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

An osier basket, such as anglers use. Sir W. Scott.

esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead. Without cremation . . . of their bodies. Sir T. Browne.

mering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous. This semihistorical and crepuscular period. Sir G. C. Lewis.

indicating the rank of the weare; hence, also, the helmet. Stooping low his lofty crest. Sir W. Scott. And on his head there stood upright A crest, in token of a knight. Gower.

To crack; to flaw. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

b, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame. He had crippled the joints of the noble child. Sir W. Scott.

s of the mind there is no criterion. Donne. Inferences founded on such enduring criteria. Sir G. C. Lewis.

A pothook. "As black as the crook." Sir W. Scott.

om evil, is very old. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. Before the cross has waned the crescent's ray. Sir W. Scott. Tis where the cross is preached. Cowper.

in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other. "Tent and cross- stitch." Sir W. Scott. -- Cross"-stitch`, v. t. & i.

o light to the croup the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung. Sir W. Scott.

One who plays on a crowd; a fiddler. [Obs.] "Some blind crowder." Sir P. Sidney.

A coronet. [Poetic] Sir W. Scott.

Bearing the cross; marked with the figure of a cross. Sir. T. Browne.

To overcome completely; to subdue totally. Speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels. Sir. W. Scott. To crush a cup, to drink. [Obs.] -- To crush out. (a) To force out or separate by pressure, as juice from grapes. (b) To overcome or destroy completely; to suppress.

Of the length of a cubit. Sir. T. Browne.

astigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool. Sir. W. Scott.

Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood. Sir T. Browne.

A culverin. Falcon and culver on each tower Stood prompt their deadly hail to shower. Sir W. Scott.