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In the game of craps, a first throw of the dice in which the total is two, three, or twelve, in which case the caster loses.

Same as Craps.

(Pronounced kra`po") As a proper name, Johnny Crapaud, or Crapaud, a nickname for a Frenchman.

Turning on pivots at the top and bottom; -- said of a door.

A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill. Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for the dress of some clergymen. A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. Pope. Crape myrtle (Bot.), a very ornamental shrub (Lagerströmia Indica) from the East Indies, often planted in the Sou…

Salted codfish hardened by pressure. Kane.

A hook or drag; a grapnel.

A kind of fresh-water bass of the genus Pomoxys, found in the rivers of the Southern United States and Mississippi valley. There are several species. [Written also croppie.]

A claw. [Obs.]

A gambling game with dice. [Local, U.S.]

Same as Crapulence.

The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit. Bailey.

Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in liquor; drunk; given to excesses. [R.]

Resembling crape.

earance, used for ladies' scarfs, shawls, bonnet trimmings, etc.; -- called also Oriental crape. De Colange.

Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. I have no materials -- not a scrap. De Quincey.

A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept.

h pressure, cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make smooth or clean; as, to scrape a bone with a knife; to scrape a metal plate to an even surface.

One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.

An instrument with which anything is scraped. Specifically: