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be squares. -- House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell. -- Under correction, subject to correction; admitting the possibility of error.

To reckon; to rely; to depend; -- with on or upon. He was brewer to the palace; and it was apprehended that the government counted on his voice. Macaulay. I think it a great error to count upon the genius of a nation as a standing argument in all ages. Swift.

music. See Polyphony. Counterpoint, an invention equivalent to a new creation of music. Whewell.

line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, howewer produced.

e act of creation. "Creative talent." W. Irving. The creative force exists in the germ. Whewell.

A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.

nsects. Others feed only in the twilight, as bats and owls, and are called crepuscular. Whewell.

ion by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims.

, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer. The opininon of the most skillful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's "Traveler"] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the "Dunciad." Macaulay.

rs penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.

An old ewe. [Obs.] Tusser.

rown glass. See under Glass. -- Crown imperial. (Bot.) See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown jewels, the jewels appertaining to the sovereign while wearing the crown. [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…

See Crewel.

Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. Their crystalline structure. Whewell.

ach, to be cheved a second time. Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. Levit. xi. 3

One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature. Whewell.

able; abominable. Let us fly this cursed place. Milton. This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. Dryden.

The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.

n species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood.

See Dasewe [Obs.] Chaucer.