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The state of being embodied; bodily existence. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Contrary to nature. [R.] Harvey.

The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties. Dryden.

Covering; shelter; defence; hiding. Protected by walls or other like coverture. Woodward. Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Shak.

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

xistent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man. He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him. Fuller. God's first creature was light. Bacon. On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Milton. And m…

Without created beings; alone. God was alone And creatureless at first. Donne.

Creatural; characteristic of a creature. [R.] "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne.

The condition of being a creature.

To make like a creature; to degrade [Obs.] Degrade and creaturize that mundane soul. Cudworth.

A rounded tooth or notch of a crenate leaf, or any part that is crenate; -- called also crenelle.

Relating to the growth of hair. [R.]

The state of being crispate.

An order of flying, dromTinamou.

The process of determining the solid or cubic contents of a body.

Capable of, or fit for, being cultivated; capable or becoming cultured. London Spectator.

Of or pertaining to culture.

cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.

The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.

A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.