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.

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.

A crystalline substance.

A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form crystallites are called trichites, belonites, globulites, etc.

Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.

The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized; the formation of crystals.

To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.

To be converted into a crystal; to take on a crystalline form, through the action of crystallogenic or cohesive attraction; to precipitate from a solution in the form of crystals.

smoothly coated with crystals of sugar; -- used especially of fruits.

Pertaining to the production of crystals; crystal-producing; as, crystallogenic attraction.

The science which pertains to the production of crystals.

One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography.

Pertaining to crystallography.

In the manner of crystallography.

The doctrine or science of crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation.

A body which, in solution, diffuses readily through animal membranes, and generally is capable of being crystallized; -- opposed to colloid.

The science of the crystalline structure of inorganic bodies.

Divination by means of a crystal or other transparent body, especially a beryl.

The art of measuring crystals.

Crystallization.

acronym for the Confederate States of America.

An organ of the Ctenophora, supposed to be sensory.

Having a comblike margin, as a ctenoid scale Pertaining to the Ctenoidei. A ctenoidean.

Relating to the Ctenoidei. One of the Ctenoidei.

A group of fishes, established by Agassiz, characterized by having scales with a pectinated margin, as in the perch. The group is now generally regarded as artificial.

A phylum of invertebrates, commonly ellipsoidal in shape, swimming by means of eight longitudinal rows of paddles. They are commonly called the comb jellies, because the separate paddles somewhat resemble combs. This phylum was formerly classified as a subdivision (class) within the C/lenterata.

One of the Ctenophora.

Of or pertaining to the Ctenophora.

A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles.

the chemical symbol for copper.

To shut up or confine.

a country on the island of Cuba.

Of or pertaining to Cuba or its inhabitants. A native or an inhabitant of Cuba.