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A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto.

An incubator for sickly infants, esp. those prematurely born.

A phantasmic or "astral" body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelgänger.

To make sour or morose; to embitter. [Obs.] Sickness sours or crabs our nature. Glanvill.

Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.

A sick person; an invalid. [Obs.] Thou art a counterfeit crank, a cheater. Burton. Crank axle (Mach.), a driving axle formed with a crank or cranks, as in some kinds of locomotives. -- Crank pin (Mach.), the cylindrical piece which forms the handle, or to which the connecting rod is attached, at the end of a crank, or…

The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit. Bailey.

Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in liquor; drunk; given to excesses. [R.]

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous body closely related to creatin but more basic in its properties, formed from the latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine. [Written also kretinine.]

adually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.

one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by René of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services. Brande & C.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the period of time following the Jurassic and preceding the Eocene.

A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.

n orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings.

the reciprocal of the refractive index of the medium. -- Critical philosophy, the metaphysical system of Kant; -- so called from his most important work, the "Critique of Pure Reason." - - Critical point (Physics), a certain temperature, different for different gases, but always the same for each gas, regarded as the…

hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly. Here an old grandmother was crooning over a sick child, and rocking it to and fro. Dickens.

A Turkish musical instrument.

To play music in measured time. [Obs.] Donne.

Marked or measured by crotchets; having musical notation. Harmar (1587).

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.