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vies. Day and night, Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course. Milton.

apestry walls And courts of princes, where it first was named, And yet is most pretended. Milton. Pardon me, Messer Claudio, if once more I use the ancient courtesies of speech. Longfellow.

he, as with a mantle or cloak. And with the majesty of darkness round Covers his throune. Milton. All that beauty than doth cover thee. Shak.

sed. How covert matters may be best disclosed. Shak. Whether of open war or covert guile. Milton

pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit. The cowardice of doing wrong. Milton. Moderation was despised as cowardice. Macualay.

Chaucer. How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose. Milton.

To eat greedly, and to satiety; to stuff. Gluttony . . . . Cr, and blasphemes his feeder. Milton.

isting in a change of the form or meaning of a word. Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles. Milton.

See Crase. God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels. Milton.

earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Milton. And most attractive is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind. Cowper.

dence. That implict credulity is the mark of a feeble mind will not be disputed. Sir W. Hamilton.

on slight evidence; easly imposed upon; unsuspecting. Landor. Eve, our credulous mother. Milton.

To believe; to credit. [Obs.] That part which is so creeded by the people. Milton.

the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep. Milton.

Shaped like a crescent. Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns. Milton.

nocturnal processions. Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus. Milton. As a cresset true that darts its length Of beamy luster from a tower of strength. Wordsworth.

Of lords and ladies stood on every side. Spenser. Faithful to whom to thy rebellious crew Milton.

n; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton. [Colloq.] Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace. Dickens.

. who more than thou Once fawned and cringed, and servilely adored Heaven's awful monarch Milton. Flatterers . . . are always bowing and cringing. Arbuthnot.

e myrtle sprays Adorns his crisped tresses. Drayton. Along the crisped shades and bowers. Milton. The crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold. Milton.