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The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

A wandering about or going astray; digression. Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further divagation. Thackeray.

d regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will. Hath crawled into the favor of the king. Shak.

the body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl. To creep and grovel on the ground. Dryden.

Resembling hieroglyphics; not decipherable. "An hieroglyphical scrawl." Sir W. Scott.

heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. Cowper. -- In`ad*vert"ent*ly, adv.

The crop, or craw, of birds.

her litter. D. Estrange. Reflect upon numerous litter of strange, senseless opinions that crawl about the world. South.

A stomach; the receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing; in birds, the craw; -- now used only of the lower animals, exept humorously or in contempt. Chaucer. Bellies and maws of living creatures. Bacon.

spider; -- so called as being popularly supposed to indicate that the person upon whom it crawls will be fortunate in money matters. -- Money's worth, a fair or full equivalent for the money which is paid. -- A piece of money, a single coin. -- Ready money, money held ready for payment, or actually paid, at the time…

black, filamentous, fresh- water algæ, the threads of which have an automatic swaying or crawling motion. Called also Oscillatoria.

A written character curved like a pothook; (pl.) a scrawled writing. "I long to be spelling her Arabic scrawls and pothooks." Dryden.

Creeping; crawling; -- said of reptiles, worms, etc.

An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. Cowper.

To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl. David . . . scrabbled on the doors of the gate. 1. Sam. xxi. 13.

Thin; lean; meager; scrawny; scrannel. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl. If Mævius scribble in Apollo's spite. Pope.

Hence, to crawl; to sneak. [Obs.] There I 'll shug in and get a noble countenance. Ford.

s; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime. Slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. Coleridge.

To crawl like a snake.