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Something used to conceal infamy. [Obs.] Dryden.

To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden). Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. Ex. xx. 17.

Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence. When Jonathan and the people heard these words they gave no credit into them, nor received them. 1 Macc. x. 46.

To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent. [R.] Anna Seward.

In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways. Logs and tree luing crisscross in utter confusion. W. E. Boardman.

n which the waves run in contrary directions. -- Cross stroke, a line or stroke across something, as across the letter t. -- Cross wind, a side wind; an unfavorable wind. -- Cross wires, fine wires made to traverse the field of view in a telescope, and moved by a screw with a graduated head, used for delicate astron…

To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify. Thou . . . hast crowned him with glory and honor. Ps. viii. 5.

g a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.

ympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless. Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are cruel and have no mercy. Jer. vi. 22,23.

To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.

Cipher; something written in cipher. "Decipherers of cryptograph." J. Earle.

crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation.

In a cubical method.

is ended. -- To take up cudgels for, to engage in a contest in behalf of (some one or something).

ing player to speak; any word or words which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a catchword. When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer. Shak.

r the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.

Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.

moke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.

of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living. And teach customs which are not lawful. Acts xvi. 21. Moved beyong his custom, Gama said. Tennyson. A custom More honored in the breach than the observance. Shak.

. He has got at last the character of a good customer; by this means he gets credit for something considerable, and then never pays for it. Goldsmith.