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Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest. Death . . . .crops the growing boys. Creech.

or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh. "Common crude salt." Boyle. Molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials. I. Taylor.

cover or line with an incrustation; to incrust. The whole body is crusted over with ice. Boyle. And now their legs, and breast, and bodies stood Crusted with bark. Addison. Very foul and crusted bottles. Swift. Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock. Felton.

Pertaining to cryptography; cryptographical. Boyle.

Jocosely or in contempt, a boy or girl, esp. an awkward, rude, illmannered boy. O, thuo dissembling cub! what wilt thou be When time hath sowed a drizzle on thy case Shak.

Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy. [Colloq. U.S.] Barlett.

The contents of such a vessel; a cupful. Give me a cup of sack, boy. Shak.

The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow. Pretty dimpled boys, like smiling cupids. Shak.

To change into curd; to cause to coagulate. "To curdle whites of eggs" Boyle.

To make clear; to free from obscurity. [Obs.] "To declare this a little." Boyle.

To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun. [R.] Shak.

Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness. Boyle.

Very; with a tendency to darkness of color. The deeply red juice of buckthorn berries. Boyle.

egs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine. To defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber. Boyle.

urself; but, your defects to know, Make use of every friend -- any every foe. Pope. Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects. Macaulay.

The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.

To melt or be dissolved; to deliquesce. [Obs.] Boyle.

To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse. [Obs.] The water in which it was demerged. Boyle.

To immerse. [Obs.] Boyle.

To blacken thoroughly; to make very black. Boyle.