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To crack into, or become full of, crannies. [R.] The ground did cranny everywhere. Golding.

A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack. [Obs.] Begin from first where He encradled was, In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay. Spenser. Cratch cradle, a representation of the figure of the cratch, made upon the fingers with a string; cat's cradle; -- called also scratch cradle.

A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market.

A public nursery, where the young children of poor women are cared for during the day, while their mothers are at work.

A stall for oxen or other cattle. Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. Prov. xiv. 4.

A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn. When they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad to cringe behind, for they were afraid of the lions. Bunyan. Sly hypocrite, . . . who more than thou Once fawned and cringed, and servilely adored Heaven's awful monarch Mi…

ld. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. Before the cross has waned the crescent's ray. Sir W. Scott. Tis where the cross is preached. Cowper.

A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other. "Tent and cross- stitch." Sir W. Scott. -- Cross"-stitch`, v. t. & i.

A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street.

The play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw.

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.

An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.

That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.

A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a.

not injured by compressing. -- Crush room, a large room in a theater, opera house, etc., where the audience may promenade or converse during the intermissions; a foyer. Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush room of the opera at night. Macualay.

Sucked by cubs. [R.] This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak.

to confine; to keep in check. Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed. Milton. Where pinching want must curbthy warm desires. Prior.

The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.

easured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic. Curtate cycloid. (Math.) See Cycloid.