CRAMP-IRON
CRAMP-IRON, noun An iron used for fastening things together; a cramp, which see.
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CRAMPED
CRAMPED, participle passive Affected with spasm; convulsed; confined; restrained.
CRAMPING
CRAMPING, participle present tense Affecting with cramp; confining.
CRANAGE
CRANAGE, noun [from crane. Low Latin] The liberty of using a crane at a wharf for raising wares from a vessel; also, the money or price paid for the use of a crane.
CRANBERRY
CRANBERRY, noun [crane and berry.] A species of Vaccinium; a berry that grows on a slender, bending stalk. Its botanical name is oxycoccus, [sour berry,] and it is also called m...
CRANE
CRANE, noun [Gr., the plant, cranes-bill.]1. A migratory fowl of the genus Ardea, belonging to the grallic order. The bill is straight, sharp and long, with a furrow from the no...
CRANE-FLY
CRANE-FLY, noun An insect of the genus Tipula, of many species. The mouth is a prolongation of the head; the upper jaw is arched; the palpi are two, curved and longer than the h...
CRANES-BILL
CRANES-BILL, noun The plant Geranium, of many species; so named from an appendage of the seed-vessel, which resembles the beak of a crane or stork. Some of the species have beau...
CRANIOGNOMY
CRANIOGNOMY, noun [Gr., the skull, and knowledge; index; Latin, the skull.] The doctrine or science of determining the properties or characteristics of the mind by the conformat...
CRANIOLOGICAL
CRANIOLOGICAL, adjective Pertaining to craniology.
CRANIOLOGIST
CRANIOLOGIST, noun One who treats of craniology, or one who is versed in the science of the cranium.
CRANIOLOGY
CRANIOLOGY, noun [Gr., the skull, and discourse.] A discourse or treatise on the cranium or skull; or the science which investigates the structure and uses of the skulls in vari...
CRANIOMETER
CRANIOMETER, noun [the skull, and measure.] An instrument for measuring the skulls of animals.
CRANIOMETRICAL
CRANIOMETRICAL, adjective Pertaining to craniometry.
CRANIOMETRY
CRANIOMETRY, noun The art of measuring the cranium, or skulls, of animals, for discovering their specific differences.
CRANIOSCOPY
CRANIOSCOPY, noun [supra, and to view.] The science of the eminences produced in the cranium by the brain, intended to discover the particular part of the brain in which reside ...
CRANIUM
CRANIUM, noun [Latin Gr.] The skull of an animal; the assemblage of bones which inclose the brain.
CRANK
CRANK, noun [This word probably belongs to the root of cringe, krinkle, to bend.]1. Literally, a bend or turn. Hence, an iron axis with the end bent like an elbow, for moving a ...
CRANKLE
CRANKLE, verb transitive To break into bends, turns or angles; to crinkle.Old Vagas stream--Crankling her banks.CRANKLE, noun A bend or turn; a crinkle.
CRANKNESS
CRANKNESS, noun1. Liability to be overset, as a ship.2. Stoutness; erectness.
CRANNIED
CRANNIED, adjective [See Cranny.] Having rents, chinks or fissures; as a crannied wall.
CRANNY
CRANNY, noun [Latin, to split; to cut off; to divide; a piece.]1. Properly, a rent; but commonly, any small narrow opening, fissure, crevice or chink, as in a wall, or other sub...
CRANTS
CRANTS, noun [G.] Garlands carried before the bier of a maiden and hung over her grave.
CRAPE
CRAPE, noun [See Crisp.] A thin transparent stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill, woven without crossing, and much used in mourning. crape is also used for gow...
CRAPLE
CRAPLE, noun A claw.
CRAPNEL
CRAPNEL, noun A hook or drag.
CRAPULENCE
CRAPULENCE, noun [Latin, a surfeit. See Crop.] Cropsickness; drunkenness; a surfeit, or the sickness occasioned by intemperance.