Webster's Dictionary 1913

9397

Cripple (2)

Crip″ple (krĭp″p'l), a. Lame; halting. “The cripple, tardy-gaited night.” Shak.

9398

Cripple (3)

Crip″ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Crippled (–p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n.Crippling (–pl?ng).] 1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.He had crippled the...

9399

Cripple (4)

Crip″ple, (a) Swampy or low wet ground, often covered with brush or with thickets; bog.The flats or cripple land lying between high- and low-water lines, and over which the wate...

9400

Crippled

Crip″pled (kr?p″p'ld), a. Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. “The crippled crone.” Longfellow.

9401

Crippleness

Crip″ple‐ness, n. Lameness. Johnson.

9402

Crippler

Crip″pler (–pl?r), n. A wooden tool used in graining leather. Knight.

9403

Crippling

Crip″pling (–pl?ng), n. Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.

9404

Cripply

Crip″ply (–pl?), a. Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. Mrs. Trollope.

9405

Crisis

Cri″sis (kr?″s?s), n.; pl.Crises (–s�z). [L. crisis, Gr. ����, fr. ���� to separate. See Certain.] 1. The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of ...

9406

Crisp

Crisp (kr?sp), a. [AS. crisp, fr. L. crispus; cf. carpere to pluck, card (wool), and E. harvest. Cf. Crape.] 1. Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.2. Curled with...

9407

Crisp (2)

Crisp, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Crisped (kr?spt); p. pr. & vb. n.Crisping.] [L. crispare, fr. crispus. See Crisp. a.] 1. To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; ...

9408

Crisp (3)

Crisp, v. i. To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t.To watch the crisping ripples on the beach.Tennuson.

9409

Crisp (4)

Crisp, n. That which is crisp or brittle; the state of being crisp or brittle; as, burned to a crisp; specifically, the rind of roasted pork; crackling.

9410

Crispate

{ Cris″pate (kr?s″p?t), Cris″pa‐ted (–p?–t?d), } a. [L. crispatus, p. p. of crispare.] Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.

9411

Crispation

Cris‐pa″tion (kr?s–p?″sh?n), n. [CF. F. crispation.] 1. The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled. Bacon.2. A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction o...

9412

Crispature

Cris″pa‐ture (kr?s″p?–t?r; 135), n. The state of being crispate.

9413

Crisper

Crisp″er (kr?s″p?r), n. One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.

9414

Crispin

Cris″pin (kr?s″p?n), n. 1. A shoemaker; — jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft.2. A member of a union or association of shoemakers.

9415

Crisply

Crisp″ly (kr?sp″l?), adv. In a crisp manner.

9416

Crispness

Crisp″ness, n. The state or quality of being crisp.

9417

Crispy

Crisp″y (–?), a. 1. Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks.2. Crisp; brittle; as, a crispy pie crust.

9418

Crissal

Cris″sal (kr?s″sal), a.(Zoöl.) 1. Pertaining to the crissum; as, crissal feathers.2. Having highly colored under tail coverts; as, the crissal thrasher.

9419

Crisscross

Criss″cross′ (kr?s″kr?s′; 115), n. [A corruption of Christcross.] 1. A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.2. A child's game played on paper or on...

9420

Crisscross (2)

Criss″cross′, v. t. To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks.

9421

Crisscross (3)

Criss″cross′ (kr?s″kr?s′;115), adv. 1. In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways.Logs and tree luing c...

9422

Crisscross-row

Criss″cross–row′ (–r?′), n. See Christcross-row.

9423

Crissum

‖Cris″sum (kr?s″s?m),, n.; pl.Crissa (–s�). [NL.; cf. L. crisso to move the haunches.] (Zoöl.) That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under t...