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.

Of, pertaining to, or like, saffron; deep reddish yellow.

A dyestuff, obtained from the Chinese crocin, which produces a brilliant yellow.

A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler.

To knit with a crochet needle or hook; as, to crochet a shawl.

something created by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle.

One who carries the cross before an archbishop.

A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.

The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora. A red powder (called also polychroite), which is made from the saffron (Crocus sativus). See Polychroite.

To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter.

nonsense; balderdash; humbug; -- usually used in the phrase a crock.

drunk, inebriated. Opposite of sober.

A potter.

Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds.

An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.

Ornamented with crockets.

Ornamentation with crockets.

Smutty.

A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (Crocodilus vulgaris, or Crocodilus Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (Crocodilus Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.

An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds.

Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile. One of the Crocodilia.

A caption or sophistical mode of arguing.

Same as Crocoite.

Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also red lead ore.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling saffron; having the color of saffron; as, croconic acid.

A white crystalline sugar, metameric with glucose, obtained from the coloring matter of saffron.

A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. Crocus vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; Crocus sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn.

A king of Lydia who flourished in the 6th century b. c., and was renowned for his vast wealth; hence, a common appellation for a very rich man; as, he is a veritable Cr/sus.

A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm.

One who rents and tills a small farm or holding; as, the crofters of Scotland.

Croftland.

Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised.

See Cross, n.

A holy war; a crusade.

A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross.

Terminated with crescents; -- said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated.

A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron.

A quaver.

A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found chiefly in countries inhabited by the ancient Celts, and are of a period anterior to the introduction of Christianity into these countries.

A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe.

Oliver Cromwell, b. 1599, d. 1658.

of or pertaining to Oliver Cromwell.

A genus of rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns.

An old ewe.

The iron head of a tilting spear.

The coronet of a horse.

Saturnian; -- applied to the North Polar Sea.

A mineral consisting principally of silicate of iron, and crystallizing in hexagonal prisms with perfect basal cleavage; -- so named from the Swedish mineralogist Cronstedt.

A crone.

To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw.

A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

Hunched.

A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.

Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.

In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.

The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.

To make crooked.

Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (Cucurbita moschata) and is smooth and often striped.

A low, continued moan; a murmur.

a singer of popular ballads.

singing in a soft low tone; as, her crooning soon put the child to sleep.

To yield harvest.

A person or animal whose ears are cropped.

Having the ears cropped.

Having the tail cropped.

Having a full crop or belly; satiated.

cut very short; as, her cropped hair.

One that crops.

Sick from excess in eating or drinking.

A brittle cake or other crisp pastry.

In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet.

A ball of minced meat, fowl, rice, vegetables, or other ingredients, often in a thick white sauce, highly seasoned, breaded, and fried; as, a dish of crab croquettes.

Ten millions; as, a crore of rupees (which is nearly $5,000,000).

The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God.

Bearing a crosier.

See Crosslet.

To lie or be athwart.

to create one or a series of cross sections{3} by cutting (an object) into thin slices.

With arms crossed.

A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surface of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface.

A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.

Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus.

A bun or cake marked with a cross of icing, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday; also, called hot cross bun, even when not hot.