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A salt formed by the union of croconic acid with a base.

A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.

Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. "Crooked paths." Locke. he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. Shak.

Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.

A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.

The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.

The bights formed by the several turns of a cable. Totten.

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

Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.

The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.

ow usually limited to one who assist a rector or vicar Hook. All this the good old man performed alone, He spared no pains, for curate he had none. Dryden.

h, or game, cooked with curry. Curry powder (Cookery), a condiment used for making curry, formed of various materials, including strong spices, as pepper, ginger, garlic, coriander seed, etc.

Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless. Events far too important to be treated in a cursory manner. Hallam.

Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment. With eyes severe and beard of formal cut. Shak.

A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.

A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical.

ircle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time. Coleridge. Cyclic chorus, the chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle. -- Cyclic poets, certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so calle…

A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.

zed egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed. Hæckel.

Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful; artistic; ingenious. Our bodies decked in our dædalian arms. Chapman. The dædal hand of Nature. J. Philips. The doth the dædal earth throw forth to thee, Out of her fruitful, abundant flowers. Spenser.