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Show CR i R Crase, n [ [from the verh, 8ee how this river comes me erantling in And cuts me from the be,f?{ of all n;{];a:: roush:/}caem'e': Hor. y I ‘A huge half moon, a2 mon Slb It CR €0 Cra'~kLE. w.a . To break into un equal furfaces ; to break into angles Old Vaga's ftream Forc'd by the fudden fhock, her wonted trac Forfoole; and drew her humid train aflope Philips Crankling her banks A lou A very fair fruit, and not unlike a citron ; bu fomewhat rougher chopt and crammied, wvulgarl conceived the marks of Adam's teeth CRA'NNY Browr's Vulgar Errours n. /. {cren, Fr. crena, Lat. A chink ; a cleft a fiffure The eye of the underftanding is like the eye o the fenfe; for as you may fee great objects thro' fmall ¢rannies or holes, fo you may fee great axiom of nature through fmall and contemptible inRances Bacon's Natural Hiftory And therefore beat and laid about ~ To find a cranny to creep out Hudibias ~ Ina firm building, the cavitiez ought not to b filled with rubbifh, but with brick or ftone, fitte to the crannies Dryden Within the foaking of water and forings, wit fireams and currents in the veins and crannies Burnet's Theory He fkipped from room to room, ran np ftair Stoops to his bafe and, with a hideous crz/ Takes prifoner Pyrrhus' ear Shakefp. Hamlet Moralizing fat I by the hazard-table : I looke upon the uncertainty of riches, the decay of beauty, and the crafb of worlds, with as much con and anger temperance 9o CRASH w. # Dia [a word probabl formed from the thing.] To make loud complicated noife, as of man things falling or breaking at once There fhall be a great crafbing from the hills Zeph. i, 10 ‘When convulfions cleave the lab'ring earth Before the difmal yawn appears, the groun Trembles and heaves, the nodding houfes crafb Smith ¥o Crasu. @.a. To break or bruife My mafter is the great rich Capulet; and i you be not of the houfe of Montague, I pray yo come and crafb a cup of wine Mr Shakefpeare Warburton has it, crufb a cup o awine To crafb, {ays Hanmer, is to be merry a crafb being a word ftill ufed in fom «counties for a merry bout. It is furel -~ better to read crack, See CRACK. 3. To long ; to wifh unreafonably Levity pufhes us on from one vain defire to another, in a regular viciffitude and fucceffion o L' Eflrange cravings and fatiety He is attually under the power of a temptation and the fway of an impetuous luft 5 both hurryin him to fatisfy the cravings of it by fome wicke aétion South 4+ To call for importunately fubtle ; not confifting of {mall parts Iron, i with noif fumi aquafortis, wil and emication fal Befto into ebullition as alfo a craf Your needful counfel to our bufinefles an Th fulphur of iron with the dcid and nitrous fpirits o aquafortis Metal ter reftrial matter, o as not to be difcoverable by huma induftry matter, that it would never be pofiible to feparat and extraét it Waodward's Natural Hiffory paper or parchment; for, if they have a greate craffitude, they will alter in their own body, theug footy caft into it, have been born up, and not funk Bacon's Natural Hiffory fea, is fuftained therein partly by the greater crafSitude and gravity of the fea-water, and partly b its conftant agitation Woodward Cra'vEN Cravar. . /. [of uncertain etymology. A neckceloth; any thing worn about the neck 1. T afk wit earnefinefs to afk wit fubmiffion ; to beg ; to entreat ‘What one petition is there found in the whol Litany, whereof we fhall ever be able at any tim to fay, that no ma living needet the grace o benefit therein crawed at God's hands? ~ Hooker As for my nobler friends, I crawe their pardons But for the mutable rank-fcented many Let them regard me as I do not flatter Shake[peare's Coriolanus The poor people, not knowing where- to hid themifelves from the fury of their enemies, nor o a weak-hearte Is it fit this foldier keep his oath w--He is a craven and a villain elfe. Shak. H. V Dia 7o CRAVE. @, a. [cnapian, Saxon. A comblefs cock, fo Kate will be my hen 2. A coward; a recreant {piritlefs fellow CrasTina'rioN, 7. [ [from cras, Latin others for cravats have wor their necks, and took a turn Hudibras reftri&ives were applied, one over another throat: then we put her on a cravear Wifeman's Surgery is your creft a coxcomb ‘What ==No cock of mine; you crow too like a crawvesn Shakefpeare The terreftrial matter carried by rivers into th Whic Abou Th to he Suckling Cra'vEn. n. /. [derived by Stinner fro crawe, as one that craves or begs hi life : perhaps it comes originally fro the noife made by a conquered cock. 1. A cock conquered and difpirited They muft be but thin, as a leaf, or a piece o And hemp on wooden anvils forg'd effeéts o the thin Once one may crave for love But more would prov This heart too little, that too great Cra'ssiTUDE. #. /. [craffitudo, Latin. Grofinefs ; coarfenefs ; thicknefs Lefs delinquents have been fcourg'd an Arbuthnot on Aliments 5. Sometimes with for befor fought fcattered amongft the ¢craffir and more unprefitabl Hakewill on Providence concomitant ftances or, if difcoverable, fo diffufed an to-morrow.] Delay anteceden {uch a conftitution, are acids, taken in too grea quantities; four erutations, and a crawing appetite, efpecially of terreftrial and abforbent fub Brown's Pulgar Erroprs are intermixed with the commo Shakefp. King Lear ‘Which crawe the inftant ufe exhalation, caufed from the combat of th ~ *Tis from high life high characers are drawn ; CraTcH, n f. [creche, Fr. crates, Lat. A faint in crape is twice a faint in lawn The palifaded frame in which hay i Pope put for cattle CrAPULENCE. 7. /. [crapula, a furfeit When, being expelled out of Paradife by reafo Lat.] ‘Drunkennefs; ficknefs by intemo fin tho wer hel i th chain o death perance Dig was inclofed in the virgin's womb, I was laid i Cra'rurovs. adj. [ erapulofus, Latin. the cratch, I was wrapped in fwathling-cloaths with in Denbam Him doft thou mean, who, fpite of all his ftore Is ever craving, and will ftill be poor Who cheats for halfpence, and who doffs his coa To fave a farthing in a ferry-boat* Dryd. Perfius CRASS. adj. [ erajfas, Latin.] Grofs; coarfe3 not thin; not comminuted; no of that crajffitude, as living bodies, bound hand an Drunken ; intemperate ; fic The fubjeéls arm'd, the more their princes gave Th' advantage only took the more to crave South Arbutbnot's Fobn Bull And proud Roxana, fir'd with jealous rage With fifty yards of crape fhall fweep the ftage Savift To thee T often call'd in vain Againft that affaflin in crape Savift 2. To atk infatiably conflitution of the blood an fpirits Prior. as thefe inclinations ave founded in a peculiar crafis an the forbearance too of any a&io propofed Locke Each ardent nymph the rifing current craves Each fhepherd's pray'r retards the parting waves Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming to they fpend not Bacon The Dead Sea, which vomiteth up bitumen, i - Crare. 2 [ [crepa, low Latin,] A thi ftuff, loofely woven, of which the dref of the clergy is fometimes made to comprehen Senfelefs Ilium and down ftairs, from the kitchen to the garrets and he peeped into every cranny mayed Kyolles I would ¢rawve leave here, under the word ation fudden mixed found, as of many thing broken at the fame time tempt as ever Plato did Pope Cra'NKLES, n /0 [from the verb.] InCRA'SIS. n. [ [#iicss.] Temperature equalities 3 angular prominences conftitution arifing from the variou Cra'NkNESS. 7. /o [from erank. properties of humours 1. Health ; vigour The fancies of men are fo immediately diver2. Difpofition to overfet fified by the individual crafis, that every man own CRA'NNIED, adj. [from eranny.] Full o Glanville fomething wherein none is like him chinks A man may be naturally inclined to pride, luft A wall it i3, as I would have you think That had in it a crannied hole or chink Skake[peare whom to crave help, Red as men and women dif adj. Cowardly ; bafe Upon his coward breaf A bloody crofs, and on his craven cref A bunch of hairs difcolour'd diverfly ‘Whether it b Beftial oblivion, or fome crawen {cruple Of thinking too precifely on th' event A thought which, quarter'd, hath bu S, ‘bl'fljc"#‘ one pu wifdom And ever three parts coward Shakefpe syl re amlet Yet if the innocent fome mercy find From cowardice, not ruth, did that proceed is noble foes durft not his crawven kin Exafperate by fuch a bloody deed Fairfax 75 CRA'VEN. @. a. [from the noun. make recreant or cowardly T "Gainft felf-flaughte There is a prchibition fo divine That cravens my weak hand Shakefp. Cyme fine Cra'YER. 7 /. [from crawve.] An infati able atker. It is ufed in Clarifa To CRAUNCH. %. a. [ fchrantfen, Duich whence the vulgar fay more properly 7 Jeraunch.] To cruth in the mouth. Th word is ufed by Swifz Craw [4roe, Danifh. . / firft flomach of birds The crop o In birds theye is no maftication or comryinution of the mea i th mouth but in fuch as ar not carnivorous, it is immediately fivallowed int the cxop or craw; or at leaflt inw a kind of ante s K fomagh |