Crevasse (n.) A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi.
Crevet (n.) A crucible or melting pot; a cruset.
Crevice (n.) A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
Crevice (v. t.) To crack; to flaw.
Creviced (a.) Having a crevice or crevices; as, a creviced structure for storing ears of corn.
Crevis (n.) The crawfish.
Crew (n.) The Manx shearwater.
Crew (n.) A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.
Crew (n.) The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
Crew (n.) In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.
Crew () imp. of Crow
Crewel (n.) Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.
Crewelwork (n.) Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen.
Crewet (n.) See Cruet.
Crib (n.) A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.
Crib (n.) A stall for oxen or other cattle.
Crib (n.) A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.
Crib (n.) A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.
Crib (n.) A hovel; a hut; a cottage.
Crib (n.) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.
Crib (n.) A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.
Crib (n.) A small raft of timber.
Crib (n.) A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris/; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.
Crib (n.) A miner's luncheon.
Crib (n.) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.
Cribbed (imp. & p. p.) of Crib
Cribbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crib
Crib (v. t.) To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
Crib (v. t.) To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.
Crib (v. i.) To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
Crib (v. i.) To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.
Crib (v. i.) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.
Cribbage (v. t.) A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances.
Criber (n.) Alt. of Crib-biter
Crib-biter (n.) A horse that has the habit of cribbing.
Cribbing (n.) The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.
Cribbing (n.) Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing.
Cribbing (n.) A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc.
Cribbing (n.) A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound.
Crib-biting (n.) Same as Cribbing, 4.
Cribble (n.) A coarse sieve or screen.
Cribble (n.) Coarse flour or meal.
Cribbled (imp. & p. p.) of Cribble
Cribbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cribble
Cribble (v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift.
Cribble (a.) Coarse; as, cribble bread.
Cribellum (n.) A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used for spinning a special kind of silk.
Cribrate (a.) Cribriform.
Cribration (n.) The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting.
Cribriform (a.) Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress.
Cribrose (a.) Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.
Cric (n.) The ring which turns inward and condenses the flame of a lamp.
Crick (n.) The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.
Crick (n.) A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part.
Crick (n.) A small jackscrew.
Cricket (n.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings.
Cricket (n.) A low stool.
Cricket (n.) A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.
Cricket (n.) A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.
Cricket (v. i.) To play at cricket.
Cricketer (n.) One who plays at cricket.
Cricoid (a.) Resembling a ring; -- said esp. of the cartilage at the larynx, and the adjoining parts.
Cricothyroid (a.) Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages.
Cried () imp. & p. p. of Cry.
Crier (n.) One who cries; one who makes proclamation.
Crier (n.) an officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a town-crier.
Crime (n.) Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.
Crime (n.) Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong.
Crime (n.) Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
Crime (n.) That which occasion crime.
Crimeful (a.) Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury.
Crimeless (a.) Free from crime; innocent.
Criminal (a.) Guilty of crime or sin.
Criminal (a.) Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness.
Criminal (a.) Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal code.
Criminal (n.) One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon.
Criminalist (n.) One versed in criminal law.
Criminality (n.) The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt.
Criminally (adv.) In violation of law; wickedly.
Criminalness (n.) Criminality.
Criminated (imp. & p. p.) of Criminate
Criminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Criminate
Criminate (v. t. ) To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.
Criminate (v. t. ) To involve in a crime or in its consequences; to render liable to a criminal charge.
Crimination (n.) The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint.
Criminative (a.) Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory.
Criminatory (a.) Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience.
Criminology (n.) A treatise on crime or the criminal population.
Criminous (a.) Criminal; involving great crime or grave charges; very wicked; heinous.
Crimosin (n.) See Crimson.
Crimped (imp. & p. p.) of Crimp
Crimping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crimp
Crimp (v. t.) To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp.
Crimp (v. t.) To pinch and hold; to seize.
Crimp (v. t.) to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.
Crimp (v. t.) To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.
Crimp (a.) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
Crimp (a.) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
Crimp (n.) A coal broker.
Crimp (n.) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.