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To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches.

The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a gevser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.

Having the form of a shallow bowl; -- said of a corolla.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater. [R.] R. Browning.

Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon.

Consecrator.

To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n.

o violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the opposite of consecrate. The [Russian] clergy can not suffer corporal punishment without being previously desecrated. W. Tooke. The founders of monasteries imprecated evil on those who should desecrate their donations. Salmon.

One who desecrates; a profaner. Harper's Mag.

To deprive of consecration or sacredness. [R.]

as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate. "They . . . execrate their lct." Cowper.

Propped; supported by accessory organs. [R.] Gray.

A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C. Hippocrates' sleeve, a conical strainer, made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth, esp. flannel of linen.

hypocraterimorphous; salver-shaped. Wood.

Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac.

Having an involucre; involucred.

To consecrate amiss. "Misconsecrated flags." Bp. Hall.

To beseech; to supplicate; to implore. [R.]. Cockerman.

A Mixture of water and vinegar. Wiseman.

A salt of picric acid.