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A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.

l in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes.

brave; bold. With this victory, the women became most courageous and proud, and the men waxed . . . fearful and desperate. Stow.

d in Virginia and some others of the Southern States. Providence, the county town of Fairfax, is unknown by that name, and passes as Fairfax Court House. Barlett.

A handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of Florida and the West Indies (Pomacentrus saxatilis); -- called also mojarra.

The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane. Dr. Prior.

A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank.

Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked axle.

ether with noise and violence. [R.] He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire. Fairfax.

sugar, and eggs, whipped; -- to be eaten cold. -- Cold cream, an ointment made of white wax, almond oil, rose water, and borax, and used as a salve for the hands and lips. -- Cream cheese, a kind of cheese made from curd from which the cream has not been taken off, or to which cream has been added. -- Cream gauge, a…

carrott, parsnip, and the like, consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting axis.

A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and welt of flax.

Hence, to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen. Coaxing and courting with intent to crimp him. Carlyle.

Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.

To fawn or coax. [Obs.]

A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle. Cross and pile, a game with money, at which it is put to chance whether a coin shall fall with that side up which bears the cross, or the other, which is called pile, or reverse; the game called heads or tails. -- Cross bottony or bottoné.…

r. -- 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 the time of the Maccabees. 1 Macc. x. 20. -- Crown wheel. See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown work. See in the Vocabu…

bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.

Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects.

A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the family Cracidæ.