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k, with or without quite separating into parts. By misfortune it cracked in the coling. Boyle. The mirror cracked from side to side. Tennyson.

oise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling. The crackle of fireworks. Carlyle.

a fit of temper or passion. [Prov. Eng.] Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks. Carlyle.

The quality or state of being credible; worthness of belief; credibility. [R.] Boyle.

Without a creed. Carlyle.

or naval service; as, to crimp seamen. Coaxing and courting with intent to crimp him. Carlyle.

o utter complaints or forebodings habitually. Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. Carlyle.

Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.

croton oil. Crotonic acid (Chem.), a white crystalline organic acid, C3H5.CO2H, of the ethylene, or acrylic acid series. It was so named because formerly supposed to exist in croton oil. Also, any acid metameric with crotonic acid proper.

prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh. "Common crude salt." Boyle. Molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials. I. Taylor.

over or line with an incrustation; to incrust. The whole body is crusted over with ice. Boyle. And now their legs, and breast, and bodies stood Crusted with bark. Addison. Very foul and crusted bottles. Swift. Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock. Felton.

Pertaining to cryptography; cryptographical. Boyle.

Manner or style of cooking.

ensome; clogging. He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight. Swift. That cumbrousand unwieldy style which disfigures English composition so extensively. De Quincey.

Delay; procrastination. [R.] Carlyle.

To change into curd; to cause to coagulate. "To curdle whites of eggs" Boyle.

of its entablature. (b) A name given to a form of capital, much used in the Romanesque style, modeled like a bowl, the upper part of which is cut away on four sides, leaving vertical faces. -- Cushion star (Zoöl.) a pentagonal starfish belonging to Goniaster, Astrogonium, and other allied genera; -- so called from it…

Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment. With eyes severe and beard of formal cut. Shak.

Cell-like; -- applied to the corpuscles of lymph, blood, chyle, etc.

om the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. [Written also dactyle.]