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Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal code. The officers and servants of the crown, violating the personal liberty, or other right of the subject . . . were in some cases liable to criminal process. Hallam. Criminal action (Law), an action or suit instituted to secure conviction and punishment for a…

Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience.

Relating to the growth of hair. [R.]

Of or relating to hair; as, a crinitory covering. T. Hook.

Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrance like that found in membranous croup; as, croupous laryngitis. Croupous pneumonia, pneumonia attended with deposition of fibrinous matter in the air vesicles of the lungs; ordinary acute pneumonia.

A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc.

Relating to a crust.

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

Relating to the Ctenoidei. -- n.

Relating to the kitchen, or to the art of cookery; used in kitchens; as, a culinary vessel; the culinary art.

Relating to a wedge; wedge-shaped.

One of the carpal bones usually articulating wich the ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare.

Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure. Arbuthnot.

The wiew or doctrins of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Gladstone.

One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Shipley.

Relating or belonging to the ultramonate party in the Latin Church.

An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity. If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those numberless waves or curls which usually arise from the sand holes. Sir I. Newton.

ue; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.

Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history. That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt. Arbuthnot. Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current. Shak. His current value, whi…

ure of a curve. -- Chord of curvature. See under Chord. -- Circle of curvature. See Osculating circle of a curve, under Circle. -- Curvature of the spine (Med.), an abnormal curving of the spine, especially in a lateral direction. -- Radius of curvature, the radius of the circle of curvature, or osculatory circle,…