2. Wearing a comb. I warrant you, they would whip me with their His grandfather was Lionel duke of Clarence, Third son to the third Edward king of England. Sprung crestless yeomen from so deep a root Shakspeare CRETA'CEOUS. adj. [creta, chalk, Latin.] 1 1. Having the qualities of chalk; chalky. What gives the light, seems hard to say; whether it be the cretaceous salt, the nitrous salt, or Grenu. some igneous particles. 2. Abounding with chalk. Nor from the sable ground expect success, I pried me through the crevice of a wall, So laid, they are more apt in swagging down to pierce with their points, than in the jacent Wotton. and so to crevice the wall. posture, CREW. n.s. [probably from crud, Sax.] 1. A company of people associated for any purpose: as, gallant crew, for troops. Chevy-chase. There a noble crew Of lords and ladies stood on every side, 2. The company of a ship. The anchors dropp'd, his crew the vessels moor. 3. It is now generally used in a bad CRIB. n. s. [cnybbe, Sax. crib, Germ.1 2. 3. Let a beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall The stall or cabin of an ox. Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoaky cribs, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great ?. Now I am cabbin'd, crìbb'd, confin'd, bound in, sieve. Dict. CRIBRATION. n. s. [cribro, Lat.] The 1. [from cricco, Ital.] The noise of a door. CRICKET. n. s. {krekel, from kréken, to I. An insect that squeaks or chirps about Didst thou not hear a noise I heard the owl scream, and the crickets cry. Far from all resort of mirth, Shakspeares Milton. The solemn death-watch click'd the hour she Our old nobility of Trojan blood, Or wrapped be in loves of former dame, same. Undergo with me one guilt, one crime, Addison. Bible. Of tasting. Yarn Like in punishment As in their crime. CRE WEL. 2. s. [kleavel, Dutch.] twisted, and wound on a knot, or ball. Take silk or cretuel, gold or silver thread, and make these fast at the bent of the book. Walton's Angler. Milton. Milton. No crime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love. CRIMEFUL. adj. [from crime and full.1 3 A Wicked; criminal; faulty in a high degree; contrary to duty; contrary to virtue. You proceeded not against these feats, So crimeful and so capital in nature. Sbaksp. CRIMELESS. adj. [from crime.] Innocent; free from crime. My foes could not procure me any scathe, So long as I am loyal, true, and crimeless. Shak. CRIMINAL. adj. [from crime.] I. Faulty; contrary to right; contrary to duty; contrary to law. Live thou; and to thy mother dead attest, That clear she died from blemish criminal. Spens. What we approve in our friend, we can hardly be induced to think criminal in ourselves. Rogers. 2. Guilty; tainted with crime; not innocent. Rogers. The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God. 3. Not civil; as, a criminal prosecution; the criminal law. CRIMINAL. 7.5. [from crime.] 1. A man accused, Was ever criminal forbid to plead? Curb your ill-manner'd zeal. Dryd. Spanish Fr. 2. A man guilty of a crime. All three persons that had held chief place of authority in their countries; all three ruined, not by war, or by any other disaster, but by justice and sentence, as delinquents and criminals. Bacon. CRIMINALLY. adv. [from criminal.] Not innocently; wickedly; guiltily. As our thoughts extend to all subjects, they Rogers. may be criminally employed on all. CRIMINALNESS. . . [from criminal.] Guiltiness; want of innocence. CRIMINATION. n. s. [criminatio, Lat.] The act of accusing; accusation; arraignment; charge. CRIMINATORY. adj. [from crimina, Lat.] Relating to accusation; accusing; censorious. CRIMINOUS. adj. [criminosus, Latin.] Wicked; iniquitous; enormously guilty. The punishment that belongs to that great and criminous guilt, is the forfeiture of his right and claim to all mercies which are made over to Hammond. him by Christ. CRIMINOUSLY. adv. [from criminous.] Enormously; very wickedly. Some particular duties of piety and charity, which were most criminously omitted before. Hammond. CRIMINOUSNESS. n. s. [from criminous.] Wickedness; guilt; crime. I could never be convinced of any such crimimousness in him, as willingly to expose his life to the stroke of justice, and malice of his enemies, King Charles. CRT'MOSIN. n. s. [crimosino, Italian; commonly written as it is pronounced, crimson.] A species of red colour tinged with blue. Upon her head a crimosin coronet, With damask roses and daffadilies set; Bay leaves between, And primroses green, Embellish the white violet. Spenser's Pastorals. CRIMP. adj. [from crumble, or crimble.] 1. Friable; brittle; easily crumbled; easily reduced to powder. Now the fowler, warn'd By these good omens, with swift early steps Treads the crimp earth, ranging through fields and glades. Phili 2. Not consistent; not forcible: a low cant word. The evidence is crimp; the witnesses swear backwards and forwards, and contradict them. selves; and his tenants stick by him. Arbuthnet, To CRIMPLE.v.a. [from rumple, crumple, crimple.] To contract; to corrugate; to cause to shrink or contract. I. He passed the cautery through them, and ac cordingly crimpled them up. Wiseman. CRIMSON. 2. s. [crimosino, Italian.] Red, somewhat darkened with blue. As crimson seems to be little else than a very deep red, with an eye of blue; so some kinds of red seem to be little else than heightened yel low. Boyle on Colours, Why does the soil endue The blushing poppy with a crimsen hue? Priar 2. Red in general. Can you blame her then, being a maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty, if she deny the appearance of a naked blind boy, in her naked seeing self? Shakspeare. Beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips, and in thy cheeks. Sbak, The crimson stream distain'd his arms around, And the disdainful soul came rushing through Dryden's Eneid, the wound. To CRIMSON. v. a. [from the noun.] To die with crimson. Pardon me, Julius. Here wast thou bay'd, brave hart! Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand Sign'd in thy spoil, and crimson'd in thy lethe. Shakspear. CRI'NCUM. n. s. [a cant word.] A cramp; a contraction; whimsy. 'To For jealousy is but a kind Of clap and crincum of the mind. Hadil. CRINGE. v. a. [from kriechen, Ger man.] To draw together; to con tract. Whip him, fellows, Till, like a boy, you see him cringe his face, And whine aloud for mercy. Shakspeare To CRINGE. v. n. To bow; to pay court with bows; to fawn; to flatter. Flatterers have the flexor muscles so strong that they are always bowing and cringing. Arbuthest. The cringing knave, who seeks a place Without success, thus tells his case. Swift. CRINGE. n. s. [from the verb.] Bow; servile civility. Let me be grateful; but let far from me Be-fawning cringe, and false dissembling looks. Philip CRINI'GEROUS. adj. [criniger, Latin.] Dict. Hairy; overgrown with hair. To CRINKLE. v. n. [krinckelen, Dutch.] To go in and out; to run in flexures: diminutive of crankle. Unless some sweetness at the bottom lie, Who cares for all the crinkling of the pie King's Coabery To CRINKLE. v. a. To mould into inequalities. CRINKLE. n. s. [from the verb.] A wrinkle; a sinuosity. CRINOSÉ. adj. [from crinis, Latin.] "Hairy. Dist. CRI CRINO'SITY. n. s. [from crinose.] Halti hess. Dict. CRIPPLE. n. s. [cnýpel, Sax. krepel, Dutch.] A lame man; one that has lost or never enjoyed the use of his limbs. Donne, with great appearance of propriety, writes it creeple, from creep. He, poor man, by your first order died, And that a winged Mercury did bear: Some tardy cripple had the countermand, That came too fag to see him buried. Shaksp. I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. Dryden. Among the rest there was a lame cripple from his birth, whom Paul commanded to stand upBentley. right on his feet. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing, Pope. The sot a hero, lunatick a king. To CRIPPLE. v. a. [from the noun.] To lame; to make lame; to deprive of the use of limbs. Knots upon his gouty joints appear, Addison. 1. The point in which the disease kills, or changes to the better; the decisive moment when sentence is passed. Wise leeches will not vain receipts obtrude; Deaf to complaints, they wait upon the ill, Till some safe crisis authorize their skill. Dryd. 2. The point of time at which any affair comes to the height. This hour's the very crisis of your fate. Your good or ill, your infamy or fame, And all the colour of your life, depends On this important now. Dryden. The undertaking, which I am now laying down, was entered upon in the very crisis of the late rebellion; when it was the duty of every Briton to contribute his utmost assistance to the government, in a manner suitable to his station Addison's Freeholder. and abilities. CRISP. adj. [crispus, Latin.] . Curled. Bulls are more crisp on the forehead than cows. Bacon. The Ethiopian black, flat nosed, and crisp Hale. haired. 2. Indented; winding. You nymphs call'd Naiads, of the winding With your sedg'd crowns, and ever harmless Leave your crisp channels, and on this green land Answer your summons; Juno does command. 3. Brittle; friable. In frosty weather, musick within doors soundeth better; which may be by reason, not of the disposition of the air, but of the wood or string of the instrument, which is made more crisp, and Bacon. so more porous and hollow. To CRISP. v. a. [crispo, Latin.] I. To curl; to contract into knots or curls. Severn, affrighted with their bloody look Ran fearfully among the trembling reeds, And hid his crisp'd head in the hollow bank. Shakspeare's Henry W. Young I'd have him too; Yet a man with crisped hair, Ben Jonson. Spirit of wine is not only unfit for inflamma tions in general, but also crisps up the vessels of the dura mater and brain, and sometimes produces a gangrene. Sharp's Surgery. 2. To twist. Along the crisped shades and bow'rs Revels the spruce and jocund spring. Milton. 3. To indent; to run in and out. From that saphine fount the crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold, Milton. Ran nectar, visiting each plant. CRISPA'TION. n. s. [from crisp.] 1. The act of curling. 2. The state of being curled. Some differ in the hair and feathers, both in the quantity, crispation, and colours of them: as he lions are hirsute, and have great manes; the Basen. she's are smooth, like cats. CRI'SPING-PIN. n. s. [from crisp.] A curling-iron. The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping-pins, Licieb. CRISPISU'LCANT.adj. [crispisulcans,Lat.] ness. CRISPY. adj. [from crisp.] Curled. So are those crispy snaky locks, oft known To be the dowry of a second head. Shakspeare. CRITERION. n. s. [xangiov.] A mark by which any thing is judged of, with regard to its goodness or badness. Mutual agreement and endearments was the badge of primitive believers; but we may be Glanville. known by the contrary criterion. We have here a sure infallible criterion, by which every man may discover and find out the gracious or ungracious disposition of his own South. heart. By what criterion do you eat, d' ye think, CRITICK. n. s. [..] This settles truer ideas in men's minds of several things, whereof we read the names in ancient authors, than all the large and laborious Locke. arguments of criticks, Now learn what morals criticks ought to show, For 't is but half a judge's task to know. Pope. 2. An examiner; a judge. But you with pleasure own your errours past, And make each day a critick on the last. Pope. 3. A snarler; a carper; a caviller. Griticks I saw, that others names deface, And fix their own with labour in their place. Pope. Where an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little criticks exalt themselves, and shower down their illWatts. nature. 4. A censurer; a man apt to find fault. 3A 2 1. A critical examination; critical remarks; animadversions. I should be glad if I could persuade him to continue his good offices, and write such another critick on any thing of mine. Dryden. I should as soon expect to see a critique on the poesy of a ring, as on the inscription of a medal. Addison on Medals. 2. Science of criticism. If ideas and words were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us an other sort of logick and critick than what we have been hitherto acquainted with. Locke. What is every year of a wise man's life, but a censure and critique on the past? Pope. Not that my quill to criticks was confin'd; My verse gave ampler lessons to mankind. Pope. To CRITICK. v. n. [from the noun.] To play the critick; to criticise. Temple. They do but trace over the paths that have been beaten by the ancients; or comment, critick, and flourish, upon them. CRITICAL. adj. [from critick.] 1. Exact; nicely judicious; accurate; diligent. It is submitted to the judgment of more critical ears, to direct and determine what is graceful and what is not. Holder. Virgil was so critical in the rites of religion, that he would never have brought in such prayers as these, if they had not been agreeable to the Roman customs. Stilling fleet. 2. Relating to criticism: as, he wrote a critical dissertation on the last play. 3. Captious; inclined to find fault. 4. What wouldst thou write of me, if thou shouldst praise me ?— -O, gentle lady, do not put me to 't; For I am nothing, if not critical. Shakspeare. [from crisis.] Comprising the time at which a great event is determined. The moon is supposed to be measured by sevens, and the critical or decretory days to be dependent on that number.. Brown's Vulgar Err. 3. Decisive; nice. Opportunity is in respect to time, in some sense, as time is in respect to eternity; it is the small moment, the exact point, the critical minute, on which every good work so much depends. Spratt's Sermons. The people cannot bat resent to see their apprehensions of the power of France, in so critisal a juncture, wholly laid aside. Swift. 6. Producing a crisis or change of the disease; as, a critical sweat. CRITICALLY.adv. [from critical.] 1. In a critical manner; exactly; curiously. Difficult it is to understand the purity of English, and critically to discern good writers from bad, and a proper stile from a corrupt one. Dryden. These shells which are digged up out of the earth, several hundreds of which I now keep by me, have been nicely and critically examined by 2. At the exact point of time. 2. They who can criticise so weakly, as to ima gine I have done my worst, may be convinced, at their own cost, that I can write severely with more ease than I can gently. Dryden Know well each ancient's proper character; Without all this at once before your eyes, Cavil you may, but never criticise. Pepe. To animadvert upon as faulty. Nor would I have his father look so narrowly into these accounts as to take occasion from thence to criticise on his expences. Leste To CRITICISE. v. a. To censure; to pass judgment upon. Nor shall I look upon it as any breach of cha rity to criticise the author, so long as I keep clear of the person. CRITICISM. n. s. [from critick.] 2. There is not a Greek or Latin critick who has not shewn, even in the stile of his criticum, that he was a master of all the eloquence and delicacy of his native tongue. Addies To CROAK. v. n. [cɲacezzan, Saxon; crocare, Italian; crocitare, Latin.] 1. To make a hoarse low noise, like a frog. The subtle swallow flies about the brook, And querulous frogs in muddy pools do crea May's Virg So when Jove's block descended from on hig Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the hoarse nation croak'd. Blood, stuff'd in skins, is British christian food; CRO'CEOUS. adj. [croceus, Latin.] Consisting of saffron; like saffron. Dict. CROCITA'TION. n. s. [crocitatio, Latin.] The croaking of frogs or ravens. Dict. CROCK. n. s. [kruick, Dutch.] A cup; any vessel made of earth. CROCKERY. n. s. Earthen ware, CROCODILE. n. s. [from_xçix®, saffron, and do, fearing.] An amphibious voracious animal, in shape resembling a lizard, and found in Egypt and the Indies. It is covered with very hard scales, which cannot, without great difficulty, be pierced; except under the belly, where the skin is tender. It has a wide throat, with several rows of teeth, sharp and separated, which enter one another. It runs with great swiftness; but does not easily turn itself. It is long lived, and is said to grow continually to its death. Some are fifteen or eighteen cubits long. Crocodiles lay their eggs, resembling gooseeggs, sometimes amounting to sixty, near the water-side; covering them with the sand, that the heat of the sun may hatch them. Gloster's show Calmet. Beguiles him; as the mournful crocodile Crocodile is also a little animal, otherwise called stinx, very much like the lizard, or small crocodile. It lives by land and water; has four short small legs, a very sharp muzzle, and a short small tail. It is pretty enough to look at, being covered all over with little scales of the colour of silver, intermixt with brown, and of a gold colour upon the back. It always remains little. Trevoux. CROCODILINE. adj. [crocodilinus, Lat.] Like a crocodile. Dict. CRO'CUS. n. s. A flower. Fair-handed Spring unbosoms every grace, Throws out the snow-drop and the crocus first. Thomson. CROFT. n. s. [croft, Saxon.] A little close joining to a house, that is used for corn or pasture. Milton. This have I learn'd, Tending my flocks hard by, i' th' hilly crofts That brow this bottom glade. CROISA'DE. n. s. [croisade, Fr. from CROISA'DO. croix, a cross.] A holy war; a war carried on against infidels under the banner of the cross. See that he take the name of Urban, because a pope of that name did first institute the croisado; and, as with an holy trumpet, did stir up the voyage for the Holy Land. CRO'ISES. n. s. Bacon. 1. Pilgrims who carry a cross. 2. Soldiers who fight against infidels under the banner of the cross. CRONE. n. s. [crone, Sax. according to Verstegan; kronie, Dutch, according to Skinner.] . An old ewe. Fresh herrings plenty Michel brings, With fatted crones, and such old things. Tusser. 2. In contempt, an old woman. Take up the bastard, Take 't up, I say; give 't to thy crone. Shaksp. The crone being in bed with him on the wedding-night, and finding his aversion, endeavours to win his affection by reason. Dryden. The hair which grows CRO'NET. n. s. over the top of a horse's hoof. CRO'NY... s. [a cant word.] An old acquaintance; a companion of long standing. Swift So when the Scots, your constant cronies, Th' espousers of your cause and monies. Hudib To oblige your crony Swift, Bring our dame a new year's gift. Strange, an astrologer should die Without one wonder in the sky! Not one of all his crony stars To pay their duty at his herse! CROOK. n. s. [croc, French.] 1. Any crooked or bent instrument. 2. A sheephook. 3. Swift. I sing the man who Judah's sceptre bore He left his crook, he left his flocks; Prior. Any thing bent; a meander. There fall those saphire-colour'd brooks, Which, conduit-like, with curious crooks, Sweet islands make in that sweet land. Sidney. To CROOK. p. a. [crocher, French.] 1. To bend; to turn into a hook. It is highly probable, that this disease proceeds from a redundant acidity; because vinegar will soften and crook tender bones. Arbuthnot. 2. To pervert from rectitude; to divert from the original end. Whatsoever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends; which must needs be often eccentrick to the ends of his master or state. Bacon. To CROOK. v. n. To be bent; to have a curvature. Their shoes and pattens are snouted and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards. Camden. CROOK BACK. n. s. [crook and back.] A term of reproach for a man that has gibbous shoulders. Aye, crookback, here I stand to answer thee, Or any he the proudest of thy sort. Shaksp. CROOKBACKED. adj. Having bent shoulders. A dwarf as well may for a giant pass, As negroe for a swan; a crookback'd lass Be call'd Europa. Dryden's Juvenal. There are millions of truths that a man is not, or may not think himself, concerned to know; as, whether our king Richard 111. was crookbacked or no. Locke. CROOKED. adj. [crocker, French.] 1. Bent; not straight; curved. A bell or a cannon may be heard beyond a hill which intercepts the sight of the sounding body; and sounds are propagated as readily through crooked pipes, as through straight ones. Newton's Opticks. Mathematicians say of a straight line, that it is as well an index of its own rectitude as of the obliquity of a crooked one. Woodward. 2. Winding; oblique; anfractuous, |