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A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals. The steer lion at one crib shall meet. Pope.

Same as Cribbing, 4.

A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances. A man's fancy would be summed up in cribbage. John Hall. Cribbage board, a board with holes and pegs, used by cribbage players to score their game.

A horse that has the habit of cribbing.

The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.

Coarse; as, cribble bread. [Obs.] Huloet.

A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (Ciniflonidæ), used for spinning a special kind of silk.

Cribriform.

The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting.

Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with hokes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress. Cribriform cells (Bot.), those which have here and there oblique or transverse sieve plates, or places perforated with many holes.

Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.

Capable of being ascribed; attributable.

To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author. The finest [speech] that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem. Addison.

To scribble over. "Bescribbled with impertinences." Milton.

Capable of being circumscribed.

to write or engare around. [R.] Thereon is circumscribed this epitaph. Ashmole.

One who, or that which, circumscribes.

To enroll; to enlist. [Obs.] E. Hall.

A crib for storing corn.

That can be described; capable of description.