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A wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot.

f the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.

Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.

The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster. Knight.

The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed. Knight.

To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle. There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pool. Shak.

A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river. Each creek and cavern of the dangerous shore. Cowper. They discovered a certain creek, with a shore. Acts xxvii. 39.

To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.

long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age. Morton (1632).

The top line of a slope or embankment. Crest tile, a tile made to cover the ridge of a roof, fitting upon it like a saddle. -- Interior crest (Fort.), the highest line of the parapet.

Of or relating to hair; as, a crinitory covering. T. Hook.

That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat. Till some safe crisis authorize their skill. Dryden.

Having highly colored under tail coverts; as, the crissal thrasher.

To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks.

That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts.

An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.

A tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc. Raymond.

To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power. Her who fairest does appear, Crown her queen of all the year. Dryden. Crown him, and say, "Long live our emperor." Shak.

A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank.

editions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans.