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An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there.

sects. Others feed only in the twilight, as bats and owls, and are called crepuscular. Whewell.

other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc. Darwin. [Attack] his rising crest, and drive the serpent back. C. Pitt.

ving short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag. "The crinkled lightning." Lowell.

C. By criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant a standard of judging well. Dryden.

To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. Halliwell.

Cross; peevish. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The top stone of the gable end of a house. Halliwell.

Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.

Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. Their crystalline structure. Whewell.

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

ow with the open hand; a box; a slap. Snatcheth his sword, and fiercely to him flies; Who well it wards, and quitten cuff with cuff. Spenser. Many a bitter kick and cuff. Hudibras.

One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature. Whewell.

To cultivate; to educate. They came . . . into places well inhabited and cultured. Usher.

Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated. The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured people, is less often met with than other mental endowments. I. Taylor. The cunning hand and cultured brain. Whittier.

r bonus; -- originally applied to that paid on ships which entered the port of Canton. S. Wells Williams.

The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race.

To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.

To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient. The child was cured from that very hour. Matt. xvii. 18.

y his stone as near to the mark as possible, to guard that of his partner, which has been well laid before, or to strike off that of his antagonist. Pennant (Tour in Scotland. 1772). Curling irons, Curling tong, an instrument for curling the hair; -- commonly heated when used.