Creature – Cronycal

Creature

CREATURE, noun

1. That which is created; every being besides the Creator, or every thing not self-existent. The sun, moon and stars; the earth, animals, plants, light, darkness, air, water, etc., are the creatures of God.

2. In a restricted sense, an animal of any kind; a living being; a beast. In a more restricted sense, man. Thus we say, he was in trouble and no creature was present to aid him.

3. A human being, in contempt; as an idle creature; a poor creature; what a creature!

4. With words of endearment, it denotes a human being beloved; as a pretty creature; a sweet creature

5. That which is produced, formed or imagined; as a creature of the imagination.

6. A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; one who is made to be what he is.

Great princes thus, when favorites they raise, to justify their grace, their creatures praise.

7. A dependent; a person who is subject to the will or influence of another.

Creaturely

CREATURELY, adjective Having the qualities of a creature. [Little used.]

Creatureship

CREATURESHIP, noun The state of a creature. [Little used.]

Credence

CREDENCE, noun [See Creed.]

1. Belief; credit; reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge, as from the testimony of others. We give credence to a historian of unsuspected integrity, or to a story which is related by a man of known veracity.

2. That which gives a claim to credit, belief or confidence; as a letter of credence which is intended to commend the bearer to the confidence of a third person.

Credenda

CREDENDA, noun [Latin , See Creed.] In theology, things to be believed; articles of faith; distinguished from agenda, or practical duties.

Credent

CREDENT, adjective

1. Believing; giving credit; easy of belief.

2. Having credit; not to be questioned.

Credentials

CREDENTIALS, noun plural [Rarely or never used in the singular.] That which gives credit; that which gives a title or claim to confidence; the warrant on which belief, credit or authority is claimed, among strangers; as the letters of commendation and power given by a government to an embassador or envoy, which give him credit at a foreign court. So the power of working miracles given to the apostles may be considered as their credentials authorizing them to propagate the gospel, and entitling them to credit.

Credibility

CREDIBILITY, noun [Latin] Credibleness; the quality or state of a thing which renders it possible to be believed, or which admits belief, on rational principles; the quality or state of a thing which involves no contradiction, or absurdity. credibility is less than certainty, and greater than possibility; indeed it is less than probability, but is nearly allied to it. [See Credible.]

Credible

CREDIBLE, adjective [Latin]

1. That may be believed; worthy of credit. A thing is credible when it is known to be possible, or when it involves no contradiction or absurdity; it is more credible when it is known to come within the ordinary laws or operations of nature. With regard to the Divine Being and his operations, every thing is credible which is consistent with his perfections, and supported by evidence or unimpeachable testimony, for his power is unlimited. With regard to human affairs, we do not apply the word to things barely possible, but to things which come within the usual course of human conduct, and the general rules of evidence.

2. Worthy of belief; having a claim to credit; applied to persons. A credible person is one of known veracity and integrity, or whose veracity may be fairly deduced from circumstances. We believe the history of Aristides and Themistocles, on the authority of credible historians.

Credibleness

CREDIBLENESS, noun Credibility; worthiness of belief; just claim to credit. [See Credibility.]

Credibly

CREDIBLY, adverb In a manner that deserves belief; with good authority to support belief.

Credit

CREDIT, noun [Latin , See Creed.]

1. Belief; faith; a reliance or resting of the mind on the truth of something said or done. We give credit to a mans declaration, when the mind rests on the truth of it, without doubt or suspicion, which is attended with wavering. We give credit to testimony or to a report, when we rely on its truth and certainty.

2. Reputation derived from the confidence of others. Esteem; estimation; good opinion founded on a belief of a mans veracity, integrity, abilities and virtue; as a physician in high credit with his brethren. Hence,

3. Honor; reputation; estimation; applied to men or things. A man gains no credit by profaneness; and a poem may lose no credit by criticism. The credit of a man depends on his virtues; the credit of his writings, on their worth.

4. That which procures or is entitled to belief; testimony; authority derived from ones character, or from the confidence of others. We believe a story on the credit of the narrator. We believe a story on the credit of the narrator. We believe in miracles on the credit of inspired men. We trust to the credit of assertion, made by a man of known veracity.

5. Influence derived from the reputation of veracity or integrity, or from the good opinion or confidence of others; interest; power derived from weight of character, from friendship, fidelity or other cause. A minister may have great credit with a prince. He may employ his credit to good or evil purposes. A man uses his credit with a friend; a servant, with his master.

6. In commerce, trust; transfer of goods in confidence of future payment. When the merchant gives a credit he sells his wares on an expressed or implied promise that the purchaser will pay for them at a future time. The seller believes in the solvability and probity of the purchaser, and delivers his goods on that belief or trust; or he delivers them on the credit or reputation of the purchaser. The purchaser takes what is sold, on credit In like manner, money is loaned on the credit of the borrower.

7. The capacity of being trusted; or the reputation of solvency and probity which entitles a man to be trusted. A customer has good credit or no credit with a merchant.

8. In book-keeping, the side of an account in which payment is entered; opposed to debit. This article is carried to ones credit and that to his debit. We speak of the credit side of an account.

9. Public credit the confidence which men entertain in the ability and disposition of a nation, to make good its engagements with its creditors; or the estimation in which individuals hold the public promises of payment, whether such promises are expressed or implied. The term is also applied to the general credit of individuals in a nation; when merchants and others are wealthy, and punctual in fulfilling engagements; or when they transact business with honor fidelity; or when transfers of property are made with ease for ready payment. So we speak of the credit of a bank, when general confidence is placed in its ability to redeem its notes; and the credit of a mercantile house rests on its supposed ability and probity, which induce men to trust to its engagements.

Cherish public credit

When the public credit is questionable, it raises the premium on loans.

10. The notes or bills which are issued by the public or by corporations or individuals, which circulate on the confidence of men in the ability and disposition in those who issue them, to redeem them. They are sometimes called bills of credit

11. The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust; as a long credit or a short credit

12. A sum of money due to any person; any thing valuable standing on the creditor side of an account. A has a credit on the books of B. The credits are more than balanced by the debits.

[In this sense, the word has the plural number.]

CREDIT, verb transitive [from the Noun.]

1. To believe; to confide in the truth of; as, to credit a report, or the man who tells it.

2. To trust; to sell or loan in confidence of future payment; as, to credit goods or money.

3. To procure credit or honor; to do credit; to give reputation or honor.

May here her monument stand so, to credit this rude age.

4. To enter upon the credit side of an account; as, to credit the amount paid.

5. To set to the credit of; as, to credit to a man the interest paid on a bond.

Creditable

CREDITABLE, adjective Reputable; that may be enjoyed or exercised with reputation or esteem; estimable. A man pursues a creditable occupation, or way of living.

Creditableness

CREDITABLENESS, noun Reputation; estimation.

Creditably

CREDITABLY, adverb Reputable; with credit; without disgrace.

Credited

CREDITED, participle passive Believed; trusted; passed to the credit, or entered on the credit side of an account.

Crediting

CREDITING, participle present tense Believing; trusting; entering to the credit in account.

Creditor

CREDITOR, noun [Latin See Creed.]

1. A person to whom a sum of money or other thing is due, by obligation, promise or in law; properly, one who gives credit in commerce; but in a general sense, one who has a just claim for money; correlative to debtor. In a figurative sense, one who has a just claim to services.

CREDITORs have better memories than debtors.

2. One who believes. [Not used.]

Creditrix

CREDITRIX, noun A female creditor.

Credulity

CREDULITY, noun [Latin , to believe. See Creed and Credulous.] Easiness of belief; a weakness of mind by which a person is disposed to believe, or yield his assent to a declaration or proposition, without sufficient evidence of the truth of what is said or proposed; a disposition to believe on slight evidence or no evidence at all.

Credulous

CREDULOUS, adjective [Latin See Creed.] Apt to believe without sufficient evidence; unsuspecting; easily deceived.

Credulousness

CREDULOUSNESS, noun Credulity; easiness of belief; readiness to believe without sufficient evidence.

Beyond all credulity is the credulousness of atheists, who believe that chance could make the world, when it cannot build a house.

Creed

CREED, noun [This word seems to have been introduced by the use of the Latin credo, I believe, at the beginning of the Apostles creed or brief system of Christian faith. See creed ]

1. A brief summary of the articles of Christian faith; a symbol; as the Apostolic creed

2. That which is believed; any system of principles which are believed or professed; as a political creed

Creek

CREEK, verb transitive To make a harsh sharp noise. [See Creak.]

CREEK, noun [See Crack.]

1. A small inlet, bay or cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.

They discovered a certain creek with a shore. Acts 27:39.

2. Any turn in winding.

3. A prominence or jut in a winding coast. [This sense is probably not legitimate.]

4. In some of the American States, a small river. This sense is not justified by etymology, but as streams often enter into creeks and small bays or form them, the name has been extended to small streams in general.

Creeky

CREEKY, adjective Containing creeks; full of creeks; winding.

Creep

CREEP, verb intransitive [Gr., the sense is to catch, to grapple; Latin , to scrape or scratch.]

1. To move with the belly on the ground, or the surface of any other body, as a worm or serpent without legs, or as many insects with feet and very short legs; to crawl.

2. To move along the ground, or on the surface of any other body, in growth, as a vine; to grow along.

3. To move slowly, feebly or timorously; as an old or infirm man, who creeps about his chamber.

4. To move slowly and insensibly, as time.

To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day.

5. To move secretly; to move so as to escape detection, or prevent suspicion.

Of this sort are they who creep into houses, and lead away captive silly women. 2 Timothy 3:6.

6. To steal in; to move forward unheard and unseen; to come or enter unexpectedly or unobserved; as, some error has crept into the copy of a history.

7. To move or behave with servility; to fawn.

Creeper

CREEPER, noun

1. One who creeps; that which creeps; a reptile; also, a creeping plant, which moves along the surface of the earth or attaches itself to some other body, as ivy.

2. An iron used to slide along the grate in kitchens.

3. A kind of pattern or clog worn by women.

4. creeper or creepers, an instrument of iron with hooks or claws, for drawing up things from the bottom of a well, river or harbor.

5. A genus of birds, the Certhia, or ox-eye, of many species. These birds run along the body or branch of a tree, and when they observe a person near, they run to the side opposite, so as to keep out of sight.

Creephole

CREEPHOLE, noun A hole into which an animal may creep to escape notice or danger; also, a subterfuge; an excuse.

Creeping

CREEPING, participle present tense Moving on the belly, or close to the surface of the earth or other body; moving slowly, secretly, or silently; moving insensibly; stealing along.

Creepingly

CREEPINGLY, adverb By creeping; slowly; in the manner of a reptile.

Creeple

CREEPLE. [Not used.] [See Cripple.]

Creese

CREESE, noun A Malay dagger.

Cremation

CREMATION, noun [Latin , to burn.] A burning; particularly, the burning of the dead, according to the custom of many ancient nations.

Cremor

CREMOR, noun [Latin See cream.] Cream; any expressed juice of grain; yeast; scum; a substance resembling cream.

Crenate

CRENATE, CRENATED, adjective [Latin , a notch. See Cranny.] Notched; indented; scolloped. In botany, a crenate leaf has its edge, as it were, cut with angular or circular incisures, not inclining towards either extremity. When the scallops are segments of small circles, it is said to be obtusely crenated; when the larger segments have smaller ones upon them, a leaf is said to be doubly crenate

Crenated

CRENATE, CRENATED adjective [Latin , a notch. See Cranny.] Notched; indented; scolloped. In botany, a crenate leaf has its edge, as it were, cut with angular or circular incisures, not inclining towards either extremity. When the scallops are segments of small circles, it is said to be obtusely crenated; when the larger segments have smaller ones upon them, a leaf is said to be doubly crenate.

Crenature

CRENATURE, noun A scollop, like a notch, in a leaf, or in the style of a plant.

Crengle

CRENKLE, CRENGLE CRENULATE, adjective [See Cringle.] Having the edge, as it were, cut into very small scollops.

Crenkle

CRENKLE, CRENGLE, CRENULATE, adjective [See Cringle.] Having the edge, as it were, cut into very small scollops.

Crenulate

CRENKLE, CRENGLE, CRENULATE adjective [See Cringle.] Having the edge, as it were, cut into very small scollops.

Creole

CREOLE, noun In the West Indies and Spanish America, a native of those countries descended from European ancestors.

Crepance

CREPANCE, CREPANE, noun [Latin , to burst.] A chop or cratch in a horses leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot crossing and striking the other hind foot. It sometimes degenerates into an ulcer.

Crepane

CREPANCE, CREPANE noun [Latin , to burst.] A chop or cratch in a horses leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot crossing and striking the other hind foot. It sometimes degenerates into an ulcer.

Crepitate

CREPITATE, verb intransitive [Latin , to crackle, to crack, to burst with a sharp sound.] To crackle; to snap; to burst with a small sharp abrupt sound, rapidly repeated; as salt in fire, or during calcination. It differs from detonate, which signifies, to burst with a single loud report.

Crepitating

CREPITATING, participle present tense Crackling; snapping.

Crepitation

CREPITATION, noun

1. The act of bursting with a frequent repetition of sharp sounds; the noise of some salts in calcination; crackling.

2. The noise of fractured bones, when moved by a surgeon to ascertain a fracture.

Crept

CREPT, preterit tense and participle passive of creep.

Crepuscle

CREPUSCLE, CREPUSCULE, noun [Latin , a little burst or break of light, or broken light.] Twilight; the light of the morning from the first dawn to sunrise, and of the evening from sunset to darkness. It is occasioned by the refraction of the suns ray.

Crepuscular

CREPUSCULAR, CREPUSCULOUS, adjective Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; noting the imperfect light of the morning and evening; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous.

Crepuscule

CREPUSCLE, CREPUSCULE noun [Latin , a little burst or break of light, or broken light.] Twilight; the light of the morning from the first dawn to sunrise, and of the evening from sunset to darkness. It is occasioned by the refraction of the suns ray.

Crepusculine

CREPUSCULINE, adjective Crepuscular. [Not used.]

Crepusculous

CREPUSCULAR, CREPUSCULOUS adjective Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; noting the imperfect light of the morning and evening; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous.

Crescent

CRESCENT, adjective [Latin , to grow. See Grow.] Increasing; growing; as crescent horns.

CRESCENT, noun

1. The increasing or new moon, which, when receding from the sun, shows a curving rim of light, terminating in points or horns. It is applied to the old or decreasing moon, in a like state, but less properly.

2. The figure or likeness of the new moon; as that borne in the Turkish flag or national standard. The standard itself, and figuratively, the Turkish power.

3. In heraldry, a bearing in the form of a half moon.

4. The name of a military order, instituted by Renatus of Anjou, king of Sicily; so called from its symbol or badge, a crescent of gold enameled.

CRESCENT, verb transitive To form into a crescent

Crescent-Shaped

CRESCENT-SHAPED, adjective In botany, lunate; lunated; shaped like a crescent; as a leaf.

Crescive

CRESCIVE, adjective [Latin , to grow.] Increasing; growing.

Cress

CRESS, noun [G., Latin ] The name of several species of plants, most of them of the class tetradynamia. Watercresses, of the genus Sisymbrium, are used as a salad, and are valued in medicine for their antiscorbutic qualities. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste. They grow on the brinks of rivulets and in other moist grounds. The word is generally used in the plural.

Cresset

CRESSET, noun [See Cross.]

1. A great light set on a beacon, lighthouse, or watch tower.

2. A lamp or torch.

Crest

CREST, noun [Latin This is probably, a growing or shooting up, from the root of cresco.]

1. The plume of feathers or other material on the top of the ancient helmet; the helmet itself.

2. The ornament of the helmet in heraldry.

3. The comb of a cock; also, a tuft of feathers on the head of other fowls.

4. Any tuft or ornament worn on the head.

5. Loftiness; pride; courage; spirit; a lofty mien.

CREST, verb transitive

1. To furnish with a crest; to serve as a crest for.

2. To mark with long streaks.

Crest-Fallen

CREST-FALLEN, adjective

1. Dejected; sunk; bowed; dispirited; heartless; spiritless.

2. Having the upper part of the neck hanging on one side, as a horse.

Crested

CRESTED, adjective [from crest.]

1. Wearing a crest; adorned with a crest or plume; having a comb; as a crested helmet; a crested cock.

2. In natural history, having a tuft like a crest.

Crestless

CRESTLESS, adjective Without a crest; not dignified with coat-armor; not of an eminent family; of low birth.

Cretaceous

CRETACEOUS, adjective [Latin , chalk.] Chalky; having the qualities of chalk; like chalk; abounding with chalk.

Cretic

CRETIC, noun [Gr.] A poetic foot of three syllables, one short between two long syllables.

Cretin

CRETIN, noun A name given to certain deformed and helpless idiots in the Alps.

Crevice

CREVICE, noun [Latin , to burst. See Crepitate and Rip.] A crack; a cleft; a fissure; a rent; an opening; as a crevice in a wall.

CREVICE, verb transitive To crack; to flaw.

Crevis

CREVIS, noun The craw-fish.

Crew

CREW, noun

1. A company of people associated; as a noble crew; a gallant crew

2. A company, in a low or bad sense, which is now most usual; a herd; as a rebel crew

So we say, a miserable crew

3. The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel or boat; the company belonging to a vessel. Also, the company or gang of a carpenter, gunner, boatswain, etc. It is appropriated to the common sailors.

CREW, preterit tense of crow, but the regular preterit and participle, crowed, is now most commonly used.

Crewel

CREWEL, noun Yarn twisted and wound on a knot or ball, or two threaded worsted.

Crewet

CREWET. [See Cruet.]

Crib

CRIB, noun

1. The manger of a stable, in which oxen and cows feed. In America, it is distinguished from a rack for horses.

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. Proverbs 14:4.

The manger for other beasts.

The ass knoweth his masters crib Isaiah 1:3.

2. A small habitation or cottage.

3. A stall for oxen.

4. A case or box in salt works.

5. A small building, raised on posts, for storing Indian corn.

CRIB, verb transitive To shut or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage.

Cribbage

CRIBBAGE, noun A game at cards.

Cribbed

CRIBBED, participle passive Shut up; confined; caged.

Cribble

CRIBBLE, noun

1. A corn-sieve or riddle.

2. Coarse flour or meal. [Not used in the United States.]

CRIBBLE, verb transitive To sift; to cause to pass through a sieve or riddle.

Cribration

CRIBRATION, noun [See Cribble.] The act of sifting or riddling; used in pharmacy.

Cribriform

CRIBRIFORM, adjective [Latin , a sieve, and form.] Resembling a sieve or riddle; a term applied to the lamen of the ethmoid bone, through which the fibers of the olfactory nerve pass to the nose.

Crichtonite

CRICHTONITE, noun A mineral so called from Dr. Crichton, physician to the Emperor of Russia. It has a velvet black color, and crystalizes in very acute small rhomboids. It occurs in primitive rocks with octahedrite.

Crick

CRICK, noun [See Creak.]

1. The creaking of a door. [Not used.]

2. A spasmodic affection of some part of the body, as of the neck or back; local spasm or cramp.

Cricket

CRICKET, noun An insect of the genus Gryllus, belonging to the order of Hemipters. There are several species, so named probably on account of their creaking or chirping voice.

The cricket chirping in the hearth.

CRICKET, noun

1. A play or exercise with bats and ball.

2. A low stool.

Cricket-Match

CRICKET-MATCH, noun A match at cricket.

Cricketer

CRICKETER, noun One who plays at cricket.

Cried

CRIED, preterit tense and part. of cry.

Crier

CRIER, CRYER, noun [See Cry.] One who cries; one who makes proclamation. The crier of a court is an officer whose duty is to proclaim the orders or commands of the court, to open or adjourn the court, keep silence, etc. A crier is also employed to give notice of auctions, and for other purposes.

Crime

CRIME, noun [Latin , Gr. , to separate, to judge, to decree, to condemn.]

1. An act which violates a law, divine or human; an act which violates a rule of moral duty; an offense against the laws of right, prescribed by God or man, or against any rule of duty plainly implied in those laws. A crime may consist in omission or neglect, as well as in commission, or positive transgression. The commander of a fortress who suffers the enemy to take possession by neglect, is as really criminal, as one who voluntarily opens the gates without resistance.

But in a more common and restricted sense, a crime denotes an offense, or violation of public law, of a deeper and more atrocious nature; a public wrong; or a violation of the commands of God, and the offenses against the laws made to preserve the public rights; as treason, murder, robbery, theft, arson, etc. The minor wrongs committed against individuals or private rights, are denominated trespasses, and the minor wrongs against public rights are called misdemeanors. Crimes and misdemeanors are punishable by indictment, information or public prosecution; trespasses or private injuries, at the suit of the individuals injured. But in many cases an act is considered both as a public offense and a trespass, and is punishable both by the public and the individual injured.

2. Any great wickedness; iniquity; wrong.

No crime was thing, if tis no crime to love.

Capital crime a crime punishable with death.

Crimeful

CRIMEFUL, adjective Criminal; wicked; partaking of wrong; contrary to law, right to duty.

Crimeless

CRIMELESS, adjective Free from crime; innocent.

Criminal

CRIMINAL, adjective

1. Guilty of a crime; applied to persons.

2. Partaking of a crime; involving a crime; that violates public law, divine or human; as, theft is a criminal act.

3. That violates moral obligation; wicked.

4. Relating to crimes; opposed to civil; as a criminal code; criminal law.

CRIMINAL, noun A person who has committed an offense against public law; a violator of law, divine or human. More particularly, a person indicted or charged with a public offense, and one who is found guilty, by verdict, confession or proof.

CRIMINAL conversation, the illegal commerce of the sexes; adultery.

Criminality

CRIMINALITY, CRIMINALNESS, noun The quality of being criminal, or a violation of law; guiltiness; the quality of being guilty of a crime.

Criminally

CRIMINALLY, adverb In violation of public law; in violation of divine law; wickedly; in a wrong or iniquitous manner.

Criminalness

CRIMINALITY, CRIMINALNESS noun The quality of being criminal, or a violation of law; guiltiness; the quality of being guilty of a crime.

This is by no means the only criterion of criminality.

Criminate

CRIMINATE, verb transitive [Latin] To accuse; to charge with a crime; to alledge to be guilty of a crime, offense or wrong.

Our municipal laws do not require the offender to plead guilty or criminate himself.

Criminated

CRIMINATED, participle passive Accused; charge with a crime.

Criminating

CRIMINATING, participle present tense Accusing; alledging to be guilty.

Crimination

CRIMINATION, noun [Latin] The act of accusing; accusation; charge of having been guilty of a criminal act, offense or wrong.

Criminatory

CRIMINATORY, adjective Relating to accusation; accusing.

Criminous

CRIMINOUS, adjective Very wicked; hainous; involving great crime. [Not used.]

Criminously

CRIMINOUSLY, adverb Criminally; hainously; enormously. [Not used.]

Criminousness

CRIMINOUSNESS, noun Wickedness; guilt; criminality. [Not used.]

Crimosin

CRIMOSIN. [See Crimson.]

Crimp

CRIMP, adjective [See Crumble.]

1. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. [Little used.]

The fowler--treads the crimp earth.

2. Not consistent. [Not used.]

CRIMP, verb transitive To catch; to seize; to pinch and hold. [See Crimple.]

CRIMP, verb transitive To curl or frizzle; as, to crimp the hair. This is evidently the same word as the foregoing.

CRIMP, noun

1. In England, an agent for coal-merchants, and for persons concerned in shipping.

2. One who decoys another into the naval or military service.

3. A game at cards.

Crimple

CRIMPLE, verb transitive [G. See Crumple and Rumple.] To contract or draw together; to shrink; to cause to shrink; to curl.

Crimpled

CRIMPLED, participle passive Contracted; shrunk; curled.

Crimpling

CRIMPLING, participle present tense Contracting; shrinking; curling; hobbling.

Crimson

CRIMSON, noun [G.] A deep red color; a red tinged with blue; also, a red color in general; as the virgin crimson of modesty.

He made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson 2 Chronicles 3:14.

CRIMSON, adjective Of a beautiful deep red; as the crimson blush of modesty; a crimson stream of blood.

CRIMSON, verb transitive To dye with crimson; to dye of a deep red color; to make red.

CRIMSON, verb intransitive To become of a deep red color; to be tinged with red; to blush.

Her cheeks crimsoned at the entrance of her lover.

Crimsoned

CRIMSONED, participle passive Dyed or tinged with a deep red.

Crimsoning

CRIMSONING, participle present tense Dyeing or tinging with a deep red.

Crincum

CRINCUM, noun A cramp; a contraction; a turn or bend; a whim. [A vulgar word.]

Cringe

CRINGE, verb transitive [G.] Properly, to shrink; to contract; to draw together; a popular use of the word. [Vulgarly, scringe.]

You see him cringe his face.

CRINGE, verb intransitive To bow; to bend with servility; to fawn; to make court by mean compliances.

Flatterers are always bowing and cringing.

CRINGE, noun A bow; servile civility.

Cringer

CRINGER, noun One who cringes, or bows and flatters with servility.

Cringing

CRINGING, participle present tense Shrinking; bowing servilely.

Cringle

CRINGLE, noun [See Crank and Cringe.]

1. A withe for fastening a gate. [Local.]

2. In marine language, a hole in the boltrope of a sail, formed by intertwisting the division of a rope, called a strand, alternately round itself, and through the strand of the colt-rope, till it becomes three-fold, and takes the shape of a ring. Its use is to receive the ends of the ropes by which the sail is drawn up to its yard, or to extend the leech by the bow-line-bridles.

Iron-cringles or hanks, are open rings running on the stays, to which the heads of the stay sails are made fast.

Crinigerous

CRINIGEROUS, adjective [Latin , hear, to wear.] Hairy; overgrown with hair.

Crinite

CRINITE, adjective [Latin , hair.] Having the appearance of a tuft of hair.

Crinkle

CRINKLE, verb intransitive To turn or wind; to bend; to wrinkle; to run in and out in little or short bends or turns; as, the lightning crinkles.

CRINKLE, verb transitive To form with short turns or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities.

CRINKLE, noun A wrinkle; a winding or turn; sinuosity.

Crinose

CRINOSE, adjective Hairy. [See Crinite.] [Little used.]

Crinosity

CRINOSITY, noun Hairiness. [Little used.]

Cripple

CRIPPLE, noun [G.] A lame person; primarily, one who creeps, halts or limps; one who has lost, or never enjoyed the use of his limbs. Acts 14:8.

The word may signify one who is partially or totally disabled from using his limbs.

See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing.

CRIPPLE, adjective Lame.

CRIPPLE, verb transitive

1. To lame; to deprive of the use of the limbs, particularly of the legs and feet.

2. To disable; to deprive of the power of exertion. We say, a fleet was crippled in the engagement.

Crippled

CRIPPLED, participle passive Lamed; rendered impotent in the limbs; disabled.

Crippleness

CRIPPLENESS, noun Lameness.

Crippling

CRIPPLING, participle present tense Laming; depriving of the use of the limbs; disabling.

Crisis

CRISIS, noun plural [Gr. Latin , to separate, to determine, to decide. See Crime.]

1. In medical science, the change of a disease which indicates its event; that change which indicates recovery or death. It is sometimes used to designate the excretion of something noxious from the body, or of the noxious fluids in a fever.

2. The decisive state of things, or the point of time when an affair is arrive to its highth, and must soon terminate or suffer a material change.

This hours the very crisis of your fate.

Crisp

CRISP, adjective [Latin G. See the Verb.]

1. Curled; formed into curls or ringlets.

2. Indented; winding; as crisp channels.

3. Brittle; friable; easily broken or crumbled.

CRISP, verb transitive [Latin]

1. To curl; to twist; to contract or form into ringlets, as the hair; to wreathe or interweave, as the branches of trees.

2. To indent. To twist or eddy. But the sense is, to curl; to wrinkle in little undulations, as a fretted surface.

From that sapphire fount the crisped brooks, rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold, ran nectar, visiting each plant.

Crispation

CRISPATION, noun The act of curling, or state of being curled.

Crispature

CRISPATURE, noun A curling; the state of being curled.

Crisped

CRISPED, participle passive Curled; twisted; frizzled.

Crisping

CRISPING, participle present tense Curling; frizzling.

Crisping-Pin

CRISPING-PIN, noun A curling iron.

Crispness

CRISPNESS, noun A state of being curled; also, brittleness.

Crispy

CRISPY, adjective

1. Curled; formed into ringlets; as crispy locks.

2. Brittle; dried so as to break short; as a crispy cake.

Cristate

CRISTATE, CRISTATED, adjective [Latin , a crest.] In botany, crested; tufted; having an appendage like a crest or tuft, as some anthers and flowers.

Cristated

CRISTATE, CRISTATED adjective [Latin , a crest.] In botany, crested; tufted; having an appendage like a crest or tuft, as some anthers and flowers.

Criterion

CRITERION, noun plural [Gr., to judge. See Crime.] A standard of judging; any established law, rule, principle or fact, by which facts, propositions and opinions are compared, in order to discover their truth or falsehood, or by which a correct judgment may be formed.

Crithomancy

CRITHOMANCY, noun [Gr., barley, and divination.] A kind of divination by means of the dough of cakes, and the meal strewed over the victims, in ancient sacrifices.

Critic

CRITIC, noun [Gr., a judge or discerner, to judge, to separate, to distinguish. See Crime.]

1. A person skilled in judging of the merit of literary works; one who is able to discern and distinguish the beauties and faults of writing. In a more general sense, a person skilled in judging with propriety of any combination of objects, or of any work of art; and particularly of what are denominated the Fine Arts. A critic is one who, from experience, knowledge, habit or taste, can perceive the difference between propriety and impropriety, in objects or works presented to his view; between the natural and unnatural; the high and the low, or lofty and mean; the congruous and incongruous; the correct and incorrect, according to the established rules of the art.

2. An examiner; a judge.

And make each day a critic on the last.

3. One who judges with severity; one who censures or finds fault.

CRITIC, adjective Critical; relating to criticism, or the art of judging of the merit of a literary performance or discourse, or of any work in the fine arts. [See Critical.]

CRITIC, verb intransitive To criticise; to play the critic [Little used.]

Critical

CRITICAL, adjective [Latin Gr. See Critic.]

1. Relating to criticism; nicely exact; as a critical dissertation on Homer.

2. Having the skill or power nicely to distinguish beauties from blemishes; a a critical judge; a critical auditor; a critical ear; critical taste.

3. Making nice distinctions; accurate; as critical rules.

4. Capable of judging with accuracy; discerning beauties and faults; nicely judicious in matters of literature and the fine arts; as, Virgil was a critical poet.

5. Capable of judging with accuracy; conforming to exact rules of propriety; exact; particular; as, to be critical in rites and ceremonies, or in the selection of books.

6. Inclined to find fault, or to judge with severity.

7. [See Crisis.] Pertaining to a crisis; marking the time or state of a disease which indicates its termination in the death or recovery of the patient; as critical days, or critical symptoms.

8. Producing a crisis or change in a disease; indicating a crisis; as a critical sweat.

9. Decisive; noting a time or state on which the issue of things depends; important, as regards the consequences; as a critical time or moment; a critical juncture.

10. Formed or situated to determine or decide, or having the crisis at command; important or essential for determining; as a critical post.

Critically

CRITICALLY, adverb

1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment of truth or falsehood, propriety or impropriety; with nice scrutiny; accurately; exactly; as, to examine evidence critically; to observe critically

2. At the crisis; at the exact time.

3. In a critical situation, place or condition, so as to command the crisis; as a town critically situated.

Criticalness

CRITICALNESS, noun

1. The state of being critical; incidence at a particular point of time.

2. Exactness; accuracy; nicety; minute care in examination.

Criticise

CRITICISE, verb intransitive s as z.

1. To examine and judge critically; to judge with attention to beauties and faults; as, to criticise on a literary work, on an argument or discourse.

2. To write remarks on the merit of a performance; to notice beauties and faults.

Cavil you may, but never criticise

3. To animadvert upon as faulty; to utter censure; as, to critise on a mans manners, or his expenses.

CRITICISE, verb transitive

1. To notice beauties and blemishes or faults in; to utter or write remarks on the merit of a performance; as, to criticise the writings of Milton.

2. To pass judgment on with respect to merit or blame; as, to criticise an author; to criticise the conduct.

Criticised

CRITICISED, participle passive Examined and judged with respect to beauties and faults.

Criticising

CRITICISING, participle present tense Examining and judging with regard to beauties and faults; remarking on; animadverting on.

Criticism

CRITICISM, noun

1. The art of judging with propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of any production in the fine arts; as the rules of criticism

2. The act of judging on the merit of a performance; animadversion; remark on beauties and faults; critical observation, verbal or written. We say, the authors criticisms are candid, or they are severe.

Critique

CRITIQUE, CRITIC, noun

1. A critical examination of the merits of a performance; remarks or animadversions on beauties and faults.

Addison wrote a critique on PARADISE LOST.

2. Science of criticism; standard or rules of judging of the merit of performances.

If ideas and words were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic.

Crizzel

CRIZZEL, CRIZZELING, noun [See Crisp.] A kind of roughness on the surface of glass, which clouds its transparency.

Crizzeling

CRIZZEL, CRIZZELING noun [See Crisp.] A kind of roughness on the surface of glass, which clouds its transparency.

Croak

CROAK, verb intransitive [Latin G. See Crow.]

1. To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog or other animal.

2. To caw; to cry as a raven or crow.

3. To make any low, muttering sound, resembling that of a frog or raven; as, their bellies croak

4. In contempt, to speak with a low, hollow voice.

CROAK, noun The low, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.

Croaker

CROAKER, noun One that croaks, murmurs or grumbles; one who complains unreasonably.

Croaking

CROAKING, participle present tense Uttering a low, harsh sound from the throat, or other similar sound.

CROAKING, noun A low, harsh sound, as of a frog, or the bowels.

Croats

CROATS, noun Troops, natives or Croatia.

Crocalite

CROCALITE, noun A mineral, a variety of zeolite, of an orange or brick red color. It is sometimes found in reniform or globular masses, with a radiated texture.

Croceous

CROCEOUS, adjective [Latin] Like saffron; yellow; consisting of saffron.

Croches

CROCHES, noun Little buds or knobs about the tops of a deers horn.

Crocitation

CROCITATION, noun [Latin] A croaking.

Crock

CROCK, noun An earthen vessel; a pot or pitcher; a cup.

CROCK, noun Soot, or the black matter collected from combustion on pots and kettles, or in a chimney.

CROCK, verb transitive or I. To black with soot, or other matter collected from combustion; or to black with the coloring matter of cloth.

Crockery

CROCKERY, noun [See Crock.] Earthen ware; vessels formed of clay, glazed and baked. The term is applied to the coarser kinds of ware; the finer kinds being usually called china or porcelain.

Crocodile

CROCODILE, noun [Gr., saffron, and fearing. Latin ]

1. An amphibious animal of the genus Lacerta or lizard, of the largest kind. It has a naked body, with four feet and a tail; it has five toes on the fore feet, and four on the hind feet. It grows to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, runs swiftly on land, but does not easily turn itself. It inhabits the large rivers in Africa and Asia, and lays its eggs, resembling those of a goose, in the sand, to be hatched by the heat of the sun. [See Alligator.]

2. In rhetoric, a captious and sophistical argument contrived to draw one into a snare.

CROCODILE, adjective Pertaining to or like a crocodile; as crocodile tears, that is, false or affected tears, hypocritical sorrow.

Crocus

CROCUS, noun [Gr.]

1. Saffron, a genus of plants.

2. In chimistry, a yellow powder; any metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color.

Croft

CROFT, noun [Latin , Gr., to conceal.] A little close adjoining or near to a dwelling house, and used for pasture, tillage or other purposes.

Croisade

CROISADE, noun A holy war; an expedition of Christians against the infidels, for the conquest of Palestine. [See the more common word, Crusade.]

Croises

CROISES, noun [See Cross.]

1. Soldiers enrolled under the banners of the cross.

2. Pilgrims who carry the cross.

Croker

CROKER, noun A fowl that inhabits the Chesapeak and the large rivers in Virginia; sometimes of three feet in length.

Cromlech

CROMLECH, noun Huge flat stones resting on other stones, set on end for that purpose; supposed to be the remains of druidical altars.

Crone

CRONE, noun [Gr., old.]

1. An old woman.

2. An old ewe.

Cronet

CRONET, noun [coronet.]

1. The hair which grows over the top of a horses hoof.

2. The iron at the end of a tilting spade.

Cronical

CRONICAL, CRONYCAL. [See Acronical.]

Crony

CRONY, noun [See Crone. But this word seems to carry the sense of fellowship; to join, to associate; whence its derivative, an associate.] An intimate companion; an associate; a familiar friend.

To oblige your crony Swift, bring our dame a new years gift.

Hence, an old crony is an intimate friend of long standing.

Cronycal

CRONICAL, CRONYCAL [See Acronical.]