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Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or Rattlesnake family.

Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrance like that found in membranous croup; as, croupous laryngitis. Croupous pneumonia, pneumonia attended with deposition of fibrinous matter in the air vesicles of the lungs; ordinary acute pneumonia.

Of or pertaining to croup; resembling or indicating croup; as, a croupy cough.

One who plays on a crowd; a fiddler. [Obs.] "Some blind crowder." Sir P. Sidney.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants which have four petals arranged like the arms of a cross, as the mustard, radish, turnip, etc.

as an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper.

Anything resembling crystal, as clear water, etc. The blue crystal of the seas. Byron. Blood crystal. See under Blood. -- Compound crystal. See under Compound. -- Iceland crystal, a transparent variety of calcite, or crystallized calcium carbonate, brought from Iceland, and used in certain optical instruments, as the…

Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid. "The crystalline sky." Milton. Crystalline heavens, or Crystalline spheres, in the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, two transparent spheres imagined to exist between the region of the fixed stars and the primum mobile (or outer circle of the heavens, which by its mot…

One of the microscopic particles resembling crystals, consisting of protein matter, which occur in certain plant cells; -- called also protein crystal.

sely or in contempt, a boy or girl, esp. an awkward, rude, illmannered boy. O, thuo dissembling cub! what wilt thou be When time hath sowed a drizzle on thy case Shak.

A hood-shaped organ, resembling a cowl or monk's hood, as certain concave and arched sepals or petals.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.

An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.

Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass;- said of certain fishes.

A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap.

A dwarf umbelliferous plant, somewhat resembling fennel (Cuminum Cyminum), cultivated for its seeds, which have a bitterish, warm taste, with an aromatic flavor, and are used like those of anise and caraway. [Written also cummin.] Rank-smelling rue, and cumin good for eyes. Spenser. Black cumin (Bot.), a plant (Nigella…

Consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants ot which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.

Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes. [Scot.] Burns.

Anything resembling a cushion in properties or use; as: