Crab tree
Crab" tree (tre•). See under Crab.

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.

Crabbish
Crab´bish (krab"bish), a. Somewhat sour or cross.
"The whips of the most crabbish Satyristes." - Decker.

Crabby
Crab´by (-by), a. Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing. "Persius is crabby, because ancient." Marston.

Crabeater
Crab´eat•er (krab"et•er), n. (Zoöl.) (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).

Craber
Cra´ber (kra"ber), n. (Zoöl.) The water rat. Walton.

Crabfaced
Crab´faced (krab"fast•), a. Having a sour, disagreeable countenance. Beau. & Fl.

Crabsidle
Crab´si•dle (-si•d’l), v. i. To move sidewise, as a crab. [Jocular]. Southey.

Crabstick
Crab´stick (-stik•), n. A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the crab tree.

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.

Crack (krak), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cracked (krakt); 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.]

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.

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 and brags." Burton. "Vainglorius 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.

Crack, a. Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of. [Colloq.]
"One of our crack speakers in the Commons." - Dickens.

Crackajack
Crack´a•jack, n.
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.]

Crackajack
Crack´a•jack, a. Of marked ability or excellence. [Slang]

Crack-brained
Crack´-brained (-brand•), a. Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.

Cracked (krakt), a.
1. Coarsely ground or broken; as cracked wheat.
2. Crack-brained. [Colloq.]

Cracker
Crack´er (krak"er), 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; — often 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. (Zoöl.) The pintail duck.
7. pl. (Mach.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc. Knight.

Cracker State. Georgia; — a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5. { 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.]

Crackled
Crac´kled (-k’ld), a. (Fine Arts) Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; — said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.

Crackleware
Crac´kle•ware (-w?r•), n. See Crackle, n. , 3.

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.

Cracovian
Cra•co´vi•an (kr?-k?"v?- an), a. Of or pertaining to Cracow in Poland.

Cracovienne
Cra•co•vi•enne´ (kr?-k?•v?-?n"), n. [F., fr. Cracow, the city.] (Mus.) A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time.

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.

Cradle
Cra´dle (krad’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.

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.

Cradle
Cra´dle, v. i. To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.
"Withered roots and husks wherein the acorn cradled." - Shak.

Cradleland
Cra´dle•land (kra"d’l•land•), n. Land or region where one was cradled; hence, land of origin.

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.

Craft (kraft), n. [AS. craeft 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.

Craft, v. t. To play tricks; to practice artifice. [Obs.]
"You have crafted fair." - Shak.

crafter n. a creator of great skill in the manual arts.Syn. — craftsman. [WordNet 1.5]

Craftily
Craft´i•ly (-?-l?), adv. [See Crafty.] With craft; artfully; cunningly.

Craftless
Craft´less (-l?s), a. Without craft or cunning.
"Helpless, craftless, and innocent people." - Jer. Taylor.

Craftsman
Crafts´man (kr?fts"m an), n. ; pl. Craftsmen (-m en). One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.

Craftsmanship
Crafts´man•ship, n. The work of a craftsman.

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.

Crafty
Craft´y (kr?ft"?), a. [AS. crftig.]
1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. [Obs.] "Crafty work." Piers Plowman.
2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.
"A noble crafty man of trees." - Wyclif.
3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily. "A pair of crafty knaves." Shak.
"With anxious care and crafty wiles." - J. Baillie.
Syn. — Skillful; dexterous; cunning; artful; wily; sly; fraudulent; deceitful; subtle; shrewd. See Cunning.

Craggedness
Crag´ged•ness, n. The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess.

Cragginess
Crag´gi•ness (-g?-n?s), n. The state of being craggy.

Craggy
Crag´gy (krag"gy), a. Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as the craggy side of a mountain. "The craggy ledge." Tennyson.

Cragsman
Crags´man (kragz"m an), n. ; pl. Cragsmen (- m en). 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.

Craie (kra), n. See Crare. [Obs.]

Cram (kram), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Crammed (kramd); 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.

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.]

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.

Crambo
Cram´bo (-bo), 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.

Cramp iron
Cramp" i•ron (?•rn). See Cramp, n. , 2.

Crampfish
Cramp´fish (kr?mp"f?sh•), n. (Zoöl.) The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.

Cranage
Cran´age (kran"aj), 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.

Cranch (kr?nch), v. t. See Craunch.

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.

Crane (kran), n. [AS. cran; akin to D. & LG. craan, G. kranich, krahn (this in sense 2), Gr. ge•ranos, L. grus, W. & Armor. garan, OSlav. zeravi, Lith. gerve, Icel. trani, Sw. trana, Dan. trane. rad.24. Cf. Geranium.]
1. (Zoöl.) A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck. The common European crane is Grus cinerea. The sand-hill crane ( G. Mexicana) and the whooping crane ( G. 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. 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.
3. An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire.
4. A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
5. (Naut.) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., — generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2. Crane fly (Zoöl.), a dipterous insect with long legs, of the genus Tipula. — Derrick crane. See Derrick. — Gigantic crane. (Zoöl.) 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.

Crane (kran), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Craned (krand); 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.

Crane, n.
1. Any arm which swings about a vertical axis at one end, used for supporting a suspended weight.
2. (Zoöl.) The American blue heron ( Ardea herodias). [Local, U. S.]

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.

Crang (kr?ng), n. See Krang.

Cranial
Cra´ni•al (kr?"n?-a]/>l), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the cranium.

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.

Cranioclast
Cra´ni•o•clast (-kl?st), n. (Med.) An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases.

Craniofacial
Cra•ni•o•fa´cial (-f?"sh al), a. Of or pertaining to the cranium and face; as the craniofacial angle.

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.]

Craniological
Cra•ni•o•log´ic•al (-?-l?j"?-k al), a. Of or pertaining to craniology.

Craniologist
Cra•ni•ol´o•gist (-?l"?-j?st), n. One proficient in craniology; a phrenologist.

Craniology
Cra•ni•ol´o•gy (-j?), n. [ Cranium + -logy.] The department of science (as of ethnology or archaeology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls.

Craniometer
Cra•ni•om´e•ter (kr?•n?-?m"?-t?r), n. [ Cranium + -meter.] An instrument for measuring the size of skulls. { Cra•ni•o•met´ric (-?-m?t"r?k), Cra•ni•o•met´ric•al (-r?-k al), } a. Pertaining to craniometry.

Craniometry
Cra•ni•om´e•try (kr?•n?-?m"?-tr?), n. The art or act of measuring skulls.

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.

Cranioscopy
Cra•ni•os´co•py (-p?), n. [ Cranium + -scopy.] Scientific examination of the cranium.

Craniota
Cra•ni•o´ta (kr?•n?-?t?), n. pl. [NL., fr. cranium.] (Zoöl.) A comprehensive division of the Vertebrata, including all those that have a skull.

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.

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.

Cranked (kr?nkt), a. Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as a cranked axle.

Crankiness
Crank´i•ness (kr?nk"?-n?s), n. Crankness. Lowell.

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.

Crankle
Cran´kle, v. i. To bend, turn, or wind.
"Along the crankling path." - Drayton.

Crankle
Cran´kle, n. A bend or turn; a twist; a crinkle.

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.

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.

Crannied
Cran´nied (kr?n"n?d), a. Having crannies, chinks, or fissures; as a crannied wall. Tennyson. { 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.

Crants (krants), 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.

Crap (krap), n. 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.

Crap shooting. Same as Craps.

Crapaudine
Crap´au•dine (kr?p"?-d?n), a. [F., n. ] (Arch.) Turning on pivots at the top and bottom; — said of a door.

Crapaudine
Crap´au•dine, n. [F.] (Far.) An ulcer on the coronet of a horse. Bailey.

Crape (krap), 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 ( Lagerströmia 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.

Crape, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Craped (krapt); 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."

Crapnel
Crap´nel (kr?p"n el), n. A hook or drag; a grapnel.

Crappie
Crap´pie (kr?p"p?), n. (Zoöl.) 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.]

Crapple
Crap´ple (kr?p"p’l), n. [See Graple.] A claw. [Obs.]

Crapy
Crap´y (kr?p"?), a. Resembling crape.

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.

Crase (kr?z), v. t. [See Craze.] To break in pieces; to crack. [Obs.] "The pot was crased." Chaucer.

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; synaeresis; as cogo for coago.

Craspedota
Cras•pe•do´ta (kr?s•p?-d?"t?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. to be bordered or edged.] (Zoöl.) The hydroid or naked-eyed medusae. See Hydroidea.

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 and fumid exhalations." Sir. T. Browne. "Crass ignorance" Cudworth. { Cras´sa•ment (kr?s"s?-m ent), Cras•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.

Crassness
Crass´ness (kr?s"n?s), n. Grossness. [Obs.] Glanvill.

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.]

Crataegus
Cra•tae´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.

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.

Craterous
Cra´ter•ous (kr?"t?r-?s), a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater. [R.] R. Browning.

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.

Cravatted
Cra•vat•ted (kr?-v?t"t?d), a. Wearing a cravat.
"The young men faultlessly appointed, handsomely cravatted." - Thackeray.

Crave (krav), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Craved (kravd); p pr. & vb. n. Craving.] [AS. crafian; akin to Icel. krefja, Sw. kräfva, Dan. kraeve.]
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.
Syn. — To ask; seek; beg; beseech; implore; entreat; solicit; request; supplicate; adjure.

Crave, v. i. To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as a craving appetite.
"Once one may crave for love." - Suckling.

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. "His craven heart." Shak.
"The poor craven bridegroom said never a word." - Sir. W. Scott.
"In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset." - Macaulay.

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.
Syn. — Coward; poltroon; dastard.

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.

Craving
Crav´ing (-?ng), n. Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching.
"A succession of cravings and satiety. L’Estrange." — Crav´ing•ly, adv. — Crav´ing•ness, n.

Craw (kra), n. [Akin to D. kraag neck, collar, G. kragen, Sw. kräfva craw, Dan. kro, and possibly to Gr. (E. bronchus), or bro•chqos throat. rad.25. Cf. Crag neck.] (Zoöl.) (a) The crop of a bird. (b) The stomach of an animal. { Craw´fish• (kra"fish•), Cray´fish• (kra"fish•) }, n. ; pl. -fishes or -fish. [Corrupted fr. OE. crevis, creves, OF. crevice, F. ecrevisse, fr. OHG. krebiz crab, G. krebs. See Crab. The ending -fish arose from confusion with E. fish.] (Zoöl.) Any crustacean of the family Astacidae, 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.

Crawl (kral), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Crawled (krald); 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. Hence, 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.

Crawl (kral), n. The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.

Crawl, n. [Cf. Kraal.] A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.

Crawler
Crawl´er (kral"er), n. One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.

Crawly
Crawl´y (kral"y), a. Creepy. [Colloq.] { Cray (kra), Cray´er (-er) }, n. See Crare. [Obs.]

Crazedness
Craz´ed•ness (-?d-n?s), n. A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the intellect. { Craze´-mill• (kraz"mil•), Craz´ing-mill• (kr?"z?ng-) }, n. [See 1st Craze.] A mill for grinding tin ore.

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.

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.

Creak (krek), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Creaked (krekt); 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.

Creak, v. t. To produce a creaking sound with.
"Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry." - Shak.

Creak (krek), n. The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking. Roget.

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.

Cream (krem), 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.

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.

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.

Cream laid
Cream" laid (kr?m" l?d•). See under Laid.

Cream-colored
Cream´-col•ored (-k?l•?rd), a. Of the color of cream; light yellow. "Cream- colored horses." Hazlitt.

Creamery
Cream´er•y (-?r-?), n. ; pl. Creameries (-z). [CF. F. crmeric.]
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.

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.

Cream-fruit
Cream´-fruit (kr?m"fr?t•), n. (Bot.) A plant of Sierra Leone which yields a wholesome, creamy juice.

Creaminess
Cream´i•ness (-?-n?s), n. The quality of being creamy.

Cream-slice
Cream´-slice (-sl?s•), n. A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream.

Cream-white
Cream´-white (-hw?t•), a. As white as cream.

Creamy
Cream´y (kr?m"?), a. Full of, or containing, cream; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous. "Creamy bowls." Collins. "Lines of creamy spray." Tennyson. "Your creamy words but cozen." Beau. & Fl.

Creance
Cre´ance (kre"ans), n. [F. creance, 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.

Creance
Cre´ance (kre"ans), v. i. & t. To get on credit; to borrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Creant
Cre´ant (kre"ant), a. [L. creans, p. pr. of creare to create.] Creative; formative. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

Crease (kres), n. See Creese. Tennyson.

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. 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).

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.

Crease, n. (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.

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.

Creasing
Creas´ing (kres"ing), n. (Arch.) A layer of tiles forming a corona for a wall. Knight.

Creasote
Cre´a•sote (kre"a•sot), n. See Creosote.

Creat
Cre´at (kre"at), n. [F. creat, ultimately fr. L. creatus created, begotten; cf. It. creato pupil, servant, Sp. criado a servant, client.] (Man.) An usher to a riding master.

Creatable
Cre•at´a•ble (kr?-?"t?-b’l), a. That may be created.

Create
Cre•ate´ (kre•at"), a. [L. creatus, p. p. of creare to create; akin to Gr. krai•nein to accomplish, Skr. kr to make, and to E. ending -cracy in aristocracy, also to crescent, cereal.] Created; composed; begotten. [Obs.]
"Hearts create of duty and zeal." - Shak.

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. "I create you companions to our person." Shak.

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.]

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.]

Creation
Cre•a´tion (kr?-A"sh?n), n. [L. creatio: cf. F. cration. 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.

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.

Creative
Cre•a´tive (-t?v), a. Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation. "Creative talent." W. Irving.
"The creative force exists in the germ." - Whewell.

Creativeness
Cre•a´tive•ness, n. The quality of being creative.

Creator
Cre•a´tor (kre•a"ter), n. [L. creator: cf. F. createur.] 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.

Creatorship
Cre•a´tor•ship, n. State or condition of a creator.

Creatress
Cre•a´tress, n. [L. creatrix: cf. F. creatrice.] She who creates. Spenser.

Creatrix
Cre•a´trix (-tr?ks), n. [L.] A creatress. [R.]

Creatural
Crea´tur•al (kr?"t?r-a]/>l; 135), a. Belonging to a creature; having the qualities of a creature. [R.]

Creature
Crea´ture (kre"tur; 135), n. [F. creature, 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 which minister to the comfort of the body.

Creaturely
Crea´ture•ly, a. Creatural; characteristic of a creature. [R.] "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne.

Creatureship
Crea´ture•ship, n. The condition of being a creature.

Creaturize
Crea´tur•ize (-iz), v. t. To make like a creature; to degrade [Obs.]
"Degrade and creaturize that mundane soul." - Cudworth.

Creaze (krez), n. (Mining) The tin ore which collects in the central part of the washing pit or buddle.

Crebricostate
Cre•bri•cos´tate (kre•bri•kos"tat), a. [L. creber close + costa rib.] (Zoöl.) Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.

Crebrisulcate
Cre•bri•sul´cate (kre•bri•sul"kat), a. [L. creber close + sulcus furrow.] (Zoöl.) Marked with closely set transverse furrows.

Crebritude
Creb´ri•tude (kreb"ri•tud), n. [L. crebritudo, fr. creber close.] Frequency. [Obs.] Bailey.

Crebrous
Cre´brous (kre"brus), a. [L. creber close set, frequent.] Frequent; numerous. [Obs.] Goodwin.

Crèche (krash), n. [F.] A public nursery, where the young children of poor women are cared for during the day, while their mothers are at work.

Credence
Cre´dence (kre"d ens), 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.

Credence
Cre´dence, v. t. To give credence to; to believe. [Obs.]

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.

Credent
Cre´dent (kr?"d ent), 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.

Credibility
Cred•i•bil´i•ty (kred•i•bil"i•ty), n. [Cf. F. credibilite.] The quality of being credible; credibleness; as the credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses.

Credible
Cred´i•ble (kred"i•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.

Credibly
Cred´i•bly, adv. In a manner inducing belief; as I have been credibly informed of the event.

Credit
Cred´it (kred"it), n. [F. credit (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, orCash 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.

Credit
Cred´it (kred"it), 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.

Credit mobilier
Cre•dit" mo•bi•lier" (m?•b?•ly?"). [F. credit 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 credit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed.

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.

Creditableness
Cred´it•a•ble•ness, n. The quality of being creditable.

Creditably
Cred´it•a•bly (-?-bl?), adv. In a creditable manner; reputably; with credit.

Creditor
Cred´it•or (kr?d"?t-?r), n. [L.: cf. F. crditeur. 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.
{ Cred´it•ress (kr?d"?t-r?s), Cred´i•trix (kr?d"?-tr?ks), } n. [L. creditrix.] A female creditor.

Credulousness
Cred´u•lous•ness, n. Readiness to believe on slight evidence; credulity.
"Beyond all credulity is the credulousness of atheists." - S. Clarke.

Creed (kred), 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. çraddadhami; çrat trust + dha 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 coördinate 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.

Creed, v. t. To believe; to credit. [Obs.]
"That part which is so creeded by the people." - Milton.

Creedless
Creed´less, a. Without a creed. Carlyle.

Creek (krek), 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.

Creeks (kreks), 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.

Creeky
Creek´y (krek"y), a. Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding. "The creeky shore." Spenser.

Creel (krel), 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.

Creep (krep), v. t. [ imp. Crept (krept) (Crope (krop), 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. "Creeping vines." 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.

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.

Creeper
Creep´er (krep"er), 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. (Zoöl.) A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is C. 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.

Creepie
Creep´ie (-y), n. A low stool. [Scot.]

Creepiness
Creep´i•ness (-i-nes), n. An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin.
"She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness." - Mrs. Alexander.

Creeping
Creep´ing, a.
1. Crawling, or moving close to the ground. "Every creeping thing." 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.

Creeping Charlie
Creep"ing Char"lie. The stonecrop ( Sedum acre).

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.

Creeple
Cree´ple (kre"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.

Crees (krez), 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.

Creese (kres), 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.

Cremaillère
Cre•mail•lère" (kr?•m?•ly?r" or - m?•y?r"), n. [F.] (Fort.) An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.

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. (Zoöl.) The apex of the last abdominal segment of an insect.

Cremasteric
Crem•as•ter´ic (kr?m•3s-t?r"?k), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as the cremasteric artery.

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.

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.

Cremationist
Cre•ma´tion•ist, n. One who advocates the practice of cremation.

Cremator
Cre•ma´tor (-t?r), n. [L.] One who, or that which, cremates or consumes to ashes. { Crem•a•to´ri•um (kr?m•?-t?"r?-?m), Crem´a•to•ry (kr?m"?-t?-r?), } n. ; pl. Crematoriums (-umz), Crematories (-rz). [NL. crematorium, fr. L. cremator.] A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace.

Crematory
Crem´a•to•ry, a. Pertaining to, or employed in, cremation.

Crême, n. [F.] Cream; - - a term used esp. in cookery, names of liqueurs, etc.

Cremocarp
Crem´o•carp (krem"o•kärp or kre"mo-), 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.

Cremona
Cre•mo´na (kre•mo"n), n. A superior kind of violin, formerly made at Cremona, in Italy.

Cremor
Cre´mor (kr?"m?r), n. [L. CF. Cream.] Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum.

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.

Crenel
Cre•nel´ (kr?-n?l"), n. See Crenelle.

Creole
Cre´ole (kr?"?l), n. [F. crole, 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. "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. "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.

Creole
Cre´ole (kr?"?l), a. Of or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles. 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. { Cre•o´le•an (kr?-?"l?-a]/>n), Cre•o´li•an }, a. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Creoles. — n. A Creole.

Creole State. Louisiana; — a nickname. See Creole, n. & a.

Creosote
Cre´o•sote (kr?"?-s?t), n. [Gr., gen., flesh + 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. 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 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.

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. { Cre´pance (kr?"p ans), 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.

Crêpe (kr?p), n. Same as Crape.

Crêpe (krâp; Eng. krap), n. [F.] Any of various crapelike fabrics, whether crinkled or not. Crêpe de Chine [F. de Chine of China], Canton crape or an inferior gauzy fabric resembling it. — C. lisse (les) [F. lisse smooth], smooth, or unwrinkled, crape.

Crepitant
Crep´i•tant (kr?p"?-t ant), 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.

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.

Crescence
Cres´cence (kres"s ens), n. [See Crescent.] Increase; enlargement. [Obs.]
"And toward the moon’s attractive crescence bend." - H. Brooke.

Crescent
Cres´cent (kres"s ent), 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; as: (a) A symbol of Artemis, or Diana. (b) The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople. Hence: (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 Rene 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.

Crescent
Cres´cent (kres"s ent), 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.

Crescent
Cres´cent, v. t.
1. To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent. [R.] Anna Seward.
2. To adorn with crescents.

Crescentic
Cres•cen´tic (kres•sen"tik), a. Crescent-shaped. "Crescentic lobes." R. Owen.

Crescentwise
Cres´cent•wise (kres"s ent•wiz•), adv. In the form of a crescent; like a crescent. Tennyson.

Crescive
Cres´cive (kr?s"s?v), a. [L. crescere to increase.] Increasing; growing. [R.]
"Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty." - Shak.

Cresol
Cre´sol (kre"sol), 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.]

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.

Cressy
Cress´y (kres"y), a. Abounding in cresses.
"The cressy islets white in flower." - Tennyson.

Crest (krest), 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.

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.

Crest (krest), v. i. To form a crest.

Crested
Crest´ed (krest"ed), a.
1. Having a crest.
"But laced crested helm." - Dryden.
2. (Zoöl.) Having a crest of feathers or hair upon the head. "The crested bird." Dryden.
3. (Bott.) Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft. Gray.

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.

Cresting
Crest´ing, n. (Arch.) An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof.

Crestless
Crest´less, a. Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth. "Crestless yeomen." Shak.

Cresylic
Cre•syl´ic (kre•sil"ik), a. [From Creosote.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cresol, creosote, etc. Cresylic acid. (Chem.) See Cresol.

Cretaceously
Cre•ta´ceous•ly, adv. In a chalky manner; as chalk.

Cretan
Cre´tan (kre"t an), a. Pertaining to Crete, or Candia. — n. A native or inhabitant of Crete or Candia.

Crete (kret), n. [L. Cres, Cretis.] A Cretan

Cretian
Cre´tian (kre"sh an), a. & n. See Cretan.

Creticism
Cre´ti•cism (-ti•siz’m), n. Falsehood; lying; cretism.

Cretin
Cre´tin (kre"tin), n. [F. cretin; of uncertain origin.] One afflicted with cretinism.

Cretinism
Cre´tin•ism (kre"tin•iz’m), n. [F. cretinisme.] 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.

Cretinous
Cre´tin•ous (-us), a. Having the characteristics of a cretin. "Cretinous stupefaction." Ruskin.

Cretism
Cre´tism (kre"tiz’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.

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.

Cretose
Cre´tose (kr?"t?s), a. [L. cretosus, fr. creta chalk.] Chalky; cretaceous. [Obs.] Ash.

Creutzer
Creut´zer (kroit"ser) n. See Kreutzer.

Crevalle
Cre•val•le´ (kr?•v?l-l?"), n. [Prob. of same origin as cavally. See Cavally.] (Zoöl.) (a) The cavally or jurel. See Cavally, and Jurel. (b) The pompano ( Trachynotus Carolinus).

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.

Crevis
Crev´is (-?s), n. (Zoöl.) The crawfish. [Prov. Eng.]

Crew (kru), n. (Zoöl.) The Manx shearwater.

Crew (kru), n. [From older accrue accession, reënforcement, 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. 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.
Syn. — Company; band; gang; horde; mob; herd; throng; party.

Crew (kru), imp. of Crow.

Crewelwork
Crew´el•work (-w?rk•), n. Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen.

Crewet
Crew´et (kr?"?t), n. See Cruet.

Cribbage
Crib´bage (krib"?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. { Crib´ber (kr?b"?r), Crib´-bit•er (-b?t"?r) }, n. A horse that has the habit of cribbing.

Crib-biting
Crib´-bit•ing (kr?b"b?t•?ng), n. Same as Cribbing, 4.

Cribellum
Cri•bel´lum (kr?b?l"l?m), n. [L., a small sieve, dim. of cribrum sieve.] (Zoöl.) A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders ( Ciniflonidae), used for spinning a special kind of silk.

Cribrate
Crib´rate (kr?b"r?t), a. [L. cribratus, p. p. of cribrare to sift, fr. cribrum a sieve.] Cribriform.

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.

Cribrose
Crib´rose (kr?b"r?s), a. [L. cribrum sieve.] Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.

Cric (krik), n. [prob. fr. F. cric a jackscrew.] The ring which turns inward and condenses the flame of a lamp. Knight.

Crick (krik), n. [See Creak.] The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. [Obs.] Johnson.

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.

Cricketer
Crick´et•er (kr?k"?t-?r), n. One who plays at cricket.

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.

Cricothyroid
Cri•co•thy´roid (-k?-th?"roid), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages.

Cried (krid), imp. & p. p. of Cry.

Crimeless
Crime´less, a. Free from crime; innocent. Shak.

Criminal
Crim´i•nal (kr?m"?-n al), 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.

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.

Criminalist
Crim´i•nal•ist, n. One versed in criminal law. [R.]

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.

Criminalness
Crim´i•nal•ness, n. Criminality. [R.]

Criminate
Crim´i•nate (krm"-nt), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Criminated (- n•td); p. pr. & vb. n. Criminating (-n"tng).] [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.

Criminative
Crim´i•na•tive (kr?m"?-n?-t?v), a. Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory. R. North.

Criminatory
Crim´i•na•to•ry (-t?-r?), a. Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as a criminatory conscience.

Criminology
Crim•i•nol´o•gy (-n?l"?-j?), n. [L. crimen, crimenis, crime + -logy.] A treatise on crime or the criminal population. — Crim•i•nol´o•gist (-jst), n.

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. — Crim´i•nous•ly, adv. — Crim´i•nous•ness, n. [Obs.]

Crimpage
Crimp´age (-?j), n. The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.

Crimper
Crimp´er (-ãr), n. One who, or that which, crimps; as: (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.

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.

Crimson
Crim´son (krim"z’n), n. [OE. crimson, OF. crimoisin, F. cramoisi (cf. Sp. carmesi.) LL. carmesinus, fr. Ar. qermazi, fr. qermez crimson, kermes, fr. Skr. krmija produced by a worm; kmi 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.

Crimson
Crim´son, a. Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red. "A crimson tide." Mrs. Hemans.
"The blushing poppy with a crimson hue." - Prior.

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.

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.

Crinal
Cri´nal (kri"n al), a. [L. crinalis, fr. crinis the hair.] Of or pertaining to the hair. [R.] Blount.

Crinated
Cri´na•ted (kri"na•ted), a. Having hair; hairy.

Crinatory
Cri´na•to•ry (kr?"n?-t?-r?), a. Crinitory. Craig.

Crincum
Crin´cum (kr?n"k?m), n. [Cf. Crinkle.] A twist or bend; a turn; a whimsey. [Colloq.] Hudibras.

Crined (krind), 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. { Cri´nel (kr?"nEl), Cri´net (kr?"n?t), } n. [L. crinis hair.] A very fine, hairlike feather. Booth.

Cringe (krinj), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cringed (krinjd); 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.

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.

Cringe, n. Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility. "With cringe and shrug, and bow obsequious." Cowper.

Cringeling
Cringe´ling, n. One who cringes meanly; a fawner.

Cringer
Crin´ger (kr?n"j?r), n. One who cringes.

Cringingly
Crin´ging•ly, adv. In a cringing manner.

Cringle
Crin´gle (kr?n"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.

Crinicultural
Crin•i•cul´tur•al (kr?n•?-k?l"t?r-a]/>l; 135), a. [L. crinis hair + cultura.] Relating to the growth of hair. [R.]

Crinigerous
Cri•nig´er•ous (kr?-n?j"?r-?s), a. [L. criniger; crinis hair + gerere to bear.] Bearing hair; hairy. [R.]

Crinital
Cri´ni•tal (kr?"n?-t al), a. Same as Crinite,
1.
"He the star crinital adoreth." - Stanyhurst.

Crinitory
Cri´ni•to•ry (kr?"n?-t?-r?), a. Of or relating to hair; as a crinitory covering. T. Hook.

Crinkle
Crin´kle (krin"k’l), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Crinkled (- k’ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crinkling (- kling).] [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 houses 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.

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.

Crinkle
Crin´kle, n. A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity.
"The crinkles in this glass, making objects appear double." - A. Tucker.

Crinkled
Crin´kled (kr?n"k’ld), a. Having short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag. "The crinkled lightning." Lowell.

Crinkly
Crin´kly (-kl?), a. Having crinkles; wavy; wrinkly.

Crinoid
Cri´noid (kri"noid), a. [See Crinoidea.] (Zoöl.) Crinoidal. — n. One of the Crinoidea.

Crinoidea
Cri•noid´e•a (kr>isl/•noid"e•a), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. kri•non lily + -oid: cf. F. crinoïde.] (Zoöl.) 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.

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.

Crinose
Cri•nose´ (kr?-n?s"), a. [L. crinis hair.] Hairy. [R.]

Crinosity
Cri•nos´i•ty (kr?-n?s"?-t?), n. Hairiness. [R.]

Crinum
Cri´num (kri"num), n. [NL., fr. Gr. kri•non lily.] (Bot.) A genus of bulbous plants, of the order Amaryllidaceae, cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty.

Criosphinx
Cri´o•sphinx (kri"o•sfinks•), n. [Gr. krio•s ram + sfi•gx sphinx.] A sphinx with the head of a ram.

Cripple
Crip´ple (krip"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.

Cripple
Crip´ple (krip"p’l), a. Lame; halting. [R.] "The cripple, tardy-gaited night." Shak.

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.

Cripple
Crip´ple, [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. (b) A rocky shallow in a stream; — a lumberman’s term.

Crippled
Crip´pled (kr?p"p’ld), a. Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. "The crippled crone." Longfellow.

Crippleness
Crip´ple•ness, n. Lameness. [R.] Johnson.

Crippler
Crip´pler (-pl?r), n. A wooden tool used in graining leather. Knight.

Crippling
Crip´pling (-pl?ng), n. Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.

Cripply
Crip´ply (-pl?), a. Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. [R.] Mrs. Trollope.

Crisis
Cri´sis (kr?"s?s), n. ; pl. Crises (-sz). [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.

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.

Crispature
Cris´pa•ture (kr?s"p?-t?r; 135), n. The state of being crispate.

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.

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.

Crisply
Crisp´ly (kr?sp"l?), adv. In a crisp manner.

Crispness
Crisp´ness, n. The state or quality of being crisp.

Crispy
Crisp´y (-?), a.
1. Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as crispy locks.
2. Crisp; brittle; as a crispy pie crust.

Crissal
Cris´sal (kr?s"s al), a. (Zoöl.)
1. Pertaining to the crissum; as crissal feathers.
2. Having highly colored under tail coverts; as the crissal thrasher.

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.

Crisscross
Criss´cross, v. t. To mark or cover with cross lines; as a paper was crisscrossed with red marks.

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.

Crisscross-row
Criss´cross-row (-r?•), n. See Christcross-row.

Cristate
Cris´tate (kr?s"t?t), a. [L. ctistatus, fr. crista crest.] (Bot. & Zoöl.) Crested.

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.
Syn. — Standard; measure; rule.

Crithomancy
Crith´o•man•cy (krith"o•man•sy), 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.

Critic
Crit´ic (krit"ik), 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.

Critic
Crit´ic, a. Of or pertaining to critics or criticism; critical. [Obs.] "Critic learning." Pope.

Critic
Crit´ic, v. i. [Cf. F. critiquer.] To criticise; to play the critic. [Obs.]
"Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done." - A. Brewer.

Critical
Crit´ic•al (krit"i•k al), 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." — Critical point (Physics), a certain temperature, different for different gases, but always the same for each gas regarded as the limit above which no amount of pressure can produce condensation to a liquid.

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.

Criticaster
Crit´ic•as•ter (krit"ik•as•t&til;r), n. A contemptible or vicious critic.
"The rancorous and reptile crew of poeticules, who decompose into criticasters." - Swinburne.

Criticisable
Crit´i•cis•a•ble (krit"i•siz•a•b’l), a. Capable of being criticised.

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.

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.

Criticiser
Crit´i•ci•ser (-s?•z?r), n. One who criticises; a critic.

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 of criticism 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.

Critique
Cri•tique´ (kri•tek"), 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.

Critique
Cri•tique´, v. t. [Cf. Critic, v. ] To criticise or pass judgment upon. [Obs.] Pope.

Croak (krok), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Croaked. (krokt); 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.

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.

Croak, n. The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.

Croaker
Croak´er (-?r), n.
1. One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil.
2. (Zoöl.) (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. When caught these fishes make a croaking sound; whence the name, which is often corrupted into crocus. Cro´at (kr?"?t), n. [Cf. Cravat.]
1. A native of Croatia, in Austria; esp., one of the native Slavic race.
2. An irregular soldier, generally from Croatia.

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.

Croche (kroch), 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.

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.

Crocker
Crock´er (-?r), n. A potter. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Crockery
Crock´er•y ( kr?k"?r-?), n. [From Crock an earthen vessel.] Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds.