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Full of, or containing, 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.

Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding. "The creeky shore." Spenser.

A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace.

d by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air.

Of pertaining to crinoids; consisting of, or containing, crinoids.

The coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore.

Incrusted; covered with, or containing, crust; as, old, crusted port wine.

A thermometer for the measurement of low temperatures, esp. such an instrument containing alcohol or some other liquid of a lower freezing point than mercury.

e ordinary form consist of two glass bulbs, connected by a tube of the same material, and containing only a quantity of water and its vapor, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below 32º Fahr.

Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.

Containing, or abounding in, culm or glance coal.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its lowest proportion.

Containing copper; as, cupriferous silver.

(Crystalloq.) A solid related to a tetrahedron, and contained under twelve equal triangles.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its highest proportion.

A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.

squamosa, reticulata, etc.), having a roundish or ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp. -- Custard coffin, pastry, or crust, which covers or coffins a custard [Obs.] Shak.

A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans. Cowell.

Pertaining to, or containing, cyanogen.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base. Cycloidal engine. See Geometric lathe.