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.

A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion.

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.

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.

Capable of being crumbed or broken into small pieces.

Full of crumb or crumbs.

Crooked; bent.

A kind of large, thin, unsweetened muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider, or sometimes toasted.

To contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple.

Brittle; crisp.

To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.

To cry like a crane.

Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; -- used of curves.

A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a.

The coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore.

The coloring matter of the blood in the living animal; h/moglobin.

See Croup, the rump of a horse.

To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon; as, to crupper a horse.

See Crus.

Of or pertaining to the thigh or leg, or to any of the parts called crura; as, the crural arteries; crural arch; crural canal; crural ring.

That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and the ankle, or tarsus; the shank. Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a pair of muscles attached to it; crura cerebri, two bundles of nerve fibers in the base of the brain, connecting the medulla and the forebrain.

To engage in a crusade; to attack in a zealous or hot-headed manner.

One engaged in a crusade; as, the crusaders of the Middle Ages.

Of or pertaining to a crusade; as, a crusading spirit.

An old Portuguese coin, worth about seventy cents.

A cup or dish.

A goldsmith's crucible or melting pot.

A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance; -- of fabrics; as, crushed velvet.

One who, or that which, crushes.

That crushes; overwhelming.

To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted.

One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered.

Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous. An animal belonging to the class Crustacea.

Pertaining to crustaceology.

One versed in crustaceology; a crustalogist.

That branch of Zoology which treats of the Crustacea; malacostracology; carcinology.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell.

The state or quality of being crustaceous or having a crustlike shell.

Relating to a crust.

Pertaining to crustalogy.

One versed in crustalogy.

Crustaceology.

Covered with a crust; as, crustated basalt.

An adherent crust; an incrustation.

Incrusted; covered with, or containing, crust; as, old, crusted port wine.

Producing or forming a crust or skin.

In a crusty or surly manner; morosely.

The state or quality of having crust or being like crust; hardness.

Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance.

The rough, shaggy part of oak bark.

To support on crutches; to prop up.

Supported upon crutches.

See 4th Crowd.

Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain.

A coin. See Crusado.

See 4th Crowd.