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After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.

The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners.

Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering. In courtly company or at my beads. Shak.

Courtliness; elegance of manners; courtesy. [Obs.] Trim gallants, full of courtship and of state. Shak.

pterous insect with long legs, of the genus Tipula. -- Derrick crane. See Derrick. -- Gigantic crane. (Zoöl.) See Adjutant, n., 3. -- Traveling crane, Traveler crane, Traversing crane (Mach.), a crane mounted on wheels; esp., an overhead crane consisting of a crab or other hoisting apparatus traveling on rails or be…

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.

oq.] The Latin version technically called a crib. Ld. Lytton. Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib. Wilkie Collins.

A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (Ciniflonidæ), used for spinning a special kind of silk.

raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan. Shak. Two ravens now began to croak Their nuptial song. Wordsworth.

A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe. [Corruptly written cromona.]

A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway 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.…

Perverse; untractable; contrary. She was none of your crossgrained, termagant, scolding jades. Arbuthnot.

An order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir (Polypterus). See Brachioganoidei.

ant of the genus Croton, or from croton oil. Crotonic acid (Chem.), a white crystalline 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 science of the crystalline structure of inorganic bodies.

An organ of the Ctenophora, supposed to be sensory.

A hood-shaped organ, resembling a cowl or monk's hood, as certain concave and arched sepals or petals.

Any bag-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, open only at one end.

ch we call its culture. Tylor. Culture fluid, a fluid in which the germs of microscopic organisms are made to develop, either for purposes of study or as a means of modifying their virulence.

A strong, liquid, organic base, C3H7.C6H4.NH2, homologous with aniline.