Crushing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crush
Crush (v. t.) To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes.
Crush (v. t.) To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.
Crush (v. t.) To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
Crush (v. t.) To oppress or burden grievously.
Crush (v. t.) To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
Crush (v. i.) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.
Crush (n.) A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
Crush (n.) Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.
Crusher (n.) One who, or that which, crushes.
Crushing (a.) That crushes; overwhelming.
Crust (n.) The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.
Crust (n.) The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.
Crust (n.) The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft contents.
Crust (n.) The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling.
Crust (n.) The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.
Crust (n.) The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
Crust (n.) A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.
Crust (n.) An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing.
Crusted (imp. & p. p.) of Crust
Crusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crust
Crust (n.) To cover with a crust; to cover or line with an incrustation; to incrust.
Crust (v. i.) To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted.
Crusta (n.) A crust or shell.
Crusta (n.) A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for inlaying a vase or other object.
Crustacea (n. pl.) One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered.
Crustacean (a.) Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous.
Crustacean (n.) An animal belonging to the class Crustacea.
Crustaceological (a.) Pertaining to crustaceology.
Crustaceologist (n.) One versed in crustaceology; a crustalogist.
Crustaceology (n.) That branch of Zoology which treats of the Crustacea; malacostracology; carcinology.
Crustaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell.
Crustaceous (a.) Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean.
Crustaceousness (n.) The state or quality of being crustaceous or having a crustlike shell.
Crustal (a.) Relating to a crust.
Crustalogical (a.) Pertaining to crustalogy.
Crustalogist (n.) One versed in crustalogy.
Crustalogy (n.) Crustaceology.
Crustated (a.) Covered with a crust; as, crustated basalt.
Crustation (n.) An adherent crust; an incrustation.
Crusted (a.) Incrusted; covered with, or containing, crust; as, old, crusted port wine.
Crustific (a.) Producing or forming a crust or skin.
Crustily (adv.) In a crusty or surly manner; morosely.
Crustiness (n.) The state or quality of having crust or being like crust; hardness.
Crustiness (n.) The quality of being crusty or surly.
Crusty (a.) Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance.
Crusty (a.) Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly.
Crut (n.) The rough, shaggy part of oak bark.
Crutches (pl. ) of Crutch
Crutch (n.) A staff with a crosspiece at the head, to be placed under the arm or shoulder, to support the lame or infirm in walking.
Crutch (n.) A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.
Crutch (n.) A knee, or piece of knee timber
Crutch (n.) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch. See Crotch.
Crutch (v. t.) To support on crutches; to prop up.
Crutched (a.) Supported upon crutches.
Crutched (a.) Marked with the sign of the cross; crouched.
Cruth (n.) See 4th Crowd.
Cruxes (pl. ) of Crux
Cruces (pl. ) of Crux
Crux (n.) Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain.
Cruzado (n.) A coin. See Crusado.
Crwth (n.) See 4th Crowd.
Cried (imp. & p. p.) of Cry
Crying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cry
Cry (v. i.) To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.
Cry (v. i.) To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child.
Cry (v. i.) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals.
Cry (v. t.) To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly.
Cry (v. t.) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.
Cry (v. t.) To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc.
Cry (v. t.) to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
Cries (pl. ) of Cry
Cry (v. i.) A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves.
Cry (v. i.) Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.
Cry (v. i.) Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation.
Cry (v. i.) Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
Cry (v. i.) Importunate supplication.
Cry (v. i.) Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.
Cry (v. i.) Common report; fame.
Cry (v. i.) A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories.
Cry (v. i.) A pack of hounds.
Cry (v. i.) A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt.
Cry (v. i.) The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.
Cryal (n.) The heron
Cryer (n.) The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil.
Crying (a.) Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil.
Cryohydrate (n.) A substance, as salt, ammonium chloride, etc., which crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water.
Cryolite (n.) A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.
Cryophorus (n.) 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.
Crypt (n.) A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.
Crypt (n.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.
Cryptal (a.) Of or pertaining to crypts.
Cryptic (a.) Alt. of Cryptical
Cryptical (a.) Hidden; secret; occult.
Cryptically (adv.) Secretly; occultly.
Cryptidine (n.) 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.
Cryptobranchiata (n. pl.) A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata.
Cryptobranchiata (n. pl.) A group of nudibranch mollusks.
Cryptobranchiate (a.) Having concealed or rudimentary gills.
Cryptocrystalline (a.) Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope.