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The Latin version technically called a crib. Ld. Lytton. Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib. Wilkie Collins.

A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.

a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden.

The art of criticism. [Written also critic.] [R.]

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

ile and devours its insect parasites, even entering its open mouth (according to reliable writers) in pursuit of files, etc.; -- called also Nile bird. It is the trochilos of ancient writers. -- Crocodile tears, false or affected tears; hypocritical sorrow; -- derived from the fiction of old travelers, that crocodiles…

crystalline sugar, metameric with glucose, obtained from the coloring matter of saffron. [Written also crokose.]

tain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe. [Corruptly written cromona.]

The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write. Five Kentish abbesses . . . .subscribed their names and crosses. Fuller.

A caltrop. [Written also crowfoot.]

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 caltrop. [Written also crow's-foot.]

A size of writing paper. See under Paper.

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

To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread. [Written also crum.]

d under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean. [Written also crumcloth.]

An old Portuguese coin, worth about seventy cents. [Written also cruade.] Shak.

A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph.

Cipher; something written in cipher. "Decipherers of cryptograph." J. Earle.

One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.