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laborated or refined. "Crass and fumid exhalations." Sir. T. Browne. "Crass ignorance" Cudworth.

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

Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entiled to confidence; trustworthy. Things are made credible either by the known condition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves. Hooker. A very diligent and observing person, and likewise very sober and credible. Dampier…

The quality or state of being credible; worthness of belief; credibility. [R.] Boyle.

Worthy of belief. [Obs.] Divers creditable witnesses deposed. Ludlow.

n. As a cresset true that darts its length Of beamy luster from a tower of strength. Wordsworth.

he fatal entrance of Duncan. Shak. Two ravens now began to croak Their nuptial song. Wordsworth.

eld, adjoining a house; a small farm. A few small crofts of stone-encumbered ground. Wordsworth.

To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe. "A crouching purpose." Wordsworth. Must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor Shak.

ng, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.

rbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain. Cruelties worthy of the dungeons of the Inquisition. Macualay.

An old Portuguese coin, worth about seventy cents. [Written also cruade.] Shak.

The heron [Obs.] Ainsworth.

Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal. State Trials (1413). If he acts according to the best reason he hath, he is not culpable, though he be mistaken in his measures. Sharp.

Blameworthiness. [Obs.] Banished out of the realme . . . without culpe. E. Hall.

nd thought to; to foster; to cherish. Leisure . . . to cultivate general literature. Wordsworth.

A worthless, snarling fellow; -- used in contempt. What would you have, you curs, That like nor peace nor war Shak.

To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit. I never knew any man cured of inattention. Swift.

To coo. [Scot.] The owlets hoot, the owlets curr. Wordsworth.

alue. Bacon. The bare name of Englishman . . . too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful. W. Irving.