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A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, external or internal. Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations. O. W. Holmes.

ns of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.

Any preternatural labor, in whiche the boly of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus.

Made or patterned in lines crossing each other; as, crossbarred muslin.

, a small tree of the East Indies. It is a most powerful drastic cathartic, and is used externally as a pustulant.

f. -- Crown sheet, the flat plate which forms the top of the furnace or fire box of an internally fired steam boiler. -- Crown shell. (Zoöl.) See Acorn-shell. -- Crown side. See Crown office. -- Crown tax (Eccl. Hist.), a golden crown, or its value, which was required annually from the Jews by the king of Syria, in…

pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity. Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty. Shak.

To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.

The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow. I have known the statute of an emperor quite hid under a crust of dross. Addison. Below this icy crust of conformity, the waters of infidelity lay dark and deep as ever. Prescott.…

l, cry shame against ye, yet I 'll speak. Shak. The man . . . ran on,crying, Life! life! Eternal life! Bunyan.

eye, serving to focus the rays of light. It consists of rodlike cells derived from the external embryonic epithelium.

cliff; a hill or ridge with one face steep and the opposite face gently sloping. [Southwestern U. S.]

In decorative art, boiled leather, fitted by the process to receive impressed patterns, like those produced by chasing metal, and to retain the impression permanently.

al bones supporting the first, second third metatarsals. They are usually designated as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively.

A small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern.

ral species of Strychnos (S. toxifera, etc.). It sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians as an arrow poison. [Written also urari, woorali, woorari, etc.]

Pertaining to the cuticle, or external coat of the skin; epidermal.

A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.

A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.

A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.