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.

Same as Crinite, 1.

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

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.

A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft.

In a crisp manner.

The state or quality of being crisp.

Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks.

Pertaining to the crissum; as, crissal feathers.

In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways.

See Christcross-row.

That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts.

Crested.

A standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them.

Serving as a basis for evaluation.

The unit for estimating the weight of a/riform substances; -- the weight of a liter of hydrogen at 0/ centigrade, and with a tension of 76 centimeters of mercury. It is 0.0896 of a gram, or 1.38274 grains.

A kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims.

To criticise; to play the critic.

In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly.

The state or quality of being critical, or of occurring at a critical time.

A contemptible or vicious critic.

Capable of being criticised.

To act as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment; to play the critic; -- formerly used with on or upon.

One who criticises; a critic.

The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism.

same as criticise; as, The paper criticized the new movie.

To criticise or pass judgment upon.

Any animal; as, lots of critters come out only at night.

A kind of roughness on the surface of glass, which clouds its transparency.

acronym for cathode-ray oscilloscope, an electronic device which provides visual images of varying electrical quantities. See oscilloscope.

a race of human-like hominids of the Upper Paleolithic in Europe, considered of the same species as modern humans (Homo sapiens). Their skeletal remains were found mostly in southern France.

The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.

One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil.

like the sounds of frogs and crows; as, acres of croaky frogs.

A native or resident of Croatia.

a Slavic-speaking country on the Adriatic, part of the Balkan region. It was formerly part of Yugoslavia.

Of or pertaining to Croatia. A Croat.

a contraction for crocodile.

A name given to any one of several yellow or scarlet dyestuffs of artificial production and complex structure. In general they are diazo and sulphonic acid derivatives of benzene and naphthol.