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Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks.

Pertaining to the crissum; as, crissal feathers.

To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks.

See Christcross-row.

That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts.

Crested.

The science of the crystalline structure of inorganic bodies.

One who is an advocate of culture. The culturists, by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does notJ. C. Shairp

Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal. Thy currish spirit Governed a wolf. Shak. Some currish plot, -- some trick. Lockhart. -- Cur"rish*ly, adv. -- Cur"rish*ness, n.

A genus of small, bivalve, freshwater Crustacea, belonging to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus.

Of or pertaining to the czar.

Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.

ession to the throne at the death of Alexander I., in December, 1825; -- called also Dekabrist.

To turn from, or divest of, Christianity.

A Decembrist.

A name formerly given to certain Silurian brachiopod shells of the genus Spirifer. Delthyris limestone (Geol.), one of the divisions of the Upper Silurian rocks in New York.

Low estimation; disesteem; contempt. [Obs.]

up to ridicule. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision. Ps. ii. 4. Saderision called. Milton.

Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision. "Derisive taunts." Pope. -- De*ri"sive*ly, adv. -- De*ri"sive*ness, n.

Derisive; mocking. Shaftesbury.