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A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.

Relating or belonging to a court.

Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters. Be they covenanting traitors, Or the brood of false Argyle Aytoun.

Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity. He raised the house with loud and coward cries. Shak. Invading fears repel my coward joy. Proir.

sh marigold. American cowslip (Bot.), a pretty flower of the West (Dodecatheon Meadia), belonging to the same order (Primulaceæ) with the English cowslip. -- French cowslip (Bot.), bear's-ear (Primula Auricula).

To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite. Once one may crave for love. Suckling.

Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching. A succession of cravings and satiety. L'Estrange. -- Crav"ing*ly, adv. -- Crav"ing*ness, n.

Belonging to a creature; having the qualities of a creature. [R.]

The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.

A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries. Croton oil (Med.), a viscid, acrid, brownish yellow oil obtained from the seeds of Croton Tiglium, a small tree of the East Indies. It is a most powerful drastic cathartic, and is used externally as a pustulant.

own. [Eng.] "She pawned and set to sale the crown jewels." Milton. -- Crown land, land belonging to the crown, that is, to the sovereign. -- Crown law, the law which governs criminal prosecutions. [Eng.] -- Crown lawyer, one employed by the crown, as in criminal cases. [Eng.] -- Crown octavo. See under Paper. -- Cro…

An animal belonging to the class Crustacea.

Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean.

A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia. Henslow.

Belonging to a chamber or bedroom. [Obs.] Howell.

A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species.

Like or belonging to the cuckoos (Cuculidæ).

Relating or belonging to the ultramonate party in the Latin Church.

y on four sides, leaving vertical faces. -- Cushion star (Zoöl.) a pentagonal starfish belonging to Goniaster, Astrogonium, and other allied genera; -- so called from its form.

he family Cyathophyllidæ; sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging to the group Rugosa; -- also called cup corals. Thay are found in paleozoic rocks.