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The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.

cream; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous. "Creamy bowis." Collins. "Lines of creamy spray." Tennyson. "Your creamy words but cozen." Beau & Fl.

likelihood of truth in themselves. Hooker. A very diligent and observing person, and likewise very sober and credible. Dampier.

e, imperfectly clear or luminous. This semihistorical and crepuscular period. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.

To cause to shrink or draw together; to contract; to curl. [R.] Wiseman.

A twist or bend; a turn; a whimsey. [Colloq.] Hudibras.

A twist; a whimsey or whim. [Colloq.]

Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.

d there is no criterion. Donne. Inferences founded on such enduring criteria. Sir G. C. Lewis.

To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. [Archaic] There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games. Ascham. What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends. Bacon.

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

Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse. "A cross fortune." Jer. Taylor. The cross and unlucky issue of my design. Glanvill. The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvelously cross to the common experience of mankind. South. We are both love's captives,…

A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges. Crabb.

A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.

A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.

rosscut saw. (a) A saw, the teeth of which are so set as to adapt it for sawing wood crosswise of the grain rather than lengthwise. (b) A saw managed by two men, one at each end, for cutting large logs crosswise.

A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.

A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat. [Also written kruller.]

The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.