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To cause to flow together, as water drawn from several streams. [Obs.] Burton.

The flowing of different streams into one. [Obs.] Burton.

A boast; boasting. [Obs.] "Crack and brags." Burton. "Vainglorius cracks." Spenser.

A sick person; an invalid. [Obs.] Thou art a counterfeit crank, a cheater. Burton. Crank axle (Mach.), a driving axle formed with a crank or cranks, as in some kinds of locomotives. -- Crank pin (Mach.), the cylindrical piece which forms the handle, or to which the connecting rod is attached, at the end of a crank, or…

tanding waters are most unwholesome, . . . full of mites,creepers; slimy, muddy, unclean. Burton.

A crone. [Obs.] "Marry not an old crony." Burton.

To shut up or confine. [Obs.] Burton.

e declined his means." Beau. & Fl. He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it. Burton.

the notion from materiality. Glanvill. Defecated from all the impurities of sense. Bp. Warburton.

eth in the true meridian. Sir T. Browne. To deflect from the line of truth and reason. Warburton.

A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation. [Obs.] Burton.

To deprive of reason; to dement. [R.] Burton.

To mark off; to denote. [Archaic] These terms denotate a longer time. Burton. What things should be denotated and signified by the color. Urquhart.

Deviltry. Bp. Warburton.

Possession by the devil. Bp. Warburton.

Relating to a dialogue; dialogistical. Burton.

To put to inconvenience; to incommode. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

See Dizzard. [Obs.] Burton.

Uninteresting. [Obs.] "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.

he cast; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings. [R.] Bp. Warburton.