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A dyestuff, obtained from the Chinese croicin, which produces a brilliant yellow.

The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora. Watts.

Exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching.

A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.

To shade by means of crosshatching.

To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe. "A crouching purpose." Wordsworth. Must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor Shak.

round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.

Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test.

To emit a grinding or craunching noise. The crunching and ratting of the loose stones. H. James.

The doctrine or science of crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation.

Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine. He holds them in utter contempt, as lumbering, cumbersome, circuitous. I. Taylor. -- Cum"ber*some*ly, adv. -- Cum"ber*some*ness,n.

f parts in a heap; forming a mass; agregated. "As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative, njt original." Bacon

e; to keep in check. Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed. Milton. Where pinching want must curbthy warm desires. Prior.

The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.

tains, or in bed. Jerrold. A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. W. Irving. -- The curtain falls, the performance closes. -- The curtain rises, the performance begins. -- To draw the curtain, to close ot over an object, or to remove it; hence:…

ne; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.

having a surface ground and polished in facets or figures. -- Cut nail, a nail cut by machinery from a rolled plate of iron, in distinction from a wrought nail. -- Cut stone, stone hewn or chiseled to shape after having been split from the quarry.

That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter.

A machine for measuring at any moment velocity of rotation, as of a wheel of a steam engine. Knight.

inder axis. (Anat.) SeeAxis cylinder, under Axis. -- Cylinder engine (Paper Making), a machine in which a cylinder takes up the pulp and delivers it in a continuous sheet to the dryers. -- Cylinder escapement. See Escapement. -- Cylinder glass. See Glass. -- Cylinder mill. See Roller mill. -- Cylinder press. See P…