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crenelated

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

Crenelation

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

Creole

Of or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles.

Creosol

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

Creosote

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

Crepane Crepance

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.

Crepis

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

crepitant

Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling.

Crepitate

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

Crepitus

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

Crepon

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

Crept

imp. p. p. of Creep.

Crescendo

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.

Crescent

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

Cresol

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.]

Cress

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

Cresselle

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.

Cresset

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.

Crestfallen

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

Cresting

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

Crestless

Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth.

Cresylic

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

Cretaceous

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

Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

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.

Cretan

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

Cretic

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

Cretin

One afflicted with cretinism.

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.

Cretinous

Having the characteristics of a cretin.

Cretism

A Cretan practice; lying; a falsehood.

Cretonne

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

Creux

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.

Crevalle

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

Crevasse

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

Crevet

A crucible or melting pot; a cruset.

Creviced

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

Crewel

Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.

Crewelwork

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

crewman

any member of a ship's crew.

Crex

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

Crib

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

Cribbage

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.

Cribbing

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

Cribellum

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

Cribration

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

Cribriform

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

Cribrose

Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.

Cric

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

Crick

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.

Cricoid

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

Cricothyroid

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

Crier

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.

Crime

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

Crimea

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

Crimeful

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

Criminal

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

Criminality

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

Criminate

To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.

Crimination

The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint.

Criminatory

Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience.

Criminology

A treatise on crime or the criminal population.

Criminous

Criminal; involving great crime or grave charges; very wicked; heinous.

Crimpage

The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.

Crimper

One who, or that which, crimps A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape. A device for giving hair a wavy appearance. A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.

Crimple

To cause to shrink or draw together; to contract; to curl.

Crimpy

Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.

Crimson

To become crimson; to blush.

Crinal

Of or pertaining to the hair.

Crincum

A twist or bend; a turn; a whimsey.

Crined

Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture.

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