotal
definition:
crotal

crotal
n.
any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made.

Syn. -- crottle, crottal.


word: Crotalaria
definition:
Crotalaria

Crot`a*la"ri*a
(kr?t`?-l?"r?-?  or kr?`t?-l?"r?-A)
n.
[NL. See Crotalum.]
(Bot.)
A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox.

&hand_; Crotalaria juncea furnishes the fiber called sunn or Bombay hemp.


word: Crotaline
definition:
Crotaline

Crot"a*line
(kr?t"?-l?n or kr?`t?-)
a.
[See Crotalus.]
(Zool.)
Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or Rattlesnake family.


word: Crotalum
definition:
Crotalum

Crot"a*lum
(-l?m)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;_;_;_; rattle.]
(Mus.)
A kind of castanet used by the Corybantes.


word: Crotalus
definition:
Crotalus

Crot"a*lus
(-l?s)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;_;_;_; rattle.]
(Zool.)
A genus of poisonous serpents, including the rattlesnakes.


word: Crotaphite
definition:
Crotaphite

Crot"a*phite
(kr?t"?-f?t)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_;_; the side of the forehead.]
(Anat.)
The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively.


word: Crotaphytus
definition:
Crotaphytus

Crotaphytus
n.
a genus of lizards of the family Iguanidae, including the collared lizards.

Syn. -- genus Crotaphytus.


word: Crotch
definition:
Crotch

Crotch
(kr&obreve_;ch; 224)
n.
pl. Crotches (kr&obreve_;ch"ĕz).
[Cf. Crotchet, Crutch.]
1.
The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.
more specifically,
the space on the human torso between the two legs; also, the corresponding part between the legs of a pair of pants, which is in contact with the crotch of the wearer; as, pants with a tight crotch have become very popular.

2.
(Naut.)
A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; -- called also crane and crutch.
Totten.

3.
(Billiards)
In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table. See Crotched, below.


word: Crotch₂
definition:
Crotch

Crotch
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crotched (kr&obreve_;cht); p. pr. & vb. n. Crotch"ing.]
1.
To provide with a crotch; to give the form of a crotch to; as, to crotch the ends of ropes in splicing or tying knots.

2.
(Logging)
To notch (a log) on opposite sides to provide a grip for the dogs in hauling.
[Western, U. S.]


word: Crotch chain
definition:
Crotch chain

Crotch chain
(Logging)
A form of tackle for loading a log sideways on a sled, skidway, etc.


word: Crotched
definition:
Crotched

Crotched
(kr&obreve_;cht)
a.
1.
Having a crotch; forked.

2.
Cross; peevish.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

3.
(Billiards)
Lying within a crotch; -- said of the object balls in the three-ball carom game whenever the centers of both lie within a 41/2-inch square at a corner of the table, in which case but three counts are allowed unless one or both balls be forced out of the crotch.


word: Crotchet
definition:
Crotchet

Crotch"et
(kr?ch"?t; 224)
n.
[F. crochet, prop., a little hook, a dim. from the same source as croc hook. See Crook, and cf. Crochet, Crocket, Crosier.]
1.
A forked support; a crotch.

The crotchets of their cot in columns rise.
Dryden.

2.
(Mus.)
A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note.

3.
(Fort.)
An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.

4.
(Mil.)
The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.

5.
(Print.)
A bracket. See Bracket.

6.
(Med.)
An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus.
Dunglison.

7.
A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.

He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man.
De Quincey.


word: Crotcheted
definition:
Crotcheted

Crotch"et*ed
a.
Marked or measured by crotchets; having musical notation.
Harmar (1587).


word: Crotchetiness
definition:
Crotchetiness

Crotch"et*i*ness
(kr?ch"?t-?-n?s)
n.
The state or character of being crotchety, or whimsical.

This belief in rightness is a kind of conscientiousness, and when it degenerates it becomes crotchetiness.
J. Grote.


word: Croton
definition:
Croton

Cro"ton
(kr?"t?n)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_;_;, prop., a tick, which the seed of the croton resembles.]
(Bot.)
A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries.

Croton oil (Med.), a viscid, acrid, brownish yellow oil obtained from the seeds of Croton Tiglium, a small tree of the East Indies. It is a most powerful drastic cathartic, and is used externally as a pustulant.


word: Croton bug
definition:
Croton bug

Cro"ton bug`
(bŭg`)
[From the Croton water of New York.]
(Zool.)
A small, active, winged species of cockroach (Ectobia Germanica), the water bug. It is common aboard ships, and in houses in cities, esp. in those with hot-water pipes; -- called also the German cockroach.


word: Crotonic
definition:
Crotonic

Cro*ton"ic
(kr?-t?n"?k)
a.
Of or pertaining to, or derived from, a plant of the genus Croton, or from croton oil.

Crotonic acid (Chem.), a white crystalline organic acid, C3H5.CO2H, of the ethylene, or acrylic acid series. It was so named because formerly supposed to exist in croton oil. Also, any acid metameric with crotonic acid proper.

&hand_; The acid characteristic of croton oil is tiglic or tiglinic acid, a derivative of crotonic acid.


word: Crotonine
definition:
Crotonine

Cro"ton*ine
(kr?"t?n-?n)
n.
(Chem.)
A supposed alkaloid obtained from croton oil by boiling it with water and magnesia, since found to be merely a magnesia soap of the oil.
Watts.


word: Crotonylene
definition:
Crotonylene

Cro*ton"y*lene
(kr?-t?n"?-l?n)
n.
[Crotonic  + acet-ylene.]
(Chem.)
A colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, C4H6, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid.


word: Crotophaga
definition:
Crotophaga

Crotophaga
n.
a genus of birds including the anis.  See ani.

Syn. -- genus Crotophaga.


word: crottal
definition:
crottal

crottal
n.
any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made.
[Also spelled crottle and crotal.]

Syn. -- .


word: Crottles
definition:
Crottles

Crot"tles
(kr?t"t'lz)
n. pl.
[Gael.  crotal.]
A name given to various lichens gathered for dyeing.  See crottal.
[Scot.]


word: Crouch
definition:
Crouch

Crouch
(krouch; 129)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Crouched (kroucht); p. pr. & vb. n. Crouching.]
[OE.  cruchen, crouchen, crouken; cf. E.  creep, G.  krauchen, kriechen, or E.  crook to bend, also crouch to cross.]
1.
To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.

Now crouch like a cur.
Beau. & Fl.

2.
To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
crouching
Wordsworth.

Must I stand and crouch
Under your testy humor?
Shak.


word: Crouch₂
definition:
Crouch

Crouch
v. t.
[OE.  cruchen, crouchen, from cruche, crouche, cross. Cf. Crosier, Crook.]
1.
To sign with the cross; to bless.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.

She folded her arms across her chest,
And crouched her head upon her breast.
Colerige.


word: Crouched
definition:
Crouched

Crouched
(kroucht)
a.
Marked with the sign of the cross.
[Obs.]

Crouched friar. See Crutched friar, under Crutched.


word: Croup
definition:
Croup

Croup
(krōp)
n.
[F.  croupe hind quarters, croup, rump, of German or Icel. origin; cf. Icel.  kryppa hump; akin to Icel.  kroppr.  Cf. Crop.]
The hinder part or buttocks of certain quadrupeds, especially of a horse; hence, the place behind the saddle.

So light to the croup the fair lady he swung,
So light to the saddle before her he sprung.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Croup₂
definition:
Croup

Croup
(krōp)
n.
[Scot.  croup, cf.  croup, crowp, to croak, to cry or speak with a hoarse voice; cf. also LG. kropp, G.  kropf, the crop or craw of a bird, and tumor on the anterior part of the neck, a wen, etc. Cf. Crop.]
(Med.)
An inflammatory affection of the larynx or trachea, accompanied by a hoarse, ringing cough and stridulous, difficult breathing; esp., such an affection when associated with the development of a false membrane in the air passages (also called membranous croup). See False croup, under False, and Diphtheria.


word: Croupade
definition:
Croupade

Crou*pade"
(kr??-p?d")
n.
[F., fr. croupe hind quarters.]
(Man.)
A leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs toward his belly.


word: Croupier
definition:
Croupier

Crou"pi*er
(krō"pĭ*ẽr)
n.
[F.; prop., one who sits on the croup, and hence, in the second place; an assistant. See 1st Croup.]
1.
One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes.

2.
One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.


word: Croupous
definition:
Croupous

Croup"ous
(kr??p"?s)
a.
(Med.)
Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrane like that found in membranous croup; as, croupous laryngitis.

Croupous pneumonia, pneumonia attended with deposition of fibrinous matter in the air vesicles of the lungs; ordinary acute pneumonia.


word: Croupy
definition:
Croupy

Croup"y
(krōp"&ybreve_;)
a.
Of or pertaining to croup; resembling or indicating croup; as, a croupy cough.


word: Croustade
definition:
Croustade

Crou`stade"
(kr??`st?d")
n.
[F., fr. cro_;te a crust, OF.  crouste.]
(Cookery)
Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon.
Bishop.


word: Crouton
definition:
Crouton

Crou`ton"
(kr??`t?n")
n.
[F.  cro_;ton, fr.  cro_;te a crust.]
(Cookery)
Bread cut in various forms, and fried lightly in butter or oil, to garnish hashes, etc.


word: Crow
definition:
Crow

Crow
(kr&omacr)
v. i.
[imp. Crew (kr&usuml_;) or Crowed (kr&omacrd); p. p. Crowed (Crown (kr&omacrn), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Crowing.]
[AS. crāwan; akin to D. kraijen, G.  krähen, cf. Lith.  groti to croak. √24. Cf.  Crake.]
1.
To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance.
crown
Bayron.

The morning cock crew loud.
Shak.

2.
To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.

3.
To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.

The sweetest little maid,
That ever crowed for kisses.
Tennyson.

To crow over, to exult over a vanquished antagonist.

Sennacherib crowing over poor Jerusalem.
Bp. Hall.


word: Crow₂
definition:
Crow

Crow
n.
[AS. crāwe a crow (in sense 1); akin to D.  kraai, G.  krähe; cf. Icel.  krāka crow. So named from its cry, from AS.  crāwan to crow. See Crow, v. i. ]

1.
(Zool.)
A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles.  It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.

&hand_; The common crow of Europe, or carrion crow, is Corvus corone.  The common American crow is Corvus Americanus. See Carrion crow, and Illustr., under Carrion.

2.
A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.

Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight
Unto my cell.
Shak.

3.
The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1.

4.
The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.

Carrion crow. See under Carrion. -- Crow blackbird (Zool.), an American bird (Quiscalus quiscula); -- called also purple grackle. -- Crow pheasant (Zool.), an Indian cuckoo; the common coucal. It is believed by the natives to give omens. See Coucal. -- Crow shrike (Zool.), any bird of the genera Gymnorhina, Craticus, or Strepera, mostly from Australia. -- Red-legged crow. See Crough. -- As the crow flies, in a direct line. -- To pick a crow, To pluck a crow, to state and adjust a difference or grievance (with any one).


word: Crowberry
definition:
Crowberry

Crow`ber`ry
(kr?"b?r`r?)
n.
(Bot.)
A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry.


word: crowing
definition:
crowing

crowing
adj.
1.
same as bragging.

Syn. -- boastful, braggart(prenominal), bragging(prenominal), braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, self-aggrandizing, vainglorious.


word: Crowd
definition:
Crowd

Crowd
(kroud)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crowded; p. pr. & vb. n. Crowding.]
[OE.  crouden, cruden, AS. crūdan; cf. D.  kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.]
1.
To push, to press, to shove.
Chaucer.

2.
To press or drive together; to mass together.
Crowd
Shak.

3.
To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.

The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
Prescott.

4.
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
[Colloq.]

To crowd out, to press out; specifically, to prevent the publication of; as, the press of other matter crowded out the article. -- To crowd sail (Naut.), to carry an extraordinary amount of sail, with a view to accelerate the speed of a vessel; to carry a press of sail.


word: Crowd₂
definition:
Crowd

Crowd
v. i.
1.
To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.

The whole company crowded about the fire.
Addison.

Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.
Macaulay.

2.
To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.


word: Crowd₃
definition:
Crowd

Crowd
n.
[AS.  croda. See Crowd, v. t. ]
1.
A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.

A crowd of islands.
Pope.

2.
A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.

The crowd of Vanity Fair.
Macaulay.

Crowds that stream from yawning doors.
Tennyson.

3.
The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.

To fool the crowd with glorious lies.
Tennyson.

He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.
Dryden.


word: Crowd₄
definition:
Crowd

Crowd
n.
[W. crwth; akin to Gael. cruit. Perh. named from its shape, and akin to Gr. kyrto`s curved, and E.  curve. Cf. Rote.]
An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.
[Written also croud, crowth, cruth, and crwth.]

A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little.
B. Jonson.


word: crowded
definition:
crowded

crowded
adj.
1.
overfilled or compacted or concentrated; filled to excess; as, a crowded program.  Opposite of uncrowded.
[Narrower terms: full, jammed, jam-packed, packed]

2.
filled with a crowd; as, a crowded marketplace.

3.
having an uncomfortable density of people; filled to excess with people; as, crowded trains; a crowded theater.


word: Crowdy
definition:
Crowdy

Crow"dy
(krou"d&ybreve_;)
n.
A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind.
[Scot.]


word: Crowflower
definition:
Crowflower

Crow"flow`er
(kr?"flou`?r)
n.
(Bot.)
A kind of campion; according to Gerarde, the Lychnis Flos-cuculi.


word: Crowfoot
definition:
Crowfoot

Crow"foot`
(kr?"f??t`)
n.
1.
(Bot.)
The genus Ranunculus, of many species; some are common weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty.

2.
(Naut.)
A number of small cords rove through a long block, or euphroe, to suspend an awning by.

3.
(Mil.)
A caltrop.
[Written also crow's-foot.]

4.
(Well Boring)
A tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc.
Raymond.


word: Crowkeeper
definition:
Crowkeeper

Crow"keep`er
(-k?p`?r)
n.
A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow.
[Obs.]

Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper.
Shak.


word: Crown₂
definition:
Crown

Crown
(kroun)
n.
[OE. corone, coroun, crune, croun, OF.  corone, corune, F.  couronne, fr. L.  corona crown, wreath; akin to Gr. korw`nh anything curved, crown; cf. also L.  curvus curved, E.  curve, curb, Gael.  cruinn round, W.  crwn. Cf. Cornice, Corona, Coroner, Coronet.]
1.
A wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction; hence, anything given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward.
crown
Shak.

They do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
1 Cor. ix. 25.

Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Rev. ii. 10.

2.
A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc.

&hand_; Nobles wear coronets; the triple crown of the pope is usually called a tiara. The crown of England is a circle of gold with crosses, fleurs-de-lis, and imperial arches, inclosing a crimson velvet cap, and ornamented with thousands of diamonds and precious stones.

3.
The person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown; the sovereign; -- with the definite article.

Parliament may be dissolved by the demise of the crown.
Blackstone.

Large arrears of pay were due to the civil and military servants of the crown.
Macaulay.

4.
Imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty.

There is a power behind the crown greater than the crown itself.
Junius.

5.
Anything which imparts beauty, splendor, honor, dignity, or finish.

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Prov. xvi. 31.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.
Prov. xvi. 4.

6.
Highest state; acme; consummation; perfection.

Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.
Milton.

7.
The topmost part of anything; the summit.

The steepy crown of the bare mountains.
Dryden.

8.
The topmost part of the head (see Illust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain.

From toe to crown he'll fill our skin with pinches.
Shak.

Twenty things which I set down:
This done, I twenty more-had in my crown.
Bunyan.

9.
The part of a hat above the brim.

10.
(Anat.)
The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth.

11.
(Arch.)
The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.

12.
(Bot.)
Same as Corona.

13.
(Naut.)
(a)
That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.
(b)
The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
(c)
pl.
The bights formed by the several turns of a cable.
Totten.

14.
The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.

15.
The dome of a furnace.

16.
(Geom.)
The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters.

17.
(Eccl.)
A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.

18.
A size of writing paper. See under Paper.

19.
A coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a denomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.

20.
An ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the paper is stamped with a crown.

Crown of aberration (Astron.), a spurious circle around the true circle of the sun. -- Crown antler (Zool.), the topmost branch or tine of an antler; also, an antler having a cuplike top, with tines springing from the rim. -- Crown bar, one of the bars which support the crown sheet of steam-boiler furnace. -- Crown glass. See under Glass. -- Crown imperial. (Bot.) See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown jewels, the jewels appertaining to the sovereign while wearing the crown. [Eng.] “She pawned and set to sale the crown jewels.” Milton. -- Crown land, land belonging to the crown, that is, to the sovereign. -- Crown law, the law which governs criminal prosecutions. [Eng.] -- Crown lawyer, one employed by the crown, as in criminal cases. [Eng.] -- Crown octavo. See under Paper. -- Crown office. See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown paper.  See under Paper. -- Crown piece.  See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown Prince, the heir apparent to a crown or throne. -- Crown saw. See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown scab (Far.), a cancerous sore formed round the corners of a horse's hoof. -- Crown sheet, the flat plate which forms the top of the furnace or fire box of an internally fired steam boiler. -- Crown shell.  (Zool.) See Acorn-shell. -- Crown side. See Crown office. -- Crown tax (Eccl. Hist.), a golden crown, or its value, which was required annually from the Jews by the king of Syria, in the time of the Maccabees. 1 Macc. x. 20. -- Crown wheel. See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown work. See in the Vocabulary. -- Pleas of the crown (Engl. law), criminal actions.


word: Crown₃
definition:
Crown

Crown
(kroun)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crowned (kround); p. pr. & vb. n. Crowning.]
[OE. coronen, corunen, crunien, crounien, OF.  coroner, F.  couronner, fr. L.  coronare, fr. corona a crown. See Crown, n.]
1.
To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power.

Her who fairest does appear,
Crown her queen of all the year.
Dryden.

Crown him, and say, “Long live our emperor.”
Shak.

2.
To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.

Thou . . . hast crowned him with glory and honor.
Ps. viii. 5.

3.
To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.

Amidst the grove that crowns yon tufted hill.
Byron.

One day shall crown the alliance.
Shak.

To crown the whole, came a proposition.
Motley.

4.
(Mech.)
To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.

5.
(Mil.)
To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.

To crown a knot (Naut.), to lay the ends of the strands over and under each other.


word: crownbeard
definition:
crownbeard

crownbeard
n.
any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads.

Syn. -- crown beard.


word: Crown colony
definition:
Crown colony

Crown colony
A colony of the British Empire not having an elective magistracy or a parliament, but governed by a chief magistrate (called Governor) appointed by the Crown, with executive councilors nominated by him and not elected by the people.


word: Crowned
definition:
Crowned

Crowned
(kround)
p. p. & a.
1.
Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected.
Crowned
Shak.
Crowned
Milton.

With surpassing glory crowned.
Milton.

2.
Great; excessive; supreme.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Crowner
definition:
Crowner

Crown"er
(kroun"ẽr)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, crowns.
Beau. & FL.

2.
[Cf. Coroner.]
A coroner.
[Prov. Eng. or Scot.]


word: Crownet
definition:
Crownet

Crown"et
(kroun"?t)
n.
[See Crown, Coronet.]

1.
A coronet.
[R.]
P. Whitehead.

2.
The ultimate end and result of an undertaking; a chief end.
[Obs.]

O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm . . . .
Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end.
Shak.


word: Crown-imperial
definition:
Crown-imperial

Crown"-im*pe"ri*al
(-?m-p?"r?-al)
n.
(Bot.)
A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell-shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.


word: Crownland
definition:
Crownland

Crown"land`
(?)
n.
[G. kronland.]
In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.


word: Crown office
definition:
Crown office

Crown" of`fice
(?f`f?s; 115)
(Eng. Law)
The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases.
Burrill.


word: crown-of-the-field
definition:
crown-of-the-field

crown-of-the-field
n.
a European annual (Agrostemma githago) having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America.

Syn. -- corn cockle, corncockle, corn-cockle, corn campion, Agrostemma githago.


word: Crownpiece
definition:
Crownpiece

Crown"piece`
(-p?s`)
n.
(a)
A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle.
(b)
A coin [In sense (b) properly crown piece.] See Crown, 19.


word: Crown-saw
definition:
Crown-saw

Crown"-saw`
(-s?`)
n.
[From its supposed resemblance to a crown.]
(Mech.)
A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion.

&hand_; The trephine was the first of the class of crownsaws.
Knight.


word: Crown wheel
definition:
Crown wheel

Crown" wheel`
(hw?l`)
[Named from its resemblance to a crown.]
(Mach.)
A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.


word: Crownwork
definition:
Crownwork

Crown"work`
(-w?rk`)
n.
(Fort.)
A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank.


word: Crow-quill
definition:
Crow-quill

Crow"-quill`
(kr?"kw?l`)
n.
A quill of the crow, or a very fine pen made from such a quill.


word: Crows
definition:
Crows

Crows
(kr&omacrz)
n. pl.
sing. Crow
(Ethnol.)
A tribe of Indians of the Dakota stock, living in Montana; -- also called Upsarokas.


word: Crow's-foot
definition:
Crow's-foot

Crow's"-foot`
(kr?z"f??t`)
n.
pl. Crow's-feet (-fēt`).

1.
pl.
The wrinkles that appear, as the effect of age or dissipation, under and around the outer corners of the eyes.
Tennyson.

2.
(Mil.)
A caltrop.
[Written also crowfoot.]

3.
(Arch.)
Same as Bird's-mouth.
[U.S.]


word: Crow-silk
definition:
Crow-silk

Crow"-silk`
(kr?"s?lk`)
n.
(Bot.)
A filamentous fresh-water alga (Conferva rivularis of Linnaeus, Rhizoclonium rivulare of Kutzing).


word: crow's nest
definition:
crow's nest

crow's-nest

crow's"-nest`, crow's" nest`
(kr&omacrz"nĕst`)
n.
(Naut.)
A box or platform near the top of a mast, esp. in whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout.


word: Crowstone
definition:
Crowstone

Crow"stone`
(kr?"st?n`)
n.
(Arch.)
The top stone of the gable end of a house.
Halliwell.


word: Crowtoe
definition:
Crowtoe

Crow"toe`
(kr&omacr"t&omacr`)
n.
(Bot.)
1.
The Lotus corniculatus.
Dr. Prior.

2.
An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot.
crowtoe
Milton.


word: Crow-trodden
definition:
Crow-trodden

Crow"-trod`den
(kr&omacr"tr?d`d'n)
a.
Marked with crow's-feet, or wrinkles, about the eyes.
[Poetic]

Do I look as if I were crow-trodden?
Beau. & FL.


word: Croydon
definition:
Croydon

Croy"don
(?)
n.
[From Croydon, England.]
1.
A kind of carriage like a gig, orig. of wicker-work.

2.
A kind of cotton sheeting; also, a calico.


word: Croylstone
definition:
Croylstone

Croyl"stone`
(kroil"st&omacrn`)
n.
(Min.)
Crystallized cawk, in which the crystals are small.


word: Croze
definition:
Croze

Croze
(kr?z)
n.
[Cf. Cross, and Crosier.]
A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself.


word: Crucial
definition:
Crucial

Cru"cial
(kr?"shal)
a.
[F. crucial, fr. L. crux, crucis, cross, torture. See Cross.]
1.
Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.

2.
Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test.


word: Crucian carp
definition:
Crucian carp

Cru"cian carp`
(-shan k?rp`)
[Cf. Sw. karussa, G. karausche, F.  carousse, -assin, corassin, LL.  coracinus, Gr. _;_;_;_;_;  a sort of fish.]
(Zool.)
A kind of European carp (Carasius vulgaris), inferior to the common carp; -- called also German carp.

&hand_; The gibel or Prussian carp is now generally considered a variety of the crucian carp, or perhaps a hybrid between it and the common carp.


word: Cruciate
definition:
Cruciate

Cru"ci*ate
(kr?"sh?-?t or -sh?t; 106)
a.
[L. cruciatus, p. p. of cruciare to crucify, torture, fr. crux, crucis, a cross. See Cross.]
1.
Tormented.
[Obs.]
Bale.

2.
(Bot.)
Having the leaves or petals arranged in the form of a cross; cruciform.


word: Cruciation
definition:
Cruciation

Cru`ci*a"tion
(kr?`sh?-?"sh?n)
n.
[LL. cruciatio.]
The act of torturing; torture; torment.
[Obs.]
Bp. Hall.


word: Crucible
definition:
Crucible

Cru"ci*ble
(kr&usuml_;"sĭ*b'l)
n.
[LL. crucibulum a hanging lamp, an earthen pot for melting metals (cf. OF. croisel, creuseul, sort of lamp, crucible, F. creuset crucible), prob. of German origin; cf. OHG.  krūsul, LG. krüsel, hanging lamp, kroos, kruus, mug, jug, jar, D. kroes cup, crucible, Dan.  kruus, Sw.  krus, E.  cruse.  It was confused with derivatives of L.  crux cross (cf. Crosslet), and crucibles were said to have been marked with a cross, to prevent the devil from marring the chemical operation. See Cruse, and cf. Cresset.]
1.
A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc.

2.
A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal.

3.
A test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the crucible of affliction.

Hessian crucible (Chem.), a cheap, brittle, and fragile, but very refractory crucible, composed of the finest fire clay and sand, and commonly used for a single heating; -- named from the place of manufacture.


word: Crucible steel
definition:
Crucible steel

Cru"ci*ble steel
Cast steel made by fusing in crucibles crude or scrap steel, wrought iron, and other ingredients and fluxes.


word: Cruciferae
definition:
Cruciferae

Cruciferae
n.
a natural family of plants with four-petaled flowers; the mustard family.

Syn. -- family Cruciferae, Brassicaceae, family Brassicaceae, mustard family.


word: Cruciferous
definition:
Cruciferous

Cru*cif"er*ous
(kr&usdot_;*s?f"?r-?s)
a.
[L. crux, crucis, cross + -ferous: cf. F. crucifère.]
1.
Bearing a cross.

2.
(Bot.)
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants which have four petals arranged like the arms of a cross, as the mustard, radish, turnip, etc.


word: Crucifier
definition:
Crucifier

Cru"ci*fi`er
(kr?"s?-f?`?r)
n.
One who crucifies; one who subjects himself or another to a painful trial.


word: Crucifix
definition:
Crucifix

Cru"ci*fix
(kr?"s?-f?ks)
n.
pl. Crucifixes (-_;z).
[F. crucifix or LL. crucifixum, fr. L.  crux, crucis, cross +  figere, fixum, to fix. See Cross, and Fix, and cf. Crucify.]
1.
A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, used by the Roman Catholics in their devotions.

The cross, too, by degrees, become the crucifix.
Milman.

And kissing oft her crucifix,
Unto the block she drew.
Warner.

2.
The cross or religion of Christ.
[R.]
Jer. Taylor.


word: Crucifixion
definition:
Crucifixion

Cru`ci*fix"ion
(kr?`s?-f?k"sh?n)
n.
1.
The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.

2.
The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross.

3.
Intense suffering or affliction; painful trial.

Do ye prove
What crucifixions are in love?
Herrick.


word: Cruciform
definition:
Cruciform

Cru"ci*form
(kr?"s?-f?rm)
a.
[L. crux, crucis, cress + -form: cf. F.  cruciforme.]
Cross-shaped; (Bot.) having four parts arranged in the form of a cross.


word: Crucify
definition:
Crucify

Cru"ci*fy
(-f?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crucified (-f?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Crucifying.]
[F. crucifier, fr. (assumed) LL.  crucificare, for crucifigere, fr, L. crux, crucis, cross + figere to fix, the ending -figere being changed to -ficare, F. -fier (in compounds), as if fr. L.  facere to do, make. See Cross, and Fix, and cf. Crucifix.]
1.
To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

They cried, saying, Crucify him, cricify him.
Luke xxiii. 21.

2.
To destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue completely; to mortify.

They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts.
Gal. v. 24.

3.
To vex or torment.
Beau. & FL.


word: Crucigerous
definition:
Crucigerous

Cru*cig"er*ous
(kr?-s?j"?r-?s)
a.
[L. crux, cricis, cross + -gerous.]
Bearing the cross; marked with the figure of a cross.
Sir. T. Browne.


word: Crude
definition:
Crude

Crude
(kr&usuml_;d)
a.
[Compar. Cruder (-ẽr); superl. Crudest.]
[L. crudus raw; akin to cruor blood (which flows from a wound). See Raw, and cf. Cruel.]
1.
In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh.
crude
Boyle.

Molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials.
I. Taylor.

2.
Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.

I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude.
Milton.

3.
Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature.
Crude
Macaulay.

Crude, undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing rather raw materials for composition.
De Quincey.

The originals of Nature in their crude
Conception.
Milton.

4.
Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.
Crude
Bacon.

5.
Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner.

6.
(Paint.)
Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.


word: Crudeness
definition:
Crudeness

Crude"ness
n.
A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans.


word: crudites
definition:
crudites

crudites
n.
(Cookery)
an appetizer consisting of raw vegetables cut into bite-sized strips and served with a dip.


word: Crudity
definition:
Crudity

Cru"di*ty
(kr&usuml_;"dĭ*t&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Crudities (-tĭz).
[L. cruditas, fr.  crudus: cf. F.  crudité. See Crude.]
1.
The condition of being crude; rawness.

2.
That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form.
Crudities
Arbuthnot.


word: Crudy
definition:
Crudy

Crud"y
(kr?d"?)
a.
[From Crud.]
Coagulated.
[Obs.]

His cruel wounds with crudy blood congealed.
Spenser.


word: Crudy₂
definition:
Crudy

Cru"dy
(kr?"d?)
a.
[From Crude.]
Characterized by crudeness; raw.
[Obs.]

The foolish and dull and crudy vapors.
Shak.


word: Cruel₂
definition:
Cruel

Cru"el
(kr&usuml_;"ĕl)
a.
[F.  cruel, fr. L.  crudelis, fr. crudus. See Crude.]
1.
Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.

Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are cruel and have no mercy.
Jer. vi. 22,23.

2.
Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.

Cruel wars, wasting the earth.
Milton.

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath for it was cruel.
Gen. xlix. 7.

3.
Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.

You have seen cruel proof of this man's strength.
Shak.


word: Cruels
definition:
Cruels

Cru"els
(kr&usuml_;"ĕlz)
n. pl.
[Corrupt. fr. F. écrouelles scrofula.]
Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.


word: Cruelty
definition:
Cruelty

Cru"el*ty
(-t&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Cruelties (-tĭz).
[OF. cruelté, F.  cruauté, fr. L.  crudelitas, fr.  crudelis. See Cruel.]

1.
The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity.

Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty.
Shak.

2.
A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain.

Cruelties worthy of the dungeons of the Inquisition.
Macaulay.


word: Cruentate
definition:
Cruentate

Cru"en*tate
(kr?"?n-t?t)
a.
[L.  cruentatus, p. p. of cruentare to make bloody, fr.  cruentus bloody, fr.  cruor. See Crude.]
Smeared with blood.
[Obs.]
Glanwill.


word: Cruet
definition:
Cruet

Cru"et
(kr&usuml_;"ĕt)
n.
[Anglo-French cruet, a dim. from OF. crue, cruie; of German or Celtic origin, and akin to E.  crock an earthen vessel.]
1.
A bottle or vessel; esp., a vial or small glass bottle for holding vinegar, oil, pepper, or the like, for the table; a caster.
Swift.

2.
(Eccl.)
A vessel used to hold wine, oil, or water for the service of the altar.


word: cruet stand
definition:
cruet stand

cruet-stand

cruet-stand, cruet stand
n.
a frame for holding cruets; a caster; a stand for cruets together with the cruets containing various condiments.


word: Cruise₂
definition:
Cruise

Cruise
(kr&usuml_;z)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Cruised (kr&usuml_;zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cruising.]
[D.  kruisen to move crosswise or in a zigzag, to cruise, fr. kruis cross, fr. OF.  crois, croiz, F. croix, or directly fr. OF.  croisier, F. croiser, to cross, cruise, fr.  crois a cross. See Cross.]

1.
To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the protection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure.

&hand_; A ship cruises in any particular sea or ocean; as, in the Baltic or in the Atlantic.  She cruises off any cape; as, off the Lizard; off Ushant.  She cruises on a coast; as, on the coast of Africa.  A pirate cruises to seize vessels; a yacht cruises for the pleasure of the owner.

Ships of war were sent to cruise near the isle of Bute.
Macaulay.

'Mid sands, and rocks, and storms to cruise for pleasure.
Young.

2.
To wander hither and thither on land.
[Colloq.]

3.
(Forestry)
To inspect forest land for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield.

4.
To travel primarily for pleasure, or without any fixed purpose, rather than with the main goal of reaching a particular destination.
To cruise the streets of town, looking for an interesting party to crash.


word: Cruise₃
definition:
Cruise

Cruise
v. t.
1.
To cruise over or about.

2.
(Forestry)
To explore with reference to capacity for the production of lumber; as, to cruise a section of land.


word: Cruise₄
definition:
Cruise

Cruise
n.
1.
A voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure.

He feigned a compliance with some of his men, who were bent upon going a cruise to Manilla.
Dampier.

2.
Hence:
A voyage aboard a ship, in which the activities on the ship itself form a major objective of the voyage; -- used particularly of vacation voyages, or voyages during which some special activity occurs on board the ship, such as a series of seminars.


word: Cruiser
definition:
Cruiser

Cruis"er
(kr?"z?r)
n.
One who, or a vessel that, cruises;
Specif.
(Nav.)
A man-of-war less heavily armed and armored than a battle ship, having great speed, and generally of from two thousand to twelve thousand tons displacement.


word: Cruller
definition:
Cruller

Crul"ler
(krŭl"lẽr)
n.
[Cf. Curl.]
A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat.
[Also written  kruller.]


word: Crumb
definition:
Crumb

Crumb
(krŭm)
n.
[AS.  cruma, akin to D. kruim, G.  krume; cf. G.  krauen to scratch, claw.]
[Written also crum.]
1.
A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.

Desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table.
Luke xvi. 21.

2.
Fig.: A little; a bit; as, a crumb of comfort.

3.
The soft part of bread.

Dust unto dust, what must be, must;
If you can't get crumb, you'd best eat crust.
Old Song.

Crumb brush, a brush for sweeping crumbs from a table. -- To a crum, with great exactness; completely.


word: Crumb₂
definition:
Crumb

Crumb
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crumbed (krŭmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crumbing (krŭm"ĭng).]
To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread.
[Written also crum.]


word: Crumbcloth
definition:
Crumbcloth

Crumb"cloth`
(-kl&obreve_;th`; 115)
n.
A cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean.
[Written also crumcloth.]


word: Crumble
definition:
Crumble

Crum"ble
(krŭm"b'l)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crumbled (krŭm"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crumbling (krŭm"blĭng).]
[Dim. of crumb, v. t., akin to D.  kruimelen G.  krümeln.]
To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.

He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints,
And crumble all thy sinews.
Milton.


word: Crumble₂
definition:
Crumble

Crum"ble
v. i.
To fall into small pieces; to break or part into small fragments; hence, to fall to decay or ruin; to become disintegrated; to perish.

If the stone is brittle, it will crumble and pass into the form of gravel.
Arbuthnot.

The league deprived of its principal supports must soon crumble to pieces.
Prescott.


word: Crumbly
definition:
Crumbly

Crum"bly
(-bl&ybreve_;)
a.
Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
crumbly
Hawthorne.

Syn. -- crimp.


word: Crummy
definition:
Crummy

Crum"my
(krŭm"m&ybreve_;)
a.
1.
Full of crumb or crumbs.

2.
Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty.

3.
of very poor quality.
[informal]

Syn. -- bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny.


word: Crump
definition:
Crump

Crump
(krŭmp)
a.
[AS.  crumb stooping, bent down; akin to OHG.  chrumb, G.  krumm, Dan.  krum, D.  krom, and E.  cramp.]
1.
Crooked; bent.
[Obs.]

Crooked backs and crump shoulders.
Jer. Taylor.

2.
Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Hallivell.


word: crumpet
definition:
crumpet

crump"et
(krŭmp"ĕt)
n.
[Prob. from W. crempog, crammwgth, a pancake or fritter.]
1.
A kind of large, thin, unsweetened muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider, or sometimes toasted.

2.
a sexually attractive woman.
[British slang]
RHUD


word: Crumple
definition:
Crumple

Crum"ple
(krŭm"p'l)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crumpled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crumpling (-plĭng).]
[Dim. fr.  crump, a.]
To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper.

They crumpled it into all shapes, and diligently scanned every wrinkle that could be made.
Addison.


word: Crumple₂
definition:
Crumple

Crum"ple
v. i.
To contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple.


word: Crunch
definition:
Crunch

Crunch
(krŭnch)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Crunched (krŭncht); p. pr. & vb. n. Crunching.]
[Prob. of imitative origin; or cf. D.  schransen to eat heartily, or E. scrunch.]
1.
To chew with force and noise; to craunch.

And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull.
Byron.

2.
To grind or press with violence and noise.

The ship crunched through the ice.
Kane.

3.
To emit a grinding or craunching noise.

The crunching and ratting of the loose stones.
H. James.


word: Crunch₂
definition:
Crunch

Crunch
v. t.
To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.


word: Crunkle
definition:
Crunkle

Crunk

{ Crunk (krŭ&nsmacr_;k), Crun"kle (krŭ&nsmacr_;"k'l), }
v. i.
[Cf. Icel.  kr_;nka to croak.]
To cry like a crane.
[Obs.]
crunketh
Withals (1608).


word: Crunodal
definition:
Crunodal

Cru*no"dal
(kr?-n?"dal)
a.
(Geom.)
Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; -- used of curves.


word: Crunode
definition:
Crunode

Cru"node
(kr?"n?d)
n.
[Prob. fr. L.  crux a cross + E.  node.]
(Geom.)
A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a.


word: Cruor
definition:
Cruor

Cru"or
(kr?"?r)
n.
[L., blood. See Crude.]
The coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore.


word: Cruorin
definition:
Cruorin

Cru"o*rin
(-?-r?n)
n.
(Physiol.)
The coloring matter of the blood in the living animal; hæmoglobin.


word: Crupper
definition:
Crupper

Crup"per
(kr?p"p?r in U.S.; kr?p"?r in Eng.)
n.
[F. croupi_;re, fr.  croupe.  See Croup the rump of a horse.]
[Written also crouper.]
1.
The buttocks or rump of a horse.

2.
A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.


word: Crural
definition:
Crural

Cru"ral
(-ral)
a.
[L.  cruralis, fr.  crus, cruris, leg: cf. F. crural.]
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the thigh or leg, or to any of the parts called crura; as, the crural arteries; crural arch; crural canal; crural ring.


word: Crus
definition:
Crus

Crus
(kr?s)
n.
pl. Crura (kr_;"r_;).
[L., the leg.]
(Anat.)
(a)
That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and the ankle, or tarsus; the shank.
(b)
Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a pair of muscles attached to it; crura cerebri, two bundles of nerve fibers in the base of the brain, connecting the medulla and the forebrain.


word: Crusade
definition:
Crusade

Cru*sade"
(kr?-s?d")
n.
[F. croisade, fr. Pr.  crozada, or Sp cruzada, or It.  crociata, from a verb signifying to take the cross, mark one's self with a cross, fr. L.  crux cross; or possibly taken into English directly fr. Pr. Cf. Croisade, Crosado, and see Cross.]
1.
Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.

2.
Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a crusade against intemperance.

3.
A Portuguese coin. See Crusado.


word: Crusade₂
definition:
Crusade

Cru*sade"
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Crusaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Crusading.]
To engage in a crusade; to attack in a zealous or hot-headed manner.
crusading
M. Green.


word: Crusader
definition:
Crusader

Cru*sad"er
(-s?"d?r)
n.
One engaged in a crusade; as, the crusaders of the Middle Ages.

Azure-eyed and golden-haired,
Forth the young crusaders fared.
Longfellow.


word: Crusado
definition:
Crusado

Cru*sa"do
(-s?"d?)
n.
[Pg.  cruzado, fr. cruz, fr. L.  crux. See Crusade, 3.]
An old Portuguese coin, worth about seventy cents.
[Written also cruade.]
Shak.


word: Cruse
definition:
Cruse

Cruse
(kr?s)
n.
[Akin to LG.  kruus, kroos, mug, jug, jar, D.  kroes, G.  krause, Icel.  krus, Sw.  krus, Dan.  kruus. Cf. Crucible, Cresset.]
1.
A cup or dish.

Take with thee . . . a cruse of honey.
1 Kings xiv. 3.

2.
A bottle for holding water, oil, honey, etc.

So David took . . . the cruse of water.
1 Sam. xxvi. 12.


word: Cruset
definition:
Cruset

Cru"set
(kr?"s?t)
n.
[Cf. F.  creuset. See Cruse, Crucible.]
A goldsmith's crucible or melting pot.


word: Crush
definition:
Crush

Crush
(krŭsh)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crushed (krŭsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Crushing.]
[OE.  cruschen, crousshen, Of.  cruisir, croissir, fr. LL.  cruscire, prob. of Ger. origin, from a derivative of the word seen in Goth.  kruistan to gnash; akin to Sw.  krysta to squeeze, Dan.  kryste, Icel. kreysta.]
1.
To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes.

Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut.
Lev. xxii. 24.

The ass . . . thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall.
Num. xxii. 25.

2.
To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.

3.
To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.

To crush the pillars which the pile sustain.
Dryden.

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.
Bryant.

4.
To oppress or burden grievously.

Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway.
Deut. xxviii. 33.

5.
To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

Speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels.
Sir. W. Scott.

6.
to subdue or overwhelm (a person) by argument or a cutting remark; to cause (a person) to feel chagrin or humiliation; to squelch.

To crush a cup, to drink. [Obs.] -- To crush out. (a) To force out or separate by pressure, as juice from grapes. (b) To overcome or destroy completely; to suppress.


word: Crush₂
definition:
Crush

Crush
(krŭsh)
v. i.
To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.


word: Crush₃
definition:
Crush

Crush
n.
1.
A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Addison.

2.
Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a reception.

Crush hat, a hat which collapses, and can be carried under the arm, and when expanded is held in shape by springs; hence, any hat not injured by compressing. -- Crush room, a large room in a theater, opera house, etc., where the audience may promenade or converse during the intermissions; a foyer.

Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush room of the opera at night.
Macaulay.


word: crushed
definition:
crushed

crushed
adj.
1.
treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance; -- of fabrics; as, crushed velvet.

2.
utterly defeated.

Syn. -- subdued.

3.
brought low in condition or status by confusion, humiliation, or severe disappointment.

Syn. -- broken, humbled, humiliated, low.

4.
broken or pounded into small fragments; used of e.g. ore or stone.
paved with crushed bluestone

Syn. -- ground.


word: Crusher
definition:
Crusher

Crush"er
(-?r)
n.
One who, or that which, crushes.

Crusher gauge, an instrument for measuring the explosive force of gunpowder, etc., by its effect in compressing a piece of metal.


word: Crust
definition:
Crust

Crust
(kr?st)
n.
[L.  crusta: cf. OF.  crouste, F. croûte; prob. akin to Gr. _;_;_;_;_; ice, E.  crystal, from the same root as E.  crude, raw. See Raw, and cf. Custard.]
1.
The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.

I have known the statute of an emperor quite hid under a crust of dross.
Addison.

Below this icy crust of conformity, the waters of infidelity lay dark and deep as ever.
Prescott.

2.
(Cookery)
(a)
The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.
(b)
The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft contents.
(c)
The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling.

Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies.
Dryden.

He that keeps nor crust nor crumb.
Shak.

They . . . made the crust for the venison pasty.
Macaulay.

3.
(Geol.)
The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.

4.
(Zool.)
The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.

5.
(Med.)
A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.

6.
An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing.


word: Crust₂
definition:
Crust

Crust
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Crusting.]
[Cf. OF.  crouster, L.  crustare. See Crust, n. ]
To cover with a crust; to cover or line with an incrustation; to incrust.

The whole body is crusted over with ice.
Boyle.

And now their legs, and breast, and bodies stood
Crusted with bark.
Addison.

Very foul and crusted bottles.
Swift.

Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock.
Felton.


word: Crust₃
definition:
Crust

Crust
v. i.
To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted.

The place that was burnt . . . crusted and healed.
Temple.


word: Crusta
definition:
Crusta

Crus"ta
(kr?s"t?)
n.
[L., shell, crust, inlaid work.]

1.
A crust or shell.

2.
A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for inlaying a vase or other object.


word: Crustacea
definition:
Crustacea

Crus*ta"ce*a
(kr?s-t?"sh?-?)
n. pl.
[Neut. pl. of NL.  crustaceus pert. to the crust or shell, from L. crusta the hard surfsce of a body, rind, shell.]
(Zool.)
One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered.

&hand_; The body usually consists of an anterior part, made up of the head and thorax combined, called the cephalothorax, and of a posterior jointed part called the abdomen, postabdomen, and (improperly) tail. They breathe by means of gills variously attached to some of the limbs or to the sides the body, according to the group. They are divisible into two subclasses, Entomostraca and Malacostraca, each of which includes several orders.


word: Crustacean
definition:
Crustacean

Crus*ta"cean
(kr?s-t?"shan; 97)
a.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous.
n. An animal belonging to the class Crustacea.


word: Crustaceologist
definition:
Crustaceologist

Crus*ta`ce*ol"o*gist
(-?ll"?-j?st)
n.
One versed in crustaceology; a crustalogist.


word: Crustaceology
definition:
Crustaceology

Crus*ta`ce*ol"o*gy
(-j?)
n.
[Crustacea + -logy.]
That branch of Zoology which treats of the Crustacea; malacostracology; carcinology.


word: Crustaceous
definition:
Crustaceous

Crus*ta"ceous
(kr?s-t?"sh?s; 97)
a.
[NL. crustaceous. See crustacea.]
1.
Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell.

2.
(Zool.)
Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean.


word: Crustaceousness
definition:
Crustaceousness

Crus*ta"ceous*ness
n.
The state or quality of being crustaceous or having a crustlike shell.


word: Crustated
definition:
Crustated

Crus"ta*ted
(kr?s"t?-t?d)
a.
[L.  crustatus, p. p. of crustare, fr.  crusta. See Crust.]
Covered with a crust; as, crustated basalt.


word: Crusted
definition:
Crusted

Crust"ed
(kr?st"?d)
a.
Incrusted; covered with, or containing, crust; as, old, crusted port wine.


word: Crustific
definition:
Crustific

Crus*tif`ic
(kr?s-t?f"?k)
a.
[L.  crusta crust + -facere to make.]
Producing or forming a crust or skin.
[R.]


word: Crustiness
definition:
Crustiness

Crust"i*ness
(-ĭ-nĕs)
n.
1.
The state or quality of having crust or being like crust; hardness.

2.
The quality of being crusty or surly.

Old Christy forgot his usual crustiness.
W. Irving.


word: Crusty
definition:
Crusty

Crust"y
(-&ybreve_;)
a.
1.
Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance.

2.
[Possibly a corruption of cursty. Cf. Curst, Curstness.]
Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly.

Thou crusty batch of nature, what's the news?
Shak.


word: Crutch
definition:
Crutch

Crutch
(krŭch; 224)
n.
pl. Crutches (-ĕz).
[OE. crucche, AS. crycc, cricc; akin to D.  kruk, G.  krücke, Dan. krykke, Sw.  krycka, and to E. crook. See Crook, and cf.  Cricket a low stool.]
1.
A staff with a crosspiece at the head, to be placed under the arm or shoulder, to support the lame or infirm in walking.

I'll lean upon one crutch, and fight with the other.
Shak.

Rhyme is a crutch that lifts the weak alone.
H. Smith.

2.
A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.

3.
(Naut.)
(a)
A knee, or piece of knee timber
(b)
A forked stanchion or post; a crotch. See Crotch.


word: Crutch₂
definition:
Crutch

Crutch
v. t.
To support on crutches; to prop up.
[R.]

Two fools that crutch their feeble sense on verse.
Dryden.


word: Crutched
definition:
Crutched

Crutched
(kr?cht)
a.
1.
Supported upon crutches.

2.
[See Crouch, v. t., and Crouched, a. ]
Marked with the sign of the cross; crouched.

Crutched friar (Eccl.), one of a religious order, so called because its members bore the sign of the cross on their staves and habits; -- called also crossed friar and crouched friar.


word: Crux
definition:
Crux

Crux
(krŭks)
n.
pl. E.  Cruxes (-ĕz), L.  Cruces (kr&usuml_;"sēz).
[L., cross, torture, trouble.]
Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain.
Dr. Sheridan.

The perpetual crux of New Testament chronologists.
Strauss.


word: Cry
definition:
Cry

Cry
(krī)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Cried (krīd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crying.]
[F. crier, cf. L.  quiritare to raise a plaintive cry, scream, shriek, perh. fr.  queri to complain; cf. Skr. cvas to pant, hiss, sigh. Cf. Quarrel a brawl, Querulous.]
1.
To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.

And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice.
 Matt. xxvii. 46.

Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice.
Shak.

Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee.
 Ps. xxviii. 2.

The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord.
Is. xl. 3.

Some cried after him to return.
Bunyan.

2.
To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child.

Ye shall cry for sorrow of heart.
Is. lxv. 14.

I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman.
Shak.

3.
To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals.

The young ravens which cry.
Ps. cxlvii. 9.

In a cowslip's bell I lie
There I couch when owls do cry.
Shak.

To cry on or To cry upon, to call upon the name of; to beseech. “No longer on Saint Denis will we cry.” Shak. -- To cry out. (a) To exclaim; to vociferate; to scream; to clamor. (b) To complain loudly; to lament. -- To cry out against, to complain loudly of; to censure; to blame. -- To cry out on or To cry out upon, to denounce; to censure. “Cries out upon abuses.” Shak. -- To cry to, to call on in prayer; to implore. -- To cry you mercy, to beg your pardon. “I cry you mercy, madam; was it you?” Shak.


word: Cry₂
definition:
Cry

Cry
v. t.
1.
To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly.

All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I 'll speak.
Shak.

The man . . . ran on,crying, Life! life! Eternal life!
Bunyan.

2.
To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.

3.
To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc.

Love is lost, and thus she cries him.
Crashaw.

4.
to publish the banns of, as for marriage.

I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath.
Judd.

To cry aim. See under Aim. -- To cry down, to decry; to depreciate; to dispraise; to condemn.
[1913 Webster]
Men of dissolute lives cry down religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it. Tillotson.
 -- To cry out, to proclaim; to shout. “Your gesture cries it out.” Shak. -- To cry quits, to propose, or declare, the abandonment of a contest. -- To cry up, to enhance the value or reputation of by public and noisy praise; to extol; to laud publicly or urgently.


word: Cry₃
definition:
Cry

Cry
(kr?)
n.
pl. Cries (kr_;z).
[F.  cri, fr. crier to cry. See Cry, v. i. ]
1.
A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves.
Milton.

2.
Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.

Again that cry was found to have been as unreasonable as ever.
Macaulay.

3.
Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation.

There shall be a great cry throughout all the land.
Ex. xi. 6.

An infant crying in the night,
An infant crying for the light;
And with no language but a cry.
Tennyson.

4.
Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
Swift.

The cry went once on thee.
Shak.

5.
Importunate supplication.

O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls.
Shak.

6.
Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.

The street cries of London.
Mayhew.

7.
Common report; fame.

The cry goes that you shall marry her.
Shak.

8.
A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories.

All now depends upon a good cry.
Beaconsfield.

9.
A pack of hounds.
Milton.

A cry more tunable
Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn.
Shak.

10.
A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt.

Would not this . . . get me a fellowship in a cry of players?
Shak.

11.
The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.

A far cry, a long distance; -- in allusion to the sending of criers or messengers through the territory of a Scottish clan with an announcement or summons.


word: Cryal
definition:
Cryal

Cry"al
(kr?"al)
n.
[Cf. W.  creyr, cryr, crychydd. Cf. Cruer a hawk.]
The heron
[Obs.]
Ainsworth.


word: Cryer
definition:
Cryer

Cry"er
(-?r)
n.
[F. faucon gruyer a falcon trained to fly at the crane, fr. crye crane, fr. L. crus crane. Cf. Cryal.]
The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil.


word: Crying
definition:
Crying

Cry"ing
a.
Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil.

Too much fondness for meditative retirement is not the crying sin of our modern Christianity.
I. Taylor.


word: Cryohydrate
definition:
Cryohydrate

Cry`o*hy"drate
(kr?`?-h?"dr?t)
n.
[Gr. kry`os cold + E.  hydrate.]
(Chem.)
A substance, as salt, ammonium chloride, etc., which crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water.
 F. Guthrie.


word: Cryolite
definition:
Cryolite

Cry"o*lite
(krī"?-l?t)
n.
[Gr. kry`os icy cold, frost + -lite: cf. F. cryolithe.]
(Min.)
A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.


word: cryometer
definition:
cryometer

cry*om"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; cold, frost + -meter.]
(Physics)
A thermometer for the measurement of low temperatures, esp. such an instrument containing alcohol or some other liquid of a lower freezing point than mercury.


word: cryopathy
definition:
cryopathy

cryopathy
n.
destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene.

Syn. -- frostbite.


word: cryophorus
definition:
cryophorus

cry*oph"o*rus
(kri̝*&obreve_;f"o̝*rŭs)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. kry`os icy cold, frost + fe`rein to bear.]
(Chem.)
An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs, connected by a tube of the same material, and containing only a quantity of water and its vapor, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below 32° Fahr.


word: Crypt
definition:
Crypt

Crypt
(krĭpt)
n.
[L.  crypta vault, crypt, Gr. kry`pth, fr. kry`ptein to hide. See Grot, Grotto.]
1.
A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.

Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning.
Motley.

My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine.
Tennyson.

2.
(Anat.)
A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberkühn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.


word: cryptanalysis
definition:
cryptanalysis

crypt"a*nal"y*sis
(?)
n.
1.
the science which studies methods to discovering the secret meaning of encrypted messages for which one does not possess the secret decoding information (called the key).

2.
the methods and procedures used to discover the secret meaning hidden in encrypted messages.


word: Cryptical
definition:
Cryptical

Cryptic

{ Cryp"tic (krĭp"tĭk), Cryp"tic*al (-t?-kal), }
a.
[L.  crypticus, Gr. kryptiko`s, fr. kry`ptein to hide.]
Hidden; secret; occult.
cryptic
Glanvill.

2.
incomprehensible to those not familiar with the culture or jargon; as, the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms.

Syn. -- inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying.

3.
having a secret or hidden meaning; as, cryptic symbols engraved in stone; cryptic writings.

Syn. -- cabalistic, occult, secret, sibylline.

3.
having a puzzling terseness; as, a cryptic note.

4.
not evident; unrecognized; as, a cryptic infection.

5.
written in a code or cipher; as, a cryptic message.

Syn. -- encoded, enciphered, encrypted.


word: Cryptidine
definition:
Cryptidine

Cryp"ti*dine
(kr?p"t?-d?n; 104)
n.
[Gr. krypto`s hidden.]
(Chem.)
One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper.


word: Cryptobranchiata
definition:
Cryptobranchiata

Cryp`to*bran`chi*a"ta
(kr?p`t?-bra?`k?-?"t?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. krypto`s hidden + L. branchia a gill.]
(Zool.)
(a)
A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata.
(b)
A group of nudibranch mollusks.


word: Cryptobranchiate
definition:
Cryptobranchiate

Cryp`to*bran"chi*ate
(-br??"k?-?t)
a.
(Zool.)
Having concealed or rudimentary gills.


word: cryptocoryne
definition:
cryptocoryne

cryptocoryne
n.
any plant of the genus Cryptocoryne; evergreen perennials growing in fresh or brackish water; tropical Asia.

Syn. -- water trumpet.


word: Cryptocrystalline
definition:
Cryptocrystalline

Cryp`to*crys"tal*line
(-kr?s"tal-l?n)
a.
[Gr. krypto`s hidden + E. crystalline.]
(Geol.)
Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope.


word: Cryptogam
definition:
Cryptogam

Cryp"to*gam
(kr?p"t?-g?m)
n.
[Cf. F.  cryptogame. See Cryptogamia.]
(Bot.)
A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia.
Henslow.


word: Cryptogamia
definition:
Cryptogamia

Cryp`to*ga"mi*a
(kr?p`t?-g?"m?-?)
n.
pl. Cryptogamiæ (-_;).
[NL., fr. Gr. krypto`s hidden, secret + ga`mos marriage.]
(Bot.)
The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.

&hand_; The subdivisions have been variously arranged. The following arrangement recognizes four classes: --
I. Pteridophyta, or Vascular Acrogens. These include Ferns, Equiseta or Scouring rushes, Lycopodiaceæ or Club mosses, Selaginelleæ, and several other smaller orders. Here belonged also the extinct coal plants called Lepidodendron, Sigillaria, and Calamites.
II. Bryophita, or Cellular Acrogens. These include Musci, or Mosses, Hepaticæ, or Scale mosses and Liverworts, and possibly Characeæ, the Stoneworts.
III. Algæ, which are divided into Florideæ, the Red Seaweeds, and the orders Dictyoteæ, Oosporeæ, Zoosporeæ, Conjugatæ, Diatomaceæ, and Cryptophyceæ.
IV. Fungi.  The molds, mildews, mushrooms, puffballs, etc., which are variously grouped into several subclasses and many orders. The Lichenes or Lichens are now considered to be of a mixed nature, each plant partly a Fungus and partly an Alga.


