Search the Dictionary

r in thrustung one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people. Their storehouses crammed with grain. Shak. He will cram his brass down our throats. Swift.

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.

at 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.

An a

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 coarse lace made of twine, used especially in decorating furniture.

mony used to impress an obligation; a solemn oath-taking; an oath. [Obs.] I'll take the sacrament on't. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a sacrament or the sacraments; of the nature of a sacrament; sacredly or solemny binding; as, sacramental rites or elements.

The doctrine and use of sacraments; attashment of excessive importance to sacraments.

One who holds the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christ;s body and blood in the holy eucharist. Shipley.

In a sacrament manner.

One who holds extreme opinions regarding the efficacy of sacraments.