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n experience of mankind. South. We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross, One must be happy by the other's loss. Dryden.

See Strabismus.

Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.

Made or patterned in lines crossing each other; as, crossbarred muslin.

to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.

A Turkish musical instrument.

To play music in measured time. [Obs.] Donne.

Marked or measured by crotchets; having musical notation. Harmar (1587).

o bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe. "A crouching purpose." Wordsworth. Must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor Shak.

An ancient instrument of music with six 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.

An ancient musical instrument. See 4th Crowd.

ling, a family of plants which have four petals arranged like the arms of a cross, as the mustard, radish, turnip, etc.

The soft part of bread. Dust unto dust, what must be, must; If you can't get crumb, you'd best eat crust. Old Song. Crumb brush, a brush for sweeping crumbs from a table. -- To a crum, with great exactness; completely.

nd pass into the form of gravel. Arbuthnot. The league deprived of its principal supports must soon crumble to pieces. Prescott.

which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a pair of muscles attached to it; crura cerebri, two bundles of nerve fibers in the base of the brain, connecting the medulla and the forebrain.

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

r pertaining to the cubit or ulna; as, the cubital nerve; the cubital artery; the cubital muscle.

ntious savage. Addison. The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end. Tillotson.

One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper.

in check. Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed. Milton. Where pinching want must curbthy warm desires. Prior.