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A plan of distributing surplus by giving to each policy the excess of premiums and interest earned thereon over the expenses of management, cost of insurance, and the policy value at the date of computation. This excess is called the contribution of the policy.

Pertaining to, or furnishing, a contribution.

Contributing, or tending to contribute. Fuller.

One who, or that which, contributes; specifically, one who writes articles for a newspaper or magazine.

Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive. Milton. Bonfires of contributory wood. Chapman. Contributory negligence (Law), negligence by an injured party, which combines with the negligence of the injurer in…

A crib for storing corn.

A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals. The steer lion at one crib shall meet. Pope.

Same as Cribbing, 4.

A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances. A man's fancy would be summed up in cribbage. John Hall. Cribbage board, a board with holes and pegs, used by cribbage players to score their game.

A horse that has the habit of cribbing.

The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.

Coarse; as, cribble bread. [Obs.] Huloet.

A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (Ciniflonidæ), used for spinning a special kind of silk.

Cribriform.

The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting.

Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with hokes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress. Cribriform cells (Bot.), those which have here and there oblique or transverse sieve plates, or places perforated with many holes.

Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.

That can be described; capable of description.

o represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.

Same as Generatrix.