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The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth.

soms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn.

A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash. Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]

To interfere and cut off; to debar. [Obs.] To cross me from the golden time I look for. Shak.

A box or perch near the top of a mast, esp. in whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout.

Marked with crow's-feet, or wrinkles, about the eyes. [Poetic] Do I look as if I were crow-trodden Beau. & FL.

A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell- shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.

To curdle. [Obs.] See how thy blood cruddles at this. Bea

Coagulated. [Obs.] His cruel wounds with crudy blood congealed. Spenser.

Smeared with blood. [Obs.] Glanwill.

Bloody; cruentate. [Obs.]

oth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean. [Written also crumcloth.]

To emit a grinding or craunching noise. The crunching and ratting of the loose stones. H. James.

The coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore.

The coloring matter of the blood in the living animal; hæmoglobin.

A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.

A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.

Anything resembling crystal, as clear water, etc. The blue crystal of the seas. Byron. Blood crystal. See under Blood. -- Compound crystal. See under Compound. -- Iceland crystal, a transparent variety of calcite, or crystallized calcium carbonate, brought from Iceland, and used in certain optical instruments, as the…

To seek the society of; to court intimacy with. I ever looked on Lord Keppel as one of the greatest and best men of his age; and I loved and cultivated him accordingly. Burke.

An agricultural implement used in the tillage of growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth and kill the weeds; esp., a triangular frame set with small shares, drawn by a horse and by handles.