Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.

Without craft or cunning.

One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.

The work of a craftsman.

One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning.

Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.

The neck or throat

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

The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess.

The state of being craggy.

Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain.

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.

See Crare.

A creel or osier basket.

Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.

See Crowberry.

One who boasts; a braggart.

The act of cramming.

A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme.

One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared.

Crimson.

Knotty; difficult.

See Cramp, n., 2.

a deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub (Viburnum opulus) with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries.

inconveniently small; restricting movement; -- of living quarters or workspace; as, cramped quarters; a cramped office.

A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard.

The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.

See Crampet.

An a/rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.

Having a cramp or square piece at the end; -- said of a cross so furnished.

A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.

The liberty of using a crane, as for loading and unloading vessels.

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 (Viburnum Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it.

a deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub (Viburnum opulus) with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries. It is sometimes called high cranberry to distinguish it from the marsh cranberry or low cranberry.

See Craunch.

A kind of hammer having a head formed of a group of pointed steel bars, used for dressing ashlar, etc. To dress with a crandall.

To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; -- with up.

to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap.

A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel.

The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane.

See Krang.

shrimps.

A genus of living Brachiopoda; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.

Of or pertaining to the cranium.

The crushing of a child's head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery.

An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases.

Of or pertaining to the cranium and face; as, the craniofacial angle.

The science of the form and characteristics of the skull.

Of or pertaining to craniology.

One proficient in craniology; a phrenologist.

The department of science (as of ethnology or arch/ology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls.

An instrument for measuring the size of skulls.

Pertaining to craniometry.

The art or act of measuring skulls.

One skilled in, or who practices, cranioscopy.

Scientific examination of the cranium.

A comprehensive division of the Vertebrata, including all those that have a skull.

The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.

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.

To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

the housing for a crankshaft and connecting parts in an internal-combustion engine.

Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked axle.

Crankness.

A bend or turn; a twist; a crinkle.

Liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other vessel.

Full of spirit; crank.

Having crannies, chinks, or fissures; as, a crannied wall.

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.

Quick; giddy; thoughtless.

The fiery cross, used as a rallying signal in the Highlands of Scotland.

A garland carried before the bier of a maiden.

to defecate. Same as take a crap.

to throw a 2, 3, or 12 on the first throw in the game of craps, thereby losing that turn.

A toad.

An ulcer on the coronet of a horse.

To form into ringlets; to curl; to crimp; to friz; as, to crape the hair; to crape silk.

a fern of New Zealand (Leptopteris superba) with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todea.

a tropical shrub (Tabernaemontana divaricata), native to India, having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; Northern India to Thailand.

an tall East Indian and Chinese shrub (Lagerstroemia indica of the loosestrife family, commonly planted in Southern and Western U. S. as an ornamental shrub. It has clusters of red, white, purple, or pink flowers.

Salted codfish hardened by pressure.

a game in which two play solitaire with separate packs.

A hook or drag; a grapnel.

same as bullshit.

a toilet.

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.

A claw.

of very poor quality.

A gambling game with dice. It is one of the more popular games in casinos.

Same as Crapulence.

The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit.

Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in liquor; drunk; given to excesses.

Resembling crape.

A slow unwieldy trading vessel.

To break in pieces; to crack.

Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

to descend steeply and rapidly; -- of aircraft.

The noise of many things falling and breaking at once.

A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.

The hydroid or naked-eyed medus/. See Hydroidea.

Of or pertaining to the Craspedota.

Gross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined.

A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.

See Crassament.

Grossness; coarseness; thickness; density.

Grossness.

Procrastination; a putting off till to-morrow.

A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes.

A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack.

A large basket or hamper of wickerwork, used for the transportation of china, crockery, and similar wares.

To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches.

the quantity contained in a crate.

The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.

Having the form of a shallow bowl; -- said of a corolla.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater.

To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch.

A neckcloth; a piece of silk, fine muslin, or other cloth, worn by men about the neck.

Wearing a cravat.

To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite.

To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly.

One who craves or begs.