CREPUSCULOUS
CREPUSCULAR, CREPUSCULOUS adjective Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; noting the imperfect light of the morning and evening; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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CRESCENT
CRESCENT, adjective [Latin, to grow. See Grow.] Increasing; growing; as crescent horns.CRESCENT, noun1. The increasing or new moon, which, when receding from the sun, shows a cu...
CRESCENT-SHAPED
CRESCENT-SHAPED, adjective In botany, lunate; lunated; shaped like a crescent; as a leaf.
CRESCIVE
CRESCIVE, adjective [Latin, to grow.] Increasing; growing.
CRESS
CRESS, noun [G., Latin] The name of several species of plants, most of them of the class tetradynamia. Watercresses, of the genus Sisymbrium, are used as a salad, and are valued...
CRESSET
CRESSET, noun [See Cross.]1. A great light set on a beacon, lighthouse, or watch tower.2. A lamp or torch.
CREST
CREST, noun [Latin This is probably, a growing or shooting up, from the root of cresco.]1. The plume of feathers or other material on the top of the ancient helmet; the helmet i...
CREST-FALLEN
CREST-FALLEN, adjective1. Dejected; sunk; bowed; dispirited; heartless; spiritless.2. Having the upper part of the neck hanging on one side, as a horse.
CRESTED
CRESTED, adjective [from crest.]1. Wearing a crest; adorned with a crest or plume; having a comb; as a crested helmet; a crested cock.2. In natural history, having a tuft like a...
CRESTLESS
CRESTLESS, adjective Without a crest; not dignified with coat-armor; not of an eminent family; of low birth.
CRETACEOUS
CRETACEOUS, adjective [Latin, chalk.] Chalky; having the qualities of chalk; like chalk; abounding with chalk.
CRETIC
CRETIC, noun [Gr.] A poetic foot of three syllables, one short between two long syllables.
CRETIN
CRETIN, noun A name given to certain deformed and helpless idiots in the Alps.
CREVICE
CREVICE, noun [Latin, to burst. See Crepitate and Rip.] A crack; a cleft; a fissure; a rent; an opening; as a crevice in a wall.CREVICE, verb transitive To crack; to flaw.
CREVIS
CREVIS, noun The craw-fish.
CREW
CREW, noun1. A company of people associated; as a noble crew; a gallant crew2. A company, in a low or bad sense, which is now most usual; a herd; as a rebel crewSo we say, a mis...
CREWEL
CREWEL, noun Yarn twisted and wound on a knot or ball, or two threaded worsted.
CREWET
CREWET. [See Cruet.]
CRIB
CRIB, noun1. The manger of a stable, in which oxen and cows feed. In America, it is distinguished from a rack for horses.Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. Proverbs 14:4.The ...
CRIBBAGE
CRIBBAGE, noun A game at cards.
CRIBBED
CRIBBED, participle passive Shut up; confined; caged.
CRIBBLE
CRIBBLE, noun1. A corn-sieve or riddle.2. Coarse flour or meal. [Not used in the United States.]CRIBBLE, verb transitive To sift; to cause to pass through a sieve or riddle.
CRIBRATION
CRIBRATION, noun [See Cribble.] The act of sifting or riddling; used in pharmacy.
CRIBRIFORM
CRIBRIFORM, adjective [Latin, a sieve, and form.] Resembling a sieve or riddle; a term applied to the lamen of the ethmoid bone, through which the fibers of the olfactory nerve ...
CRICHTONITE
CRICHTONITE, noun A mineral so called from Dr. Crichton, physician to the Emperor of Russia. It has a velvet black color, and crystalizes in very acute small rhomboids. It occur...
CRICK
CRICK, noun [See Creak.]1. The creaking of a door. [Not used.]2. A spasmodic affection of some part of the body, as of the neck or back; local spasm or cramp.
CRICKET
CRICKET, noun An insect of the genus Gryllus, belonging to the order of Hemipters. There are several species, so named probably on account of their creaking or chirping voice.Th...