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a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red. "A crimson tide." Mrs. Hemans. The blushing poppy with a crimson hue. Prior.

An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc.

An act of criticism; a critique. [Obs.] And make each day a critic on the last. Pope.

r demerits of a thing or person; esp., to find fault. Cavil you may, but never criticise. Pope.

To criticise or pass judgment upon. [Obs.] Pope.

e, dismal sound. Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the hoarse nation croaked. Pope.

ly pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other. A crowd of islands. Pope.

Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand. Again that cry was found to have been as unreasonable as ever. Macaulay.

Red poppy. See Cop-rose.

hen round her slender waist he curled. Dryden. Curling smokes from village tops are seen. Pope. Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow. Byron. He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor. Bret Harte. . 358

ous realms and barbarous kings impose Thy plagues, and curse 'em with such sons as those. Pope. To curse by bell, book, and candle. See under Bell.

hak. Before the whistling winds the vessels fly, With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way. Pope.

with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have severed as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend aof Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.

ocial customs and current philosophical opinions. Hence the term Cynic symbolized, in the popular judgment, moroseness, and contempt for the views of others.

gh water, mud, or slush; to draggle. Nor, like a puppy [have I] daggled through the town. Pope.

not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing. Pope. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. Pope.

d gaudy fool's cap; I as ashamed to be dandled thus. Addison. The book, thus dandled into popularity by bishops and good ladies, contained many pieces of nursery eloquence. Jeffrey.

mit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams. Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart Pope.

o put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress. South. Dash the proud gamesPope.

An officer in the pope's court, having charge of the Dataria.