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See Curd. [Obs.]

To curdle. [Obs.] See how thy blood cruddles at this. Bea

undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh. "Common crude salt." Boyle. Molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials. I. Taylor.

In a crude, immature manner.

A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans.

The condition of being crude; rawness.

See Cruddle.

Coagulated. [Obs.] His cruel wounds with crudy blood congealed. Spenser.

Recrudescence.

To be in a state of recrudescence; esp., to come into renewed freshness, vigor, or activity; to revive.

The state or condition of being recrudescent. A recrudescence of barbarism may condemn it [land] to chronic poverty and waste. Duke of Argyll.

Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic.

Not cruddled, or curdled. [Obs.] Her breast like to a bowl of cream uncrudded. Spenser.

Crude tartar. See Argol.

Crude tartar; an acidulous salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks. Ure.

Crude potash. De Colange.

One who,makes crude potash, or black salts.

plaster designed to raise a blister; -- usually made of Spanish flies. -- Blister steel, crude steel formed from wrought iron by cementation; -- so called because of its blistered surface. Called also blistered steel. -- Blood blister. See under Blood.

A yellow crystalline substance extracted from crude anthracene.

A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison. Cobalt bloom. Same as Erythrite. -- Cobalt blue, a dark blue pigment consisting of some salt of cobalt, as the phosphate, ignited with alumina; -- called also cobalt ultramarine, and Thenard's blue. -- Cobalt crust, earthy arseniate of cobalt. -- Cobalt glance…