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ary or naval service; as, to crimp seamen. Coaxing and courting with intent to crimp him. Carlyle.

A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general. Theugh jour be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Is. i. 18. A maid jet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty. Shak.

l; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually. Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. Carlyle.

A name given to any one of several yellow or scarlet dyestuffs of artificial production and complex structure. In general they are diazo and sulphonic acid derivatives of benzene and naphthol.

Delay; procrastination. [R.] Carlyle.

pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper. [Sometimes written carlicue.] [ Colloq. U.S.] To cut a curlycue, to make a flourish; to cut a caper. I gave a flourishing about the room and cut a curlycue with my right foot. McClintock.

Beau. & Fl. To dare larks, to catch them by producing terror through to use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. Nares.

Deceptiveness; a deception; a sham. [R.] Carlyle.

it defalcation; to embezzle money held in trust. "Some partner defalcating, or the like." Carlyle.

A melting or maudlin mood. Carlyle.

A demolisher. [R.] Carlyle.

Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy. Carlyle.

Despicableness. [R.] Carlyle.

Capacity of being odious. [R.] Carlyle.

Of or pertaining to dilettanteism; amateur; as, dilettant speculation. Carlyle.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness that disbelief in great men. Carlyle.

The quality of being discoverable. [R.] Carlyle.

ghts to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. Carlyle.

To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn. Carlyle.

] Procter, in evident distress and dispiritment, was waiting the slow conclusion of this. Carlyle.