Crowdy (n.) A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind.
Crowflower (n.) A kind of campion; according to Gerarde, the Lychnis Flos-cuculi.
Crowfoot (n.) The genus Ranunculus, of many species; some are common weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty.
Crowfoot (n.) A number of small cords rove through a long block, or euphroe, to suspend an awning by.
Crowfoot (n.) A caltrop.
Crowfoot (n.) A tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc.
Crowkeeper (n.) A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow.
Crown () p. p. of Crow.
Crown (n.) A wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction; hence, anything given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward.
Crown (n.) A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc.
Crown (n.) The person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown; the sovereign; -- with the definite article.
Crown (n.) Imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty.
Crown (n.) Anything which imparts beauty, splendor, honor, dignity, or finish.
Crown (n.) Highest state; acme; consummation; perfection.
Crown (n.) The topmost part of anything; the summit.
Crown (n.) The topmost part of the head (see Illust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain.
Crown (n.) The part of a hat above the brim.
Crown (n.) The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth.
Crown (n.) The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.
Crown (n.) Same as Corona.
Crown (n.) That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.
Crown (n.) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
Crown (n.) The bights formed by the several turns of a cable.
Crown (n.) The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
Crown (n.) The dome of a furnace.
Crown (n.) The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters.
Crown (n.) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
Crown (n.) A size of writing paper. See under Paper.
Crown (n.) A coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a denomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.
Crown (n.) An ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the paper is stamped with a crown.
Crowned (imp. & p. p.) of Crown
Crowning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crown
Crown (n.) To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power.
Crown (n.) To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
Crown (n.) To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
Crown (n.) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.
Crown (n.) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
Crowned (p. p. & a.) Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected.
Crowned (p. p. & a.) Great; excessive; supreme.
Crowner (n.) One who, or that which, crowns.
Crowner (n.) A coroner.
Crownet (n.) A coronet.
Crownet (n.) The ultimate end and result of an undertaking; a chief end.
Crown-imperial (n.) A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell-shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.
Crownless (a.) Without a crown.
Crownlet (n.) A coronet.
Crown office () The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases.
Crownpiece (n.) A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle.
Crownpiece (n.) A coin [In sense (b) properly crown piece.] See Crown, 19.
Crown-post (n.) Same as King-post.
Crown-saw (n.) A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion.
Crown side () See Crown office.
Crown wheel () A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.
Crownwork (n.) A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank.
Crow-quill (n.) A quill of the crow, or a very fine pen made from such a quill.
Crows (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians of the Dakota stock, living in Montana; -- also called Upsarokas.
Crow's-feet (pl. ) of Crow's-foot
Crow's-foot (n.) The wrinkles that appear, as the effect of age or dissipation, under and around the outer corners of the eyes.
Crow's-foot (n.) A caltrop.
Crow's-foot (n.) Same as Bird's-mouth.
Crow-silk (n.) A filamentous fresh-water alga (Conferva rivularis of Linnaeus, Rhizoclonium rivulare of Kutzing).
Crow's-nest (n.) A box or perch near the top of a mast, esp. in whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout.
Crowstep (n.) See Corriestep.
Crowstone (n.) The top stone of the gable end of a house.
Crowth (n.) An ancient musical instrument. See 4th Crowd.
Crowtoe (n.) The Lotus corniculatus.
Crowtoe (n.) An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot.
Crow-trodden (a.) Marked with crow's-feet, or wrinkles, about the eyes.
Croylstone (n.) Crystallized cawk, in which the crystals are small.
Croys (n.) See Cross, n.
Croze (n.) A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself.
Crozier (n.) See Crosier.
Croziered (a.) Crosiered.
Crucial (a.) Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.
Crucial (a.) Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test.
Crucian carp () A kind of European carp (Carasius vulgaris), inferior to the common carp; -- called also German carp.
Cruciate (a.) Tormented.
Cruciate (a.) Having the leaves or petals arranged in the form of a cross; cruciform.
Cruciate (v. t.) To torture; to torment. [Obs.] See Excruciate.
Cruciation (n.) The act of torturing; torture; torment.
Crucible (n.) A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc.
Crucible (n.) A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal.
Crucible (n.) A test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the crucible of affliction.
Crucifer (n.) Any plant of the order Cruciferae.
Cruciferous (a.) Bearing a cross.
Cruciferous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants which have four petals arranged like the arms of a cross, as the mustard, radish, turnip, etc.
Crucifier (n.) One who crucifies; one who subjects himself or another to a painful trial.
Crucifixes (pl. ) of Crucifix
Crucifix (n.) A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, used by the Roman Catholics in their devotions.
Crucifix (n.) The cross or religion of Christ.
Crucifixion (n.) The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.
Crucifixion (n.) The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross.
Crucifixion (n.) Intense suffering or affliction; painful trial.
Cruciform (a.) Cross-shaped; (Bot.) having four parts arranged in the form of a cross.
Crucified (imp. & p. p.) of Crucify
Crucifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crucify
Crucify (v. t.) To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.
Crucify (v. t.) To destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue completely; to mortify.
Crucify (v. t.) To vex or torment.
Crucigerous (a.) Bearing the cross; marked with the figure of a cross.