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Liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other vessel.

Full of spirit; crank.

Having crannies, chinks, or fissures; as, a crannied wall. Tennyson.

One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings,…

the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies. Dryden. He peeped into every cranny. Arbuthnot.

The fiery cross, used as a rallying signal in the Highlands of Scotland.

A garland carried before the bier of a maiden. [Obs.] Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants, Her maaiden strewments. Shak.

A twist; a whimsey or whim. [Colloq.]

A group of nudibranch mollusks.

Having concealed or rudimentary gills.

Encumbrance. [Obs.] Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare. Milton.

The bark of a South American vine (Gonolobus Condurango) of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer. [Written also condurango.]

The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.

Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets.

One who declares. Abbott.

A substance which removes color, or bleaches.

Delirium. [Obs.] Gauden.

Delirious. [Obs.] Owen.

livering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive. He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives. Luke iv. 18. One death or one deliverance we will share. Dryden.

Demonstration; proof. [Obs.] Holland.