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To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.

ayers endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.

A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle. Cross and pile, a game with money, at which it is put to chance whether a coin shall fall with that side up which bears the cross, or the other, which is called pile, or reverse; the game called heads or tails. -- Cross bottony or bottoné.…

A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other. "Tent and cross- stitch." Sir W. Scott. -- Cross"-stitch`, v. t. & i.

A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak.

The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.

To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear. She folded her arms across her chest, And crouched her head upon her breast. Colerige.

he sides and back; also, the head or brain. From toe to crown he'll fill our skin with pinches. Shak. Twenty things which I set down: This done, I twenty more-had in my crown. Bunyan.

To support on crutches; to prop up. [R.] Two fools that crutch their feeble sense on verse. Dryden.

Supported upon crutches.

Encumbrance. [Obs.] Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare. Milton.

A cuplet or little cup, as the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants ot which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.

dues; a check or hindbrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse. He that before ran in the pastures wild Felt the stiff curb control his angry jaws. Drayton. By these men, religion,that should be The curb, is…

and curiousvolume of forgotten lore. E. A. Poe. Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light curious results. C. J. Smith. Curious arts, magic. [Obs.] Many . . . which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them. Acts xix. 19.

A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.

Hot furnished with a cushion. Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews. Hawthorne.

A multiple point of a curve at which two or more branches of the curve have a common tangent.

A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.

The language of the Czechs (often called Bohemian), the harshest and richest of the Slavic languages.