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An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders. Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon. Dryden.

A tool, or a sewing-mashine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by.

Testimonials showing that a person is entitled to credit, or has right to exercise official power, as the letters given by a government to an ambassador or envoy, or a certificate that one is a duly elected delegate. The committee of estates excepted against the credentials of the English commissioners. Whitelocke. Had…

Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils. Casements lined with creeping herbs. Cowper. Ceeping crowfoot (Bot.), a plant, the Ranunculus repens.- Creeping snowberry, an American plant (Chiogenes hispidula) with white berries and very small round leaves having the f…

Increasing; growing. O, I see the crescent promise of my spirit hath not set. Tennyson.

Increasing; growing. [R.] Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty. Shak.

A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc. Darwin. [Attack] his rising crest, and drive the serpent back. C. Pitt.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the period of time following the Jurassic and preceding the Eocene.

ession en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design.

ake chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings.

ringed, and servilely adored Heaven's awful monarch Milton. Flatterers . . . are always bowing and cringing. Arbuthnot.

Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest. Death . . . .crops the growing boys. Creech.

To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name.

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

y to another. Crosscut saw. (a) A saw, the teeth of which are so set as to adapt it for sawing wood crosswise of the grain rather than lengthwise. (b) A saw managed by two men, one at each end, for cutting large logs crosswise.

To flow across, or in a contrary direction. "His crossflowing course." Milton.

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

A small, active, winged species of cockroach (Ectobia Germanica), the water bug. It is common aboard ships, and in houses in cities, esp. in those with hot-water pipes.

for kisses. Tennyson. To crow over, to exult over a vanquished antagonist. Sennacherib crowing over poor Jerusalem. Bp. Hall.

d fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank.