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A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.

A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street.

An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.

The hinder part or buttocks of certain quadrupeds, especially of a horse; hence, the place behind the saddle. So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung. Sir W. Scott.

Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent. [Scot.] Burns.

A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal.

To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon; as, to crupper a horse.

To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted. The place that was burnt . . . crusted and healed. Temple.

A staff with a crosspiece at the head, to be placed under the arm or shoulder, to support the lame or infirm in walking. I'll lean upon one crutch, and fight with the other. Shak. Rhyme is a crutch that lifts the weak alone. H. Smith.

A snug or confined place.

A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory.

To cultivate; to educate. They came . . . into places well inhabited and cultured. Usher.

Trouble; embarrassment; distress. [Obs.] [Written also comber.] A place of much distraction and cumber. Sir H. Wotton. Sage counsel in cumber. Sir W. Scott.

The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race.

The place of assembly of one of these divisions.

A race course; a place for running.

Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable. Let us fly this cursed place. Milton. This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. Dryden.

esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.

To seat or place on, or as on a cushion. Many who are cushioned on thrones would have remained in obscurity. Bolingbroke.

Hot furnished with a cushion. Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews. Hawthorne.