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The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.

Cross; peevish. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries. Croton oil (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.

In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.

Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly. Thou crusty batch of nature, what's the news Shak.

A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata.

rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope.

The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.

The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand. He would visit his mistress in a morning gown, band,short cuffs, and a peaked beard. Arbuthnot.

The place of assembly of one of these divisions.

ing care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill. To devise curious works. Ex. xxxv. 32 His body couched in a curious bed. Shak.

Peevishly; vexatiously; detestably. [Obs.] "Curstfully mad." Marston.

Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness. [Obs.] Shak.

A portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a cut of timber. It should be understood, moreover, . . . that the group are not arbitrary cuts, but natural groups or types. Dana.

the seasons, or of the year. Wages . . . bear a full proportion . . . to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years. Burke.

A division of Bryozoa, in which the cells have circular apertures.

A division of Carnivora, including the dogs, wolves, and foxes.

ntiness and niceness of our captains Hakluyt. More notorious for the daintiness of the provision . . . than for the massiveness of the dish. Hakewill. The duke exeeded in the daintiness of his leg and foot, and the earl in the fine shape of his hands, Sir H. Wotton.

A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.

held in subjection by such a dapper little man. Milton. The dapper ditties that I wont devise. Spenser. Sharp-nosed, dapper steam yachts. Julian Hawthorne.