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.
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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.
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.
A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves.
The heron
The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil.
Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil.
A substance, as salt, ammonium chloride, etc., which crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water.
A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.
A thermometer for the measurement of low temperatures, esp. such an instrument containing alcohol or some other liquid of a lower freezing point than mercury.
destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene.
a morbid fear of freezing.
An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs, connected by a tube of the same material, and containing only a quantity of water and its vapor, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below 32/ Fahr.
an instrument for measuring freezing and melting points.
a thermostat that operates at very low temperatures.
A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.
Of or pertaining to crypts.
the science which studies methods to discovering the secret meaning of encrypted messages for which one does not possess the secret decoding information (called the key).
Hidden; secret; occult.
Secretly; occultly; in a manner so as to hide or obscure meaning.
One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper.
A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata. A group of nudibranch mollusks.
Having concealed or rudimentary gills.
a genus of cockroaches.
any plant of the genus Cryptocoryne; evergreen perennials growing in fresh or brackish water; tropical Asia.
Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope.
A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia.
The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.
One skilled in cryptogamic botany.
Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series.
A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph.
a genus sometimes placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Cryptogrammataceae.
one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems.
Cipher; something written in cipher.
Pertaining to cryptography; cryptographical.
One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.
Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink.
Same as Cryptographer.
The act or art of writing in code or secret characters; also, secret characters, codes or ciphers, or messages written in a secret code.
Secret or enigmatical language.
A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to the initiated.
A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium.
An order of flying, drom/ognathous birds, including the tinamous of South America. See Tinamou.
Consisting of, or like, crystal; clear; transparent; lucid; pellucid; crystalline.
See Gobulin.
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