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A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.

A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion.

A kind of cotton sheeting; also, a calico.

To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet. They cried, saying, Crucify him, cricify him. Luke xxiii. 21.

A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat. [Also written kruller.]

To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.

doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling. Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies. Dryden. He that keeps nor crust nor crumb. Shak. They . . . made the crust for the venison pasty. Macualay.

Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares. The street cries of London. Mayhew.

A combination of a cube and octahedron, esp. one in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges.

The fire beetle of Mexico and the West Indies.

Bitter cucumber (Bot.), the Citrullus or Cucumis Colocynthis. SeeColocynth. -- Cucumber beetle. (Zoöl.) (a) A small, black flea-beetle (Crepidodera cucumeris), which destroys the leaves of cucumber, squash, and melon vines. (b) The squash beetle. -- Cucumber tree.(a) A large ornamental or shade tree of the genus Magn…

A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap.

ng workman." Ex. xxxviii. 23. "Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Shak. Esau was a cunning hunter. Gen xxv. 27.

One of a large group of beetles (Rhynchophora) of many genera; -- called also weevils, snout beetles, billbeetles, and billbugs. Many of the species are very destructive, as the plum curculio, the corn, grain, and rice weevils, etc.

The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.

hes; specif., the larvae of a small clearwing moth (Ægeria tipuliformis) and a longicorn beetle (Psenocerus supernotatus). -- Currant worm (Zoöl.), an insect larva which eats the leaves or fruit of the currant. The most injurious are the currant sawfly (Nematus ventricosus), introduced from Europe, and the spanworm (E…

ss [combineth] with staidness, how can the language . . . sound other than most full of sweetness Camden.

A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in curryng a horse.

at point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic. Curtate cycloid. (Math.) See Cycloid.

Having curved teeth.