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A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is C. familiaris, a variety of which (var. Americana) inhabits America; -- called also tree creeper and creeptree. The American black and white creeper is Mniotilta varia.

- Creeping snowberry, an American plant (Chiogenes hispidula) with white berries and very small round leaves having the flavor of wintergreen.

To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.

A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible. Knight.

In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.

A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.

A small jackscrew. Knight.

A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.

Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively. The snug, small room, and the crisp fire. Dickens.

stage of a fever; a critical situation. Our circumstances are indeed critical. Burke. The small moment, the exact point, the critical minute, on which every good work so much depends. South. Critical angle (Optics), that angle of incidence of a luminous ray at which it is wholly reflected, and no portion of it transmit…

A small American fish (Micropogon undulatus), of the Atlantic coast.

silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively. Crochet hook, Crochet needle, a small hook, or a hooked needle (often of bone), used in crochet work.

A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm. A few small crofts of stone-encumbered ground. Wordsworth.

One who rents and tills a small farm or helding; as, the crofters of Scotland.

A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.

A small cross. Spenser.

(Med.), a viscid, acrid, brownish yellow oil obtained from the seeds of Croton Tiglium, a small tree of the East Indies. It is a most powerful drastic cathartic, and is used externally as a pustulant.

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.

A number of small cords rove through a long block, or euphroe, to suspend an awning by.