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To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And with the majesty of darkness round Covers his throune. Milton. All that beauty than doth cover thee. Shak.

kment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrisonn an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. See Illust. of Ravelin.

One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.

Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.

, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.

To crack into, or become full of, crannies. [R.] The ground did cranny everywhere. Golding.

To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and kness; to creep. A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another. Grew.

A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet iron, or for rounding small tubes.

A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority derived from character or reputation. The things which we properly believe, be only such as are received on the credit of divine testimony. Hooker.

To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep. Milton.

A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia).

Crawling, or moving close to the ground. "Every creeping thing." Gen. vi. 20.

Having the margin cut into rounded teeth notches, or scallops.

A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.

A rounded tooth or notch of a crenate leaf, or any part that is crenate; -- called also crenelle.

To accuse of, or charge with, a crime. To criminate, with the heavy and ungrounded charge of disloyalty and disaffection, an uncorrupt, independent, and reforming parliament. Burke.

That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts.

inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm. A few small crofts of stone-encumbered ground. Wordsworth.

drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.

To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear. Now crouch like a cur. Beau. & Fl.