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A kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims.

A kind of roughness on the surface of glass, which clouds its transparency. [Written also crizzeling and crizzle.]

A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively. Crochet hook, Crochet needle, a small hook, or a hooked needle (often of bone), used in crochet work.

Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds.

An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds.

That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest. Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn, wine, and oil. Milton.

tock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind. Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler. Lord Dufferin.

A kind of castanet used by the Corybantes.

The state or character of being crotchety, or whimsical. This belief in rightness is a kind of conscientiousness, and when it degenerates it becomes crotchetiness. J. Grote.

An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow. [Written also croud, crowth, cruth, and crwth.] A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little. B. Jonson.

A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind. [Scot.]

A kind of campion; according to Gerarde, the Lychnis Flos- cuculi.

A kind of carriage like a gig, orig. of wicker-work.

A kind of European carp (Carasius vulgaris), inferior to the common carp; -- called also German carp.

A test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the crucible of affliction. Hessian crucible (Chem.), a cheap, brittle, and fragile, but very refractory crucible, composed of the finest fire clay and sand, and commonly used for a single heating; -- named from the place of manufacture.

pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless. Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are cruel and have no mercy. Jer. vi. 22,23.

A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon; also, a hovel. [Scot.]

A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat. [Also written kruller.]

A kind of large. thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.

Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly. Thou crusty batch of nature, what's the news Shak.