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Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow. The cakes at tea ate short and crisp. Goldsmith.

At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification critically situated. Coming critically the night before the session. Bp. Burnet.

The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.

The condition of being crude; rawness.

One accused of, or ar An author is in the condition of a culprit; the public are his judges. Prior.

The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture. Italy . . . was but imperfectly reduced to cultivation before the irruption of the barbarians. Hallam.

A condition in which, from insufficient aCyanopathy.

The quality or condition of being cylindrical.

e magnetization of steel, on the polarization of an electrolytic cell, or on the electric condition of a vacuum has been applied in the various cymoscopes.

In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. [Colloq.] Forby. Bartlett.

The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy. Look, what you do, you do it still i' th' dark. Shak. Till we perceive by our own understandings, we are as mucdark, and as void of knowledge, as before. Locke.

aking of the nature of, the disease called tetter; herpetic. Dartroud diathesis, A morbid condition of the system predisposing to the development of certain skin deseases, such as eczema, psoriasis, and pityriasis. Also called rheumic diathesis, and hipretism. Piffard.

Of well being; of formal sufficiency for the time; conditionally; provisionally. Abbott.

The condition of being a deaf-mute.

ties of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college. Shipley.

night. Coleridge. -- Death grapple, a grapple or struggle for life. -- Death in life, a condition but little removed from death; a living death. [Poetic] "Lay lingering out a five years' death in life." Tennyson. -- Death knell, a stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a death. -- Death rate, the relation or ratio…

The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.

Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman. -- De*cay"ed*ness, n.

A device for restoring a coherer to its normal condition after it has been affected by an electric wave, a process usually accomplished by some method of tapping or shaking, or by rotation of the coherer.

The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.