Defn: Having a sour, disagreeable countenance. Beau & Fl.
CRABSIDLECrab"si`dle (-s`d'l), v. i.
Defn: To move sidewise, as a crab. [Jocular]. Southey.
CRABSTICKCrab"stick` (-stk`), n.
Defn: A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the carb tree.
CRAB TREECrab" tree (tr`).
Defn: See under Crab.
CRAB-YAWSCrab"-yaws` (krb"yz`), n. (Med.)
Defn: A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws. Dunglison.
CRACHECrache (krch), v.
Defn: To scratch. [Obs.] Chaucer.
CRACK Crack (krk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cracked (krkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cracking.] Etym: [OE. cracken, craken, to crack, break, boast, AS. cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crake, Cracknel, Creak.]
1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
2. To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze. O, madam, my old hear is cracked. Shak. He thought none poets till their brains were cracked. Roscommon.
3. To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.
4. To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke. B. Jonson.
5. To cry up; to extol; — followed by up. [Low] To crack a bottle, to open the bottle and drink its contents. — To crack a crib, to commit burglary. [Slang] — To crack on, to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more steam. [Colloq.]
CRACKCrack, v. i.
1. To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts. By misfortune it cracked in the coling. Boyle. The mirror cracked from side to side. Tennyson.
2. To be ruined or impaired; to fail. [Collog.] The credit . . . of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out. Dryden.
3. To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound. As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. Shak.
4. To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; — with of. [Archaic.] Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack. Shak.
CRACKCrack, n.
1. A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass.
2. Ropture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense. My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw. Shak.
3. A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip. Will the stretch out to the crack of doom Shak.
4. The tone of voice when changed at puberty. Though now our voices Have got the mannish crack. Shak.
5. Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.
6. A crazy or crack-brained person. [Obs.] I . . . can not get the Parliament to listen to me, who look upon me as a crack and a projector. Addison.
7. A boast; boasting. [Obs.] "Crack and brags." Burton. "Vainglorius cracks." Spenser.
8. Breach of chastity. [Obs.] Shak.
9. A boy, generally a pert, lively boy. [Obs.] Val. 'Tis a noble child. Vir. A crack, madam. Shak.
10. A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack. [Eng. & Scot. Colloq.]
11. Free conversation; friendly chat. [Scot.] What is crack in English . . . Acrack . . . a chat with a good, kindly human heart in it. P. P. Alexander.
CRACKCrack, a.
Defn: Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.[Colloq.]One of our crack speakers in the Commons. Dickens.
CRACKAJACKCrack"a*jack`, n.
1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. [Slang]
2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes. [U. S.]
CRACKAJACKCrack"a*jack`, a.
Defn: Of marked ability or excellence. [Slang]
CRACK-BRAINEDCrack"-brained` (-brnd`), a.
Defn: Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
CRACKEDCracked (krkt), a.
1. Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.
2. Crack-brained. [Colloq.]
CRACKERCrack"er (krk"r), n.
1. One who, or that which, cracks.
2. A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. [Obs.] What cracker is this same that deafs our ears Shak.
3. A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclossed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; - - often called firecracker.
4. A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.
5. A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. Bartlett.
6. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The pintail duck.
7. pl. (Mach.)
Defn: A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc. Knight.
CRACKER STATECracker State.
Defn: Georgia; — a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.
CRACKLECrac"kle (krk"k'l), v. i. Etym: [Dim. of crack.]
Defn: To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises,rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thornscrackle.The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden.
CRACKLECrac"kle, n.
1. The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling. The crackle of fireworks. Carlyle.
2. (Med.)
Defn: A kind of crackling sound or râle, heard in some abnormal states of the lungs; as, dry crackle; moist crackle. Quain.
3. (Fine Arts)
Defn: A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.
CRACKLEDCrac"kled (-k'ld), a. (Fine Arts)
Defn: Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; — said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
CRACKLEWARECrac"kle*ware` (-wr`), n.
Defn: See Crackle, n., 3.
CRACKLINGCrac"kling (krk"klng), n.
1. The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated. As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. Eccl. vii. 6.
2. The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork. For the first time in his life he tested crackling. Lamb.
3. pl.
Defn: Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.
CRACK-LOO; CRACKALOOCrack"-loo`, n. Also Crack"a*loo` .
Defn: A kind of gambling game consisting in pitching coins to or towards the ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor. [Gamblers' Cant, U. S.]
CRACKNEL Crack"nel (krk"nl), n. Etym: [F. craquelin, fr. D. krakeling, fr. krakken to crack. See Crack, v. t.]
Defn: A hard brittle cake or biscuit. Spenser.
CRACKSMANCracks"man (krks"man), n., pl. Cracksmen (-men).
Defn: A burglar. [Slang]
CRACOVIANCra*co"vi*an (kr-k"v-an), a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to Cracow in Poland.
CRACOVIENNECra*co`vi*enne" (kr-k`v-n"), n. Etym: [F., fr. Cracow, the city.](Mus.)
Defn: A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time.
CRACOWESCra"cowes (kr"kz), n. pl.
Defn: Long-toed boots or shoes formerly worn in many parts of Europe; — so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century. Fairholt.
CRADLECra"dle (krd'l), n. Etym: [AS. cradel, cradol, prob. from Celtic; cf.Gael. creathall, Ir. craidhal, W. cryd a shaking or rocking, acradle; perh. akin to E. crate.]
1. A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinginng on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty. The cradle that received thee at thy birth. Cowper. No sooner was I crept out of my cradle But I was made a king, at nine months old. Shak.
2. Infancy, or very early life.From their cradles bred together. Shak.A form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles.Clarendon.
3. (Agric.)
Defn: An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it eventlyin a swath.
4. (Engraving)
Defn: A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
5. A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
6. (Med.) (a) A case for a broken or dislocated limb. (b) A frame to keep the bedclothes from conntact with the person.
7. (Mining) (a) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; — also called a rocker. [U.S.] (b) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
8. (Carp.)
Defn: The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster. Knight.
9. (Naut.)
Defn: The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck. Cat's cradle. See under Cat. — Cradle hole, a sunken place in a road, caused by thawing, or by travel over a soft spot. — Cradle scythe, a broad scythe used in a cradle for cutting grain.
CRADLECra"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cradled (-d'ld); p. pr. & vb. n.Cradling (-dlng).]
1. To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking. It cradles their fears to sleep. D. A. Clark.
2. To nurse or train in infancy. He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars. Glanvill.
3. To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.
4. To transport a vessel by means of a cradle. In Lombardy . . . boats are cradled and transported over the grade. Knight. To cradle a picture, to put ribs across the back of a picture, to prevent the panels from warping.
CRADLECra"dle, v. i.
Defn: To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.Withered roots and husks wherein the acorn cradled. Shak.
CRADLELANDCra"dle*land` (kra"d'l*land`), n.
Defn: Land or region where one was cradled; hence, land of origin.
CRADLINGCra"dling (-dlng), n.
1. The act of using a cradle.
2. (Coopering)
Defn: Cutting a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterward united and rehooped.
3. (Carp.)
Defn: The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed. Knight.
CRAFT Craft (krft), n. Etym: [AS. cr strength, skill, art, cunning; akin to OS., G., Sw., & Dan. kraft strength, D. kracht, Icel. kraptr; perh. originally, a drawing together, stretching, from the root of E. cramp.]
1. Strength; might; secret power. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade. Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. Acts xix. 25. A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill or craft of making. B. Jonson. Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, Has the craft of the smith been held in repute. Longfellow.
3. Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers. The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds to the new craft guilds. J. R. Green.
4. Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices. You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft. Hobbes. The chief priets and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. Mark xiv. 1.
5. (Naut.)
Defn: A vessel; vessels of any kind; — generally used in acollective sense.The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving over the lake. Prof.Wilson.Small crafts, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets.
CRAFTCraft, v.t.
Defn: To play tricks; to practice artifice. [Obs.]You have crafted fair. Shak.
CRAFTER crafter n.
Defn: a creator of great skill in the manual arts.Syn. — craftsman.[WordNet 1.5]
CRAFTILYCraft"i*ly (—l), adv. Etym: [See Crafty.]
Defn: With craft; artfully; cunningly.
CRAFTINESSCraft"i*ness (krft"-ns), n.
Defn: Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning;artifice; stratagem.He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job. v. 13.
CRAFTLESSCraft"less (-ls), a.
Defn: Without craft or cunning.Helpless, craftless, and innocent people. Jer. Taylor.
CRAFTSMANCrafts"man (krfts"man), n.; pl. Craftsmen (-men).
Defn: One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.
CRAFTSMANSHIPCrafts"man*ship, n.
Defn: The work of a craftsman.
CRAFTSMASTERCrafts"mas`ter (-ms`tr), n.
Defn: One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning.In cunning persuasion his craftsmaster. Holland.
CRAFTYCraft"y (krft"), a. Etym: [AS. cr.]
1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. [Obs.] "Crafty work." Piers Plowman.
2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif.
3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily. "A pair of crafty knaves." Shak. With anxious care and crafty wiles. J. Baillie.
Syn.— Skillful; dexterous; cunning; artful; wily; Cunning.
CRAGCrag (krg), n. Etym: [W. craig; akin to Gael. creag, Corn. karak,Armor. karrek.]
1. A steep, rugged rock; a cough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge. From crag to crag the signal fiew. Sir W. Scott.
2. (Geol.)
Defn: A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of theTertiary age.
CRAGCrag, n. Etym: [A form of craw: cf. D. kraag neck, collar, G. kragen.See Craw.]
1. The neck or throat [Obs.] And bear the crag so stiff and so state. Spenser.
2. The neck piece or scrag of mutton. Johnson.
CRAGGEDCrag"ged (-gd), a.
Defn: Full of crags, or steep, brokenInto its cragged rents descend. J. Baillie.
CRAGGEDNESSCrag"ged*ness, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess.
CRAGGINESSCrag"gi*ness (-g-ns), n.
Defn: The state of being craggy.
CRAGGYCrag"gy (krg"g), a.
Defn: Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain. "The craggy ledge." Tennyson.
CRAGSMANCrags"man (krgz"man), n.; pl. Cragsmen (-men).
Defn: One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.
CRAIECraie (kr), n.
Defn: See Crare. [Obs.]
CRAIG FLOUNDERCraig" floun`der (krg" floun`dr). Etym: [Scot. craig a rock. See 1stCrag.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The pole flounder.
CRAILCrail (krl),, n. Etym: [See Creel.]
Defn: A creel or osier basket.
CRAKECrake (krk), v. t. & i. Etym: [See Crack.]
1. To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
2. To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. [Obs.] Each man may crake of that which was his own. Mir. for Mag.
CRAKECrake, n.
Defn: A boast. See Crack, n. [Obs.] Spenser.
CRAKE Crake, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. kr crow, kr raven, Sw. kr, Dan. krage; perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crow.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; — so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.
CRAKEBERRYCrake"ber`ry (-br`r), n. (Bot.)
Defn: See Crowberry.
CRAKERCrak"er (krk"r), n.
Defn: One who boasts; a braggart. [Obs.] Old Play.
CRAMCram (krm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crammed (krmd); p. pr. & vb. n.Cramming.] Etym: [AS. crammian to cram; akin to Icel. kremia tosqueeze, bruise, Sw. krama to press. Cf. Cramp.]
1. To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrustung one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people. Their storehouses crammed with grain. Shak. He will cram his brass down our throats. Swift.
2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff. Children would be freer from disease if they were not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers. Locke. Cram us with praise, and make us As fat as tame things. Shak.
3. To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.
CRAMCram, v. i.
1. To eat greedly, and to satiety; to stuff. Gluttony . . . . Cr, and blasphemes his feeder. Milton.
2. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study. [Colloq.]
CRAMCram, n.
1. The act of cramming.
2. Innformation hastily memorized; as. a cram from an examination. [Colloq.]
3. (Weaving)
Defn: A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
CRAMBOCram"bo, n. Etym: [Cf. Cramp, a., difficult.]
1. A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme. I saw in one corner . . . a cluster of men and women,diverting themselves with a game at crambo. I heard several double rhymes . . . which raised a great deal of mirth. Addison.
2. A werd rhyming with another word. His similes in order set And every crambo he could get. Swift. Dumb crambo, a game in which one party of players give a word which rhymes with another, which last to be guessed by the opposing party, who represent in dumb show what they think it to be.
CRAMMERCram"mer (krm"mr), n.
Defn: One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an exxamination, or a pupil who is thus prepared. Dickens.
CRAMOISIE; CRAMOISYCra*moi"sie Cra*moi"sy (kr-moi"z), a. Etym: [F. cramoisi crimson. SeeCrimson.]
Defn: Crimson. [Obs.]A splendid seignior, magnificent in cramoisy velevet. Motley.
CRAMPCramp (krmp), n. Etym: [OE. crampe, craumpe; akin to D. & Sw. kramp,Dan. krampe, G. krampf (whence F. crampe), Icel. krappr strait,narrow, and to E. crimp, crumple; cf. cram. See Grape.]
1. That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shakle; ahindrance.A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind. L'Estrange.Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear. Cowper.
2. (Masonry)
Defn: A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
3. (Carp.)
Defn: A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the jionts of framework, etc.
4. A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
5. (Med.)
Defn: A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle ormuscles, as of the leg.The cramp, divers nights, gripeth him in his legs. Sir T. More.Cramp bone, the patella of a sheep; — formerly used as a charm forthe cramp. Halliwell. "He could turn cramp bones into chess men."Dickens.— Cramp ring, a ring formerly supposed to have virtue in avertingor curing cramp, as having been consecrated by one of the kings ofEngland on Good Friday.
CRAMPCramp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cramped (krp. pr. & vb. n. Cramping.]
1. To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine andcontract; to hinder.The mind my be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance.Layard.
2. To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
3. Hence, to bind together; to unite. The . . . fabric of universal justic is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts. Burke.
4. To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
5. To afflict with cramp. When the gout cramps my joints. Ford. To cramp the wheels of wagon, to turn the front wheels out of line with the hind wheels, so that one of them shall be against the body of the wagon.
CRAMPCramp, a. Etym: [See Cramp, n.]
Defn: Knotty; difficult. [R.] Care being taken not to add any of the cramp reasons for this opinion. Coleridge.
CRAMPETCram"pet (krm"pt), n. Etym: [See Cramp,n.] (Mil.)
Defn: A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard. [Written also crampit and crampette.]
CRAMPFISHCramp"fish` (krmp"fsh`), n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.
CRAMP IRONCramp" i`ron (`rn).
Defn: See Cramp, n., 2.
CRAMPITCram"pit (krm"pt), n. (Mil.)
Defn: See Crampet.
CRAMPONCram"pon (krm"pn), n. Etym: [F. See Crampoons.] (Bot.)
Defn: An a
CRAMPONEECram`po*nee" (krm`p-n"), a. Etym: [F. cramponn. See Crampoons.](Her.)
Defn: Having a cramp or square piece at the end; — said of a cross so furnished.
CRAMPOONS Cram*poons" (krm-pnz"), n. pl. Etym: [F. crampon, fr. OHG. chramph crooked; akin to G. krampf cramp. See Cramp,n., and cf. Crampon.]
1. A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.
2. Iron insruments with sharp points, worn on the shoes to assist in gaining or keeping a foothold.
CRAMPYCramp"y (krmp"),
1. Affected with cramp.
2. Productive of, or abounding in, cramps. "This crampy country." Howitt.
CRAN; CRANECran (krn), Crane (krn), n. Etym: [Scot., fr. Gael. crann.]
Defn: A measure for fresh herrings, — as many as will fill a barrel.[Scot.] H. Miller.
CRANAGECran"age (krn"j), n. Etym: [See Crane.]
1. The liberty of using a crane, as for loading and unloading vessels.
2. The money or price paid for the use of a crane.
CRANBERRYCran"ber*ry (krn"br-r), n.; pl. Cranberries (-r Etym: [So named fromits fruit being ripe in the spring when the cranes return. Dr.Prior.] (Bot.)
Defn: A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it.
CRANCHCranch (krnch), v. t.
Defn: See Craunch.
CRANDALLCran"dall (kran"dal), n. [Prob. from Crandall, a proper name.](Stonecutting)
Defn: A kind of hammer having a head formed of a group of pointed steel bars, used for dressing ashlar, etc. — v. t.
Defn: To dress with a crandall.
CRANECrane (krn), n. Etym: [AS. cran; akin to D. & LG. craan, G. kranich,krahn (this in sense 2), Gr. grus, W. & Armor. garan, OSlav. zerav,Lith. gerve, Icel. trani, Sw. trana, Dan. trane. Geranium.]
1. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck.
Note: The common European crane is Grus cinerea. The sand-hill crane (G. Mexicana) and the whooping crane (G. Americana) are large American species. The Balearic or crowned crane is Balearica pavonina. The name is sometimes erroneously applied to the herons and cormorants.
2. A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; — so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. Of Derrick.
3. An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire.
4. A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
5. (Naut.)
Defn: A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., — generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2. Crane fly (Zoöl.), a dipterous insect with long legs, of the genus Tipula. — Derrick crane. See Derrick. — Gigantic crane. (Zoöl.) See Adjutant, n., 3. — Traveling crane, Traveler crane, Traversing crane (Mach.), a crane mounted on wheels; esp., an overhead crane consisting of a crab or other hoisting apparatus traveling on rails or beams fixed overhead, as in a machine shop or foundry. — Water crane, a kind of hydrant with a long swinging spout, for filling locomotive tenders, water carts, etc., with water.
CRANECrane (krn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Craned (krnd); p. pr. & vb. n.Craning.]
1. To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; — with up. [R.] What engines, what instruments are used in craning up a soul, sunk below the center, to the highest heavens. Bates. An upstart craned up to the height he has. Massinger.
2. To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck; as, to crane the neck disdainfully. G. Eliot.
CRANE crane, v. i.
Defn: to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better;as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap. Beaconsfield.Thackeray.The passengers eagerly craning forward over the bulwarks. Howells.
CRANE'S-BILLCrane's"-bill` (krnz"bl`), n.
1. (Bot.)
Defn: The geranium; — so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane. Dr. Prior.
2. (Surg.)
Defn: A pair of long-beaked forceps.
CRANGCrang (krng), n.
Defn: See Krang.
CRANIACra"ni*a (kr"n-), n. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of living Brachiopoda; — so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.
CRANIALCra"ni*al (kr"n-al), a. (Anat.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the cranium.
CRANIOCLASMCra"ni*o*clasm (kr"n—klz'm), n. Etym: [Cranium + Gr. (Med.)
Defn: The crushing of a child's head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery. Dunglison.
CRANIOCLASTCra"ni*o*clast (-klst), n. (Med.)
Defn: An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases.
CRANIOFACIALCra`ni*o*fa"cial (-f"shal), a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to the cranium and face; as, the craniofacial angle.
CRANIOGNOMYCra`ni*og"no*my (-g"n-m), n. Etym: [Cranium + Gr.
Defn: The science of the form and characteristics of the skull. [R.]
CRANIOLOGICALCra`ni*o*log"ic*al (—lj"-kal), a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to craniology.
CRANIOLOGISTCra`ni*ol"o*gist (-l"-jst), n.
Defn: One proficient in craniology; a phrenologist.
CRANIOLOGYCra`ni*ol"o*gy (-j), n. Etym: [Cranium + -logy.]
Defn: The department of science (as of ethnology or archæology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls.
CRANIOMETERCra`ni*om"e*ter (kr`n-m"-tr), n. Etym: [Cranium + -meter.]
Defn: An instrument for measuring the size of skulls.
CRANIOMETRIC; CRANIOMETRICALCra`ni*o*met"ric (—mt"rk), Cra`ni*o*met"ric*al (-r-kal), a.
Defn: Pertaining to craniometry.
CRANIOMETRYCra`ni*om"e*try (kr`n-m"-tr), n.
Defn: The art or act of measuring skulls.
CRANIOSCOPISTCra`ni*os"co*pist (kr`n-s"k-pst), n.
Defn: One skilled in, or who practices, cranioscopy. It was found of equal dimension in a literary man whose skull puzzied the cranioscopists. Coleridge.
CRANIOSCOPYCra`ni*os"co*py (-p), n. Etym: [Cranium + -scopy.]
Defn: Scientific examination of the cranium.
CRANIOTACra`ni*o"ta (kr`n-t), n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. cranium.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A comprehensive division of the Vertebrata, including all those that have a skull.
CRANIOTOMYCra`ni*ot"o*my (kr`n-t"-m), n. Etym: [Cranium + Gr. (Med.)
Defn: The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.
CRANIUMCra"ni*um (kr"n-m), n.; pl. E. Craniums (-Crania (-. Etym: [NL., fr.Gr.
Defn: The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull.
CRANK Crank (krnk), n. Etym: [OE. cranke; akin to E. cringe, cringle, crinkle, and to crank, a., the root meaning, probably, "to turn, twist." See Cringe.]
1. (Mach.)
Defn: A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank.
2. Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage. So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks. Spenser.
3. A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word. Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles. Milton.
4. A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion. [Prov. Eng.] Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks. Carlyle.
5. A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter. [Colloq.]
6. A sick person; an invalid. [Obs.] Thou art a counterfeit crank, a cheater. Burton. Crank axle (Mach.), a driving axle formed with a crank or cranks, as in some kinds of locomotives. — Crank pin (Mach.), the cylindrical piece which forms the handle, or to which the connecting rod is attached, at the end of a crank, or between the arms of a double crank. — Crank shaft, a shaft bent into a crank, or having a crank fastened to it, by which it drives or is driven. — Crank wheel, a wheel acting as a crank, or having a wrist to which a connecting rod is attached.
CRANK Crank (krnk), a. Etym: [AS. cranc weak; akin to Icel. krangr, D. & G. krank sick, weak (cf.D. krengen to careen). Cf. Crank, n.]
1. Sick; infirm. [Prov. Eng.]
2. (Naut.)
Defn: Liable to careen or be overest, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail.
3. Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated. He who was, a little before, bedrid, . . . was now crank and lusty. Udall. If you strong electioners did not think you were among the elect, you would not be so crank about it. Mrs. Stowe.
CRANKCrank, v. i. Etym: [See Crank, n. ]
Defn: To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind andturn.See how this river comes me cranking in. Shak.
CRANKBIRDCrank"bird` (-brd`), n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).
CRANKEDCranked (krnkt), a.
Defn: Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked axle.
CRANKINESSCrank"i*ness (krnk"-ns), n.
Defn: Crankness. Lowell.
CRANKLECran"kle (krn"k'l), v. t. Etym: [Cf. Crinkle.]
Defn: To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle. Old Veg's stream . . . drew her humid train aslope, Crankling her banks. J. Philips.
CRANKLECran"kle, v. i.
Defn: To bend, turn, or wind.Along the crankling path. Drayton.
CRANKLECran"kle, n.
Defn: A bend or turn; a twist; a crinkle.
CRANKNESSCrank"ness (krnk"ns), n.
1. (Naut.)
Defn: Liability to be overset; — said of a ship or other vessel.
2. Sprightliness; vigor; health.
CRANKYCrank"y (-), a.
1. Full of spirit; crank.
2. Addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions; crotchety. [Colloq.]
3. Unsteady; easy to upset; crank.
CRANNIEDCran"nied (krn"nd), a.
Defn: Having crannies, chinks, or fissures; as, a crannied wall.Tennyson.
CRANNOG; CRANNOGECran"nog (krn"ng), Cran"noge (krn"nj), n. Etym: [From Celtic; cf.Gael. crann a tree.]
Defn: One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings, under Lake. Encyc. Brit.
CRANNY Cran"ny (krn"n), n.; pl. Crannies (-n. Etym: [F. cran notch, prob. from L. crena (a doubful word).]
1. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance. In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies. Dryden. He peeped into every cranny. Arbuthnot.
2. (Glass Making)
Defn: A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
CRANNYCran"ny, v. i. [imp & p. p. Crannied (-nd); p. pr. & vb. n.Crannying.]
1. To crack into, or become full of, crannies. [R.] The ground did cranny everywhere. Golding.
2. To haunt, or enter by, crannies. All tenantless, save to the cranning wind. Byron.
CRANNYCran"ny, a. Etym: [Perh. for cranky. See Crank, a. ]
Defn: Quick; giddy; thoughtless. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
CRANTARACran*ta"ra (krn-t"r or -t"r), n. Etym: [Gael. cranntara.]
Defn: The fiery cross, used as a rallying signal in the Highlands ofScotland.
CRANTSCrants (krnts), n. Etym: [Cf. D. krans, G. kranz.]
Defn: A garland carried before the bier of a maiden. [Obs.]Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants, Her maaiden strewments.Shak.
CRAPCrap (krap), n.
Defn: In the game of craps, a first throw of the dice in which the total is two, three, or twelve, in which case the caster loses.
CRAPAUD Cra*paud", n. [Written also crapawd, crapald, crepaud, etc.] [F. crapaud.]
1.
Defn: A toad. [Obs.]
2. (Pronounced kra`po") As a proper name, Johnny Crapaud, or Crapaud, a nickname for a Frenchman.
CRAPAUDINECrap"au*dine (krp"-dn), a. Etym: [F., n.] (Arch.)
Defn: Turning on pivots at the top and bottom; — said of a door.
CRAPAUDINECrap"au*dine, n. Etym: [F.] (Far.)
Defn: An ulcer on the coronet of a horse. Bailey.
CRAPECrape (krp), n. Etym: [F. cr, fr. L. crispus curled, crisped. SeeCrisp.]
Defn: A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill. Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for the dress of some clergymen. A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. Pope. Crape myrtle (Bot.), a very ornamental shrub (Lagerströmia Indica) from the East Indies, often planted in the Southern United States. Its foliage is like that of the myrtle, and the flower has wavy crisped petals. — Oriental crape. See Canton crape.
CRAPECrape, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Craped (krpt); p. pr. & vb.n. Craping.]Etym: [F. cr, fr. L. crispare to curl, crisp, fr. crispus. See Crape,n.]
Defn: To form into ringlets; to curl; to crimp; to friz; as, to crape the hair; to crape silk. The hour for curling and craping the hair. Mad. D'Arblay.
CRAPEFISHCrape"fish` (krp"fsh`), n.
Defn: Salted codfish hardened by pressure. Kane.
CRAPNELCrap"nel (krp"nel), n.
Defn: A hook or drag; a grapnel.
CRAPPIECrap"pie (krp"p), n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A kind of fresh-water bass of the genus Pomoxys, found in the rivers of the Southern United States and Mississippi valley. There are several species. [Written also croppie.]
CRAPPLECrap"ple (krp"p'l), n. Etym: [See Graple.]
Defn: A claw. [Obs.]
CRAPSCraps (krps), n.
Defn: A gambling game with dice. [Local, U.S.]
CRAP SHOOTINGCrap shooting.
Defn: Same as Craps.
CRAPULA; CRAPULE Crap"u*la (krp"-l), Crap"ule (krp"l), n. Etym: [L. crapula intoxication.]
Defn: Same as Crapulence.
CRAPULENCECrap"u*lence (—lens), n.
Defn: The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit. Bailey.
CRAPULENT; CRAPULOUS Crap"u*lent (-lent), Crap"u*lous (-ls), a. Etym: [L. crapulentus, crapulosus: cf. F. crapuleux.]
Defn: Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in liquor; drunk; given to excesses. [R.]
CRAPYCrap"y (krp"), a.
Defn: Resembling crape.
CRARE Crare (krr), n. Etym: [OF. craier, creer, croyer, ship of war, LL. craiera, creyera, perh. from G. krieger warrior, or D. krijger.]
Defn: A slow unwieldy trading vessel. [Obs.] [Written also crayer, cray, and craie.] Shak.
CRASECrase (krz), v. t. Etym: [See Craze.]
Defn: To break in pieces; to crack. [Obs.] "The pot was crased."Chaucer.
CRASHCrash (kr), v. t. [imp & p. p. Crashed (kr; p. pr & vb. n. Crashing.]Etym: [OE. crashen, the same word as crasen to break, E. craze. SeeCraze.]
Defn: To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise andviolence. [R.]He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire. Fairfax.
CRASHCrash, v. i.
1. To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise. Roofs were blazing and walls crashing in every part of the city. Macualay.
2. To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.
CRASHCrash, n.
1. A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of manu things falling and breaking at once. The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds. Addison.
2. Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.
CRASHCrash, n. Etym: [L. crassus coarse. See Crass.]
Defn: Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.
CRASHINGCrash"ing, n.
Defn: The noise of many things falling and breaking at once.There shall be . . . a great crashing from the hills. Zeph. i. 10.
CRASISCra"sis (kr"ss), n. Etym: [LL., temperament, fr. Gr.
1. (Med.)
Defn: A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.
2. (Gram.)
Defn: A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a dipthong; synæresis; as, cogo for coago.
CRASPEDOTACras`pe*do"ta (krs`p-d"t), n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The hydroid or naked-eyed medusæ. See Hydroidea.
CRASPEDOTECras"pe*dote (krs"p-dt), a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the Craspedota.
CRASS Crass (krs), a. Etym: [L. crassus thick, fat, gross, prob. orig., closely woven See Crease animal fat, and cf. Crate, Hurdle.]
Defn: Cross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined. "Crass and fumid exhalations." Sir. T. Browne. "Crass ignorance" Cudworth.
CRASSAMENT; CRASSAMENTUM Cras"sa*ment (krs"s-ment), Cras`sa*men"tum (-mn"tm), n. Etym: [L. crassamentum, fr. crassare to make thick. See Crass, a.]
Defn: A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.
CRASSIMENTCras"si*ment (krs"s-ment), n.
Defn: See Crassament.
CRASSITUDECras"si*tude (-td), n. Etym: [L. crassitudo.]
Defn: Crossness; coarseness; thickness; density. Bacon.
CRASSNESSCrass"ness (krs"ns), n.
Defn: Grossness. [Obs.] Glanvill.
CRASTINATION Cras`ti*na"tion (krs`t-n"shn), n. Etym: [L. crastinus of to-morrow, from cras to-morrow.]
Defn: Procrastination; a putting off till to-morrow. [Obs.]
CRATAEGUSCra*tæ"gus (kr-t"gs), n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes.
CRATCH Cratch (krch; 224), n. Etym: [OE. crache, creche, F. cr crib, manger, fr. OHG. krippa, krippea,G. krippe crib. See Crib.]
Defn: A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack. [Obs.] Begin from first where He encradled was, In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay. Spenser. Cratch cradle, a representation of the figure of the cratch, made upon the fingers with a string; cat's cradle; — called also scratch cradle.
CRATECrate (krt), n. Etym: [L. cratis hurdle; perh. akin to E. cradle. SeeHurdle, and cf. Crate a framework.]
1. A large basket or hamper of wickerwork, used for the transportation of china, crockery, and similar wares.
2. A box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces, — used especially for transporting fruit.
CRATECrate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crated; p. pr. & vb. n. Crating.]
Defn: To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches.
CRATER Cra"ter (krtr), n. Etym: [L. crater, cratera, a mixing vessel, the mouth of a volcano, Gr. ir to cook, Crail, in Holy Grail.]
1. The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a gevser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.
2. (Mil.)
Defn: The pit left by the explosion of a mine.
3. (Astron.)
Defn: A constellation of the southen hemisphere; — called also theCup.
CRATERIFORMCra*ter"i*form (kr-tr"-frm), a. Etym: [L. cratera + -form.] (Bot.)
Defn: Having the form of a shallow bowl; — said of a corolla.
CRATEROUSCRa"ter*ous (kr"tr-s), a.
Defn: Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater. [R.] R. Browning.
CRAUNCH Craunch (krnch), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Craunched (krncht);p. pr. & vb. n. Craunching.] Etym: [See Crunch.]
Defn: To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch. Swift.
CRAVAT Cra*vat" (kr-vt"), n. Etym: [F. cravate, fr. Cravate a Croat, an inhabitant of Croatia, one of a body of Austrian troops, from whom, in 1636, this article of dress was adopted in France.]
Defn: A neckcloth; a piece of silk, fine muslin, or other cloth, wornby men about the neck.While his wig was combed and his cravat tied. Macualay.
CRAVATTEDCra*vat`ted (kr-vt"td), a.
Defn: Wearing a cravat.The young men faultlessly appointed, handsomely cravatted. Thackeray.
CRAVECrave (krv), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Craved (kr; p pr. & vb. n. Craving.]Etym: [AS. crafian; akin to Icel. krefia, Sw. kr, Dan. kr.]
1. To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore. I crave your honor's pardon. Shak. Joseph . . . went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. Mark xv. 43.
2. To call for, as a gratification; to long for; hence, to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food. His path is one that eminently craves weary walking. Edmund Gurney.
Syn. — To ask; seek; beg; beseech; implore; entreat; solicit; request; supplicate; adjure.
CRAVECrave, v. i.
Defn: To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, acraving appetite.Once one may crave for love. Suckling.
CRAVEN Cra"ven (kr"v'n), a. Etym: [OE. cravant, cravaunde, OF. cravant struck down, p. p. of cravanter, crevanter, to break, crush, strike down, fr. an assumed LL. crepantare, fr. L. crepans, p. pr. of crepare to break, crack, rattle. Cf. Crevice, Crepitate.]
Defn: Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. "His craven heart." Shak.The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. Sir. W. Scott.In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. Macualay.
CRAVENCra"ven, n. Etym: [Formerly written also cravant and cravent.]
Defn: A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow. SeeRecreant, n.King Henry. Is it fit this soldier keep his oath Fluellen.He is acraven and a villain else. Shak.
Syn.— Coward; poltroon; dastard.
CRAVENCra"ven, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cravened (-v'nd);p. pr. & vb. n.Cravening.]
Defn: To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly. [Obs.]There is a prohibition so divine, That cravens my weak hand. Shak.
CRAVERCrav"er (krv"r), n.
Defn: One who craves or begs.
CRAVINGCrav"ing (-ng), n.
Defn: Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching.A succession of cravings and satiety. L'Estrange.— Crav"ing*ly, adv.— Crav"ing*ness, n.
CRAW Craw (kr), n. Etym: [Akin to D. kraag neck, collar, G. kragen, Sw. kr craw, Dan. kro, and possibly to Gr.bronchus), or Crag neck.] (Zoöl.) (a) The crop of a bird. (b) The stomach of an animal.
CRAWFISH; CRAYFISH Craw"fish` (kr"fsh`), Cray"fish` (kr"fsh`), n.; pl. -fishes or -fish. Etym: [Corrupted fr. OE. crevis, creves, OF. crevice, F. , fr. OHG. krebiz crab, G. krebs. See Crab. The ending -fish arose from confusion with E. fish.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any crustacean of the family Astacidæ, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mamoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The common European species is Astacus fluviatilis.
CRAWFORDCraw"ford (kr"frd), n.
Defn: A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, wich yellow flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey.
CRAWL Crawl (krl), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crawled (krld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crawling.] Etym: [Dan. kravle, or Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw. kr to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to scratch.]
1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and kness; to creep. A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another. Grew.
2. Hence, to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner. He was hardly able to crawl about the room. Arbuthnot. The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes. Byron.
3. To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct. Secretly crawling up the battered walls. Knolles. Hath crawled into the favor of the king. Shak. Absurd opinions crawl about the world. South.
4. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i. ,7.
CRAWLCrawl (krl), n.
Defn: The act or motion of crawling;
CRAWLCrawl, n. Etym: [Cf. Kraal.]
Defn: A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.
CRAWLERCrawl"er (krl"r), n.
Defn: One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.
CRAWL STROKECrawl stroke. (Swimming)
Defn: A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
CRAWLYCrawl"y (krl"), a.
Defn: Creepy. [Colloq.]
CRAY; CRAYERCray (kr), Cray"er (-r), n.
Defn: See Crare. [Obs.]
CRAYFISHCray"fish (kr"fsh), n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: See Crawfish.
CRAYONCray"on (kr"n), n. Etym: [F., a crayon, a lead pencil (crayon ContéConté's pencil, i. e., one made a black compound invented by Conté),fr. craie chalk, L. creta; said to be, properly, Cretan earth, fr.Creta the island Crete. Cf. Cretaceous.]
1. An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders. Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon. Dryden.
Note: The black crayon gives a deeper black than the lead pencil. This and the colored crayons are often called chalks. The red crayon is also called sanguine. See Chalk, and Sanguine.
2. A crayon drawing.
3. (Electricity)
Defn: A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light. Crayon board, cardboard with a surface prepared for crayon drawing. — Crayon drawing, the act or art of drawing with crayons; a drawing made with crayons.
CRAYONCray"on, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crayoned (-nd); p. pr. & vb. n.Crayoning.] Etym: [Cf. F. crayonner.]
Defn: To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan. He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably to the plan which he had crayoned out. Malone.
CRAZE Craze (krz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crazed (krzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crazing.] Etym: [OE. crasen to break, fr. Scand., perh. through OF.; cf. Sw. krasa to crackle, sl, to break to pieces, F. to crush, fr. the Scand. Cf. Crash.]
1. To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase. God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels. Milton.
2. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. [Obs.] Till length of years, And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs. Milton.
3. To derange the intellect of; to render insane. Any man . . . that is crazed and out of his wits. Tilloston. Grief hath crazed my wits. Shak.
CRAZECraze, v. i.
1. To be crazed, or to act or appear as She would weep and he would craze. Keats.
2. To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
CRAZECraze, n.
1. Craziness; insanity.
2. A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet. It was quite a craze with him [Burns] to have his Jean dressed genteelly. Prof. Wilson.
3. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the æsthetic craze. Various crazes concerning health and disease. W. Pater.
CRAZEDNESSCraz"ed*ness (-d-ns), n.
Defn: A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the intellect.
CRAZE-MILL; CRAZING-MILLCraze"-mill` (krz"m*l`), Craz"ing-mill` (kr"zng-), n. Etym: [See 1stCraze.]
Defn: A mill for grinding tin ore.
CRAZILYCra"zi*ly (kr*"z-l), adv.
Defn: In a crazy manner.
CRAZINESSCra"zi*ness, n.
1. The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs.
2. The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement.
CRAZYCra"zy (kr"z), a. Etym: [From Craze.]
1. Characterized by weakness or feeblness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. Piles of mean andcrazy houses. Macualay. One of great riches, but a crazy constitution. Addison. They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island. Jeffrey.
2. Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged. Over moist and crazy brains. Hudibras.
3. Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager. [Colloq.] The girls were crazy to be introduced to him. R. B. Kimball. Crazy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; — so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; — called also funny bone. — Crazy quilt, a bedquilt made of pieces of silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement.
CREABLECre"a*ble (kr"-b'l), a. Etym: [L. creabilis, from creare to create.See Create.]
Defn: Capable of being created. [Obs.] I. Watts.
CREAGHTCreaght (krt), n. Etym: [Ir. & Gael. graidh, graigh.]
Defn: A drove or herd. [Obs.] Haliwell.
CREAGHTCreaght, v. i.
Defn: To graze. [Obs.] Sir. L. Davies.
CREAKCreak (krk), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Creaked (krkt); p. pr. & vb. n.Creaking.] Etym: [OE. creken, prob. of imitative origin; cf. E.crack, and. D. kreiken to crackle, chirp.]