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do not . . . overcome the counteraction of a false principle or of stubborn partiality. Johnson.

To prohibit; to forbid. [Obs.] Avicen countermands letting blood in choleric bodles. Harvey.

A vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for conveyance of water. Johnson.

be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.

The neck piece or scrag of mutton. Johnson.

(Pronounced kra`po") As a proper name, Johnny Crapaud, or Crapaud, a nickname for a Frenchman.

To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly. [Obs.] There is a prohibition so divine, That cravens my weak hand. Shak.

Reputation derived from the confidence of others; esteem; honor; good name; estimation. John Gilpin was a citizen Of credit and renown. Cowper.

Any one of three metameric substances, CH3.C6H4.OH, homologous with and resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids.

aracterized by a great variety of chances. A man's fancy would be summed up in cribbage. John Hall. Cribbage board, a board with holes and pegs, used by cribbage players to score their game.

Coarse flour or meal. [Obs.] Johnson.

The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. [Obs.] Johnson.

Lameness. [R.] Johnson.

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

hermometer for the measurement of low temperatures, esp. such an instrument containing alcohol or some other liquid of a lower freezing point than mercury.

Secret or enigmatical language. Johnson.

lar form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.

d into a crystal; to take on a crystalline form, through the action of crystallogenic or cohesive attraction.

no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. Johnson.

The language of the Czechs (often called Bohemian), the harshest and richest of the Slavic languages.