Webster's Dictionary 1828

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CRACKING

CRACKING, ppr. Breaking or dividing partially; opening; impairing; snapping; uttering a sudden sharp or loud sound; boasting; casting jokes.

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CRACKLE

CRACKLE, verb intransitive To make slight cracks; to make small abrupt noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to decrepitate; as, burning thorns crackle

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CRACKLING

CRACKLING, participle present tense Making slight cracks, or abrupt noises.CRACKLING, noun The making of small abrupt cracks or reports, frequently repeated.The crackling of tho...

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CRACKNEL

CRACKNEL, noun A hard brittle cake or biscuit. 1 Kings 14:3.

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CRADLE

CRADLE, noun [Gr., to swing.]1. A movable machine of various constructions, placed on circular pieces of board, for rocking children or inform persons to sleep, for alleviating ...

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CRADLE-CLOTHES

CRADLE-CLOTHES, noun The clothes used for covering one in a cradle.

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CRADLED

CRADLED, participle passive Laid or rocked in a cradle; cut and laid with a cradle, as grain.

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CRADLING

CRADLING, participle present tense Laying or rocking in a cradle; cutting and laying with a cradle, as grain.

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CRAFT

CRAFT, noun1. Art; ability; dexterity; skill.Poesy is the poets skill or craft of making--2. Cunning, art or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; ...

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CRAFTILY

CRAFTILY, adverb [See Crafty.] With craft, cunning or guile; artfully; cunningly; with more art than honesty.

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CRAFTINESS

CRAFTINESS, noun Artfulness; dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.He taketh the wise in their own craftiness Job 5:13.Not walking in craft...

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CRAFTSMAN

CRAFTSMAN, noun An artificer; a mechanic; one skilled in a manual occupation.

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CRAFTSMASTER

CRAFTSMASTER, noun One skilled in his craft or trade.

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CRAFTY

CRAFTY, adjective1. Cunning; artful; skillful in devising and pursuing a scheme, by deceiving others, or by taking advantage of their ignorance; wily; sly; fraudulent.He disappo...

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CRAG

CRAG, noun [Gr., to break, Latin, breaking. See Crack.] A steep rugged rock; a rough broken rock, or point of a rock.CRAG, noun [Gr. Roughness, or break. We now call it rack.] T...

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CRAGGED

CRAGGED, adjective Full of crags or broken rocks; rough; rugged; abounding with prominences, points and inequalities.

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CRAGGEDNESS

CRAGGEDNESS, noun The state of abounding with crags, or broken, pointed rocks.

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CRAGGINESS

CRAGGINESS, noun The state of being craggy.

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CRAGGY

CRAGGY, adjective Full of crags; abounding with broken rocks; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as the craggy side of a mountain; a craggy cliff.

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CRAKE

CRAKE, noun A boast. [See Crack.]CRAKE, noun The corn-crake, a migratory fowl, is a species of the rail, Rallus, found among grass, corn, broom or furze. Its cry is very singula...

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CRAKE-BERRY

CRAKE-BERRY, noun A species of Empetrum or berry-bearing heath.

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CRAM

CRAM, verb transitive1. To press or drive, particularly in filling or thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram any thing into a ...

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CRAMBO

CRAMBO, noun A rhyme; a play in which one person gives a word to which another finds a rhyme.

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CRAMMED

CRAMMED, participle passive Stuffed; crowded; thrust in; filled with food.

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CRAMMING

CRAMMING, participle present tense Driving in; stuffing; crowding; eating beyond satiety of sufficiency.

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CRAMP

CRAMP, noun1. Spasm; the contraction of a limb, or some muscle of the body, attended with pain, and sometimes with convulsions, or numbness.2. Restraint; confinement; that which...

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CRAMP-FISH

CRAMP-FISH, noun The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which affects a person like electricity, causing a slight shock and producing numbness, tremor, and sickness of the s...