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Show CR 2i The rupged protuberances of rocks And as mount Etna vomits fulphur out With clifts of burning ¢rags, and fire and {moke Fairfax . Who hath difpos'd, but thou, the winding way ‘Where fprings down from the fteepy crags do beat Whotton lion fpied a goat upon the crag of a hig L' Efirange 4 fock §. The neck They looken bigge, as bulls that been bate And bearen the crag fo fiff and fo ftate Spenfer 4. The fmall end of a neck of mutton: low word RA'GGED. adj. [from crag.] Full of inequalities and prominences On_a huge hill €ragged and fteep, truth ftands Crafbazw CRrA'GGEDNESS. 7. /. [from cragged.] Fulnefls of crags or prominent rocks Th craggednef or fteepnefs of that mountain maketh many parts of it in a manner inacceffible Brerewaood Cra'GoINESS. 7 /- [from craggy.] Th ftate of being craggy Cra'cey. adj. [ from crag.] Rugged full of prominences ; rough to walk on or climb That fame wicked wigh His dwelling has low in an hollow cave Dark, doleful, dreary, like a greedy grave. Spenfer pafs up the wood an #raggy hills, without the lofs of thefe commanders Raleigh's E[fays Mountaineers that from Severus came Dryden "And from the craggy cliffs of Tetrica The town and republick of St. Marino ftand mountain on the top ofa very high and cragg gi);ddzfon on Italy «. 2. [cpamman %% CRAM Saxon. 1. To fuff; to fill with more than ca -conveniently be held As much love in rhyme As would be cramm'd up in a theet of paper "Writ on bot Being thu Ford's knave Thou haf fides the leaf, margent and all. Shak crammed in the bafket, a couple o were called. Shak. M. W. of Wind fpoke as if thy eldeft fon fhould be Aool, whofe fkull Jove cram with brains Shake|peare's Tavelfth Night Cram mot in people by fending too faft compan after company; but fo as the number may liv well in the plantation, and not by furcharge be i Bacon penury 2, To fill with food beyond fatiety You'd mollify a judge, would cram a {quire Ot elfe fome fmiles from court you may defire King 1 am fure children would be freer from difeafes if they were not crammed fo much as they are b fond mothers, and were kept wholly from flefh th Locke firft three years As a man may be eating all day, and, for wan of digeftion, is never nourithed; fo thefe endlef in vain with intel readers may cram themfelve Watts on the Mind But Annius, crafty feer Came cramm'd with capon from where Pollio dines Pope leétual food 3. To thruft in by force You cram thefe words into mine ears, againf Shakefpeare's Tempcft The ftomach of my fenfe Huffer, quoth Hudibras, this fwor $hall down thy falfe throat cram that word Hudibras Fate has cramm'd us-all into one leafe Dryden's Cleomenes And that even now expiring In another printed paper it is roundly exprefled #hat he will ¢zam his brafs down our throats SWif Cra'NACE. 1. /. [cranag 7o CraM. . n To eat beyond fatiety The godly dame, who flefhly failings damns Scolds with her maid, or with her chaplain cr;msOPL' Cra'mz0. 7. /. [a cant word, probabl without etymology.] A play at whic one gives a word, to which another find a rhyme; a rhyme So Mevius, when he drain'd his fkul To celebrate fome fuburb trull His fimilies in order fet And ev'ry crambo he could get Savift CRAMP. n. f. [krampe, Dutchs crampe French. 1. A fpafm or contradion of the limbs generally removed by warmth and rub bing For this, be fure, to-night thou fhalt have cramps Side-ftitches that fhall pen thy breath up Shakefpeare's Tempeft In a retreat he outruns any lacquey; marry, i Shakefpeate coming on, he has the cramp The cramp cometh of contration of finews which is manifeft, in that it cometh either by col Bacon's Natural Hifiozg or drynefs Hares, faid to live on hemlock, do not mak good the tradition; and he that obferves wha vertigoes, cramps, and convulfions follow thereon in thefe animals, will be of our belief Brown's Vulgar Errours A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind unde and lays a ma incapacitie of fervin hi L' Eftrange friend 3. A piece of iron bent at each end, b which two bodies are held together To the uppermoft of thefe there fhould be faftened a fharp graple, or cramp of iron, which ma be apt to take hold of any place where it lights Wilkins Crawmp adjs Difficult ; knotty: a lo A term 70 Cramp. @. a. [from the noun.] 1. To pain with cramps or twitches A waterifh humour fwell'd, and 0oz'd again Dryden's Virgil to obftruct It is impoffible to conceive the number of inconveniencies that will enfue, if borrowing b Batcon cramped There are few but find that fome companies benumb and cramp them, fo that in them they ca neither fpeak nor do any thing that is handfome Glanwille's Scepfis He who ferves has ftill reftraints of dread upo hi fpirits," which even in the midft of action Souzh's Sermons cramps and tiesup his a&ivity Dr. Hammond loves to contraét and cramp th Burnet's Theory fenfe of prophecics The antiquaries are for cramping their {ubjeét into as narrow a fpace as they can, and for reducin the whole extent of a fcience into a few genera Addifon on Ttaly maxims Mariu nobles ufe an all endeavours for deprefling th raifin th people make profit of it. It fignifies alfy 1 money paid and taken for the fame CRANE. #. /. [enan, Sax. kraes, 1. A bird with a long beak That fmall infantry war'd on b 2. An inftrument made with rop and hooks, by which grea raifed In cafe the mould about it be f not to be removed by any ordinary for then raife it with a crane Then commerce brought into the The bufy merchant, the big wareh Rais'd the firong crane clean.sh data import.tsv out README Tho 3. A fiphon; a crooked pipef liquors out of a catk, CRrRANES-BILL. 7z /. [frome 1. A herb 2. A pair of pincers terminati point, ufed by furgeons CRA'NIUM. =. /. [Latin: In wounds made by contufion, _nium is a little naked, you ough crowd in doffils; for if that cont digefted, the bone will incarn without much difficulty CRANK [This w 7. / contradtio of crane-neck may bear {ome refembl of the inftrument called 1. A crank i th end of a turned fquare down, and a fquare to the firft turning dow on the laft turning down a leather 1 is {lipt, to tread the treddle- When the contracted limbs were cramp'd, ev' the 2. 'To reftrain; to confine te hinder A liberty to ufe a crane fo; lgw wares from the veflels, a¢ any cree the fea or wharf, unto the land, gn Like a crane, or a fwallow, fo did I c 2. A reftriftion ; confinement ; obftruc tion; fhackle Far underneath a craggy clift ypight It was impoffible t CR particularl fo cramping the former in their power of judicature Savift No mor Th' expanfive atmofphere is cramp'd with cold But full of life, and vivifying foul Thomfor's Spring 3. To bind with crampirons CrA'MPFISH. 7/ [from cramp and fi/b. The torpedo, which benumbs the hand of thofe that touch it Cra'mMeirON. 7 /i [from cramp and dron. See CraMp, fenie 3 z. Any bending or winding paff 1 fend it through the rivers of you bl Even to the court, the heart to th And throug the cranks and office o The ftrongeft nerves, and {fmall inf From me receive that natural compete Shakefpeare's C Whereby they live 3. Any concei by twifti forme in any manner, the changing meaning of a word Hafte thee, nymph, and bring with t Jeft and youthful jollity Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles Nods and becks, and wreathed fmiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek And love to live in dimple fleek Crank. adj Skinner. [ fro i onkranck 1. Healthy ; {prightly : fometime rupted to cranky. Notinufe They looken bigge, as bulls that been bate And bearen the crag fo ftiff and fo ftat As cockle on his dunghill crowing cranke. 2. Amon failors, a fhip is faid to b& crank, when, by the form of its bottom or by being loaded too much above,i is liable to:be overfet Dutch, fick. [from Aranch T 85 } 7o Cra'NKLE. @. 7. [from crank fignifies fomething bent.] To run ‘fd" and out; to run in flexures and wincings |