Cover – Creatress

Cover

COVER, verb transitive [Latin]

1. To overspread the surface of a thing with another substance; to lay or set over; as, to cover a table with a cloth, or a floor with a carpet.

The valleys are covered with corn. Psalms 65:13.

The locusts shall cover the face of the earth. Exodus 5:1.

2. To hide; to conceal by something overspread.

If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me-- Psalms 139:11.

3. To conceal by some intervening object; as, the enemy was covered from our sight by a forest.

4. To clothe; as, to cover with a robe or mantle; to cover nakedness. 1 Samuel 28:14. Exodus 28:42.

5. To overwhelm.

The waters covered the chariots and horsemen. Exo 14.

Let them be covered with reproach. Psa 71.

6. To conceal from notice or punishment.

Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8.

7. To conceal; to refrain from disclosing or confessing.

He that covereth his sin shall not prosper. Proverbs 28:13.

8. To pardon or remit.

Blessed is he whose sin is covered. Psa 32.

9. To vail, applied to women. 1 Corinthians 11:7. To wear a hat, applied to men. Be covered, sir.

10. To wrap, infold or envelop; as, to cover a package of goods.

11. To shelter; to protect; to defend. A squadron of horse covered the troops on the retreat.

And the soft wings of peace cover him around.

12. To brood; to incubate; as, a hen covering her eggs.

13. To copulate with a female.

14. To equal, or be of equal extent; to be equivalent to; as, the receipts do not cover the expenses; a mercantile use of the word.

15. To disguise; to conceal hypocritically.

16. To include, embrace or comprehend. This land was covered by a mortgage.

COVER, noun

1. Any thing which is laid, set or spread over another thing; as the cover of a vessel; the cover of a bed.

2. Any thing which vails or conceals; a screen; disguise; superficial appearance. Affected gravity may serve as a cover for a deceitful heart.

3. Shelter; defense; protection. The troops fought under cover of the batteries.

4. Concealment and protection. The army advanced under cover of the night.

5. Shelter; retreat; in hunting.

Cover-Shame

COVER-SHAME, noun Something used to conceal infamy.

Coverchief

COVERCHIEF, noun A covering of the head.

Covercle

COVERCLE, noun A small cover; a lid.

Covered

COVERED, participle passive Spread over; hid; concealed; clothed; vailed; having a hat on; wrapped; inclosed; sheltered; protected; disguised.

Covering

COVERING, participle present tense Spreading over; laying over; concealing; vailing; clothing; wrapping; inclosing; protecting; disguising.

COVERING, noun

1. That which convers; any thing spread or laid over another, whether for security or concealment.

Noah removed the covering of the ark. Genesis 8:13.

He spread a cloud for a covering Psalms 105:39.

Destruction hath no covering Job 26:6.

2. A cover; a lid.

Every open vessel that hath no covering Numbers 19:15.

3. Clothing; raiment; garments; dress.

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job 24:7.

Coverlet

COVERLET, noun [cover, and a bed.] The cover of a bed; a piece of furniture designed to be spread over all the other covering of a bed.

Covert

COVERT, adjective

1. Covered; hid; private; secret; concealed.

Whether of open war, or covert guile.

2. Disguised; insidious.

3. Sheltered; not open or exposed; as a covert alley, or place.

4. Under cover, authority or protection; as a feme-covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the influence and protection of her husband.

COVERT, noun

1. A covering, or covering place; a place which covers and shelters; a shelter; a defense.

A tabernacle--for a covert from storm and rain. Isaiah 4:6.

I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Psalms 111:1.

2. A thicket; a shady place, or a hiding place. 1 Samuel 25:20. Job 38:40.

Covert-Way

COVERT-WAY, noun In fortification, a space of ground level with the field, on the edge of the ditch, three or four fathoms broad, ranging quite round the half moons or other works, towards the country. It has a parapet raised on a level, together with its banquets and glacis. It is called also the corridor, and sometimes the counterscarp, because it is on the edge of the scarp.

Covertly

COVERTLY, adverb Secretly; closely; in private; insidiously.

Among the poets, Persius covertly strikes at Nero.

Covertness

COVERTNESS, noun Secrecy; privacy.

Coverture

COVERTURE, noun

1. Covering; shelter; defense.

2. In law, the state of a married woman, who is considered as under cover, or the power of her husband, and therefore called a feme-covert, or femme-couvert. The coverture of a woman disables her from making contracts to the prejudice of herself or husband, without his allowance or confirmation.

Covet

COVET, verb transitive

1. To desire or wish for, with eagerness; to desire earnestly to obtain or possess; in a good sense.

COVET earnestly the best gifts. 1 Corinthians 12:31.

2. To desire inordinately; to desire that which it is unlawful to obtain or possess; in a bad sense.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors house, wife or servant. Exodus 20:17.

COVET, verb intransitive To have an earnest desire. 1 Timothy 6:10.

Covetable

COVETABLE, adjective That may be coveted.

Coveted

COVETED, participle passive Earnestly desired; greatly wished or longed for.

Coveting

COVETING, noun Inordinate desire.

Covetise

COVETISE, noun Avarice. [Not in use.]

Covetous

COVETOUS, adjective

1. Very desirous; eager to obtain; in a good sense; as covetous of wisdom, virtue or learning.

2. Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess; directed to money or goods, avaricious.

A bishop must not be covetous 1 Timothy 3:3.

Covetously

COVETOUSLY, adverb With a strong or inordinate desire to obtain and possess; eagerly; avariciously.

Covetousness

COVETOUSNESS, noun

1. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; usually in a bad sense, and applied to an inordinate desire of wealth or avarice.

Out of the heart proceedeth covetousness Mark 7:22.

Mortify your members--and covetousness which is idolatry. Colossians 3:5.

2. Strong desire; eagerness.

Covey

COVEY, noun

1. A brood or hatch of birds; an old fowl with her brood of young. Hence, a small flock or number of fowls together; as a covey of partridges.

2. A company; a set.

Covin

COVIN, noun In law, a collusive or deceitful agreement between two or more to prejudice a third person.

Coving

COVING, noun [See Cove.] In building, a term denoting an arch or arched projecture, as when houses are built so as to project over the ground-plot, ad the turned projecture arched with timber, lathed and plastered.

Covinous

COVINOUS, adjective Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent.

Cow

COW, noun plural cows; old plural kine. The female of the bovine genus of animals; a quadruped with cloven hoofs, whose milk furnishes an abundance of food and profit to the farmer.

Sea-cow, the Manatus, a species of the Trichechus. [See Sea-cow.]

COW, verb transitive To depress with fear; to sink the spirits or courage; to oppress with habitual timidity.

Cow-Bane

COW-BANE, noun [cow and bane.] A popular name of the Aethusa cynapium.

Cow-House

COW-HOUSE, noun A house or building in which cows are kept or stabled.

Cow-Itch

COWHAGE, COW-ITCH noun A leguminous plant of the genus Dolichos, a native of warm climates. It has a fibrous root and an herbaceous climbing stalk, with red papilionaceous flowers, and leguminous, coriaceous pods, crooked and covered with sharp hairs, which penetrate the skin, and cause an itching.

Cow-Keeper

COW-KEEPER, noun One whose business is to keep cows.

Cow-Leech

COW-LEECH, noun [See Leech.] One who professes to heal the diseases of cows.

Cow-Leeching

COW-LEECHING, noun The act or art of healing the distempers of cows.

Cow-Lick

COW-LICK, noun A tuft of hair that appears as if licked by a cow.

Cow-Parsnep

COW-PARSNEP, noun A plant of the genus Heracleum.

Cow-Pen

COW-PEN, noun A pen for cows.

Cow-Pox

COW-POX, noun The vaccine disease.

Cow-Quakes

COW-QUAKES, noun Quaking grass, the Briza, a genus of plants.

Cow-Weed

COW-WEED, noun A plant of the genus Chaerophyllum, or chervil.

Cow-Wheat

COW-WHEAT, noun A plant of the genus Melampyrum.

Coward

COWARD, noun [Latin]

1. A person who wants courage to meet danger; a poltroon; a timid or pusillanimous man.

A coward does not always escape with disgrace, but sometimes loses his life.

2. In heraldry, a term given to a lion borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.

COWARD, adjective

1. Destitute of courage; timid; base; as a coward wretch.

2. Proceeding from or expressive of fear, or timidity; as coward cry; coward joy.

Cowardice

COWARDICE, noun Want of courage to face danger; timidity; pusillanimity; fear of exposing ones person to danger.

COWARDICE alone is loss of fame.

Did cowardice; did injustice ever save a sinking state.

Cowardlike

COWARDLIKE, adjective Resembling a coward; mean.

Cowardliness

COWARDLINESS, noun Want of courage; timidity; cowardice.

Cowardly

COWARDLY, adjective

1. Wanting courage to face danger; timid; timorous; fearful; pusillanimous.

2. Mean; base; befitting a coward; as a cowardly action.

3. Proceeding from fear of danger; as cowardly silence.

COWARDLY, adverb In the manner of a coward; meanly; basely.

Cowardous

COWARDOUS, adjective Cowardly. [Not used.]

Cowardship

COWARDSHIP, noun Cowardice. [Not used.]

Cower

COWER, verb intransitive To sink by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; to stoop or sink downwards.

Our dame wits cowering oer a kitchen fire.

COWER, verb transitive To cherish with care. [Not used.]

Cowhage

COWHAGE, COW-ITCH, noun A leguminous plant of the genus Dolichos, a native of warm climates. It has a fibrous root and an herbaceous climbing stalk, with red papilionaceous flowers, and leguminous, coriaceous pods, crooked and covered with sharp hairs, which penetrate the skin, and cause an itching.

Cowherd

COWHERD, noun [See Herd.] One whose occupation is to tend cows.

Cowish

COWISH, adjective Timorous; fearful; cowardly. [Little used.]

Cowl

COWL, noun

1. A monks hood, or habit, worn by the Bernardines and Benedictines. It is either white or black.

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

2. A vessel to be carried on a pole betwixt two persons, for the conveyance of water.

Cowl-Staff

COWL-STAFF, noun A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons.

Cowled

COWLED, adjective Wearing a cowl; hooded; in shape of a cowl, as a cowled leaf.

Cowlike

COWLIKE, adjective Resembling a cow.

Cowry

COWRY, noun A small shell, the Cypraea moneta, used for coin in Africa and the East Indies.

Cows-Lip

COWSLIP, COWS-LIP noun A plant of the genus Primula, or primrose, of several varieties. The American cowship belongs to the genus Dodecatheon; the Jerusalem and mountain cowslip, to the genus Pulmonaria.

Cows-Lungwort

COWS-LUNGWORT, noun A plant of the genus Verbascum.

Cowslip

COWSLIP, COWS-LIP, noun A plant of the genus Primula, or primrose, of several varieties. The American cowship belongs to the genus Dodecatheon; the Jerusalem and mountain cowslip to the genus Pulmonaria.

Coxcomb

COXCOMB, noun [cocks comb.]

1. The top of the head.

2. The comb resembling that of a cock, which licensed fools wore formerly in their caps.

3. A fop; a vain showy fellow; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments.

4. A kind of red flower; a name given to a species of Celosia, and some other plants.

Coxcombly

COXCOMBLY, adjective Like a coxcomb. [Not used.]

Coxcomical

COXCOMICAL, adjective Foppish; vain; conceited; a low word.

Coy

COY, adjective Modest; silent; reserved; not accessible; shy; not easily condescending to familiarity.

Like Daphne she, as lovely and as coy

COY, verb intransitive

1. To behave with reserve; to be silent or distant; to refrain from speech or free intercourse.

2. To make difficulty; to be backward or unwilling; not freely to condescend.

3. To smooth or stroke.

COY, for decoy, to allure. [Not in use.]

Coyish

COYISH, adjective Somewhat coy, or reserved.

Coyly

COYLY, adverb With reserve; with disinclination to familiarity.

Coyness

COYNESS, noun Reserve; unwillingness to become familiar; disposition to avoid free intercourse, by silence or retirement.

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

Coystrel

COYSTREL, noun A species of degenerate hawk.

Coz

COZ. A contraction of cousin.

Cozen

COZEN, verb transitive

1. To cheat; to defraud.

He that suffers a government to be abused by carelessness and neglect, does the same thing with him that corruptly sets himself to cozen it.

2. To deceive; to beguile.

Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters.

Cozenage

COZENAGE, noun Cheat; trick; fraud; deceit; artifice; the practice of cheating.

Cozened

COZENED, participle passive Cheated; defrauded; beguiled.

Cozener

COZENER, noun One who cheats, or defrauds.

Cozening

COZENING, participle present tense Cheating; defrauding; beguiling.

Crab

CRAB, noun [Gr. Latin ]

1 A crustaceous fish, the cray-fish, Cancer, a genus containing numerous species. They have usually ten feet, two of which are furnished with claws; two eyes, pedunculated, elongated and movable. To this genus belong the lobster, the shrimp, etc.

2. A wild apple, or the tree producing it; so named from its rough taste.

3. A peevish morose person.

4. A wooden engine with three claws for launching ships and heaving them into the dock.

5. A pillar used sometimes for the same purpose as a capstan.

6. Cancer, a sign in the zodiac.

CRABs claws, in the materia medica, the tips of the claws of the common crab; used as absorbents.

CRABs eyes, in pharmacy, concretions formed in the stomach of the cray-fish. They are rounded on one side, and depressed and sinuated on the other, considerably heavy, moderately hard, and without smell. They are absorbent, discussive and diuretic.

CRAB-lice, small insects that stick fast to the skin.

CRAB, adjective Sour; rough; austere.

Crab-Apple

CRAB-APPLE, noun A wild apple. [See Crab.]

Crab-Grass

CRAB-GRASS, noun A genus of plants, the Digitaria.

Crab-Tree

CRAB-TREE, noun The tree that bears crabs.

Crab-Yaws

CRAB-YAWS, noun The name of a disease in the West Indies, being a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with hard callous lips.

Crabbed

CRABBED, adjective [from crab.]

1. Rough; harsh; austere; sour; peevish; morose; cynical; applied to the temper.

2. Rough; harsh; applied to things.

3. Difficult; perplexing; as a crabbed author or subject.

Crabbedly

CRABBEDLY, adverb Peevishly; roughly; morosely; with perplexity.

Crabbedness

CRABBEDNESS, noun

1. Roughness; harshness.

2. Sourness; peevishness; asperity.

3. Difficulty; perplexity.

Crabby

CRABBY, adjective Difficult.

Craber

CRABER, noun The water-rat.

Crack

CRACK, verb transitive

1. To rend, break, or burst into chinks; to break partially; to divide the parts a little from each other; as, to crack a board or a rock; or to break without an entire severance of the parts; as, to crack glass, or ice.

2. To break in pieces; as, to crack nuts.

3. To break with grief; to affect deeply; to pain; to torture; as, to crack the heart. We now use break , or rend.

4. To open and drink; as, to crack a bottle of wine. [Low.]

5. To thrust out, or cast with smartness; as, to crack a joke.

6. To snap; to make a sharp sudden noise; as, to crack a whip.

7. To break or destroy.

8. To impair the regular exercise of the intellectual faculties; to disorder; to make crazy; as, to crack the brain.

CRACK, verb intransitive

1. To burst; to open in chinks; as, the earth cracks by frost; or to be marred without an opening; as, glass cracks by a sudden application of heat.

2. To fall to ruin, or to be impaired.

The credit of the exchequer cracks, when little comes in and much goes out. [Not elegant.]

3. To utter a loud or sharp sudden sound; as, the clouds crack; the whip cracks.

4. To boast; to brag; that is, to utter vain, pompous, blustering words; with of.

The Ethiops of their sweet complexion crack [Not elegant.]

CRACK, noun [Gr.]

1. A disruption; a chinkor fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; a partial separation of the parts of a substance, with or without an opening; as a crack in timber, in a wall, or in glass.

2. A burst of sound; a sharp or loud sound, uttered suddenly or with vehemence; the sound of any thing suddenly rent; a violent report; as the crack of a falling house; the crack of a whip.

3. Change of voice in puberty.

4. Craziness of intellect; or a crazy person.

5. A boast, or boaster. [Low.]

6. Breach of chastity; and a prostitute. [Low.]

7. A lad; an instant. [Not used.]

Crack-Brained

CRACK-BRAINED, adjective Having intellects impaired; crazy.

Crack-Hemp

CRACK-HEMP, CRACK-ROPE, noun A wretch fated to the gallows; one who deserves to be hanged.

Crack-Rope

CRACK-HEMP, CRACK-ROPE noun A wretch fated to the gallows; one who deserves to be hanged.

Cracker

CRACKER, noun

1. A noisy boasting fellow.

2. A rocket; a quantity of gunpowder confined so as to explode with noise.

3. A hard biscuit.

4. That which cracks any thing.

Cracking

CRACKING, ppr. Breaking or dividing partially; opening; impairing; snapping; uttering a sudden sharp or loud sound; boasting; casting jokes.

Crackle

CRACKLE, verb intransitive To make slight cracks; to make small abrupt noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to decrepitate; as, burning thorns crackle

Crackling

CRACKLING, participle present tense Making slight cracks, or abrupt noises.

CRACKLING, noun The making of small abrupt cracks or reports, frequently repeated.

The crackling of thorns under a pot. Ecclesiastes 7:6.

Cracknel

CRACKNEL, noun A hard brittle cake or biscuit. 1 Kings 14:3.

Cradle

CRADLE, noun [Gr., to swing.]

1. A movable machine of various constructions, placed on circular pieces of board, for rocking children or inform persons to sleep, for alleviating pain, or giving moderate exercise.

Me let the tender office long engage, to rock the cradle of reposing age.

2. Infancy. From the cradle is from the state of infancy; in the cradle in a state of infancy.

3. That part of the stock of a cross-bow, where the bullet is put.

4. In surgery, a case in which a broken leg is laid after being set.

5. In ship-building, a frame placed under the bottom of a ship for launching. It supports the ship and slides down the timbers or passage called the ways.

6. A standing bedstead for wounded seamen.

7. In engraving, an instrument, formed of steel, and resembling a chisel, with one sloping side, used in scraping mezzotintos, and preparing the plate.

8. In husbandry, a frame of wood, with long bending teeth, to which is fastened a sythe, for cutting and laying oats and other grain in a swath.

CRADLE, verb transitive

1. To lay in a cradle; to rock in a cradle; to compose, or quiet.

It cradles their fears to sleep.

2. To nurse in infancy.

3. To cut and lay with a cradle as grain.

CRADLE, verb intransitive To lie or lodge in a cradle

Cradle-Clothes

CRADLE-CLOTHES, noun The clothes used for covering one in a cradle.

Cradled

CRADLED, participle passive Laid or rocked in a cradle; cut and laid with a cradle, as grain.

Cradling

CRADLING, participle present tense Laying or rocking in a cradle; cutting and laying with a cradle, as grain.

Craft

CRAFT, noun

1. Art; ability; dexterity; skill.

Poesy is the poets skill or craft of making--

2. Cunning, art or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit.

The chief priests and scribes sought how they might take him by craft and put him to death. Mark 14:1.

3. Art; skill; dexterity in a particular manual occupation; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; trade.

Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. Acts 19:25.

4. All sorts of vessels employed in loading or unloading ships, as lighters, hoys, barges, scows, etc.

Small craft is a term given to small vessels of all hinds, as sloops, schooners, cutters, etc.

CRAFT, verb intransitive To play tricks. [Not in use.]

Craftily

CRAFTILY, adverb [See Crafty.] With craft, cunning or guile; artfully; cunningly; with more art than honesty.

Craftiness

CRAFTINESS, noun Artfulness; dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness Job 5:13.

Not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully. 2 Corinthians 4:2.

Craftsman

CRAFTSMAN, noun An artificer; a mechanic; one skilled in a manual occupation.

Craftsmaster

CRAFTSMASTER, noun One skilled in his craft or trade.

Crafty

CRAFTY, adjective

1. Cunning; artful; skillful in devising and pursuing a scheme, by deceiving others, or by taking advantage of their ignorance; wily; sly; fraudulent.

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty Job 5:12.

2. Artful; cunning; in a good sense, or in a laudable pursuit.

Being crafty I caught you with guile. 2 Corinthians 12:16.

Crag

CRAG, noun [Gr., to break, Latin , breaking. See Crack.] A steep rugged rock; a rough broken rock, or point of a rock.

CRAG, noun [Gr. Roughness, or break. We now call it rack.] The neck, formerly applied to the neck of a human being, as in Spenser. We now apply it to the neck or neck-piece of mutton, and call it a rack of mutton.

Cragged

CRAGGED, adjective Full of crags or broken rocks; rough; rugged; abounding with prominences, points and inequalities.

Craggedness

CRAGGEDNESS, noun The state of abounding with crags, or broken, pointed rocks.

Cragginess

CRAGGINESS, noun The state of being craggy.

Craggy

CRAGGY, adjective Full of crags; abounding with broken rocks; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as the craggy side of a mountain; a craggy cliff.

Crake

CRAKE, noun A boast. [See Crack.]

CRAKE, noun The corn-crake, a migratory fowl, is a species of the rail, Rallus, found among grass, corn, broom or furze. Its cry is very singular, crek, crek, and is imitated by rubbing the blade of a knife on an indented bone, by which it may be decoyed into a net.

Crake-Berry

CRAKE-BERRY, noun A species of Empetrum or berry-bearing heath.

Cram

CRAM, verb transitive

1. To press or drive, particularly in filling or thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram any thing into a basket or bag; to cram a room with people; to cram victuals down the throat.

2. To fill with food beyond satiety; to stuff.

Children would be more free from diseases, if they were not crammed so much by fond mothers.

3. To thrust in by force; to crowd.

Fate has crammed us all into one lease.

CRAM, verb intransitive TO eat greedily or beyond satiety; to stuff.

Crambo

CRAMBO, noun A rhyme; a play in which one person gives a word to which another finds a rhyme.

Crammed

CRAMMED, participle passive Stuffed; crowded; thrust in; filled with food.

Cramming

CRAMMING, participle present tense Driving in; stuffing; crowding; eating beyond satiety of sufficiency.

Cramp

CRAMP, noun

1. Spasm; the contraction of a limb, or some muscle of the body, attended with pain, and sometimes with convulsions, or numbness.

2. Restraint; confinement; that which hinders from motion or expansion.

A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.

3. A piece of iron bent at the ends, serving to hold together pieces of timber, stones, etc.; a cramp-iron.

CRAMP, verb transitive

1. To pain or affect with spasms.

2. To confine; to restrain; to hinder from action or expansion; as, to cramp the exertions of a nation; to cramp the genius.

3. To fasten, confine or hold with a cramp or cramp-iron.

CRAMP, adjective Difficult; knotty. [Little used.]

Cramp-Fish

CRAMP-FISH, noun The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which affects a person like electricity, causing a slight shock and producing numbness, tremor, and sickness of the stomach.

Cramp-Iron

CRAMP-IRON, noun An iron used for fastening things together; a cramp, which see.

Cramped

CRAMPED, participle passive Affected with spasm; convulsed; confined; restrained.

Cramping

CRAMPING, participle present tense Affecting with cramp; confining.

Cranage

CRANAGE, noun [from crane. Low Latin ] The liberty of using a crane at a wharf for raising wares from a vessel; also, the money or price paid for the use of a crane.

Cranberry

CRANBERRY, noun [crane and berry.] A species of Vaccinium; a berry that grows on a slender, bending stalk. Its botanical name is oxycoccus, [sour berry, ] and it is also called moss-berry, or moor-berry, as it grows only on peat-bogs or swampy land. The berry when ripe is red, and of the size of a small cherry or of the hawthorn berry. These berries form a sauce of exquisite flavor, and are used for tarts. The cranberry of the United States is a distinct species, the V. Macrocarpon. [The common pronunciation, cramberry, is erroneous.]

Crane

CRANE, noun [Gr., the plant, cranes-bill.]

1. A migratory fowl of the genus Ardea, belonging to the grallic order. The bill is straight, sharp and long, with a furrow from the nostrils towards the point; the nostrils are linear, and the feet have four toes. These fowls have long legs, and a long neck, being destined to wade and seek their food among grass and reeds in marshy grounds. The common crane is about four feet in length, of a slender body, with ash-coloured feathers.

2. A machine for raising great weights, consisting of a horizontal arm, or piece of timber, projecting from a post, and furnished with a tackle or pulley.

3. A siphon, or crooked pipe for drawing liquors out of a cask.

Crane-Fly

CRANE-FLY, noun An insect of the genus Tipula, of many species. The mouth is a prolongation of the head; the upper jaw is arched; the palpi are two, curved and longer than the head; the proboscis is short.

Cranes-Bill

CRANES-BILL, noun The plant Geranium, of many species; so named from an appendage of the seed-vessel, which resembles the beak of a crane or stork. Some of the species have beautiful flowers and a fragrant scent, and several of them are valued for their astringent properties. [See Crane.]

2. A pair of pinchers used by surgeons.

Craniognomy

CRANIOGNOMY, noun [Gr., the skull, and knowledge; index; Latin , the skull.] The doctrine or science of determining the properties or characteristics of the mind by the conformation of the skull.

Craniological

CRANIOLOGICAL, adjective Pertaining to craniology.

Craniologist

CRANIOLOGIST, noun One who treats of craniology, or one who is versed in the science of the cranium.

Craniology

CRANIOLOGY, noun [Gr., the skull, and discourse.] A discourse or treatise on the cranium or skull; or the science which investigates the structure and uses of the skulls in various animals, particularly in relation to their specific character and intellectual powers.

Craniometer

CRANIOMETER, noun [the skull, and measure.] An instrument for measuring the skulls of animals.

Craniometrical

CRANIOMETRICAL, adjective Pertaining to craniometry.

Craniometry

CRANIOMETRY, noun The art of measuring the cranium, or skulls, of animals, for discovering their specific differences.

Cranioscopy

CRANIOSCOPY, noun [supra, and to view.] The science of the eminences produced in the cranium by the brain, intended to discover the particular part of the brain in which reside the organs which influence particular passions or faculties.

Cranium

CRANIUM, noun [Latin Gr.] The skull of an animal; the assemblage of bones which inclose the brain.

Crank

CRANK, noun [This word probably belongs to the root of cringe, krinkle, to bend.]

1. Literally, a bend or turn. Hence, an iron axis with the end bent like an elbow, for moving a piston, the saw in a saw-mill, etc., and causing it to rise and fall at every turn.

2. Any bend, turn or winding.

3. A twisting or turning is speech; a conceit which consists in a change of the form or meaning of a word.

Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles.

4. An iron brace for various purposes.

CRANK, adjective [g., to careen a ship.]

1. In seamens language, liable to be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast to carry full sail.

2. Stout; bold; erect; as a cock crowing crank

CRANK, CRANKLE, verb intransitive [See crank noun , and Crinkle.] To run in a winding course; to bend, wind and turn.

See how this river comes me crankling in.

Crankle

CRANKLE, verb transitive To break into bends, turns or angles; to crinkle.

Old Vagas stream--Crankling her banks.

CRANKLE, noun A bend or turn; a crinkle.

Crankness

CRANKNESS, noun

1. Liability to be overset, as a ship.

2. Stoutness; erectness.

Crannied

CRANNIED, adjective [See Cranny.] Having rents, chinks or fissures; as a crannied wall.

Cranny

CRANNY, noun [Latin , to split; to cut off; to divide; a piece.]

1. Properly, a rent; but commonly, any small narrow opening, fissure, crevice or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.

In a firm building, the cavities ought to be filled with brick or stone, fitted to the crannies.

2. A hole; a secret retired place.

He peeped into every cranny

3. In glass-making, an iron instrument for forming the necks of glasses.

Crants

CRANTS, noun [G.] Garlands carried before the bier of a maiden and hung over her grave.

Crape

CRAPE, noun [See Crisp.] A thin transparent stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill, woven without crossing, and much used in mourning. crape is also used for gowns and the dress of the clergy.

A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

CRAPE, verb transitive To curl; to form into ringlets; as, to crape the hair.

Craple

CRAPLE, noun A claw.

Crapnel

CRAPNEL, noun A hook or drag.

Crapulence

CRAPULENCE, noun [Latin , a surfeit. See Crop.] Cropsickness; drunkenness; a surfeit, or the sickness occasioned by intemperance.

Crapulous

CRAPULOUS, adjective Drunk; surchared with liquor; sick by intemperance.

Crash

CRASH, verb transitive To break; to bruise.

CRASH, verb intransitive To make the loud, clattering, multifarious sound of many things falling and breaking at once.

When convulsions cleave the labring earth, before the dismal yawn appears, the ground trembles and heaves, the nodding houses crash

CRASH, noun The loud mingled sound of many things falling and breaking at once; as the sound of a large tree falling and its branches breaking, or the sound of a falling house.

Crashing

CRASHING, noun The sound of many things falling and breaking at once.

There shall be a great crashing from the hills. Zephaniah 1:10.

Crasis

CRASIS, noun [Gr., to mix, to temper.]

1. The temper or healthy constitution of the blood in an animal body; the temperament which forms a particular constitution of the blood.

2. In grammar, a figure by which two different letters are contracted into one long letter or into a diphthong.

Crass

CRASS, adjective [Latin , the same as gross, which see.] Gross; thick; coarse; not thing, nor fine; applied to fluids and solids; as, crass and fumid exhalations. [Little used.]

Crassament

CRASSAMENT, noun The thick red part of the blood, as distinct from the serum, or aqueous part; the clot.

Crassitude

CRASSITUDE, noun [Latin] Grossness; coarseness; thickness; applied to liquids or solids.

Crassness

CRASSNESS, noun Grossness.

Cratch

CRATCH, noun A rack; a grated crib or manger. [I believe not used in New England.]

CRATCH. [See Scratch.]

Cratches

CRATCHES, noun [G., the itch, cratches; to scratch.] In the manege, a swelling on the pastern, under the fetlock, and sometimes under the hoof of a horse.

Crate

CRATE, noun [Latin] A kind of basket or hamper of wicker-word, used for the transportation of china, crockery and similar wares.

Crater

CRATER, noun [Latin , Gr, a great cup.]

1. The aperture or mouth of a volcano.

2. A constellation of the southern hemisphere, said to contain 31 stars.

Craunch

CRAUNCH, verb transitive To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise.

Craunching

CRAUNCHING, participle present tense Crushing with the teeth with violence.

Cravant

CRAVEN, CRAVENT, CRAVANT, n. 1. A word of obloquy, used formerly by one vanquished in trial by battle, and yielding to the conqueror. Hence, a recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted spiritless fellow.2. A vanquished, dispirited cock.

Cravat

CRAVAT, noun A neck-cloth; a piece of fine muslin or other cloth worn by men about the neck.

Crave

CRAVE, verb transitive

1. To ask with earnestness or importunity; to beseech; to implore; to ask with submission or humility, as a dependent; to beg; to entreat.

As for my nobler friends, I crave their pardons.

Joseph--went in boldly to Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. Mark 15:43.

2. To call for, as a gratification; to long for; to require or demand, as a passion or appetite; as, the stomach or appetite craves food.

3. Sometimes intransitively, with for before the thing sought; as, I crave for mercy.

Craved

CRAVED, participle passive Asked for with earnestness; implored; entreated; longed for; required.

Craven

CRAVEN, CRAVENT, CRAVANT, n. 1. A word of obloquy, used formerly by one vanquished in trial by battle, and yielding to the conqueror. Hence, a recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted spiritless fellow.2. A vanquished, dispirited cock.

Cravent

CRAVEN, CRAVENT CRAVANT, noun

1. A word of obloquy, used formerly by one vanquished in trial by battle, and yielding to the conqueror. Hence, a recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted spiritless fellow.

2. A vanquished, dispirited cock.

CRAVEN, verb transitive To make recreant, weak or cowardly.

Craver

CRAVER, noun One who craves or begs.

Craving

CRAVING, participle present tense

1. Asking with importunity; urging for earnestly; begging; entreating.

2. Calling for with urgency; requiring; demanding gratification; as an appetite craving food.

CRAVING, noun Vehement or urgent desire, or calling for; a longing for.

Craw

CRAW, noun [G.] The crop or first stomach of fowls.

Craw-Fish

CRAW-FISH, CRAY-FISH, noun [Craw is contracted form crab, or from the Welsh crag, a shell. See Crab.] A species of Cancer or crab, a crustaceous fish, found in streams. It resembles the lobster, but is smaller, and is esteemed very delicate food.

Crawl

CRAWL, verb intransitive

1. To creep; to move slowly by thrusting or drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; or to move slowly on the hands and knees or feet, as a human being. A worm crawls on the earth; a boy crawls into a cavern, or up a tree.

2. To move or walk weakly, slowly, or timorously.

He was hardly able to crawl about the room.

3. To creep; to advance slowly and slyly; to insinuate ones self; as, to crawl into favor. [This use is vulgar.]

4. To move about; to move in any direction; used in contempt.

Absurd opinions crawl about the world.

5. To have the sensation of insects creeping about the body; as, the flesh crawls.

CRAWL, noun A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the sea coast for containing fish.

Crawler

CRAWLER, noun He or that which crawls; a creeper; a reptile.

Crawling

CRAWLING, participle present tense Creeping; moving slowly along the ground, or other substance; moving or walking slowly, weakly or timorously; insinuating.

Cray

CRAY or CRAYER, noun A small sea vessel. [Not in use.]

Cray-Fish

CRAY-FISH, noun The river lobster. [See Craw-fish.]

Crayon

CRAYON, noun [Latin]

1. A general name for all colored stones, earths, or other minerals and substances, used in designing or painting in pastel or paste, whether they have been beaten and reduced to paste, or are used in their primitive consistence. Red crayons are made of blood-stone or red chalk; black ones, of charcoal or black lead.

2. A kind of pencil, or roll of paste, to draw lines with.

3. A drawing or design done with a pencil or crayon

Crayon-Painting

CRAYON-PAINTING, noun The act or art of drawing with crayons.

Craze

CRAZE, verb transitive [See Crush.]

1. To break; to weaken; to break or impair the natural force or energy of.

Till length of years, and sedentary numbness, craze my limbs.

2. To crush in pieces; to grind to powder; as, to craze tin.

3. To crack the brain; to shatter; to impair the intellect; as, to be crazed with love or grief.

Craze-Mill

CRAZE-MILL, CRAZING-MILL, noun A mill resembling a grist mill, used for grinding tin.

Crazed

CRAZED, participle passive Broken; bruised; crushed; impaired; deranged in intellect; decrepit.

Crazedness

CRAZEDNESS, noun A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the intellect.

Crazily

CRAZILY, adverb [See Crazy.] In a broken or crazy manner.

Craziness

CRAZINESS, noun [See Crazy.]

1. The state of being broken 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-Mill

CRAZE-MILL, CRAZING-MILL noun A mill resembling a grist mill, used for grinding tin.

Crazy

CRAZY, adjective

1. Broken; decrepit; weak; feeble; applied to the body, or constitution, or any structure; as a crazy body; a crazy constitution; a crazy ship.

2. Broken, weakened, or disordered in intellect; deranged, weakened, or shattered in mind. We say, the man is crazy

Creaght

CREAGHT, noun Herds of cattle. [Not used.]

CREAGHT, verb intransitive To graze on lands. [Not used.]

Creak

CREAK, verb intransitive [Latin , Gr., to comb, scrape, rake; to cry.] To make a sharp harsh grating sound, of some continuance, as by the friction of hard substances. Thus, the hinge of a door creaks in turning; a tight firm shoe creaks in walking, by the friction of the leather.

Creaking

CREAKING, participle present tense Making a harsh grating sound; as creaking hinges or shoes.

CREAKING, noun A harsh grating sound.

Cream

CREAM, noun [Latin , G.]

1. In a general sense, any part of a liquor that separates from the rest, rises and collects on the surface. More particularly, the oily part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated in a cool place, rises and forms a scum on the surface, as it is specifically lighter than the other part of the liquor. This by agitation forms butter.

2. The best part of a thing; as the cream of a jest or story.

CREAM of lime, the scum of lime water; or that part of lime which, after being dissolved in its caustic state, separates from the water int he mild state of chalk or limestone.

CREAM of tartar, the scum of a boiling solution of tartar.

The purified and crystalized supertartrate of potash.

CREAM, verb transitive

1. To skim; to take off cream by skimming.

2. To take off the quintessence or best part of a thing.

CREAM, verb intransitive

1. To gather cream; to flower or mantle.

2. To grow stiff, or formal.

Cream-Bowl

CREAM-BOWL, noun A bowl for holding cream.

Cream-Faced

CREAM-FACED, adjective White; pale; having a coward look.

Cream-Pot

CREAM-POT, noun A vessel for holding cream.

Creamy

CREAMY, adjective Full of cream; like cream; having the nature of cream; luscious.

Creance

CREANCE, noun In falconry, a fine small line, fastened to a hawks leash, when she is first lured.

Crease

CREASE, noun A line or mark made by folding or doubling any thing; a hollow streak, like a groove.

CREASE, verb transitive To make a crease or mark in a thing by folding or doubling.

Creat

CREAT, noun In the manege, an usher to a riding master.

Create

CREATE, verb transitive [Latin]

1. To produce; to bring into being from nothing; to cause to exist.

In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1.

2. To make or form, by investing with a new character; as, to create one a peer or baron; to create a manor.

I create you companions to our person.

3. To produce; to cause; to be the occasion of.

Your eye in Scotland would create soldiers, and make women fight.

Long abstinence creates uneasiness in the stomach; confusion is created by hurry.

4. To beget; to generate; to bring forth.

The people which shall be created, shall praise the Lord. Psalms 102:18.

5. To make or produce, by new combinations of matter already created, and by investing these combinations with new forms, constitutions and qualities; to shape and organize.

God created man in his own image. Genesis 1:1.

6. To form anew; to change the state or character; to renew.

CREATE in me a clean heart. Psalms 51:10.

We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:10.

Created

CREATED, participle passive Formed from nothing; caused to exist; produced; generated; invested with a new character; formed into new combinations, with a peculiar shape, constitution and properties; renewed.

Creating

CREATING, participle present tense Forming from nothing; originating; producing; giving a new character; constituting new beings from matter by shaping, organizing and investing with new properties; forming anew.

Creation

CREATION, noun

1. The act of creating; the act of causing to exist; and especially, the act of bringing this world into existence. Romans 1:20.

2. The act of making, by new combinations of matter, invested with new forms and properties, and of subjecting to different laws; the act of shaping and organizing; as the creation of man and other animals, of plants, minerals, etc.

3. The act of investing with a new character; as the creation of peers in England.

4. The act of producing.

5. The things created; creatures; the world; the universe.

As subjects then the whole creation came.

6. Any part of the things created.

Before the low creation swarmed with men.

7. Any thing produced or caused to exist.

A false creation proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain.

Creative

CREATIVE, adjective Having the power to create, or exerting the act of creation; as creative fancy; creative power.

Creator

CREATOR, noun [Latin]

1. The being or person that creates.

Remember thy creator in the days of thy youth. Ecclesiastes 12:1.

2. The thing that creates, produces or causes.

Creatress

CREATRESS, noun A female that creates any thing.