See Crossroad.

In the form of a cross; across; transversely.

A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.

any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made.

A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox.

Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or Rattlesnake family.

A Turkish musical instrument.

A kind of castanet used by the Corybantes.

A genus of poisonous serpents, including the rattlesnakes.

The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively.

Pertaining to the temple; temporal.

a genus of lizards of the family Iguanidae, including the collared lizards.

To provide with a crotch; to give the form of a crotch to; as, to crotch the ends of ropes in splicing or tying knots.

Having a crotch; forked.

To play music in measured time.

Marked or measured by crotchets; having musical notation.

The state or character of being crotchety, or whimsical.

Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man.

A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries.

Of or pertaining to, or derived from, a plant of the genus Croton, or from croton oil.

A supposed alkaloid obtained from croton oil by boiling it with water and magnesia, since found to be merely a magnesia soap of the oil.

A colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, C4H6, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid.

a genus of birds including the anis. See ani.

any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made.

see crottal.

A name given to various lichens gathered for dyeing. See crottal.

To sign with the cross; to bless.

Marked with the sign of the cross.

See Crowd, a violin.

A crock; a jar.

An inflammatory affection of the larynx or trachea, accompanied by a hoarse, ringing cough and stridulous, difficult breathing; esp., such an affection when associated with the development of a false membrane in the air passages (also called membranous croup). See False croup, under False, and Diphtheria.

A leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs toward his belly.

Croupy.

See Crupper.

One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes.

Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrane like that found in membranous croup; as, croupous laryngitis.

Of or pertaining to croup; resembling or indicating croup; as, a croupy cough.

Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent.

Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon.

See Sourkrout.

Bread cut in various forms, and fried lightly in butter or oil, to garnish hashes, etc.

To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance.

A quill of the crow, or a very fine pen made from such a quill.

A filamentous fresh-water alga (Conferva rivularis of Linnaeus, Rhizoclonium rivulare of Kutzing).

Marked with crow's-feet, or wrinkles, about the eyes.

A box or platform near the top of a mast, esp. in whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout.

A bar of iron sharpened at one end, and used as a lever.

A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry.

To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

overfilled or compacted or concentrated; filled to excess; as, a crowded program. Opposite of uncrowded.

One who crowds or pushes.

A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind.

A kind of campion; according to Gerarde, the Lychnis Flos-cuculi.

The genus Ranunculus, of many species; some are common weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty.

same as bragging.

A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow.

To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power.

A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell-shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.

a European annual (Agrostemma githago) having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America.

Same as King-post.

any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads.

Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected.

One who, or that which, crowns.

In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.

Without a crown.

A coronet.

A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle. A coin [In sense (b) properly crown piece.] See Crown, 19.

A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank.

A tribe of Indians of the Dakota stock, living in Montana; -- also called Upsarokas.

See Corriestep.

The top stone of the gable end of a house.

An ancient musical instrument. See 4th Crowd.

The Lotus corniculatus.

A kind of carriage like a gig, orig. of wicker-work.

Crystallized cawk, in which the crystals are small.

See Cross, n.

A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself.

See Crosier.

Crosiered.

Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.

To torture; to torment. [Obs.] See Excruciate.

The act of torturing; torture; torment.

A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc.

Any plant of the family Crucifer/.

a natural family of plants with four-petaled flowers; the mustard family.

Bearing a cross.

One who crucifies; one who subjects himself or another to a painful trial.

A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, used by the Roman Catholics in their devotions.

The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.

Cross-shaped; (Bot.) having four parts arranged in the form of a cross.

To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

Bearing the cross; marked with the figure of a cross.

See Curd.

To curdle.

In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh.

In a crude, immature manner.

A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans.

an appetizer consisting of raw vegetables cut into bite-sized strips and served with a dip.

The condition of being crude; rawness.

See Cruddle.

Characterized by crudeness; raw.

Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.

In a cruel manner.

Cruelty.

Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.

Smeared with blood.

Bloody; cruentate.

A bottle or vessel; esp., a vial or small glass bottle for holding vinegar, oil, pepper, or the like, for the table; a caster.

a frame for holding cruets; a caster; a stand for cruets together with the cruets containing various condiments.

A voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure.

One who, or a vessel that, cruises; A man-of-war less heavily armed and armored than a battle ship, having great speed, and generally of from two thousand to twelve thousand tons displacement.

A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon; also, a hovel.

Curly; curled.

A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat.

To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread.

A cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean.

To fall into small pieces; to break or part into small fragments; hence, to fall to decay or ruin; to become disintegrated; to perish.

broken into small fragments; as, crumbled cookies.

Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.

A purse.