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The first milk secreted after delivery; biestings.

Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.

a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun. Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. J. Philips.

To corrupt. See Corrupt. [Obs.] Chauser.

Corruptible. [Obs.]

ly, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off. Desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. Luke xvi. 21.

ng table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean. [Written also crumcloth.]

l pieces; to cause to fall in pieces. He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints, And crumble all thy sinews. Milton.

EAsily crumbled; friable; brittle. "The crumbly soil." Hawthorne.

A purse. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Capable of being crumbed or broken into small pieces.

Full of crumb or crumbs.

Crooked; bent. [Obs.] Crooked backs and crump shoulders. Jer. Taylor.

A kind of large. thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.

To draw or press into wrinkles or folds to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper. They crumpled it into all shapes, and diligently scanned every wrinkle that could be made. Addison.

Brittle; crisp. Wright.

Copper.

of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable. Negligent of the duties and decorums of his station. Hallam. If your master Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him, That majesty, to keep decorum, must No less beg than a kingdom. Shak.

which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks; -- so called by sailors. To be in the doldrums, to be in a state of listlessness ennui, or tedium.

An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of…