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of fennel, carrott, parsnip, and the like, consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting axis.

A superior kind of violin, formerly made at Cremona, in Italy.

A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.

Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.

A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile. Crocodile bird (Zoöl.), an African plover (Pluvianus ægypticus) which alights upon the crocodile and devours its insect parasites, even entering its open mouth (according to reliable writers) in pursuit of files, etc.; -- called also Nile…

Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found chiefly in countris inhabited by the ancient Celts, and are of a period anterior to the introduction of Christianity into these countries.

A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.

o which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."

A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; -- called also crane and crutch. Totten.

A forked support; a crotch. The crotchets of their cot in columns rise. Dryden.

cid, C3H5.CO2H, of the ethylene, or acrylic acid series. It was so named because formerly supposed to exist in croton oil. Also, any acid metameric with crotonic acid proper.

A supposed alkaloid obtained from croton oil by boiling it with water and magnesia, since found to be merely a magnesia soap of the oil. Watts.

ng a cuplike top, with tines springing from the rim. -- Crown bar, one of the bars which support the crown sheet of steam-boiler furnace. -- Crown glass. See under Glass. -- Crown imperial. (Bot.) See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown jewels, the jewels appertaining to the sovereign while wearing the crown. [Eng.] "She p…

Great; excessive; supreme. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profudity; as, a crude reasoner.

That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form. "Cridities in the stomach." Arbuthnot.

crumble and pass into the form of gravel. Arbuthnot. The league deprived of its principal supports must soon crumble to pieces. Prescott.

Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a pair of muscles attached to it; crura cerebri, two bundles of nerve fibers in the base of the brain, connecting the medulla and the forebrain.

or separate by pressure, as juice from grapes. (b) To overcome or destroy completely; to suppress.