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Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks.

Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of a subject.

Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. "Crooked paths." Locke. he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. Shak.

Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfullness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman. He had received a cross answer from his mistress. Jer. Taylor.

Crystallized cawk, in which the crystals are small.

Characterized by crudeness; raw. [Obs.] The foolish and dull and crudy vapors. Shak.

Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; -- used of curves.

l. See under Compound. -- Iceland crystal, a transparent variety of calcite, or crystallized calcium carbonate, brought from Iceland, and used in certain optical instruments, as the polariscope. -- Rock crystal, or Mountain crystal, any transparent crystal of quartz, particularly of limpid or colorless quartz.…

Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, while quartz crystal is perfectlly crystallized.

Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.

substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.

on, diffuses readily through animal membranes, and generally is capable of being crystallized; -- opposed to colloid.

A group of fishes, established by Agassiz, characterized by having scales with a pectinated margin, as in the perch. The group is now generally regarded as artificial.

not, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuckold's neck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated. The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured people, is less often met with than other mental endowments. I. Taylor. The cunning hand and cultured brain. Whittier.

Characterized by cup shakes; -- said of timber.

Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless. Events far too important to be treated in a cursory manner. Hallam.

Characterized by exessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as, curt limits; a curt answer. The curt, yet comprehensive reply. W. Irving.

he half molecule of cyanogen proper), which was one of the first compound radicals recognized.

A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour.