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A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade. [Written also crease and kris.] From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. Julian Hawthorne.

he act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure. [Written also crenellation.]

ic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum. [Written also creasol.]

The art of criticism. [Written also critic.] [R.]

A kind of roughness on the surface of glass, which clouds its transparency. [Written also crizzeling and crizzle.]

crystalline sugar, metameric with glucose, obtained from the coloring matter of saffron. [Written also crokose.]

tain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe. [Corruptly written cromona.]

A caltrop. [Written also crowfoot.]

strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow. [Written also croud, crowth, cruth, and crwth.] A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little. B. Jonson.

A caltrop. [Written also crow's-foot.]

of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat. [Also written kruller.]

To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread. [Written also crum.]

d under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean. [Written also crumcloth.]

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

Cipher; something written in cipher. "Decipherers of cryptograph." J. Earle.

Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink.

The coalfish (Pollachius carbonarius). [Written also cudden.]

One who beats with a cudgel. [Written also cudgeller.]

Of or pertaining to the older characters of the Arabic language. [Written also Kufic.]

Defensive armor for the thighs. [ Written also cuisse, and quish.]