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.

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.

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.

To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.

The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint.

Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory.

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

of or pertaining to criminology.

A treatise on crime or the criminal population.

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

See Crimson.

A coal broker.

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

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.

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

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

To become crimson; to blush.

Of or pertaining to the hair.

Having hair; hairy.

Crinitory.

A twist or bend; a turn; a whimsey.

A twist; a whimsey or whim.

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

A very fine, hairlike feather.

Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility.

One who cringes meanly; a fawner.

One who cringes.

In a cringing manner.

A withe for fastening a gate.

Relating to the growth of hair.

Bearing hair; hairy.