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Readiness of belief; a disposition to believe on slight evidence. That implict credulity is the mark of a feeble mind will not be disputed. Sir W. Hamilton.

Believed too readily. [Obs.] Beau & Fl.

Readiness to believe on slight evidence; credulity. Beyond all credulity is the credulousness of atheists. S. Clarke.

to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep. Milton.

Coarse; as, cribble bread. [Obs.] Huloet.

Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. [R.] Now the fowler . . . treads the crimp earth. J. Philips.

ho is partially disabled. I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. Dryden.

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.

Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon. Bishop.

Bread cut in various forms, and fried lightly in butter or oil, to garnish hashes, etc.

A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off. Desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. Luke xvi. 21.

To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces. He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints, And crumble all thy sinews. Milton.

Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty.

The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.

A body which, in solution, diffuses readily through animal membranes, and generally is capable of being crystallized; -- opposed to colloid.

A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing. [Obs.]

Fluency; readiness of utterance. [Obs.]

as to allow the remainder of the stroke to be made by the expansive force of the steam already let in. See Expansion gear, under Expansion.

o reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbit's ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.

h successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin. Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11. Bunyan has told us . . . that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands. Macaulay.