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A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See Pappus. Martyn.

Crown. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Capable of being corroded; corrosible. Sir T. Browne.

A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.

r red sapphire; the oriental amethyst, or purple sapphire; and adamantine spar, the hair-brown variety. It is the hardest substance found native, next to the diamond.

, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefitt. One day shall crown the alliance on 't so please you, Here at my house, and at my proper cost. Shak. At less cost of life than is often expended in a skirmish, [Charles V.] saved Europe from invasion. Prescott.

elating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. [Obs.] Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne.

ough countenanced by learned men, is not made out either by experience or reason. Sir T. Browne. Error supports custom, custom countenances error. Milton.

An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.

To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek. They might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdem. Prescott. Guilt and misery . . . court privacy and silitude. De Quincey.

a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl. My noble lords and cousins, all, good morrow. Shak.

(1654). Now, look to it, coves, that all the beef and drink Be not filched from us. Mrs. Browning.

A small cover; a lid. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

nname was also applied to the hood and garment together. What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl Pope.

The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork. For the first time in his life he tested crackling. Lamb.

thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined. "Crass and fumid exhalations." Sir. T. Browne. "Crass ignorance" Cudworth.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater. [R.] R. Browning.

Creative; formative. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is C. familiaris, a variety of which (var. Americana) inhabits America; -- called also tree creeper and creeptree. The American black and white creeper is Mniotilta varia.

y insects creeping on the skin. [Colloq.] One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. R. Browning.