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nity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore. I crave your honor's pardon. Shak. Joseph . . . went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. Mark xv. 43.

Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. "His craven heart." Shak. The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. Sir. W. Scott. In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. Macualay.

One who craves or begs.

ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir. A much battered davenport in one of the windows, at which sat a lady writing. A. B. Edwards.

To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen. [Scot.]

A note of half the length of the quaver; a semiquaver. [R.]

A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.

A wash for cleaning the teeth.

e; to malign; to revile. [Obs.] And thou knowest, conscience, I came not to chide Nor deprave thy person with a proud heart. Piers Plowman.

In a depraved manner.

Depravity. Hammond.

Depravity. [Obs.] Milton.

One who deprave or corrupts.

Misfortune. [Obs.] Spenser.

Misadventurous; unfortunate. [Obs.] Spenser.

To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall. He shall disenslave and redeem his soul. South.

To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands. Burrill.

To deprive of leaves. [R.] The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.

, old imp. of Drive. [Obs.]

See Drawing knife.