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A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.

A neckcloth; a piece of silk, fine muslin, or other cloth, worn by men about the neck. While his wig was combed and his cravat tied. Macualay.

A tool, or a sewing-mashine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by.

ny short bends or turns; to curl; to run in wavws; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved. The green wheat crinkles like a lake. L. T. Trowbridge. And all the rooms Were full of crinkling silks. Mrs. Browning.

A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair.

To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.

who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.

pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth.

tched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (C. Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.…

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

ic or Colloq.] A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village. L'Estrange. To go cross lots, to go across the fields; totake a short cut. [Colloq.]

The Lotus corniculatus. Dr. Prior.

The coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore.

ssolute lives cry down religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it. Tillotson. -- To cry out, to proclaim; to shout."Your gesture cries it out." Shak. -- To cry quits, to propose, or declare, the abandonment of a contest. -- To cry up, to enhance the value or reputation of by public and noisy prais…

f man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end. Tillotson.

That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion. O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Matt. xxvi. 39.

solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact. [Obs.] Little curious in her clothes. Fuller. How shall we, If he be curious, work upon his faith Bean &

lso malicious; malignant; brutal. Thy currish spirit Governed a wolf. Shak. Some currish plot, -- some trick. Lockhart. -- Cur"rish*ly, adv. -- Cur"rish*ness, n.

eal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.

mers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths. Hakluyt.