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e powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland. Brougham.

A low rhamnaceous shrub (Karwinskia humboldtiana) of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Its berries are said to be poisonous to the coyote.

To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.

A kind of hammer having a head formed of a group of pointed steel bars, used for dressing ashlar, etc. -- v. t.

A large basket or hamper of wickerwork, used for the transportation of china, crockery, and similar wares.

vidence. That implict credulity is the mark of a feeble mind will not be disputed. Sir W. Hamilton.

eviced structure for storing ears of corn. Trickling through the creviced rock. J. Cunningham.

hut; a cottage. Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great Shak.

y crisis of your fate. Dryden. The very times of crisis for the fate of the country. Brougham.

ist. [Archaic] There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games. Ascham. What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends. Bacon.

wers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans.

utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly. All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I 'll speak. Shak. The man . . . ran on,crying, Life! life! Eternal life! Bunyan.

Belonging to a chamber or bedroom. [Obs.] Howell.

e two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuckold's neck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Drayton. By these men, religion,that should be The curb, is made the spur of tyranny. Denham.

s, a current coin; a current report; current history. That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt. Arbuthnot. Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current. Shak. His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him. Grew.

To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion. Cushioned hammer, a dead-stroke hammer. See under Dead-stroke.

A descendant of Cush, the son of Ham and grandson of Noah.

radesman is always solicitous to cut the shop whenever he can do so with impunity. Thomas Hamilton. To cut a caper. See under Caper. -- To cut the cards, to divide a pack of cards into portions, in order to determine the deal or the trump, or to change the cards to be dealt. -- To cut a dash or a figure, to make a di…