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I saw in one corner . . . a cluster of men and women,diverting themselves with a game at crambo. I heard several double rhymes . . . which raised a great deal of mirth. Addison.

One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an exxamination, or a pupil who is thus prepared. Dickens.

Crimson. [Obs.] A splendid seignior, magnificent in cramoisy velevet. Motley.

t which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shakle; a hindrance. A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind. L'Estrange. Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear. Cowper.

See Cramp, n., 2.

A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard. [Written also crampit and crampette.]

The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.

See Crampet.

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Having a cramp or square piece at the end; -- said of a cross so furnished.

A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.

Affected with cramp.

A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph.

A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects,…

A weight of the metric system; ten grams, equal to about 154.32 grains avoirdupois.

A weight in the metric system; one tenth of a gram, equal to 1.5432 grains avoirdupois.

Ornament. [Obs.] Bailey.

Same as Decagram.

A wandering of the mind; a crazy fancy. [Obs.] Heywood.

efers to it; a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one. Indicator diagram. (Steam Engine) See Indicator card, under indicator