Creole (n.) One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of Louisiana, or one of the States adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of Mexico.
Creole (a.) Of or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles.
Creolean (a.) Alt. of Creolian
Creolian (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Creoles.
Creolian (n. ) A Creole.
Creosol (n.) A colorless liquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum.
Creosote (n.) Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood.
Creosoted (imp. & p. p.) of Creosote
Creosoting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Creosote
Creosote (v. t.) To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay.
Crepance (n.) Alt. of Crepane
Crepane (n.) An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg. It sometimes forms an ulcer.
Crepe (n.) Same as Crape.
Crepitant (a.) Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling.
Crepitated (imp. & p. p.) of Crepitate
Crepitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crepitate
Crepitate (v.) To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.
Crepitation (n.) The act of crepitating or crackling.
Crepitation (n.) A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air.
Crepitation (n.) A crepitant rale.
Crepitus (n.) The noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels.
Crepitus (n.) Same as Crepitation, 2.
Crepon (n.) A thin stuff made of the finest wool or silk, or of wool and silk.
Crept () imp. & p. p. of Creep.
Crepuscle (n.) Alt. of Crepuscule
Crepuscule (n.) Twilight.
Crepuscular (a.) Alt. of Crepusculous
Crepusculous (a.) Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous.
Crepusculous (a.) Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise; -- said certain birds and insects.
Crepusculine (a.) Crepuscular.
Crescence (n.) Increase; enlargement.
Crescendo (a. & adv.) With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.
Crescendo (n.) A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed.
Crescendo (n.) A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone.
Crescent (n.) The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state.
Crescent (n.) Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon.
Crescent (n.) A representation of the increasing moon, often used as an emblem or badge
Crescent (n.) A symbol of Artemis, or Diana.
Crescent (n.) The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople.
Crescent (n.) The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople.
Crescent (n.) Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by Rene of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services.
Crescent (n.) The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.
Crescent (a.) Shaped like a crescent.
Crescent (a.) Increasing; growing.
Crescent (v. t.) To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent.
Crescent (v. t.) To adorn with crescents.
Crescentic (a.) Crescent-shaped.
Crescentwise (adv.) In the form of a crescent; like a crescent.
Crescive (a.) Increasing; growing.
Cresol (n.) Any one of three metameric substances, CH3.C6H4.OH, homologous with and resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids. [Called also cresylic acid.]
Cresorcin (n.) Same as Isorcin.
Cresses (pl. ) of Cress
Cress (n.) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.
Cresselle (n.) A wooden rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a bell, in the Roman Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy Week, or the last week of Lent.
Cresset (n.) An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions.
Cresset (n.) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.
Cressy (a.) Abounding in cresses.
Crest (n.) A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.
Crest (n.) The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet, indicating the rank of the wearer; hence, also, the helmet.
Crest (n.) A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually above it, or separately as an ornament for plate, liveries, and the like. It is a relic of the ancient cognizance. See Cognizance, 4.
Crest (n.) The upper curve of a horse's neck.
Crest (n.) The ridge or top of a wave.
Crest (n.) The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
Crest (n.) The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
Crest (n.) The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
Crest (n.) The top line of a slope or embankment.
Crested (imp. & p. p.) of Crest
Cresting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crest
Crest (v. t.) To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
Crest (v. t.) To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes.
Crest (v. i.) To form a crest.
Crested (a.) Having a crest.
Crested (a.) Having a crest of feathers or hair upon the head.
Crested (a.) Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft.
Crestfallen (a.) With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed.
Crestfallen (a.) Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; -- said of a horse.
Cresting (n.) An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof.
Crestless (a.) Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth.
Cresylic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cresol, creosote, etc.
Cretaceous (a.) Having the qualities of chalk; abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk.
Cretaceously (adv.) In a chalky manner; as chalk.
Cretan (a.) Pertaining to Crete, or Candia.
Cretan (n.) A native or inhabitant of Crete or Candia.
Crete (n.) A Cretan
Cretian (a. & n.) See Cretan.
Cretic (n.) A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (- / -).
Creticism (n.) Falsehood; lying; cretism.
Cretin (n.) One afflicted with cretinism.
Cretinism (n.) A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.
Cretinous (a.) Having the characteristics of a cretin.
Cretism (n.) A Cretan practice; lying; a falsehood.
Cretonne (n.) A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and weft of flax.
Cretonne (n.) A fabric with cotton warp and woolen weft.
Cretonne (n.) A kind of chintz with a glossy surface.
Cretose (a.) Chalky; cretaceous.
Creutzer (n.) See Kreutzer.
Creux (n.) Used in English only in the expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design.
Crevalle (n.) The cavally or jurel.
Crevalle (n.) The pompano (Trachynotus Carolinus).
Crevasse (n.) A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.