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.

A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).

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.

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.

Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching.

The crop of a bird. The stomach of an animal.

same as crawfish

to back out in a humilating manner; as, We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him.

A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, with yellow flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey.

A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.

One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.

Creepy.

the type genus of the Cracidae; curassows.

See Crare.

See Crawfish.

Any decapod crustacean of the family Astacid/ (genera Cambarus and Cambarus), 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 Mammoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The common European species is Astacus fluviatilis.

To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.

Craziness; insanity.

A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the intellect.

In a crazy manner.

The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs.

Fine cracks resulting from shrinkage on the surface of glazed pottery, concrete, or other material. The admired crackle in some Oriental potteries and porcelains is crazing produced in a foreseen and regulated way. In common pottery it is often the result of exposure to undue heat, and the beginning of disintegration.

A mill for grinding tin ore.

Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.

any of several leguminous plants of Western North America causing locoism in livestock.

Capable of being created.

To graze.

The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.

A harsh grating or squeaking sound, or the act of making such a sound.

worn down with age or use; in poor condition.

To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle.

Of the color of cream; light yellow.

White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion.

A plant of Sierra Leone which yields a wholesome, creamy juice.

A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream.

As white as cream.

A kind of cake filled with custard made of cream, eggs, etc.

a California plant (Platystemon californicus) with small pale yellow flowers.

a small pitcher for serving cream; as, the coffee set included a sugar bowl and creamer.

A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market.

The quality of being creamy.

Full of, or containing, cream; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous.

To get on credit; to borrow.

Creative; formative.

To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling.

A tool, or a sewing-machine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by.

A layer of tiles forming a corona for a wall.

See Creosote.

Full of creases.

An usher to a riding master.

That may be created.

To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist.

Relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food; as, creatic nausea.

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance found abundantly in muscle tissue.

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous body closely related to creatin but more basic in its properties, formed from the latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine.

The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.

Of or pertaining to creation.