Frequent; numerous.

A public nursery, where the young children of poor women are cared for during the day, while their mothers are at work.

the first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War; in 1346 the English under Edward III defeated the French under King Philip of Valois.

To give credence to; to believe.

A thing to be believed; an article of faith; -- distinguished from agendum, a practical duty.

Believing; giving credence; credulous.

That which gives a title to credit or confidence.

having an official document certifying fitness for a particular task.

a credence{3}.

The quality of being credible; credibleness; as, the credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses.

Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entitled to confidence; trustworthy.

The quality or state of being credible; worthiness of belief; credibility.

In a manner inducing belief; as, I have been credibly informed of the event.

To confide in the truth of; to give credence to; to put trust in; to believe.

Worthy of belief.

The quality of being creditable.

In a creditable manner; reputably; with credit.

One who credits, believes, or trusts.

A female creditor.

having an acceptable credit rating; worthy of having credit extended; as, a credit-worthy customer.

The creed, as sung or read in the Roman Catholic church.

Readiness of belief; a disposition to believe on slight evidence.

Apt to believe on slight evidence; easily imposed upon; unsuspecting.

With credulity.

Readiness to believe on slight evidence; credulity.

To believe; to credit.

Without a creed.

A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.

The chub sucker.

A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.

Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding.

The act or process of creeping.

One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing.

A hole or retreat into which an animal may creep, to escape notice or danger.

A low stool.

An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin.

Crawling, or moving close to the ground.

by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly.

A creeping creature; a reptile.

Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin.

An Algonquin tribe of Indians, inhabiting a large part of British America east of the Rocky Mountains and south of Hudson's Bay.

A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade.

An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.

A thin muscle which serves to draw up the testicle.

Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.

To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.

A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead.

One who advocates the practice of cremation.

One who, or that which, cremates or consumes to ashes.

Pertaining to, or employed in, cremation.

A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace.

Cream; -- a term used esp. in cookery, names of liqueurs, etc.

The peculiar fruit of fennel, carrot, parsnip, and the like, consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting axis.

A superior kind of violin, formerly made at Cremona, in Italy.

Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum.

See Crimson.

See Krems.

Having the margin cut into rounded teeth notches, or scallops.

A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.

A rounded tooth or notch of a crenate leaf, or any part that is crenate; -- called also crenelle.

An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement.

To furnish with crenelles.

having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; as, a crenelated molding.

The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.

Same as Crenate.

See Cringle.

Minutely crenate.

A minute crenation.

Of or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles.

Louisiana; -- a nickname. See Creole, n. a.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Creoles. A Creole.

A colorless liquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum.

To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay.

An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg. It sometimes forms an ulcer.

Same as Crape.

A rolled or folded crepe{3}, heated in an orange-flavored liqueur (or in a hot orange-butter sauce and moistened with a liqueur) and set on fire when served.

A genus of plants including the hawk's beard; cosmopolitan in the northern hemisphere.

Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling.

To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.

The act of crepitating or crackling.

The noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels. Same as Crepitation, 2.

A thin stuff made of the finest wool or silk, or of wool and silk.

imp. p. p. of Creep.

Twilight.

Crepuscular.

Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous.

Increase; enlargement.

A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed. A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone.

To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent.

Crescent-shaped.

In the form of a crescent; like a crescent.

Increasing; growing.

Any one of three metameric substances, CH3.C6H4.OH, homologous with and resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids. [Called also cresylic acid.]

Same as Isorcin.

A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.

A wooden rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a bell, in the Roman Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy Week, or the last week of Lent.

An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions.

Abounding in cresses.

To form a crest.

Having a crest.

With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed.

An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof.

Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth.

Pertaining to, or derived from, cresol, creosote, etc.

Having the qualities of chalk; abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk.

a thin layer of geologic deposits, of varying thickness in different parts of the world, found between the geological strata identified as Cretaceous and the strata above, identified as Tertiary; also, the time point or period marking the boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods.

In a chalky manner; as chalk.

Pertaining to Crete, or Candia. A native or inhabitant of Crete or Candia.

A Cretan

See Cretan.

A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (- / -).

Falsehood; lying; cretism.

One afflicted with cretinism.

A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.

Having the characteristics of a cretin.

A Cretan practice; lying; a falsehood.

A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and weft of flax.

Chalky; cretaceous.

See Kreutzer.

Used in English only in the expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design.