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Saturnian; -- applied to the North Polar Sea. [R.] Milton.

arth; fruit; harvest. Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn, wine, and oil. Milton.

Having a full crop or belly; satiated. Milton.

was anciently used in the execution of criminals. Nailed to the cross By his own nation. Milton.

Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars. Milton.

To flow across, or in a contrary direction. "His crossflowing course." Milton.

Highest state; acme; consummation; perfection. Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss. Milton.

mpleted; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing glory crowned. Milton.

An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot. "The tufted crowtoe." Milton.

Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature. I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. Milton.

Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery. Cruel wars, wasting the earth. Milton. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath for it was cruel. Gen. xlix. 7.

all in pieces. He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints, And crumble all thy sinews. Milton.

ate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves. Milton.

Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid. "The crystalline sky." Milton. Crystalline heavens, or Crystalline spheres, in the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, two transparent spheres imagined to exist between the region of the fixed stars and the primum mobile (or outer circle of the heavens, which by its mot…

A soldier armed with a cuirass. Milton.

o be vertical or directly overhead. As when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator. Milton.

[Obs.] Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare. Milton.

or exessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry. Thence from cups to civil broils. Milton.

strain; to confine; to keep in check. Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed. Milton. Where pinching want must curbthy warm desires. Prior.

desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness. Milton.