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A layer of tiles forming a corona for a wall.

Crawling, or moving close to the ground. "Every creeping thing." Gen. vi. 20.

The stonecrop (Sedum acre).

by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly. How slily and creepingly did he address himself to our first parents. South.

An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof.

Same as Cribbing, 4.

The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.

ervility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn. When they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad to cringe behind, for they were afraid of the lions. Bunyan. Sly hypocrite, . . . who more than thou Once fawned an…

One who cringes meanly; a fawner.

One who cringes.

In a cringing manner.

A withe for fastening a gate.

Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.

Ornamentation with crockets. Ruskin.

Exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching.

The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.

One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction.

A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges. Crabb.

Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.

In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle.