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The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean.

Of or pertaining to a crusade; as, a crusading spirit.

That crushes; overwhelming. "The blow must be quick and crushing." Macualay.

Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil. Too much fondness for meditative retirement is not the crying sin of our modern Christianity. I. Taylor.

A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly,…

Anything separated or selected from a mass.

Knowing; skillfull; dexterous. "A cunning workman." Ex. xxxviii. 23. "Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Shak. Esau was a cunning hunter. Gen xxv. 27.

In a cunning manner; with cunning.

A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. [Obs.] Hudibras.

Quality of being cunning; craft.

The operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot. Also, sometimes, a similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess. Cupping glass, a glass cup in which a partial vacuum is produced by heat, in the process of cupping. -- Dry cupping, the application of a…

p. a. & vb. n. of Cure. Curing house, a building in which anything is cured; especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar is drained and dried.

The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.

With a curl, or curls.

Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes. [Scot.] Burns.

Moving about slightly. [R.] H. Bushnell.

The art of making edged tools or cutlery. [Obs.] Milton.

The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.

In a cutting manner.

The act, art, or practice, of riding a cycle, esp. a bicycle or tricycle.