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n Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.

A superior kind of violin, formerly made at Cremona, in Italy.

A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed.

Geol.), the series of strata of various kinds, including beds of chalk, green sand, etc., formed in the Cretaceous period; -- called also the chalk formation. See the Diagram under Geology. -- Cretaceous period (Geol.), the time in the latter part of the Mesozoic age during which the Cretaceous formation was deposited…

Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks.

To act as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment; to play the critic; -- formerly used with on or upon. Several of these ladies, indeed, criticised upon the form of the association. Addison.

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

A salt formed by the union of croconic acid with a base.

An intimate companion; a familiar frend. [Colloq.] He soon found his former cronies, though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of time. W. Irving.

A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.

Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. "Crooked paths." Locke. he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. Shak.

e over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream. A hunted hare . . . crosses and confounds her former track. I. Watts.

An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies.

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

A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.

The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.

organic acid, C3H5.CO2H, of the ethylene, or acrylic acid series. It was so named because formerly supposed to exist in croton oil. Also, any acid metameric with crotonic acid proper.

The bights formed by the several turns of a cable. Totten.

The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.

Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. Their crystalline structure. Whewell.