nour. Psalms. She shali be, to the happiness of England, 4. To reward; to recompense. Urge your success; deserve a lasting name; She 'Il crown a grateful and a constant flame. Roscommon. 5. To complete; to perfect. The lasting and crowning privilege, or rather South. property, of friendship, is constancy. 6. To terminate; to finish. All these a milk-white honeycomb surround, Which in the midst the country banquet crown'd. Dryden. CRO'WN-GLASS, n. s. The finest sort of window-glass. CROWNPOST. n. s. A post, which, in some buildings, stands upright in the middle, between two principal rafters. CRO'WNSCAB. n. s. A stinking filthy scab, that breeds round about the corners of a horse's hoof, and is a cancerous and Farrier's Dict. painful sore. CROWN-THISTLE. n. s. [corona imperialis.] A flower. CROWNWHEEL, N. 3. of a watch next the driven by it. CRO'WNWORKS. n. s. [In fortification.] Bulwarks advanced towards the field, to gain some hill or rising ground. The upper wheel balance, which is Harris. CRO'WNET. n. s. [from crown.] Oh, this false soul of Egypt! this gay charm! Shaks. Whose bosom was my crozonet, my chief end; CRUCIAL. adj. [crux, crucis, Latin.] Transverse; intersecting one another. Whoever has seen the practice of the crucial incision, must be sensible of the false reasoning Sharp used in its favour. To CRUCIATE. v. a. [crucio, Lat.] To torture; to torment; to excruciate. CRUCIBLE. n. s. [crucibulum, low Lat.] A chymist's melting pot, made of earth: so called, because they were formerly marked with a cross. Take a quantity of good silver, and put it in a crucible or melting cruse: and set them on the fire, well covered round about with coals. Peacham. Dict CRUCIFEROUS. adj. [crux and fero, Lat.] Visible judgments were executed on Christ's There stands at the upper end of it a large crucifix, very much esteemed. The figure of our Saviour represents him in his last agonies of Addison on Italy. death. CRUCIFIXION. n. s. [from crucifixus, Latin.] The punishment of nailing to a cross. This earthquake, according to the opinion of many learned men, happened at our Saviour's Addison on Italy. crucifixion. CRUCIFORM. adj. [crux and forma, Lat] Having the form of a cross. To CRUCIFY. v. a. [crucifigo, Latin.] To put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross set upright. They crucify to themselves the son of God Heb. afresh, and put him to an open shame. But to the cross he nails thy enemies, The law that is against thee, and the sins Of all mankind, with him there crucify'd. Milt. CRUCI'GEROUS. adj. [cruciger, Latin.] Bearing the cross. CRUD. n. s. [commonly written curd. See CURD.] A concretion of any liquid into hardness or stiffness; coagulation. CRUDE. adj. [crudus, Latin.] 1. Raw; not subdued by fire. 2. Not changed by any process or preparation. Common crude salt, barely dissolved in common aqua fortis, will give it power of working Boyle. upon gold. Fermented liquors have quite different qualities from the plant itself; for no fruit, taken crude, has the intoxicating quality of wine. Arbuthnot. 3. Harsh; unripe. 4. A juice so crude, as cannot be ripened to the Bacon. degree of nourishment. Unconcocted; not well digested in the stomach. While the body to be converted and altered is too strong for the efficient that should convert or alter it, whereby it holdeth fast the first form or consistence, it is crude and inconcoct; and the process is to be called crudity and inconcoction. Bacon's Natural History. 5. Not brought to perfection; unfinished; immature. In a moment up they turn'd Th' originals of nature, in their crude Conception. 'Milton's Par Lost. 6. Having indigested notions. Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself, Grude, or intoxicate, collecting toys. Milton. 7. Indigested; not fully concocted in the intellect. Others, whom meer ambition fires, and dole Of provinces abroad, which they have feign'd To their crude hopes, and I as amply promis'd. Ben Jonson. What peradventure may seem full to me, may appear very crude and maimed to a stranger. Digby on the Soul. Absurd expressions, crude abortive thoughts, All the lewd legions of, exploded faults. Roscom. CRUDELY. adv. [from crude.] Unripely; without due preparation. Th' advice was true; but fear had seiz'd the most, And all good counsel is on cowards lost: The question crudely put, to shun delay, T was carried by the major part to stay. Dryd. CRUDENESS. n. s. [from crude.] Unripeness; indigestion. CRUDITY. n. s. [from crude.] 1. Indigestion; inconcoction. They are very temperate; whereby they prevent indigestion and crudities, and consequently Brown. putrescence of humours. Arbuthnot. A diet of viscid aliment creates flatulency and erudities in the stomach. 2. Unripeness; want of maturity. To CRU'DLE. v. a. [a word of uncertain etymology.] To coagulate; to congeal. I felt my crudled blood Congeal with fear; my hair with horrour stood. Dryden's Æneid. The Gelons use it, when, for drink and food, They mix their crudled milk with horses blood. Dryden's Virgil. CRU'DY. adj. [from crud.] 1. Concreted; coagulated. His cruel wounds, with crudy blood congeal'd, They binden up so wisely as they may. Spenser. 2. [from crude.] Raw; chill. Sherris sack ascends into the brain; dries me there all the foolish, dull, and crudy vapours which environ it. Shakspeare. CRUEL. adj. [cruel, French; crudelis, Latin.] 1. Pleased with hurting others; inhuman; hardhearted; void of pity; wanting compassion; savage; barbarous ; unrelenting. If wolves had at thy gate howl'd that stern time, Thou shouldst have said, Go, porter, turn the key; All cruel's else subscrib'd. Shakspeare. If thou art that cruel god, whose eyes Delight in blood, and human sacrifice. Dryden. 2. [Of things.] Bloody; mischievous; destructive; causing pain. Consider mine enemies; for they are many, Psalms. and they hate me with cruel hatred. We beheld one of the cruelest fights between two knights, that ever hath adorned the most martial story. Sidney. CRU'ELLY, adv. [from cruel.] 1. In a cruel manner; inhumanly; barbarously. He relies upon a broken reed, that not only basely fails, but also cruelly pierces the hand that rests upon it. South. Since you deny him entrance, he demands His wife, whom cruelly you hold in bands. Dry, 2. Painfully; mischievously. The Scottish arrows being sharp and slender, enter into a man or horse most cruelly, notwith standing they are shot forth weakly. Spencer. Brimstone and wild-fire, though they burn cruelly and are hard to quench, yet make no Bac such fiery wind as gun-powder. CRUELNESS. 7. s. [from cruel.] Inhu manity; cruelty. 1. But she more cruel, and more savage wild, Than either lion or the lioness, Shames not to be with guiltless blood defil'd; She taketh glory in her cruelness. Spenser CRUELTY. n. s. [cruauté, French.] Inhumanity; savageness; barbarity; delight in the pain or misery of others. The cruelty and envy of the people, Permitted by our dastard nobles, Have suffer'd me by the voice of slaves to be Whoop'd out of Rome. Shakspeart. 2. Act of intentional affliction. There were great changes in the world by the revolutions of empire, the cruelties of conquer ing, and the calamities of enslaved nations. Templ. CRUENTATE. adj. [cruentatus, Latin.] Smeared with blood. cup. I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruise. 1 King. The train prepare a cruise of curious mold, A cruise of fragrance, form'd of burnish'd gold. Pope's Odycy CRUISE. n. s. [croise, Fr. from the ori ginal cruisers, who bore the cross, and plundered only infidels.] A voyage in search of plunder. To CRUISE. v. 2. [from the noun.] To rove over the sea in search of opportu nities to plunder; to wander on the sea without any certain course. CRUISER. n. s. [from cruise.] One that roves upon the sea in search of plunder. Amongst the cruisers it was complained, that their surgeons were too active in amputating fractured members. Wiseman. CRUM. n. s. [cɲuma, Sax. kruyme, CRUMB. Dutch; krummel, German.] 1. The soft part of bread; not the crust. Take of manchet about three ounces, the crumb only thin cut; and let it be boiled in milk till it grow to a pulp. Bacan. 2. A small particle or fragment of bread. More familiar grown, the table crums Attract his slender feet. Thoms To CRUMBLE. v. a. [from crumb.] To break into small pieces; to comminute. Flesh is but the glass which holds the dust That measures all our time, which also shall Be crumbled into dust. Herbert. He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints, And crumble all thy sinews, By frequent parcelling and subdividing of in For the little land that remains, provision is The fat ox, that woonnt ligye in the stall, Spenser. CRUMP. adj. [cpump, Saxon; krom, in the back. Crooked When the workmen took measure of him, he was crump shouldered, and the right side higher L'Estrange. than the left. To CRUMPLE. v. a. [from crump; or corrupted from rumple, rompelen, Dutch.] To draw into wrinkles; to crush together in complications. Addison. CRUSA'DE. n. 5. See CROISADE, 1. An expedition against the infidels. They use them to plague their enemies, or to oppress and crush some of their own too stubborn freeholders. Spenser on Ireland, Shakspeare. Mine emulation" Sir Roger alighted from his horse; and exposing his palm to two or three that stood by him, they rumpled it into all shapes, and diligently scanned every wrinkle that could be made. CRUMPLING. N. s. apple. TO CRUNK. I v. n. To CRUNKLE. crane. CRUPPER, n. s. [from croupe, Fr. the buttocks of the horse.] That part of the horseman's furniture that reaches from the saddle to the tail. To cry like a Clitophon had received such a blow, that he -Oh-sixpence, that I had a Wednesday last, Shakspeare. Full oft the rivals met, and neither spar'd The sharpness of the teeth, and the strength of What can that man fear, who takes care to CRUSH. n. s. [from the verb.] A colli- CRUST. n. s. [crusta, Latin.] 1. Any shell, or external coat, by which any body is enveloped. I have known the statue of an emperor quite Addison. hid under a crust of dross. 2. An incrustation; collection of matter into a hard body. Were the river a confusion of never so many different bodies, if they had been all actually dissolved, they would at least have formed one continued crust: as we see the scorium of metals always gathers into a solid piece. Addison, The viscous crust stops the entry of the chyle into the lacteals. Arbuthnot on Aliments. 3. The case of a pie, made of meal, and baked. He was never suffered to go abroad, for fear of catching cold: when he should have been hunting down a buck, he was by his mother's side, learning how to season it, or put it in crust. Addison's Spectator. 4. The outer hard part of bread. Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies, And, petrified with age, securely lies. Dryden. 5. A waste piece of bread. bread. Y' are liberal now; but when your turn is sped, You'll wish me choak'd with every crust of Dryden. Men will do tricks, like dogs, for crusts. L'Estrange. To CRUST. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To envelop; to cover with a hard case. Why gave you me a monarch's soul, And crusted it with base plebeian clay? Dryden. Nor is it improbable but that, in process of time, the whole surface of it may be crusted over, as the islands enlarge themselves, and the banks close in upon them. Addison on Italy. And now their legs, and breasts, and bodies, ..stood Crusted with bark, and hard'ning into wood. Addison. In some, who have run up to men without education, we may observe many great qualities darkened and eclipsed; their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock. 2. To foul with concretions. Fellon. If your master hath many musty, or very foul and crusted bottles, let those be the first you truck at the alehouse. Swift. To CRUST. v. n. To gather or contract a crust; to gain a hard covering. I contented myself with a plaister upon the place that was burnt, which crusted and healed in very few days. Temple. CRUSTACEOUs. adj. [from crusta, Lat.] Shelly, with joints; not testaceous; not with one continued uninterrupted shell. Lobster is crustaceous, oyster testaceous. It is true that there are some shells, such as those of lobsters, crabs, and others of crustaceous kinds, that are very rarely found at land. Woodward's Natural History. CRUSTACEOUSNESS. n. s. [from crustaceous.] The quality of having jointed 'shells. CRU'STILY. adv. [from crusty.] Peevishly; snappishly; harshly. CRU'STINESS. n. s. [from crusty.] 1. The quality of a crust. 2. Peevishness; moroseness. CRUSTY. adj. [from crust.] 1. Covered with a crust. The egg itself deserves our notice; its parts within, and its crusty coat without, are admirably well fitted for the business of incubation. Derham's Physico-Theology. 2. Sturdy; morose; snappish: a low word. CRUTCH. n. s. [croccia, Ital. croce, Fr. crucke, German.] 1. A support used by cripples. . Ah! thus king Henry throws away his cratch, Before his legs be firm to bear his body. Shakap. Hence, therefore, thou nice cratch! A scaly gauntlet now, with joints of steel, Must glove this hand. Shakspeare's Henry N. On these new crutches let them learn to walk. Dryden's Georgicks. This fair defect, this helpless aid, call'd wife, The bending crutch of a decrepit life. Dryden. Rhyme is a crutch that lifts the weak along, Supports the feeble, but retards the strong. The dumb shall sing; the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding roe. Pope. 2. It is used for old age. Beauty doth varnish age, as if new born, And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy. Shak. To CRUTCH. v. a. [from crutch.] To sup port on crutches as a cripple. I hasten Og and Doeg to rehearse, Two fools that crutch their feeble sense on verse. Dryden. To CRY. v. n. [crier, French.] 1. To speak with vehemence and loudness. Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more! Macbeth doth murther sleep! the innocent sleep. Shakspeare. While his falling tears the stream supplied, Thus mourning to his mother goddess cried. Dryden's Virgil. 2. To call importunately. 3. 4. 5. I cried, by reason of mine affliction, unto the Lord, and he heard me. Jonah. To talk eagerly or incessantly; to repeat continually. They be idle; therefore they cry, saying, let us go. Exodus. To proclaim; to make publick. Yet let them look they glory not in mischief, Nor build their evils on the graves of great men; For then my guiltless blood must cry against them. Shakspeare. What's the matter, That in the several places of the city You cry against the noble senate? Shakspeare. If dressing, mistressing, and compliment, Take up thy day, the sun himself will cry Against thee. Herbert. Lysimachus having obtained the favour of seeing his ships and machines, surprised at the contrivance, cried out, that they were built with more than human art. Arbutbnot on Coins. 6. To utter lamentations. We came crying hither; Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawle and cry. Shakspeare's King Lear. Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart; but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. When any evil has been upon philosophers, they groan as pitifully, and cry out as lood, as other men. 7. To squall, as an infant. Tillatren 1 Her who still weeps with spungy eyes; And her who is dry cork, and never cries. Donne, 9. To utter an inarticulate voice, as an animal. He giveth to the beast his food, and to the Psalms. young ravens which cry. The beasts of the field cry also unto thee. Joel. 10. To yelp, as a hound on a scent. He cried upon it at the meerest loss; Trust me, I take him for the better dog. Shakspeare. To CRY. v. a. To proclaim publickly something lost or found, in order to its recovery or restitution. She seeks, she sighs, but no where spies him; Love is lost, and thus she cries him. Crashaw. To CRY down. v. a. 1. To blame; to depreciate; to decry. Bavius cries dozun an admirable treatise of philosophy, and says there 's atheism in it. Watts. Men of dissolute lives cry down religion, be cause they would not be under the restraints of it. 2. To prohibit. Tillotson. By all means cry down that unworthy course of late times, that they should pay money. Bacon. 3. To overbear. I'll to the king, And from a mouth of honour quite cry down This Ipswich fellow's insolence. Shakspeare. To CRY out. v. n.. 1. To exclaim; to scream; to clamour. They make the oppressed to cry; they cry out Job. by reason of the arm of the mighty. With that Susanna cried with a loud voice, and the two elders cried out against her. Susan. 2. To complain loudly. We are ready to cry out of an unequal management, and to blame the Divine administraAtterbury. 3. To blame; to censure: with of, against, tion. 2. The astrologer, if his predictions come to pass, is cried up to the stars from whence he pretends South. to draw them. They slight the strongest arguments that can be brought for religion, and cry up very weak Tillotsone ones against it. He may, out of interest as well as conviction, cry up that for sacred, which if once trampled on and profaned, he himself cannot be safe, nor Locke secure. Poets, like monarchs on an eastern throne, Confin'd by nothing but their will alone, Here can cry up, and there as boldly blame, And, as they please, give infamy or fame. Walsh. Those who are fond of continuing the war, cry up our constant success at a most prodigious rate. Swift. To raise the price by proclamation. All the effect that I conceive was made by crying up the pieces of eight, was to bring in much more of that species, instead of others current Temple. here. CRY. n. s. [cri, French.] 1. Lamentation; shriek; scream. And all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, and there shall be a great cry throughout all Exodus. the land. 2. Weeping; mourning. 3. Clamour; outcry. Amazement seizes all; the general cry Proclaims Laocoon justly doom'd to die. Dryd. These narrow and selfish views have so great an influence in this cry, that there are several of my fellow freeholders who fancy the church in danger upon the rising of bank stock. Addison. 4. Exclamation of triumph or wonder, or any other passion. In popish countries some impostor cries out, a miracle! a miracle! to confirm the deluded vulgar in their errours; and so the cry goes round, without examining into the cheat. Swift. 5. Proclamation. 6. The hawkers proclamation of wares to be sold in the street: as, the cries of London. 7. Acclamation; popular favour. The cry went once for thee; And still it might, and yet it may again. Shak. 8. Voice; utterance; manner of vocal expression. 9. Sounds also, besides the distinct cries of birds and beasts, are modified by diversity of notes of different length, put together, which make that Locke. complex idea called tune. Importunate call. Pray not thou for this people, neither lift up try nor prayer for them." 10. Yelping of dogs. He scorns the dog, resolves to try Jeremiah. Waller. There shall be the noise of a cry from the fish, gate, and an howling from the second, and a Zephaniah. great crashing from the hills. 12. A pack of dogs. About her middle round, A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing bark'd. Milt, You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' th' rotten fens; whose loves & prize As the dead carcases of unburied men, That do corrupt my air, Shakspeare's Goriokomm Ainsworth CRY AL. n. s. The heron. CRY'ER. See CRIER, |