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ifferent building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. Macualay.

mum Galactodendron) of South America, which yields, on incision, a nourishing fluid, resembling milk.

Resembling a cow. With cowlike udders and with oxlike eyes. Pope.

A kind of gambling game consisting in pitching coins to or towards the ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor. [Gamblers' Cant, U. S.]

A gambling game with dice. [Local, U.S.]

Resembling crape.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater. [R.] R. Browning.

Any crustacean of the family Astacidæ, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mamoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The…

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.

A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, howewer produced.

Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum.

A colorless liquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum. [Written also creasol.]

To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent. [R.] Anna Seward.

Any one of three metameric substances, CH3.C6H4.OH, homologous with and resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids.

Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with hokes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress. Cribriform cells (Bot.), those which have here and there oblique or transverse sieve plates, or places perforated with many holes.

The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. [Obs.] Johnson.

Resembling a ring; -- said esp. of the cartilage at the larynx, and the adjoining parts.

An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling saffron; having the color of saffron; as, croconic acid.

A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe. [Corruptly written cromona.]