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.

See 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.

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.

The cavally or jurel. The pompano (Trachynotus Carolinus).

A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.

A crucible or melting pot; a cruset.

To crack; to flaw.

Having a crevice or crevices; as, a creviced structure for storing ears of corn.

The crawfish.

imp. of Crow

Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.

Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen.

See Cruet.

any member of a ship's crew.

a genus of birds including the corncrake (Crex crex).

To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.

A horse that has the habit of cribbing.

Same as Cribbing, 4.

A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances.

The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.

Coarse; as, cribble bread.

A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (Ciniflonid/), used for spinning a special kind of silk.

Cribriform.

The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting.

Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress.

Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.

The ring which turns inward and condenses the flame of a lamp.

A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part.

To play at cricket.

One who plays at cricket.

Resembling a ring; -- said esp. of the cartilage at the larynx, and the adjoining parts.

Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages.

imp. p. p. of Cry.

One who cries; one who makes proclamation. an officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a town-crier.

Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.

a Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury.

Free from crime; innocent.

One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon.

One versed in criminal law.

The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt.

to declare (an act) to be illegal.

In violation of law; wickedly.

Criminality.