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Crook
CROOK, noun [G., the back, or ridge of an animal. Latin , a wrinkle, a circle; rough, hoarse. The radical sense of crook is to strain or draw; hence, to bend.]
1. Any bend, turn or curve; or a bent or curving instrument. We speak of a crook in a stick of timber, or in a river; and any hook is a crook
2. A shepherd staff, curving at the end; a pastoral staff. When used by a bishop or abbot, it is called a crosier.
He left his crook he left his flocks.
3. A gibbet.
4. An artifice; a trick.
CROOK, verb transitive
1. To bend; to turn from a straight line; to make a curve or hook.
2. To turn from rectitude; to pervert.
3. To thwart. [Little used.]
CROOK, verb intransitive To bend or be bent; to be turned from a right line; to curve; to wind.
Crook-Back
CROOK-BACK, noun A crooked back; one who has a crooked back or round shoulders.
Crook-Backed
CROOK-BACKED, adjective Having a round back, or shoulders.
Crook-Kneed
CROOK-KNEED, adjective Having crooked knees.
Crook-Shouldered
CROOK-SHOULDERED, adjective Having bent shoulders.
Crooked
CROOKED, participle passive or adjective
1. Bent; curved; curving; winding.
2. Winding in moral conduct; devious; froward; perverse; going out of the path of rectitude; given to obliquity or wandering from duty.
They are a perverse and crooked generation. .
Crookedly
CROOKEDLY, adverb
1. In a winding manner.
2. Untowardly; not compliantly.
Crookedness
CROOKEDNESS, noun
1. A winding, bending or turning; curvity; curvature; inflection.
2. Perverseness; untowardness; deviation from rectitude; iniquity; obliquity of conduct.
3. Deformity of a gibbous body.
Crooken
CROOKEN, verb transitive To make crooked. [Not in use.]
Crooking
CROOKING, participle present tense Bending; winding.
Croop
CROOP, CROUP, noun The disease called technically cynanche trachealis, and affection of the throat accompanied with a hoarse difficult respiration. It is vulgarly called rattles.
Croopade
CROUPADE, CROOPADE noun [from croup, or its root.] In the manege, a leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs, as if he drew them up to his belly.
Crop
CROP, noun [G., Latin The crop of a fowl, and a crop of grain or hay are consistently the same word.]
1. The first stomach of a fowl; the craw.
2. The top or highest part of a thing; the end. [Not in use.]
3. That which is gathered; the corn, or fruits of the earth collected; harvest. The word includes every species of fruit or produce, gathered for man or beast.
4. Corn and other cultivated plants while growing; a popular use of the word.
5. Any thing cut off or gathered.
6. Hair cut close or short.
CROP, verb transitive
1. To cut off the ends of any thing; to eat off; to pull off; to pluck; to mow; to reap; as, to crop flowers, trees, or grass. Man crops trees or plants with an instrument, or with his fingers; a beast crops with his teeth.
2. To cut off prematurely; to gather before it falls.
While force our youth, like fruits, untimely crops.
CROP, verb intransitive To yield harvest. [Not in use.]
Crop-Ear
CROP-EAR, noun [crop and ear.] A horse whose ears are cropped.
Crop-Eared
CROP-EARED, adjective Having the ears cropped.
Crop-Sick
CROP-SICK, adjective Sick or indisposed from a surcharged stomach; sick with excess in eating or drinking.
Crop-Sickness
CROP-SICKNESS, noun Sickness from repletion of the stomach. Latin
Cropful
CROPFUL, adjective Having a full crop or belly; satiated.
Cropped
CROPPED, CROPT, participle passive Cut off; plucked; eaten off; reaped, or mowed.
Cropper
CROPPER, noun A pigeon with a large crop.
Cropping
CROPPING, participle present tense Cutting off; pulling off; eating off; reaping, or mowing.
CROPPING, noun
1. The act of cutting off.
2. The raising of crops.
Cropt
CROPPED, CROPT participle passive Cut off; plucked; eaten off; reaped, or mowed.
Crosier
CROSIER, noun
1. A bishop crook or pastoral staff, a symbol of pastoral authority and care. It consists of a gold or silver staff, crooked at the top, and is carried occasionally before bishops and abbots, and held in the hand when they give solemn benedictions. The use of crosiers is ancient. Originally a crosier was a staff with a cross on the top, in form of a crutch or T.
2. In astronomy, four stars in the southern hemisphere, in the form of a cross.
Croslet
CROSLET, noun [See Cross.] A small cross. In heraldry, a cross crossed at a small distance from the ends.
Cross
CROSS, noun [G., Latin ]
1. A gibbet consisting of two pieces of timber placed across each other, either in form of a T or of an X. That on which our Savior suffered, is represented on coins and other monuments, to have been of the former kind.
2. The ensign of the Christian religion; and hence figuratively, the religion itself.
3. A monument with a cross upon it to excite devotion, such as were anciently set in market places.
4. Any thing in the form of a cross or gibbet.
5. A line drawn through another.
6. Any thing that thwarts, obstructs, or perplexes; hindrance; vexation; misfortune; opposition; trial of patience.
Heaven prepares good men with crosses.
7. Money or coin stamped with the figure of a cross
8. The right side or face of a coin, stamped with a cross
9. The mark of a cross instead of a signature, on a deed, formerly impressed by those who could not write.
10. Church lands in Ireland.
11. In theology, the suffering of Christ by crucifixion.
That he might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross .
12. The doctrine of Christs sufferings and of the atonement, or of salvation by Christ.
The preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness. . .
To take up the cross is to submit to troubles and afflictions from love to Christ.
13. In mining, two nicks cut in the surface of the earth, thus +.
CROSS and pile, a play with money, at which it is put to chance whether a coin shall fall with that side up, which bears the cross or the other which is called pile or reverse.
CROSS, adjective
1. Transverse; oblique; passing from side to side; falling athwart; as a cross beam.
The cross refraction of a second prism.
2. Adverse; opposite; obstructing; sometimes with to; as an event cross to our inclinations.
3. Perverse; untractable; as the cross circumstances of a mans temper.
4. Peevish; fretful; ill-humored; applied to persons or things; as a cross woman or husband; a cross answer.
5. Contrary; contradictory; perplexing.
Contradictions that seem to lie cross and uncouth.
6. Adverse; unfortunate.
Behold the cross and unlucky issue of my design.
7. Interchanged; as a cross marriage, when a brother and sister intermarry with two persons who have the same relation to each other.
8. Noting what belongs to an adverse party; as a cross interrogatory.
CROSS, preposition Athwart; transversely; over; from side to side; so as to intersect.
This is admissible in poetry, as an abbreviation of across.
CROSS, verb transitive
1. To draw or run a line, or lay a body across another; as, to cross a word in writing; to cross the arms.
2. To erase; to cancel; as, to cross an account.
3. To make the sign of the cross as catholics in devotion.
4. To pass from side to side; to pass or move over; as, to cross a road; to cross a river, or the ocean. I crossed the English channel, from Dieppe to Brighton, in a steam-boat, Sept. 18, 1824.
5. To thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to embarrass; as, to cross a purpose or design.
6. To counteract; to clash or interfere with; to be inconsistent with; as, natural appetites may cross our principles.
7. To counteract or contravene; to hinder by authority; to stop. [See No. 5.]
8. To contradict.
9. To debar or preclude.
To cross the breed of an animal, is to produce young from different varieties of the species.
CROSS, verb intransitive
1. To lie or be athwart.
2. To move or pass laterally, or from one side towards the other, or from place to place, either at right angles or obliquely; as, to cross from Nantucket to New Bedford.
3. To be inconsistent; as, mens actions d not always cross with reason.
Cross-Armed
CROSS-ARMED, adjective With arms across. In botany, brachiate; decussated; having branches in pairs, each at right angles with the next.
Cross-Bar-Shot
CROSS-BAR-SHOT, noun A bullet with an iron bar passing through it, and standing out a few inches on each side; used in naval actions for cutting the enemys rigging.
Cross-Barred
CROSS-BARRED, adjective Secured by transverse bars.
Cross-Bearer
CROSS-BEARER, noun In the Romish church, the chaplain of an archbishop or primate, who bears a cross before him on solemn occasions. Also, a certain officer in the inquisition, who makes a vow before the inquisitors to defend the Catholic faith, though with the loss of fortune and life.
Cross-Bill
CROSS-BILL, noun In chancery, an original bill by which the defendant prays relief against the plaintiff.
CROSS-BILL, noun A species of bird, the Loxia curvirostra, the mandibles of whose bill curve opposite ways and cross each other.
Cross-Bite
CROSS-BITE, noun A deception; a cheat.
CROSS-BITE, verb transitive To thwart or contravene by deception.
Cross-Bow
CROSS-BOW, noun In archery, a missive weapon formed by placing a bow athwart a stock.
Cross-Bower
CROSS-BOWER, noun One who shoots with a cross-bow.
Cross-Examination
CROSS-EXAMINATION, noun The examination or interrogation of a witness called by one party, by the opposite party or his counsel.
Cross-Examine
CROSS-EXAMINE, verb transitive To examine a witness by the opposite party or his counsel, as the witness for the plaintiff by the defendant, and vice versa.
The opportunity to cross-examine the witnesses has been expressly waived.
Cross-Examined
CROSS-EXAMINED, participle passive Examined or interrogated by the opposite party.
Cross-Flow
CROSS-FLOW, verb intransitive To flow across.
Cross-Grained
CROSS-GRAINED, adjective
1. Having the grain or fibers across or irregular; as in timber, where a branch shoots from the trunk, there is a curling of the grain.
2. Perverse; untractable; not condescending.
Cross-Jack
CROSS-JACK, noun cro-jeck, . A sail extended on the lower yard of the mizen mast; but seldom used.
Cross-Legged
CROSS-LEGGED, adjective Having the legs across.
Cross-Piece
CROSS-PIECE, noun A rail of timber extending over the windlass of a ship, furnished with pins with which to fasten the rigging, as occasion requires.
Cross-Purpose
CROSS-PURPOSE, noun A contrary purpose; contradictory system; also, a conversation in which one person does or pretends to misunderstand anothers meaning. An enigma; a riddle.
Cross-Question
CROSS-QUESTION, verb transitive To cross examine.
Cross-Road
CROSS-WAY, CROSS-ROAD noun A way or road that crosses another road or the chief road; an obscure path intersecting the main road.
Cross-Row
CROSS-ROW, noun
1. The alphabet, so named because a cross is placed at the beginning, to show that the end of learning is piety.
2. A row that crosses others.
Cross-Sea
CROSS-SEA, noun Waves running across others; a swell running in different directions.
Cross-Staff
CROSS-STAFF, noun An instrument to take the altitude of the sun or stars.
Cross-Stone
CROSS-STONE, noun A mineral called also harmotome, and staurolite. It is almost always in crystals. Its single crystals are rectangular four-sided prisms, broad or compressed, and terminated by four-sided pyramids, with rhombic faces, which stand on the lateral edges. But this mineral is generally found in double crystals, composed of two of the preceding crystals, so intersecting each other, that the broader planes of one prism are perpendicular to the broader planes of the other, throughout their whole length. Its color is a grayish white or milk white, sometimes with a shade of yellow or red.
Cross-Tining
CROSS-TINING, noun In husbandry, a harrowing by drawing the harrow or drag back and forth on the same ground.
Cross-Trees
CROSS-TREES, noun In ships, certain pieces of timber, supported by the cheeks and trestle-trees, at the upper ends of the lower masts, to sustain the frame of the top, and on the top masts, to extend the topgallant shrouds.
Cross-Way
CROSS-WAY, CROSS-ROAD, noun A way or road that crosses another road or the chief road; an obscure path intersecting the main road.
Cross-Wind
CROSS-WIND, noun A side wind; an unfavorable wind.
Cross-Wise
CROSS-WISE, adverb Across; in the form of a cross.
Cross-Wort
CROSS-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Valantia.
Crosscut
CROSSCUT, verb transitive To cut across.
Crosscut-Saw
CROSSCUT-SAW, noun A saw managed by two men, one at each end.
Crossed
CROSSED, participle passive Having a line drawn over; canceled; erased; passed over; thwarted; opposed; obstructed; counteracted.
Crossing
CROSSING, participle present tense Drawing; running or passing a line over; erasing; canceling; thwarting; opposing; counteracting; passing over.
CROSSING, noun A thwarting; impediment; vexation.
Crossly
CROSSLY, adverb
1. Athwart; so as to intersect something else.
2. Adversely; in opposition; unfortunately.
3. Peevishly; fretfully.
Crossness
CROSSNESS, noun Peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor; perverseness.
Crotch
CROTCH, noun [See Crook and Crutch.]
1. A fork or forking; the parting of two legs or branches; as the crotch of a tree.
2. In ships, a crooked timber placed on the keel, in the fore and aft parts of a ship.
3. A piece of wood or iron, opening on the top and extending two horns or arms, like a half moon, used for supporting a boom, a spare topmast, yards, etc.
Crotched
CROTCHED, adjective Having a crotch; forked.
Crotchet
CROTCHET, noun [See Crook.]
1. In printing, a hook including words, a sentence or a passage distinguished form the rest, thus [ ].
2. In music, a note or character, equal in time to half a minim, and double of a quaver.
3. A piece of wood resembling a fork, used as a support in building.
4. A peculiar turn of the mind; a whim, or fancy; a perverse conceit.
All the devices and crotchets of new inventions.
Crotcheted
CROTCHETED, adjective Marked with crotchets.
Crouch
CROUCH, verb intransitive [G., to creep, to stoop, to cringe.]
1. To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground; as an animal. A dog crouches to his master; a lion crouches in the thicket.
2. To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
Every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of bread. .
CROUCH, verb transitive [See Cross.] To sign with the cross; to bless. [Not in use.]
Crouching
CROUCHING, participle present tense Bending; stooping; cringing.
Croup
CROUP, CROOP, noun
1. The rump of a fowl; the buttocks of a horse, or extremity of the reins above the hips.
2. [See Croop.] The cynanche trachealis, a disease of the throat.
Croupade
CROUPADE, CROOPADE, noun [from croup, or its root.] In the manege, a leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs, as if he drew them up to his belly.
Crout
CROUT, KROUT, noun [G., an herb.] Sour crout is made by laying minced or chopped cabbage in layers in a barrel, with a handful of salt and caraway seeds between the layers; then ramming down the whole, covering it, pressing it with a heavy weight, and suffering it to stand, till it has gone through fermentation. It is an efficacious preservative against scurvy in long voyages.
Crow
CROW, noun [G., Latin ]
1. A large black fowl, of the genus Corvus; the beak is convex and cultrated, the nostrils are covered with bristly feathers, the tongue is forked and cartilaginous. This is a voracious fowl, feeding on carrion and grain, particularly maiz, which it pulls up, just after it appears above ground.
To pluck or pull a crow is to be industrious or contentious about a trifle, or thing of no value.
2. A bar of iron with a beak, crook or two claws, used in raising and moving heavy weights.
3. The voice of the cock. [See the Verb.]
CROW, verb intransitive preterit tense and participle passive crowed; formerly, preterit tense crew. [Gr. See the Noun.]
1. To cry or make a noise as a cock, in joy, gaiety or defiance.
2. To boast in triumph; to vaunt; to vapor; to swagger. [A popular, but not an elegant use of the word.]
Crow-Bar
CROW-BAR, noun A bar of iron sharpened at one end, used as a lever for raising weights.
Crow-Berry
CROW-BERRY, noun A plant of the genus Empetrum, or berry-bearing heath. One species bears the crow-crake berries.
Crow-Flower
CROW-FLOWER, noun A kind of campion.
Crow-Foot
CROW-FOOT, noun
1. On board of ships, a complication of small cords spreading out from a long block; used to suspend the awnings, or to keep the top sails from striking and fretting against the tops.
2. In botany, the Ranunculus, a genus of plants.
Crow-Keeper
CROW-KEEPER, noun A scarecrow. [Not used.]
Crow-Net
CROW-NET, noun In England, a net for catching wild fowls; the net used in New England for catching wild pigeons.
Crow-Silk
CROW-SILK, noun A plant, the Conferva rivalis.
Crow-Toe
CROW-TOE, noun A plant; as the tufted crow-toe
Crowd
CROWD, CROWTH, noun An instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin.
Crowded
CROWDED, participle passive Collected and pressed; pressed together; urged; driven; filled by a promiscuous multitude.
Crowder
CROWDER, noun A fiddler; one who plays on a crowd.
Crowding
CROWDING, participle present tense Pressing together; pushing; thrusting; driving; assembling in a promiscuous multitude; filling; urging.
Crowing
CROWING, participle present tense Uttering a particular voice, as a cock; boasting in triumph; vaunting; bragging.
Crown
CROWN, noun [G., Latin ]
1. An ornament worn on the head by kings and sovereign princes, as a badge of imperial or regal power and dignity. Figuratively, regal power; royalty; kingly government, or executive authority.
2. A wreath or garland.
3. Honorary distinction; reward.
They do it to obtain a corruptible crown; we, an incorruptible. .
4. Honor; splendor; dignity.
The crown has fallen from our heads. . .
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband. .
5. The top of the head; the top of a mountain or other elevated object. The end of an anchor, or the point from which the arms proceed.
6. The part of a hat which covers the top of the head.
7. A coin anciently stamped with the figure of a crown The English crown is five shillings sterling. The French crown is a hundred and nine cents. Other coins bear the same name.
8. Completion; accomplishment.
9. Clerical tonsure in a circular form; a little circle shaved on the top of the head, as a mark of ecclesiastical office or distinction.
10. Among jewelers, the upper work of a rose diamond.
11. In botany, an appendage to the top of a seed, which serves to bear it in the wind.
CROWN, verb transitive
1. To invest with a crown or regal ornament. Hence, to invest with regal dignity and power.
2. To cover, as with a crown; to cover the top.
And peaceful olives crowned his hoary head.
3. To honor; to dignify; to adorn.
Thou hast crowned him with glory and honor. .
4. To reward; to bestow an honorary reward or distinction on; as the victor crowned with laurel.
5. To reward; to recompense.
Shell crown a grateful and a constant flame.
6. To terminate or finish; to complete; to perfect.
7. To terminate and reward; as, our efforts were crowned with success.
Crown-Glass
CROWN-GLASS, noun The finest sort of English window-glass.
Crown-Imperial
CROWN-IMPERIAL, noun A plant of the genus Fritillaria, having a beautiful flower.
Crown-Office
CROWN-OFFICE, noun In England, an office belonging to the court of Kings Bench, of which the kings coroner or attorney is commonly master, and in which the attorney general and clerk exhibit informations for crimes and misdemeanors.
Crown-Post
CROWN-POST, noun In building, a post which stands upright in the middle, between two principal rafters.
Crown-Scab
CROWN-SCAB, noun A scab formed round the corners of a horses hoof, a cancerous and painful sore.
Crown-Thistle
CROWN-THISTLE, noun A flower.
Crown-Wheel
CROWN-WHEEL, noun In a watch, the upper wheel next the balance, which drives the balance, and in royal pendulums, is called the swing-wheel.
Crown-Work
CROWN-WORK, noun In fortification, an outwork running into the field, consisting of two demi-bastions at the extremes and an entire bastion int he middle, with curtains. It is designed to gain some hill or advantageous post, and cover the other works.
Crowned
CROWNED, participle passive Invested with a crown, or with regal power and dignity; honored; dignified; rewarded with a crown, wreath, garland or distinction; recompensed; terminated; completed; perfected.
Crowner
CROWNER, noun He or that which crowns or completes.
Crownet
CROWNET, noun A coronet, which see. Shakspeare has used it for chief end or last purpose; but this sense is singular.
Crowning
CROWNING, participle present tense Investing with a crown, or with royalty or supreme power; honoring with a wreath or with distinction; adorning; rewarding; finishing; perfecting.
CROWNING, noun
1. In architecture, the finishing of a member or any ornamental work.
2. In marine language, the finishing part of a knot, or interweaving of the strands.
Crows-Bill
CROWS-BILL, noun In surgery, a kind of forceps for extracting bullets and other things from wounds.
Crows-Feet
CROWS-FEET, noun The wrinkles under the eyes, which are the effects of age.
Crows-Foot
CROWS-FOOT, noun In the military art, a machine of iron, with four points, so formed that in whatever way it falls, there is one point upwards, and intended to stop or embarrass the approach or march of the enemys cavalry; a caltrop.
Crowth
CROWD, CROWTH noun An instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin.
CROWD, noun [See Crew.]
1. Properly, a collection; a number of things collected, or closely pressed together.
2. A number of persons congregated and pressed together, or collected into a close body without order; a throng. Hence,
3. A multitude; a great number collected.
4. A number of things near together; a number promiscuously assembled or lying near each other; as a crowd of isles in the Egean Sea.
5. The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
CROWD, verb transitive
1. To press; to urge; to drive together.
2. To fill by pressing numbers together without order; as, to crowd a room with people; to crowd the memory with ideas.
3. To fill to excess.
Volumes of reports crowd a lawyers library.
4. To encumber by multitudes.
5. To urge; to press by solicitation; to dun.
6. In seamanship, to crowd sail, is to carry an extraordinary force of sail, with a view to accelerate the course of a ship, as in chasing or escaping from an enemy; to carry a press of sail.
CROWD, verb intransitive
1. To press in numbers; as, the multitude crowded through the gate or into the room.
2. To press; to urge forward; as, the man crowded into the room.
3. To swarm or be numerous.
Croylstone
CROYLSTONE, noun Crystalized cauk, in which the crystals are small.
Crucial
CRUCIAL, adjective [Latin , a cross.] In surgery, transverse; passing across; intersecting; in form of a cross; as crucial incision.
Crucian
CRUCIAN, noun A short, thick, broad fish, of a deep yellow color.
Cruciate
CRUCIATE, verb transitive [Latin , to torture, a cross.] To torture; to torment; to afflict with extreme pain or distress; but he verb is seldom used. [See Excruciate.]
CRUCIATE, adjective Tormented. [Little used.]
Cruciation
CRUCIATION, noun The act of torturing; torment. [Little used.]
Crucible
CRUCIBLE, noun
1. A chemical vessel or melting pot, made of earth, and so tempered and baked, as to endure extreme heat without melting. It is used for melting ores, metals, etc.
2. A hollow place at the bottom of a chemical furnace.
Cruciferous
CRUCIFEROUS, adjective [Latin , a cross, and to bear.] Bearing the cross.
Crucifier
CRUCIFIER, noun [See Crucify.] A person who crucifies; one who puts another to death on a cross.
Crucifix
CRUCIFIX, noun [Latin , to fix on a cross; to fix.]
1. A cross on which the body of Christ is fastened in effigy.
2. A representation, in painting or statuary, of our Lord fastened to the cross.
3. Figuratively, the religion of Christ. [Little used.]
Crucifixion
CRUCIFIXION, noun [See Crucifix.] The nailing or fastening of a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the act or punishment of putting a criminal to death by nailing him to a cross.
Cruciform
CRUCIFORM, adjective [Latin , a cross, and form.] Cross-shaped.
In botany, consisting of four equal petals, disposed int he form of a cross.
Crucify
CRUCIFY, verb transitive [Latin , cross, to fix.]
1. To nail to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet, sometimes anciently, by fastening a criminal to a tree, with cords.
But they cried, crucify him, crucify him. .
2. In scriptural language, to subdue; to mortify; to destroy the power or ruling influence of.
They that are Christs have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts. .
3. To reject and despise.
They crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh. .
To be crucified with Christ, is to become dead to the law and to sin, and to have indwelling corruption subdued. and 6.
4. To vex or torment. [Not used.]
Crucifying
CRUCIFYING, participle present tense Putting to death on a cross or gibbet; subduing; destroying the life and power of.
Crud
CRUD, noun Curd. [See crud the usual orthography.]
Crude
CRUDE, adjective [Latin G.]
1. Raw; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; in its natural state; undressed; as crude flesh; crude meat. In this sense, raw is more generally used.
2. Not changed from its natural state; not altered or prepared by any artificial process; as crude salt; crude alum.
3. Rough; harsh; unripe; not mellowed by air or other means; as crude juice.
4. Unconcocted; not well digested in the stomach.
5. Not brought to perfection; unfinished; immature; as the crude materials of the earth.
6. Having indigested notions.
7. Indigested; not matured; not well formed, arranged, or prepared in the intellect; as, crude notions; a crude plan; a crude theory.
Crudely
CRUDELY, adverb Without due preparation; without form or arrangement; without maturity or digestion.
Crudeness
CRUDENESS, noun
1. Rawness; unripeness; an undigested or unprepared state; as the crudeness of flesh or plants, or of any body in its natural state.
2. A state of being unformed, or indigested; immatureness; as the crudeness of a theory.
Crudity
CRUDITY, noun [Latin] Rawness; crudeness. Among physicians, undigested substances in the stomach; or unconcocted humors, not well prepared for expulsion; excrements. In the latter senses, it admits of the plural.
Crudle
CRUDLE, verb transitive To coagulate. But this word is generally written curdle, which see.
Crudy
CRUDY, adjective
1. Concreted; coagulated. [Not in use. See Curd.]
2. Raw; chill. [Not used. See Crude.]
Cruel
CRUEL, adjective [Latin See Crude and Rude.]
1. Disposed to give pain to others, in body or mind; willing or pleased to torment, vex or afflict; inhuman; destitute of pity, compassion or kindness; fierce; ferocious; savage; barbarous; hardhearted; applied to persons or their dispositions.
They are cruel and have no mercy. .
2. Inhuman; barbarous; savage; causing pain, grief or distress; exerted in tormenting, vexing or afflicting.
Cursed be their wrath, for it was cruel .
The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel .
Others had trials of cruel mockings. .
Cruelly
CRUELLY, adverb
1. In a cruel manner; with cruelty; inhumanly; barbarously.
Because he cruelly oppressed, he shall die in his iniquity. .
2. Painfully; with severe pain, or torture; as, an instrument may cut the flesh most cruelly
Cruelness
CRUELNESS, noun Inhumanity; cruelty.
Cruelty
CRUELTY, noun [Latin]
1. Inhumanity; a savage or barbarous disposition or temper, which is gratified in giving unnecessary pain or distress to others; barbarity; applied to persons; as the cruelty of savages; the cruelty and envy of the people.
2. Barbarous deed; any act of a human being which inflicts unnecessary pain; any act intended to torment, vex or afflict, or which actually torments or afflicts, without necessity; wrong; injustice; oppression.
With force and with cruelty have ye ruled them. .
Cruentate
CRUENTATE, adjective [Latin] Smeared with blood. [Little used.]
Cruet
CRUET, noun [See Cruse.] A vial or small glass bottle, for holding vinegar, oil, etc.
Cruise
CRUISE, noun [See Cruse.]
CRUISE, verb intransitive s as z. [See cross.] To sail back and forth, or to rove on the ocean in search of an enemys ships for capture, or for protecting commerce; or to rove for plunder as a pirate. The admiral cruised between the Bahama isles and Cuba. We cruised off Cape Finisterre. A pirate was cruising in the gulf of Mexico.
CRUISE, noun A voyage made in crossing courses; a sailing to and fro in search of an enemys ships, or by a pirate in search of plunder.
Cruiser
CRUISER, noun A person or a ship that cruises; usually, an armed ship that sails to and fro for capturing an enemys ships, for protecting the commerce of the country, or for plunder.
Cruising
CRUISING, participle present tense Sailing for the capture of an enemys ships, or for protecting commerce, or for plunder as a pirate.
Crum
CRUM, noun [G.] A small fragment or piece; usually, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.
Lazarus, desiring to be fed with the crums which fell from the rich mans table. .
Crumble
CRUMBLE, verb transitive [G.] To break into small pieces; to divide into minute parts.
CRUMBLE, verb intransitive
1. To fall into small pieces; to break or part into small fragments.
I a stone is brittle, it will crumble into gravel.
2. To fall into decay; to perish; as, our flesh shall crumble into dust.
Crumbled
CRUMBLED, participle passive Broken or parted into small pieces.
Crumbling
CRUMBLING, participle present tense Breaking into small fragments; falling into small pieces; decaying.
Crumenal
CRUMENAL, noun [Latin] A purse. [Not used.]
Crummy
CRUMMY, adjective Full of crums; soft.
Crump
CRUMP, adjective [G. crump rump, rumple, crumple, crimple, are doubtless of one family.] Crooked; as crump-shouldered.
Crumpet
CRUMPET, noun A soft cake.
Crumple
CRUMPLE, verb intransitive [from crump. See Rumple, the same word without a prefix.] To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to rumple.
CRUMPLE, verb intransitive To contract; to shrink.
Crumpled
CRUMPLED, participle passive Drawn or pressed into wrinkles.
Crumpling
CRUMPLING, participle present tense Drawing or pressing into wrinkles.
CRUMPLING, noun A small degenerate apple.
Crunk
CRUNK, CRUNKLE, verb intransitive To cry like a crane. [Not used.]
Crunkle
CRUNK, CRUNKLE verb intransitive To cry like a crane. [Not used.]
Cruor
CRUOR, noun [Latin] Gore; coagulated blood.
Crup
CRUP, CROUP, noun The buttocks.
CRUP, adjective Short; brittle. [Not in use.]
Crupper
CRUPPER, noun [See Croup.]
1. In the manege, the buttocks of a horse; the rump.
2. A strap of leather which is buckled to a saddle, and passing under a horses tail, prevents the saddle from being cast forward onto the horses neck.
CRUPPER, verb transitive To put a crupper on; as, to crupper a horse.
Crural
CRURAL, adjective [Latin , the leg.] Belonging to the leg; as the crural artery, which conveys blood to the legs, and the crural vein, which returns it.
Crusade
CRUSADE, noun [Latin] A military expedition undertaken by Christians, for the recovery of the Holy Land, the scene of our Saviors life and sufferings, from the power of infidels or Mohammedans. Several of these expeditions were carried on from Europe, under the banner of the cross, from which the name originated.
CRUSADE, noun A Portuguese coin stamped with a cross.
Crusader
CRUSADER, noun A person engaged in a crusade.
Cruse
CRUSE, noun [See crucible.] A small cup.
Take with thee a cruse of honey. .
In New England, it is used chiefly or wholly for a small bottle or vial for vinegar, called a vinegar-cruse.
Cruset
CRUSET, noun [See Crucible.] A goldsmiths crucible or melting pot.
Crush
CRUSH, verb transitive
1. To press and bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to force a thing out of its natural shape; to bruise by pressure.
The ass--crushed Balaams foot against the wall. .
To crush grapes or apples, is to squeeze them till bruised and broken, so that the juice escapes. Hence, to crush out, is to force out by pressure.
2. To press with violence; to force together into a mass.
3. To overwhelm by pressure; to beat or force down, by an incumbent weight, with breaking or bruising; as, the man was crushed by the fall of a tree.
To crush the pillars which the pile sustain.
Who are crushed before the moth. .
4. To overwhelm by power; to subdue; to conquer beyond resistance; as, to crush ones enemies; to crush a rebellion.
5. To oppress grievously.
Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed always. .
6. To bruise and break into fine particles by beating or grinding; to comminute.
CRUSH, verb intransitive To be pressed into a smaller compass by external weight or force.
CRUSH, noun A violent collision, or rushing together, which breaks or bruises the bodies; or a fall that breaks or bruises into a confused mass; as the crush of a large tree, or of a building.
The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Crushed
CRUSHED, participle passive Pressed or squeezed so as to break or bruise; overwhelmed or subdued by power; broken or bruised by a fall; grievously oppressed; broken or bruised to powder; comminuted.
Crushing
CRUSHING, participle present tense Pressing or squeezing into a mass, or until broken or bruised; overwhelming; subduing by force; oppressing; comminuting.
Crust
CRUST, noun [Latin , G.]
1. An external coat or covering of a thing, which is hard or harder than the internal substance; as the crust of bread; the crust of snow; the crust of dross; the crust of a pie.
2. A piece of crust; a waste piece of bread.
3. A shell, as the hard covering of a crab and some other animals.
4. A scab.
5. The superficial substances of the earth are, in geology, called its crust
CRUST, verb transitive
1. To cover with a hard case or coat; to spread over the surface a substance harder than the matter covered; to incrust; as, to crust a thing with clay; to crust cake with sugar; crusted with bark.
2. To cover with concretions.
CRUST, verb intransitive To gather or contract into a hard covering; to concrete or freeze, as superficial matter.
Crustaceology
CRUSTACEOLOGY. [See Crustalogy.]
Crustaceous
CRUSTACEOUS, adjective [Latin] Pertaining to crust; like crust; of the nature of crust or shell. crustaceous animals, or Crustacea, have a crust or shell composed of several jointed pieces, and in their external form have a great resemblance to insects; but in their internal structure and economy, they are quite different. They were arranged by Linne, in the same class with the insects, but now form a class by themselves. They include the crab, lobster, shrimp, etc.
Crustaceousness
CRUSTACEOUSNESS, noun The quality of having a soft and jointed shell.
Crustalogical
CRUSTALOGICAL, adjective [See Crustalogy.] Pertaining to curstalogy.
Crustalogist
CRUSTALOGIST, noun One who describes, or is versed in the science of crustaceous animals.
Crustalogy
CRUSTALOGY, noun [Latin , a shell, Gr., discourse.] That part of zoology which treats of crustaceous animals, arranging them in orders, tribes and families, and describing their forms and habits.
[Crustaceology, the word sometimes used, is ill-formed, and its derivatives inconveniently long. Who can endure such words as crustaceological?]
Crustated
CRUSTATED, adjective Covered with a crust; as crustated basalt.
Crustation
CRUSTATION, noun An adherent crust; incrustation.
Crusted
CRUSTED, participle passive Covered with a crust.
Crustily
CRUSTILY, adverb [from crusty.] Peevishly; harshly; morosely.
Crustiness
CRUSTINESS, noun
1. The quality of crust; harness.
2. Peevishness; moroseness; surliness.
Crusting
CRUSTING, participle present tense Covering with crust.
Crusty
CRUSTY, adjective
1. Like crust; of the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; hard; as a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance.
2. Peevish; snappish; morose; surly; a word used in familiar discourse, but not deemed elegant.
Crutch
CRUTCH, noun [G.]
1. A staff with a curving cross piece at the head, to be placed under the arm or shoulder, to support the lame in walking.
2. Figuratively, old age.
CRUTCH, verb transitive To support on crutches; to prop or sustain, with miserable helps, that which is feeble.
Two fools that crutch their feeble sense on verse.
Crux
CRUX, noun [Latin , a cross.] Any thing that puzzles and vexes. [Little used.]
Cruyshage
CRUYSHAGE, noun A fish of the shark kind, having a triangular head and mouth.
Cry
CRY, verb intransitive preterit tense and participle passive cried. It ought to be cryed.
1. To utter a loud voice; to speak, call or exclaim with vehemence; in a very general sense.
2. To call importunately; to utter a loud voice, by way of earnest request of prayer.
The people cried to Pharaoh for bread. .
The people cried to Moses, and he prayed. .
3. To utter a loud voice in weeping; to utter the voice of sorrow; to lament.
But ye shall cry for sorrow of heart. .
Esau cried with a great and bitter cry .
Also, to weep or shed tears in silence; a popular use of the word.
4. To utter a loud sound in distress; as, Heshbon shall cry .
He giveth food to the young raves which cry .
5. To exclaim; to utter a loud voice; with out.
And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out. .
6. To proclaim; to utter a loud voice, in giving public notice.
Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem. .
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness.
7. To bawl; to squall; as a child.
8. To yelp, as a dog. It may be used for the uttering of a loud voice by other animals.
To cry against, to exclaim, or utter a loud voice, by way of reproof, threatening or censure.
Arise, go to Nineveh, and cry against it. .
To cry out, to exclaim; to vociferate; to scream; to clamor. 2. To complain loudly.
To cry out against, to complain loudly, with a view to censure; to blame; to utter censure.
To cry to, to call on in prayer; to implore.
CRY, verb transitive
1. To proclaim; to name loudly and publicly for giving notice; as, to cry goods; to cry a lost a child.
To cry down,
1. To decry; to depreciate by words or in writing; to dispraise; to condemn.
Men of dissolute lives cry down religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it.
2. To overbear.
CRY down this fellows insolence.
To cry up,
1. To praise; to applaud; to extol; as, to cry up a mans talents or patriotism, or a womans beauty; to cry up the administration.
2. To raise the price by proclamation; as, to cry up certain coins. [Not in use.]
To cry off, in the vulgar dialect, is to publish intentions of marriage.
CRY, noun plural cries.
1. In a general sense, a loud sound uttered by the mouth of an animal; applicable to the voice of man or beast, and articulate or inarticulate.
2. A loud or vehement sound, uttered in weeping, or lamentation; it may be a shriek or scream.
And there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt. .
3. Clamor; outcry; as, war, war, is the public cry
And there arose a great cry .
4. Exclamations of triumph, or wonder, or of other passion.
5. Proclamation; public notice.
At midnight there was a cry made. .
6. The notices of hawkers of wares to be sold int he street are called cries; as the cries of London.
7. Acclamation; expression of popular favor.
The cry went once for thee.
8. A loud voice in distress, prayer or request; importunate call.
He forgetteth no the cry of the humble. .
There was a great cry in Egypt. .
9. Public reports or complaints; noise; fame.
Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great--I will go down, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it.
10. Bitter complaints of oppression and injustice.
He looked for righteousness, and behold a cry
11. The sound or voice of irrational animals; expression of joy, fright, alarm, or want; as the cries of fowls, the yell or yelping of dogs, etc.
1. A pack of dogs.
Cryal
CRYAL, noun The heron.
Cryer
CRYER, noun A crier, which see.
CRYER, noun A kind of hawk, called the falcon gentle, an enemy to pigeous, and very swift.
Crying
CRYING, participle present tense Uttering a loud voice; proclaiming; etc.
CRYING, adjective Notorious; common; great; as a crying sin or abuse.
CRYING, noun Importunate call; clamor; outcry.
Cryolite
CRYOLITE, noun [Gr., cold, and stone, ice-stone.] A fluate of soda and alumin, found in Greenland, of a pale grayish white, snow white, or yellowish brown. It occurs in masses of a foliated structure. It has a glistening, vitreous luster.
Cryophorus
CRYOPHORUS, noun [Gr., frost, and to bear.] Frost-bearer; an instrument for showing the relation between evaporation at low temperatures and the production of cold.
Crypt
CRYPT, noun [Gr., to hide.] A subterranean cell or cave, especially under a church for the interment of persons; also, a subterranean chapel or oratory, and the grave of a martyr.
Cryptic
CRYPTIC, CRYPTICAL, adjective Hidden; secret; occult.
Cryptical
CRYPTIC, CRYPTICAL adjective Hidden; secret; occult.
Cryptically
CRYPTICALLY, adverb Secretly.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.