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To caress with the hand; to stroke. Come sit thee down upon this flowery bed, While I thy amiable cheeks do coy. Shak.

raise his oar clear of the water; (b) when he misses the water altogether in making a stroke.

To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke. B. Jonson.

Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.

A case for a broken or dislocated limb.

ll or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices. You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft. Hobbes. The chief priets and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. Mark xiv. 1.

A steep, rugged rock; a cough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge. From crag to crag the signal fiew. Sir W. Scott.

Full of crags, or steep, broken Into its cragged rents descend. J. Baillie.

A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.

sold in small prisms or cylinders. Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon. Dryden.

A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the intellect.

The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs.

Characterized by weakness or feeblness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. Piles of mean andcrazy houses. Macualay. One of great riches, but a crazy constitution. Addison. They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island. Jeffrey.

dition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves. Hooker. A very diligent and observing person, and likewise very sober and credible. Dampier.

ch we properly believe, be only such as are received on the credit of divine testimony. Hooker.

Cream; -- a term used esp. in cookery, names of liqueurs, etc.

grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air.

Increase; enlargement. [Obs.] And toward the moon's attractive crescence bend. H. Brooke.

oping low his lofty crest. Sir W. Scott. And on his head there stood upright A crest, in token of a knight. Gower.

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.