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ng, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.

rbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain. Cruelties worthy of the dungeons of the Inquisition. Macualay.

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

The heron [Obs.] Ainsworth.

Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal. State Trials (1413). If he acts according to the best reason he hath, he is not culpable, though he be mistaken in his measures. Sharp.

Blameworthiness. [Obs.] Banished out of the realme . . . without culpe. E. Hall.

nd thought to; to foster; to cherish. Leisure . . . to cultivate general literature. Wordsworth.

A worthless, snarling fellow; -- used in contempt. What would you have, you curs, That like nor peace nor war Shak.

To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit. I never knew any man cured of inattention. Swift.

To coo. [Scot.] The owlets hoot, the owlets curr. Wordsworth.

alue. Bacon. The bare name of Englishman . . . too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful. W. Irving.

agated curse. Milton. The curse of Scotland (Card Playing), the nine of diamonds. -- Not worth a curse. See under Cress.

y a wife to her husband within the bed curtains, or in bed. Jerrold. A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. W. Irving. -- The curtain falls, the performance closes. -- The curtain rises, the performance begins. -- To draw the curtain, to close…

See Costrel. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

erest or self-indulgence, and that appearances to the contrary are superficial and untrustworthy. He could obtain from one morose cynic, whose opinion it was impossible to despise, scarcely any not acidulated with scorn. Macaulay.

water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water. Wher the duck dabbles Wordsworth.

Shadows in the glassy waters dance. Byron. Where rivulets dance their wayward round. Wordsworth. To dance on a rope, or To dance on nothing, to be hanged.

Defiance; challenge. Childish, unworthy dares Are not enought to part our powers. Chapman. Sextus Pompeius Hath given the dare to Cæsar. Shak.

To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words. The coin which was adulterated and debased. Hale. It is a kind of taking God…

ke away as if by deception. These occupations oftentimes deceived The listless hour. Wordsworth.