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.

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.

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.

Same as Crinite, 1.

Having the appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike tail or train.

Of or relating to hair; as, a crinitory covering.

A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity.

Having short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag.

a North American herb (Dentaria diphylla) with pungent scaly or toothed roots; -- called also toothwort.

Having crinkles; wavy; wrinkly.

Crinoidal. One of the Crinoidea.

Of pertaining to crinoids; consisting of, or containing, crinoids.

A large class of Echinodermata, including numerous extinct families and genera, but comparatively few living ones. Most of the fossil species, like some that are recent, were attached by a jointed stem. See Blastoidea, Cystoidea, Comatula.

One of the Crinoidea.

A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair.

Hairy.

Hairiness.

A genus of bulbous plants, of the order Amaryllidace/, cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty.

A sphinx with the head of a ram.

To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.

Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded.

Lameness.

A wooden tool used in graining leather.

Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.

Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition.

The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point.

That which is crisp or brittle; the state of being crisp or brittle; as, burned to a crisp; specifically, the rind of roasted pork; crackling.

Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.

The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled.

The state of being crispate.

One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.