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C91sura \C[91]*su"ra\, n.; pl. E. {C[91]suras}, L. {C[91]sur[91]} [L. caesura a cutting off, a division, stop, fr. caedere, caesum, to cut off. See {Concise}.] A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the c[91]sural accent rests, or which is used as a foot. Note: In the following line the c[91]sura is between study and of. The prop | er stud | y || of | mankind | is man. | |
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Carac \Car"ac\, n. See {Carack}. | |
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Carack \Car"ack\, n. [F. caraque (cf. Sp. & Pg. carraca, It. caracca.), LL. carraca, fr. L. carrus wagon; or perh. fr. Ar. qorq[d4]r (pl. qar[be]qir) a carack.] (Naut.) A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon. [Spelt also {carrack}.] The bigger whale like some huge carrack lay. --Waller. | |
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Caress \Ca*ress"\, n. [F. caresse, It. carezza, LL. caritia dearness, fr. L. carus dear. See {Charity}.] An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness. Wooed her with his soft caresses. --Langfellow. He exerted himself to win by indulgence and caresses the hearts of all who were under his command. --Macaulay. | |
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Caress \Ca*ress"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Caressed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Caressing}.] [F. caresser, fr. It. carezzare, fr. carezza caress. See {Caress}., n.] To treat with tokens of fondness, affection, or kindness; to touch or speak to in a loving or endearing manner; to fondle. The lady caresses the rough bloodhoun. --Sir W. Scott. Syn: To foundle; embrace; pet; coddle; court; flatter. Usage: {Caress}, {Fondle}. [bd]We caress by words or actions; we fondle by actions only.[b8] --Crabb. | |
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Cargo \Car"go\, n.; pl. {Cargoes}. [Sp. cargo, carga, burden, load, from cargar to load, from cargar to load, charge, See {Charge}.] The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight. Cargoes of food or clothing. --E. Everett. Note: The term cargo, in law, is usually applied to goods only, and not to live animals or persons. --Burill. | |
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Carib \Car"ib\, n.; pl. {Caries}. [See {Cannibal}.] (Ethol.) A native of the Caribbee islands or the coasts of the Caribbean sea; esp., one of a tribe of Indians inhabiting a region of South America, north of the Amazon, and formerly most of the West India islands. | |
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Carious \Ca"ri*ous\, a. [L. cariosus, fr. caries dacay.] Affected with caries; decaying; as, a carious tooth. | |
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Cark \Cark\, n. [OE. cark, fr. a dialectic form of F. charge; cf. W. carc anxiety, care, Arm karg charge, burden. See {Charge}, and cf. {Cargo}.] A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry. [Archaic.] His heavy head, devoid of careful cark. --Spenser. Fling cark and care aside. --Motherwell. Freedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion. --R. D. Blackmore. | |
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Cark \Cark\, v. i. To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to worry or grieve. [R.] --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Cark \Cark\, v. t. To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry. [R.] Nor can a man, independently . . . of God's blessing, care and cark himself one penny richer. --South. | |
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Caroche \Ca*roche"\, n. [OF. carrache, F. carrose from It. carrocio, carrozza, fr. carro, L. carus. See {Car}.] A kind of pleasure carriage; a coach. [Obs.] To mount two-wheeled caroches. --Butler. | |
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Carouse \Ca*rouse"\ (k[adot]*rouz"), n. [F. carrousse, earlier carous, fr. G. garaus finishing stroke, the entire emptying of the cup in drinking a health; gar entirely + aus out. See {Yare}, and {Out}.] 1. A large draught of liquor. [Obs.] [bd]A full carouse of sack.[b8] --Sir J. Davies. Drink carouses to the next day's fate. --Shak. 2. A drinking match; a carousal. The early feast and late carouse. --Pope. | |
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Carouse \Ca*rouse"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Caroused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Carousing}.] To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take part in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels. He had been aboard, carousing to his mates. --Shak. | |
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Carouse \Ca*rouse"\ v. t. To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially. [Archaic] Guests carouse the sparkling tears of the rich grape. --Denham. Egypt's wanton queen, Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love. --Young. | |
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Carack \Car"ack\, n. [F. caraque (cf. Sp. & Pg. carraca, It. caracca.), LL. carraca, fr. L. carrus wagon; or perh. fr. Ar. qorq[d4]r (pl. qar[be]qir) a carack.] (Naut.) A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon. [Spelt also {carrack}.] The bigger whale like some huge carrack lay. --Waller. | |
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Carrack \Car"rack\, n. See {Carack}. | |
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Carack \Car"ack\, n. [F. caraque (cf. Sp. & Pg. carraca, It. caracca.), LL. carraca, fr. L. carrus wagon; or perh. fr. Ar. qorq[d4]r (pl. qar[be]qir) a carack.] (Naut.) A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon. [Spelt also {carrack}.] The bigger whale like some huge carrack lay. --Waller. | |
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Carrack \Car"rack\, n. See {Carack}. | |
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Carriage \Car"riage\, n. [OF. cariage luggage, carriage, chariage carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. carier, charier, F. charrier, to cart. See {Carry}.] 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. [Obs.] David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. --1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and went up to Jerusalem. --Acts. xxi. 15. 2. The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying. Nine days employed in carriage. --Chapman. 3. The price or expense of carrying. 4. That which carries of conveys, as: (a) A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort. (b) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage. (c) A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part. (d) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage. 5. The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners. His gallant carriage all the rest did grace. --Stirling. 6. The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management. The passage and whole carriage of this action. --Shak. {Carriage horse}, a horse kept for drawing a carriage. {Carriage porch} (Arch.), a canopy or roofed pavilion covering the driveway at the entrance to any building. It is intended as a shelter for those who alight from vehicles at the door; -- sometimes erroneously called in the United States {porte-coch[8a]re}. | |
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Carrick \Car"rick\, n. (Naut.) A carack. See {Carack}. {Carrick bend} (Naut.), a kind of knot, used for bending together hawsers or other ropes. {Carrick bitts} (Naut.), the bitts which support the windlass. --Totten. | |
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Carry \Car"ry\, n.; pl. {Carries}. A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage. [U.S.] | |
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Carryk \Car"ryk\, n. A carack. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Carse \Carse\, n. [Of Celtic origin; cf. W. cars bog, fen. carsen reed, Armor. kars, korsen, bog plant, reed.] Low, fertile land; a river valley. [Scot.] --Jomieson. | |
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Piping \Pip"ing\ (p[imac]p"[icr]ng), a. [From {Pipe}, v.] 1. Playing on a musical pipe. [bd]Lowing herds and piping swains.[b8] --Swift. 2. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife. --Shak. 3. Emitting a high, shrill sound. 4. Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids. {Piping crow}, {Piping crow shrike}, {Piping roller} (Zo[94]l.), any Australian bird of the genus {Gymnorhina}, esp. {G. tibicen}, which is black and white, and the size of a small crow. Called also {caruck}. {Piping frog} (Zo[94]l.), a small American tree frog ({Hyla Pickeringii}) which utters a high, shrill note in early spring. {Piping hot}, boiling hot; hissing hot; very hot. [Colloq.] --Milton. | |
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Cerago \Ce*ra"go\, n. [L. cera wax.] Beebread. | |
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d8Cercus \[d8]Cer"cus\, n.; pl. {Cerci}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] tail.] (Zo[94]l.) See {Cercopod}. | |
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Cereous \Ce"re*ous\, a. [L. cereus, fr. cera was.] Waxen; like wax. [Obs.] --Gayton. | |
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Ceres \Ce"res\, n. [L., Ceres, also corn, grain, akin to E. create.] 1. (Class. Myth.) The daughter of Saturn and Ops or Rhea, the goddess of corn and tillage. 2. (Actron.) The first discovered asteroid. | |
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Ceruse \Ce"ruse\, n. [F. c[82]ruse, L. cerussa.] 1. White lead, used as a pigment. See {White lead}, under {White}. 2. A cosmetic containing white lead. To distinguish ceruse from natural bloom. --Macaulay. 3. (Min.) The native carbonate of lead. | |
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Charge \Charge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Charged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Charging}.] [OF. chargier, F. charger, fr. LL. carricare, fr. L. carrus wagon. Cf. {Cargo}, {Caricature}, {Cark}, and see {Car}.] 1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. --Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. --Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent. Moses . . . charged you to love the Lord your God. --Josh. xxii. 5. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. --Shak. 3. To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for. When land shall be charged by any lien. --Kent. 4. To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples. 5. To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one. 6. To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge. No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime On native sloth and negligence of time. --Dryden. 7. To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of. If he did that wrong you charge him with. --Tennyson. 8. To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc. Their battering cannon charged to the mouths. --Shak. 9. To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding. 10. (Her.) To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or. 11. To call to account; to challenge. [Obs.] To charge me to an answer. --Shak. 12. To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack. Charged our main battle's front. --Shak. Syn: To intrust; command; exhort; instruct; accuse; impeach; arraign. See {Accuse}. | |
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Charge \Charge\, v. i. 1. To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets. Like your heroes of antiquity, he charges in iron. --Glanvill. [bd]Charge for the guns![b8] he said. --Tennyson. 2. To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods. 3. To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases. 4. To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog. | |
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Charge \Charge\, n. [F. charge, fr. charger to load. See {Charge}, v. t., and cf. {Cargo}, {Caricature}.] 1. A load or burder laid upon a person or thing. 2. A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust. Note: The people of a parish or church are called the charge of the clergyman who is set over them. 3. Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty. 'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand. --Shak. 4. Heed; care; anxiety; trouble. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 5. Harm. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 6. An order; a mandate or command; an injunction. The king gave cherge concerning Absalom. --2. Sam. xviii. 5. 7. An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy. 8. An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged. The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena. --Whewell. 9. Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural. 10. The price demanded for a thing or service. 11. An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book. 12. That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time 13. The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge. Never, in any other war afore, gave the Romans a hotter charge upon the enemies. --Holland. The charge of the light brigade. --Tennyson. 14. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge. 15. (Far.) A soft of plaster or ointment. 16. (Her.) A bearing. See {Bearing}, n., 8. 17. [Cf. {Charre}.] Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also {charre}. 18. Weight; import; value. Many suchlike [bd]as's[b8] of great charge. --Shak. {Back charge}. See under {Back}, a. {Bursting charge}. (a (Mil.) The charge which bursts a shell, etc. (b (Mining) A small quantity of fine powder to secure the ignition of a charge of coarse powder in blasting. {Charge and discharge} (Equity Practice), the old mode or form of taking an account before a master in chancery. {Charge sheet}, the paper on which are entered at a police station all arrests and accusations. {To sound the charge}, to give the signal for an attack. Syn: Care; custody; trust; management; office; expense; cost; price; assault; attack; onset; injunction; command; order; mandate; instruction; accusation; indictment. | |
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Saker \Sa"ker\ (s[amac]"k[etil]r), n. [F. sacre (cf. It. sagro, Sp. & Pg. sacre), either fr. L. sacer sacred, holy, as a translation of Gr. "ie`rax falcon, from "iero`s holy, or more probably from Ar. [cced]aqr hawk.] [Written also {sacar}, {sacre}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A falcon ({Falco sacer}) native of Southern Europe and Asia, closely resembling the lanner. Note: The female is called {chargh}, and the male {charghela}, or {sakeret}. (b) The peregrine falcon. [Prov. Eng.] 2. (Mil.) A small piece of artillery. --Wilhelm. On the bastions were planted culverins and sakers. --Macaulay. The culverins and sakers showing their deadly muzzles over the rampart. --Hawthorne. | |
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Chark \Chark\, n. [Abbrev. fr. charcoal.] Charcoal; a cinder. [Obs.] --DeFoe. | |
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Chark \Chark\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Charked}.] To burn to a coal; to char. [Obs.] | |
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Yak \Yak\ (y[acr]k), n. [Thibetan gyag.] (Zo[94]l.) A bovine mammal ({Po[89]phagus grunnies}) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is long and bushy, often white, and is valued as an ornament and for other purposes in India and China. There are several domesticated varieties, some of which lack the mane and the long hair on the flanks. Called also {chauri gua}, {grunting cow}, {grunting ox}, {sarlac}, {sarlik}, and {sarluc}. {Yak lace}, a coarse pillow lace made from the silky hair of the yak. | |
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Cherish \Cher"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cherished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cherising}.] [F. ch[82]rir, fr. cher dear, fr. L. carus. See {Caress}, {Finish}.] 1. To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid. We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children. --1 Thess. ii. 7. 2. To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle. To cherish virtue and humanity. --Burke. Syn: To nourish; foster; nurse; nurture; entertain; encourage; comfort; protect; support; See {Nurture}. | |
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Cherokees \Cher`o*kees"\, n. pl.; sing. {Cherokee}. (Ethnol.) An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes. | |
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Chirk \Chirk\, v. t. To cheer; to enliven; as, to chirk one up. [Colloq. New Eng. ] | |
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Chirk \Chirk\, a. [From {Chirk}, v. i.] Lively; cheerful; in good spirits. [Colloq. New Eng.] | |
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Chirk \Chirk\, v. i. [Cf. {Chirp}, also {Creak}.] 1. To shriek; to gnash; to utter harsh or shrill cries. [Obs.] All full of chirkyng was that sorry place. --Cheucer. 2. To chirp like a bird. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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d8Choragus \[d8]Cho*ra"gus\, n.; pl. {Choragi}. [L., fr. Gr. [?], [?]; [?] chorus + [?] to lead.] (Gr. Antiq.) A chorus leader; esp. one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contents at Athens. | |
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Choreic \Cho*re"ic\, a. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive. | |
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Choric \Cho"ric\, a. [L. choricus, Gr. [?].] Of or pertaining to a chorus. I remember a choric ode in the Hecuba. --Coleridge. | |
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Chorus \Cho"rus\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Chorused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chorusing}.] To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously. --W. D. Howells. | |
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Chorus \Cho"rus\, n.; pl. {Choruses}. [L., a dance in a ring, a dance accompanied with song; a chorus, a band of dancers and singers. Gr. [?]. See {Choir}.] 1. (Antiq.) A band of singers and dancers. The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers. --Dryden. 2. (Gr. Drama) A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus. What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic. --Milton. 3. An interpreter in a dumb show or play. [Obs.] 4. (Mus.) A company of singers singing in concert. 5. (Mus.) A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices. 6. (Mus.) Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts. 7. The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls. | |
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Church \Church\, n. [OE. chirche, chireche, cherche, Scot. kirk, from AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. [?] the Lord's house, fr. [?] concerning a master or lord, fr. [?] master, lord, fr. [?] power, might; akin to Skr. [87][d4]ra hero, Zend. [87]ura strong, OIr. caur, cur, hero. Cf. {Kirk}.] 1. A building set apart for Christian worship. 2. A Jewish or heathen temple. [Obs.] --Acts xix. 37. 3. A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together. [bd]When they had ordained them elders in every church.[b8] --Acts xiv. 23. 4. A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church. 5. The collective body of Christians. 6. Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm. 7. The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil. Remember that both church and state are properly the rulers of the people, only because they are their benefactors. --Bulwer. Note: Church is often used in composition to denote something belonging or relating to the church; as, church authority; church history; church member; church music, etc. {Apostolic church}. See under {Apostolic}. {Broad church}. See {Broad Church}. {Catholic [or] Universal} {church}, the whole body of believers in Christ throughout the world. {Church of England}, or {English church}, the Episcopal church established and endowed in England by law. {Church living}, a benefice in an established church. {Church militant}. See under {Militant}. {Church owl} (Zo[94]l.), the white owl. See {Barn owl}. {Church rate}, a tax levied on parishioners for the maintenance of the church and its services. {Church session}. See under {Session}. {Church triumphant}. See under {Triumphant}. {Church work}, work on, or in behalf of, a church; the work of a particular church for the spread of religion. {Established church}, the church maintained by the civil authority; a state church. | |
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Church \Church\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Churched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Churching}.] To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women. | |
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Church \Church\, n. [OE. chirche, chireche, cherche, Scot. kirk, from AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. [?] the Lord's house, fr. [?] concerning a master or lord, fr. [?] master, lord, fr. [?] power, might; akin to Skr. [87][d4]ra hero, Zend. [87]ura strong, OIr. caur, cur, hero. Cf. {Kirk}.] 1. A building set apart for Christian worship. 2. A Jewish or heathen temple. [Obs.] --Acts xix. 37. 3. A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together. [bd]When they had ordained them elders in every church.[b8] --Acts xiv. 23. 4. A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church. 5. The collective body of Christians. 6. Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm. 7. The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil. Remember that both church and state are properly the rulers of the people, only because they are their benefactors. --Bulwer. Note: Church is often used in composition to denote something belonging or relating to the church; as, church authority; church history; church member; church music, etc. {Apostolic church}. See under {Apostolic}. {Broad church}. See {Broad Church}. {Catholic [or] Universal} {church}, the whole body of believers in Christ throughout the world. {Church of England}, or {English church}, the Episcopal church established and endowed in England by law. {Church living}, a benefice in an established church. {Church militant}. See under {Militant}. {Church owl} (Zo[94]l.), the white owl. See {Barn owl}. {Church rate}, a tax levied on parishioners for the maintenance of the church and its services. {Church session}. See under {Session}. {Church triumphant}. See under {Triumphant}. {Church work}, work on, or in behalf of, a church; the work of a particular church for the spread of religion. {Established church}, the church maintained by the civil authority; a state church. | |
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Church \Church\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Churched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Churching}.] To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women. | |
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Church \Church\, n. [OE. chirche, chireche, cherche, Scot. kirk, from AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. [?] the Lord's house, fr. [?] concerning a master or lord, fr. [?] master, lord, fr. [?] power, might; akin to Skr. [87][d4]ra hero, Zend. [87]ura strong, OIr. caur, cur, hero. Cf. {Kirk}.] 1. A building set apart for Christian worship. 2. A Jewish or heathen temple. [Obs.] --Acts xix. 37. 3. A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together. [bd]When they had ordained them elders in every church.[b8] --Acts xiv. 23. 4. A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church. 5. The collective body of Christians. 6. Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm. 7. The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil. Remember that both church and state are properly the rulers of the people, only because they are their benefactors. --Bulwer. Note: Church is often used in composition to denote something belonging or relating to the church; as, church authority; church history; church member; church music, etc. {Apostolic church}. See under {Apostolic}. {Broad church}. See {Broad Church}. {Catholic [or] Universal} {church}, the whole body of believers in Christ throughout the world. {Church of England}, or {English church}, the Episcopal church established and endowed in England by law. {Church living}, a benefice in an established church. {Church militant}. See under {Militant}. {Church owl} (Zo[94]l.), the white owl. See {Barn owl}. {Church rate}, a tax levied on parishioners for the maintenance of the church and its services. {Church session}. See under {Session}. {Church triumphant}. See under {Triumphant}. {Church work}, work on, or in behalf of, a church; the work of a particular church for the spread of religion. {Established church}, the church maintained by the civil authority; a state church. | |
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Church \Church\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Churched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Churching}.] To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women. | |
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Church-haw \Church"-haw`\, n. [Church + haw a yard.] Churchyard. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Churchy \Church"y\, a. Relating to a church; unduly fond of church forms. [Colloq.] | |
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Circ \Circ\, n. [See {Circus}.] An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus. [R.] --T. Warton. | |
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Cirque \Cirque\, n. [F., fr. L. circus.] 1. A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects. A dismal cirque Of Druid stones upon a forlorn moor. --Keats. 2. A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height. | |
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Cirrhose \Cir"rhose\, a. Same as {Cirrose}. | |
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Cirrose \Cir"rose\, a. [See {Cirrus}.] (Bot.) (a) Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf. (b) Resembling a tendril or cirrus. [Spelt also {cirrhose}.] | |
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Cirrhose \Cir"rhose\, a. Same as {Cirrose}. | |
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Cirrose \Cir"rose\, a. [See {Cirrus}.] (Bot.) (a) Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf. (b) Resembling a tendril or cirrus. [Spelt also {cirrhose}.] | |
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Cirrhous \Cir"rhous\, a. See {Cirrose}. | |
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Cirrhus \Cir"rhus\, n. Same as {Cirrus}. | |
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d8Cirrus \[d8]Cir"rus\, n.; pl. {Cirri}. [L., lock, curl, ringlet.] [Also written {cirrhus}.] 1. (Bot.) A tendril or clasper. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri. (b) The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See {Annelida}, and {Polych[91]ta}. Note: In some of the inferior animals the cirri aid in locomotion; in others they are used in feeding; in the Annelida they are mostly organs of touch. Some cirri are branchial in function. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca. 4. (Meteor.) See under {Cloud}. | |
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Cirrhus \Cir"rhus\, n. Same as {Cirrus}. | |
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d8Cirrus \[d8]Cir"rus\, n.; pl. {Cirri}. [L., lock, curl, ringlet.] [Also written {cirrhus}.] 1. (Bot.) A tendril or clasper. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri. (b) The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See {Annelida}, and {Polych[91]ta}. Note: In some of the inferior animals the cirri aid in locomotion; in others they are used in feeding; in the Annelida they are mostly organs of touch. Some cirri are branchial in function. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca. 4. (Meteor.) See under {Cloud}. | |
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Cirrose \Cir"rose\, a. [See {Cirrus}.] (Bot.) (a) Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf. (b) Resembling a tendril or cirrus. [Spelt also {cirrhose}.] | |
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Cirrous \Cir"rous\, a. 1. (Bot.) Cirrose. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Tufted; -- said of certain feathers of birds. | |
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Cloud \Cloud\ (kloud), n. [Prob. fr. AS. cl[umac]d a rock or hillock, the application arising from the frequent resemblance of clouds to rocks or hillocks in the sky or air.] 1. A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere. I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13. Note: A classification of clouds according to their chief forms was first proposed by the meteorologist Howard, and this is still substantially employed. The following varieties and subvarieties are recognized: (a) {Cirrus}. This is the most elevated of all the forms of clouds; is thin, long-drawn, sometimes looking like carded wool or hair, sometimes like a brush or room, sometimes in curl-like or fleecelike patches. It is the cat's-tail of the sailor, and the mare's-tail of the landsman. (b) {Cumulus}. This form appears in large masses of a hemispherical form, or nearly so, above, but flat below, one often piled above another, forming great clouds, common in the summer, and presenting the appearance of gigantic mountains crowned with snow. It often affords rain and thunder gusts. (c) {Stratus}. This form appears in layers or bands extending horizontally. (d) {Nimbus}. This form is characterized by its uniform gray tint and ragged edges; it covers the sky in seasons of continued rain, as in easterly storms, and is the proper rain cloud. The name is sometimes used to denote a raining cumulus, or cumulostratus. (e) {Cirro-cumulus}. This form consists, like the cirrus, of thin, broken, fleecelice clouds, but the parts are more or less rounded and regulary grouped. It is popularly called mackerel sky. (f) {Cirro-stratus}. In this form the patches of cirrus coalesce in long strata, between cirrus and stratus. (g) {Cumulo-stratus}. A form between cumulus and stratus, often assuming at the horizon a black or bluish tint. -- {Fog}, cloud, motionless, or nearly so, lying near or in contact with the earth's surface. -- {Storm scud}, cloud lying quite low, without form, and driven rapidly with the wind. 2. A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor. [bd]A thick cloud of incense.[b8] --Ezek. viii. 11. 3. A dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title. 4. That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect. 5. A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection. [bd]So great a cloud of witnesses.[b8] --Heb. xii. 1. 6. A large, loosely-knitted scarf, worn by women about the head. {Cloud on a} (or the) {title} (Law), a defect of title, usually superficial and capable of removal by release, decision in equity, or legislation. {To be under a cloud}, to be under suspicion or in disgrace; to be in disfavor. {In the clouds}, in the realm of facy and imagination; beyond reason; visionary. | |
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Coarse \Coarse\, a. [Compar. {Coarser}; superl. {Coarsest}.] [As this word was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. g., [bd]Though the threads be course.[b8] --Gascoigne. See {Course}.] 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; gross; thick; rough; -- opposed to {fine}; as, coarse sand; coarse thread; coarse cloth; coarse bread. 2. Not refined; rough; rude; unpolished; gross; indelicate; as, coarse manners; coarse language. I feel Of what coarse metal ye are molded. --Shak. To copy, in my coarse English, his beautiful expressions. --Dryden. Syn: Large; thick; rough; gross; blunt; uncouth; unpolished; inelegant; indelicate; vulgar. | |
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Coerce \Co*erce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coerced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Coercing}.] [L. co[89]rcere; co- + arcere to shut up, to press together. See {Ark}.] 1. To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb. --Burke. Punishments are manifold, that they may coerce this profligate sort. --Ayliffe. 2. To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate. 3. To compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience. Syn: To {Coerce}, {Compel}. Usage: To compel denotes to urge on by force which cannot be resisted. The term aplies equally to physical and moral force; as, compelled by hunger; compelled adverse circumstances; compelled by parental affection. Coerce had at first only the negative sense of checking or restraining by force; as, to coerce a bad man by punishments or a prisoner with fetters. It has now gained a positive sense., viz., that of driving a person into the performance of some act which is required of him by another; as, to coerce a man to sign a contract; to coerce obedience. In this sense (which is now the prevailing one), coerce differs but little from compel, and yet there is a distinction between them. Coercion is usually acomplished by indirect means, as threats and intimidation, physical force being more rarely employed in coercing. | |
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Coheiress \Co*heir"ess\, n. A female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress. | |
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Corage \Cor"age\ (?; OF. [?]), n. See {Courage} [Obs.] To Canterbury with full devout corage. --Chaucer. | |
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Cork \Cork\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corked} (k[ocir]rkt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Corking}.] 1. To stop with a cork, as a bottle. 2. To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork. Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace. --Bp. Hall. Note: To cork is sometimes used erroneously for to calk, to furnish the shoe of a horse or ox with sharp points, and also in the meaning of cutting with a calk. | |
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Cork \Cork\ (k[ocir]rk), n. [Cf. G., Dan., & Sw. kork, D. kurk; all fr. Sp. corcho, fr. L. cortex, corticis, bark, rind. Cf. {Cortex}.] 1. The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree ({Quercus Suber}), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See {Cutose}. 2. A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork. 3. A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance. Note: Cork is sometimes used wrongly for calk, calker; calkin, a sharp piece of iron on the shoe of a horse or ox. {Cork jackets}, a jacket having thin pieces of cork inclosed within canvas, and used to aid in swimming. {Cork tree} (Bot.), the species of oak ({Quercus Suber} of Southern Europe) whose bark furnishes the cork of commerce. | |
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Corky \Cork"y\ (-[ycr]), a. 1. Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up. Bind fast hiss corky arms. --Shak. 2. Tasting of cork. | |
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Corse \Corse\ (k?rs [or] k?rs; 277), n. [OF. cors, F. corps. See {Corpse}.] 1. A living body or its bulk. [Obs.] For he was strong, and of so mighty corse As ever wielded spear in warlike hand. --Spenser. 2. A corpse; the dead body of a human being. [Archaic or Poetic] Set down the corse; or, by Saint Paul, I'll make a corse of him that disobeys. --Shak. | |
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Courage \Cour"age\ (k?r"?j;48), n. [OE. corage heart, mind, will, courage, OF. corage, F. courage, fr. a LL. derivative of L. cor heart. See {Heart}.] 1. The heart; spirit; temper; disposition. [Obs.] So priketh hem nature in here corages. --Chaucer. My lord, cheer up your spirits; our foes are nigh, and this soft courage makes your followers faint. --Shak. 2. Heart; inclination; desire; will. [Obs.] --Chaucer. I'd such a courage to do him good. --Shak. 3. That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution. The king-becoming graces . . . Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them. --Shak. Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it. --Addison. Syn: Heroism; bravery; intrepidity; valor; gallantry; daring; firmness; hardihood; boldness; dauntlessness; resolution. Usage: See {Heroism}. -- {Courage}, {Bravery}, {Fortitude}, {Intrepidity}, {Gallantry}, {Valor}. Courage is that firmness of spirit and swell of soul which meets danger without fear. Bravery is daring and impetuous courage, like that of one who has the reward continually in view, and displays his courage in daring acts. Fortitude has often been styled [bd]passive courage,[b8] and consist in the habit of encountering danger and enduring pain with a steadfast and unbroken spirit. Valor is courage exhibited in war, and can not be applied to single combats; it is never used figuratively. Intrepidity is firm, unshaken courage. Gallantry is adventurous courage, which courts danger with a high and cheerful spirit. A man may show courage, fortitude, or intrepidity in the common pursuits of life, as well as in war. Valor, bravery, and gallantry are displayed in the contest of arms. Valor belongs only to battle; bravery may be shown in single combat; gallantry may be manifested either in attack or defense; but in the latter ease, the defense is usually turned into an attack. | |
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Courche \Courche\ (k??rsh), n. [Cf. {Kerchief}.] A square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of a cap; a kerchief. [Scot.] [Written also {curch}.] --Jamieson. | |
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Course \Course\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coursed} (k?rst)); p. pr. & vb. n. {Coursing}.] 1. To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue. We coursed him at the heels. --Shak. 2. To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer. 3. To run through or over. The bounding steed courses the dusty plain. --Pope. | |
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Course \Course\, v. i. 1. To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire. 2. To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins. --Shak. | |
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Course \Course\ (k?rs), n. [F. cours, course, L. cursus, fr. currere to run. See {Current}.] 1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. --Acts xxi. 7. 2. The ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. --Pennant. 3. Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance. A light by which the Argive squadron steers Their silent course to Ilium's well known shore. --Dennham. Westward the course of empire takes its way. --Berkeley. 4. Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race. 5. Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument. The course of true love never did run smooth. --Shak. 6. Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws. By course of nature and of law. --Davies. Day and night, Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course. --Milton. 7. Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior. My lord of York commends the plot and the general course of the action. --Shak. By perseverance in the course prescribed. --Wodsworth. You hold your course without remorse. --Tennyson. 8. A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry. 9. The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn. He appointed . . . the courses of the priests --2 Chron. viii. 14. 10. That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments. He [Goldsmith] wore fine clothes, gave dinners of several courses, paid court to venal beauties. --Macaulay. 11. (Arch.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building. --Gwilt. 12. (Naut.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc. 13. pl. (Physiol.) The menses. {In course}, in regular succession. {Of course}, by consequence; as a matter of course; in regular or natural order. {In the course of}, at same time or times during. [bd]In the course of human events.[b8] --T. Jefferson. Syn: Way; road; route; passage; race; series; succession; manner; method; mode; career; progress. | |
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Coursey \Cour"sey\ (k?r"s?), n. [Cf. OF. corsie, coursie, passage way to the stern. See {Course}, n. ] (Naut.) A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. | |
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Cowrie \Cow"rie\ Cowry \Cow"ry\(kou"r[ycr]), n.; pl. {Cowries} (-r[icr]z). [Hind. kaur[imac].] (Zo[94]l.) A marine shell of the genus {Cypr[91]a}. Note: There are numerous species, many of them ornamental. Formerly {C. moneta} and several other species were largely used as money in Africa and some other countries, and they are still so used to some extent. The value is always trifling, and varies at different places. | |
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Crache \Crache\ (kr[acr]ch), v. To scratch. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Crack \Crack\, a. Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of. [Colloq.] One of our crack speakers in the Commons. --Dickens. | |
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Crack \Crack\ (kr[acr]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cracked} (kr[acr]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cracking}.] [OE. cracken, craken, to crack, break, boast, AS. cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. {Crake}, {Cracknel}, {Creak}.] 1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts. 2. To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze. O, madam, my old heart is cracked. --Shak. He thought none poets till their brains were cracked. --Roscommon. 3. To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip. 4. To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke. --B. Jonson. 5. To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up. [Low] {To crack a bottle}, to open the bottle and drink its contents. {To crack a crib}, to commit burglary. [Slang] {To crack on}, to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more steam. [Colloq.] | |
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Crack \Crack\, n. 1. A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass. 2. Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense. My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw. --Shak. 3. A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip. Will the stretch out to the crack of doom? --Shak. 4. The tone of voice when changed at puberty. Though now our voices Have got the mannish crack. --Shak. 5. Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack. 6. A crazy or crack-brained person. [Obs.] I . . . can not get the Parliament to listen to me, who look upon me as a crack and a projector. --Addison. 7. A boast; boasting. [Obs.] [bd]Crack and brags.[b8] --Burton. [bd]Vainglorius cracks.[b8] --Spenser. 8. Breach of chastity. [Obs.] --Shak. 9. A boy, generally a pert, lively boy. [Obs.] Val. 'T is a noble child. Vir. A crack, madam. --Shak. 10. A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack. [Eng. & Scot. Colloq.] 11. Free conversation; friendly chat. [Scot.] What is crack in English? . . . A crack is . . . a chat with a good, kindly human heart in it. --P. P. Alexander. | |
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Crack \Crack\, v. i. 1. To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts. By misfortune it cracked in the coling. --Boyle. The mirror cracked from side to side. --Tennyson. 2. To be ruined or impaired; to fail. [Collog.] The credit . . . of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out. --Dryden. 3. To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound. As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. --Shak. 4. To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of. [Archaic.] Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack. --Shak. | |
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Crag \Crag\ (kr[acr]g), n. [W. craig; akin to Gael. creag, Corn. karak, Armor. karrek.] 1. A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge. From crag to crag the signal flew. --Sir W. Scott. 2. (Geol.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age. | |
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Crag \Crag\, n. [A form of craw: cf. D. kraag neck, collar, G. kragen. See {Craw}.] 1. The neck or throat [Obs.] And bear the crag so stiff and so state. --Spenser. 2. The neck piece or scrag of mutton. --Johnson. | |
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Craggy \Crag"gy\ (kr[acr]g"g[ycr]), a. Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain. [bd]The craggy ledge.[b8] --Tennyson. | |
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Crake \Crake\ (kr[amac]k), v. t. & i. [See {Crack}.] 1. To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake. 2. To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. [Obs.] Each man may crake of that which was his own. --Mir. for Mag. | |
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Crake \Crake\, n. A boast. See {Crack}, n. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Crake \Crake\, n. [Cf. Icel. kr[amac]ka crow, kr[amac]kr raven, Sw. kr[aring]ka, Dan. krage; perh. of imitative origin. Cf. {Crow}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any species or rail of the genera {Crex} and {Porzana}; -- so called from its singular cry. See {Corncrake}. | |
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Crase \Crase\ (kr?z), v. t. [See {Craze}.] To break in pieces; to crack. [Obs.] [bd]The pot was crased.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
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Crash \Crash\ (kr[?]sh>), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crashed} (kr[?]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crashing}.] [OE. crashen, the same word as crasen to break, E. craze. See {Craze}.] To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. [R.] He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire. --Fairfax. | |
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Crash \Crash\, v. i. 1. To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise. Roofs were blazing and walls crashing in every part of the city. --Macaulay. 2. To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof. | |
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Crash \Crash\, n. 1. A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once. The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds. --Addison. 2. Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise. | |
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Crash \Crash\, n. [L. crassus coarse. See {Crass}.] Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels. | |
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Crass \Crass\ (kr?s), a. [L. crassus thick, fat, gross, prob. orig., closely woven. See {Grease} animal fat, and cf. {Crate}, {Hurdle}.] Gross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined. [bd]Crass and fumid exhalations.[b8] --Sir. T. Browne. [bd]Crass ignorance[b8] --Cudworth. | |
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Craze \Craze\, n. (Ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel such as is caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat. | |
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Craze \Craze\, n. 1. Craziness; insanity. 2. A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet. It was quite a craze with him [Burns] to have his Jean dressed genteelly. --Prof. Wilson. 3. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the [91]sthetic craze. Various crazes concerning health and disease. --W. Pater. | |
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Craze \Craze\ (kr[amac]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crazed} (kr[amac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crazing}.] [OE. crasen to break, fr. Scand., perh. through OF.; cf. Sw. krasa to crackle, sl[aring] i kras, to break to pieces, F. [82]craser to crush, fr. the Scand. Cf. {Crash}.] 1. To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See {Crase}. God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels. --Milton. 2. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. [Obs.] Till length of years, And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs. --Milton. 3. To derange the intellect of; to render insane. Any man . . . that is crazed and out of his wits. --Tilloston. Grief hath crazed my wits. --Shak. | |
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Craze \Craze\, v. i. 1. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane. She would weep and he would craze. --Keats. 2. To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery. | |
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Crazy \Cra"zy\ (kr[amac]"z[ycr]), a. [From {Craze}.] 1. Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. Piles of mean andcrazy houses. --Macaulay. One of great riches, but a crazy constitution. --Addison. They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island. --Jeffrey. 2. Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged. Over moist and crazy brains. --Hudibras. 3. Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager. [Colloq.] The girls were crazy to be introduced to him. --R. B. Kimball. {Crazy bone}, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; -- so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; -- called also {funny bone}. {Crazy quilt}, a bedquilt made of pieces of silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement. | |
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Creak \Creak\ (kr[emac]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Creaked} (kr[emac]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Creaking}.] [OE. creken, prob. of imitative origin; cf. E. crack, and. D. krieken to crackle, chirp.] To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak. The creaking locusts with my voice conspire. --Dryden. Doors upon their hinges creaked. --Tennyson. | |
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Creak \Creak\, v. t. To produce a creaking sound with. Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry. --Shak. | |
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Creak \Creak\ (kr[emac]k), n. The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking. --Roget. | |
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Crease \Crease\, n. (Lacrosse) The combination of four lines forming a rectangle inclosing either goal, or the inclosed space itself, within which no attacking player is allowed unless the ball is there; -- called also {goal crease}. | |
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Crease \Crease\ (kr[emac]s), n. See {Creese}. --Tennyson. | |
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Crease \Crease\, n. [Cf. LG. krus, G. krause, crispness, krausen, kr[aum]usen, to crisp, curl, lay on folds; or perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. kriz a wrinkle, crease, kriza to wrinkle, fold, W. crych a wrinkle, crychu to rumple, ripple, crease.] 1. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced. 2. (Cricket) One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker. {Bowling crease} (Cricket), a line extending three feet four inches on each side of the central strings at right angles to the line between the wickets. {Return crease} (Cricket), a short line at each end of the bowling crease and at right angles to it, extending toward the bowler. {Popping crease} (Cricket),, a line drawn in front of the wicket, four feet distant from it, parallel to the bowling crease and at least as long as the latter. --J. H. Walsh (Encyc. of Rural Sports). | |
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Crease \Crease\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Creased} (kr?st); p. pr. & vb. n. {Creasing}.] To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling. Creased, like dog's ears in a folio. --Gray. | |
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Creese \Creese\ (kr[emac]s), n. [Malay. kris.] A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade. [Written also {crease} and {kris}.] From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. --Julian Hawthorne. | |
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Crease \Crease\, n. (Lacrosse) The combination of four lines forming a rectangle inclosing either goal, or the inclosed space itself, within which no attacking player is allowed unless the ball is there; -- called also {goal crease}. | |
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Crease \Crease\ (kr[emac]s), n. See {Creese}. --Tennyson. | |
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Crease \Crease\, n. [Cf. LG. krus, G. krause, crispness, krausen, kr[aum]usen, to crisp, curl, lay on folds; or perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. kriz a wrinkle, crease, kriza to wrinkle, fold, W. crych a wrinkle, crychu to rumple, ripple, crease.] 1. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced. 2. (Cricket) One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker. {Bowling crease} (Cricket), a line extending three feet four inches on each side of the central strings at right angles to the line between the wickets. {Return crease} (Cricket), a short line at each end of the bowling crease and at right angles to it, extending toward the bowler. {Popping crease} (Cricket),, a line drawn in front of the wicket, four feet distant from it, parallel to the bowling crease and at least as long as the latter. --J. H. Walsh (Encyc. of Rural Sports). | |
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Crease \Crease\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Creased} (kr?st); p. pr. & vb. n. {Creasing}.] To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling. Creased, like dog's ears in a folio. --Gray. | |
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Creese \Creese\ (kr[emac]s), n. [Malay. kris.] A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade. [Written also {crease} and {kris}.] From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. --Julian Hawthorne. | |
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Creasy \Creas"y\ (kr?s"?), a. Full of creases. --Tennyson. | |
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Creaze \Creaze\ (kr[emac]z), n. (Mining) The tin ore which collects in the central part of the washing pit or buddle. | |
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Creek \Creek\ (kr[emac]k), n. [AS. crecca; akin to D. kreek, Icel. kriki crack, nook; cf. W. crig crack, crigyll ravine, creek. Cf. {Crick}, {Crook}.] 1. A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river. Each creek and cavern of the dangerous shore. --Cowper. They discovered a certain creek, with a shore. --Acts xxvii. 39. 2. A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook. Lesser streams and rivulets are denominated creeks. --Goldsmith. 3. Any turn or winding. The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands. --Shak. | |
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Creeks \Creeks\ (kr[emac]ks), n. pl.; sing. {Creek}. (Ethnol.) A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. | |
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Creeks \Creeks\ (kr[emac]ks), n. pl.; sing. {Creek}. (Ethnol.) A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. | |
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Creeky \Creek"y\ (kr[emac]k"[ycr]), a. Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding. [bd]The creeky shore.[b8] --Spenser. | |
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Crees \Crees\ (kr[emac]z), n. pl.; sing. {Cree}. (Ethnol.) An Algonquin tribe of Indians, inhabiting a large part of British America east of the Rocky Mountains and south of Hudson's Bay. | |
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Creese \Creese\ (kr[emac]s), n. [Malay. kris.] A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade. [Written also {crease} and {kris}.] From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. --Julian Hawthorne. | |
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Cress \Cress\ (kr[ecr]s), n.; pl. {Cresses} (kr[ecr]s"[ecr]z). [OE. ces, cresse, kers, kerse, AS. cresse, cerse; akin to D. kers, G. kresse, Dan. karse, Sw. krasse, and possibly also to OHG. chresan to creep.] (Bot.) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic. Note: The garden cress, called also {peppergrass}, is the {Lepidium sativum}; the water cress is the {Nasturtium officinale}. Various other plants are sometimes called cresses. To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread. --Goldsmith. {Bitter cress}. See under {Bitter}. {Not worth a cress}, [or] {[bd]not worth a kers.[b8]} a common old proverb, now turned into the meaningless [bd]not worth a curse.[b8] --Skeat. | |
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Cressy \Cress"y\ (kr[ecr]s"[ycr]), a. Abounding in cresses. The cressy islets white in flower. --Tennyson. | |
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Cric \Cric\ (kr[icr]k), n. [prob. fr. F. cric a jackscrew.] The ring which turns inward and condenses the flame of a lamp. --Knight. | |
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Crick \Crick\ (kr[icr]k), n. [See {Creak}.] The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. [Obs.] --Johnson. | |
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Crick \Crick\, n. [The same as creek a bending, twisting. See {Creek}, {Crook}.] 1. A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part. To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei necks drawn backward. --Holland. 2. [Cf. F. cric.] A small jackscrew. --Knight. | |
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Cry \Cry\ (kr?), n.; pl. {Cries} (kr[?]z). [F. cri, fr. crier to cry. See {Cry}, v. i. ] 1. A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves. --Milton. 2. Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand. Again that cry was found to have been as unreasonable as ever. --Macaulay. 3. Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation. There shall be a great cry throughout all the land. --Ex. xi. 6. An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light; And with no language but a cry. --Tennyson. 4. Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor. --Swift. The cry went once on thee. --Shak. 5. Importunate supplication. O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls. --Shak. 6. Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares. The street cries of London. --Mayhew. 7. Common report; fame. The cry goes that you shall marry her. --Shak. 8. A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories. All now depends upon a good cry. --Beaconsfield. 9. A pack of hounds. --Milton. A cry more tunable Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn. --Shak. 10. A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt. Would not this . . . get me a fellowship in a cry of players? --Shak. 11. The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth. {A far cry}, a long distance; -- in allusion to the sending of criers or messengers through the territory of a Scottish clan with an announcement or summons. | |
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d8Crissum \[d8]Cris"sum\ (kr?s"s?m),, n.; pl. {Crissa} (-s[?]). [NL.; cf. L. crisso to move the haunches.] (Zo[94]l.) That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts. | |
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Croak \Croak\, n. The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound. | |
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Croak \Croak\ (kr?k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Croaked}. (kr[?]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Croaking}.] [From the primitive of AS. cracettan to croak as a raven; akin to G. kr[?]chzen to croak, and to E. creak, crake.] 1. To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound. Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the hoarse nation croaked. --Pope. 2. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually. Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. --Carlyle. | |
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Croak \Croak\, v. t. To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster. The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan. --Shak. Two ravens now began to croak Their nuptial song. --Wordsworth. | |
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Croche \Croche\ (kr[omac]ch), n. [OF. croche, equiv. to F. crochet, croc, hook. See {Crotchet}, {Crook}.] A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler. | |
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Crock \Crock\ (kr[ocr]k), n. [Cf. W. croeg cover, Scot. crochit covered.] The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth. | |
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Crock \Crock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crocked} (kr[ocr]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crocking}.] To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth. | |
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Crock \Crock\, v. i. To give off crock or smut. | |
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Crock \Crock\, n. A low stool. [bd]I . . . seated her upon a little crock.[b8] --Tatler. | |
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Crock \Crock\ (kr?k), n. [AS. croc, croca, crog, croh; akin to D. kruik, G. krug, Icel. krukka, Dan. krukke, Sw. kruka; but cf. W. crwc bucket, pail, crochan pot, cregen earthen vessel, jar. Cf. {Cruet}.] Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. Like foolish flies about an honey crock. --Spenser. | |
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Crock \Crock\, v. t. To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. --Halliwell. | |
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Crocky \Crock"y\ (-?), a. [From {Crock} soot.] Smutty. | |
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Crois \Crois\ (krois). n. [OF.] See {Cross}, n. [Obs.] | |
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Croise \Croise\ (krois), n. [F. crois[?] crusader, fr. OF. crois, F. croix, cross. See {Cross}.] 1. A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross. [Obs.] 2. A crusader. [Obs.] The conquesta of the croises extending over Palestine. --Burke. | |
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Crook \Crook\ (kr[oocr]k), n. [OE. crok; akin to Icel. kr[onac]kr hook, bend, SW. krok, Dan. krog, OD. krooke; or cf. Gael. crocan crook, hook, W. crwca crooked. Cf. {Crosier}, {Crotchet}, {Crutch}, {Encroach}.] 1. A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure. Through lanes, and crooks, and darkness. --Phaer. 2. Any implement having a bent or crooked end. Especially: (a) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep. (b) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. {Pastoral staff}. He left his crook, he left his flocks. --Prior. 3. A pothook. [bd]As black as the crook.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. 4. An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge. For all yuor brags, hooks, and crooks. --Cranmer. 5. (Mus.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key. 6. A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc. [Cant, U.S.] {By hook or by crook}, in some way or other; by fair means or foul. | |
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Crook \Crook\ (kr??k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crooked} (kr??kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crooking}.] [OE. croken; cf. Sw. kr[?]ka, Dan. kr[?]ge. See Crook, n.] 1. To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve. Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. --Shak. 2. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. [Archaic] There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games. --Ascham. What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends. --Bacon. | |
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Crook \Crook\, v. i. To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. [bd] The port . . . crooketh like a bow.[b8] --Phaer. Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards. --Camden. | |
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Cross \Cross\, v. t. {To cross a check} (Eng. Banking), to draw two parallel transverse lines across the face of a check, with or without adding between them the words [bd]and company[b8], with or without the words [bd]not negotiable[b8], or to draw the transverse lines simply, with or without the words [bd]not negotiable[b8] (the check in any of these cases being crossed generally). Also, to write or print across the face of a check the name of a banker, with or without the words [bd]not negotiable[b8] (the check being then crossed specially). A check crossed generally is payable only when presented through a bank; one crossed specially, only when presented through the bank mentioned. Cross-buttock \Cross"-but`tock\, n. (Wrestling) A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse. | |
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Cross \Cross\ (kr[ocr]s; 115), n. [OE. crois, croys, cros; the former fr. OF. crois, croiz, F. croix, fr. L. crux; the second is perh. directly fr. Prov. cros, crotz. fr. the same L. crux; cf. Icel. kross. Cf. {Crucial}, {Crusade}, {Cruise}, {Crux}.] 1. A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals. Nailed to the cross By his own nation. --Milton. 2. The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom. The custom of making the sign of the cross with the hand or finger, as a means of conferring blessing or preserving from evil, is very old. --Schaff-Herzog Encyc. Before the cross has waned the crescent's ray. --Sir W. Scott. Tis where the cross is preached. --Cowper. 3. Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune. Heaven prepares a good man with crosses. --B. Jonson. 4. A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also, that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general. I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse. --Shak. 5. An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross; a badge or ornamental device of the general shape of a cross; hence, such an ornament, even when varying considerably from that form; thus, the Cross of the British Order of St. George and St. Michael consists of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it. 6. (Arch.) A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London. Dun-Edin's Cross, a pillared stone, Rose on a turret octagon. --Sir W. Scott. 7. (Her.) A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above. 8. The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write. Five Kentish abbesses . . . .subscribed their names and crosses. --Fuller. 9. Church lands. [Ireland] [Obs.] --Sir J. Davies. 10. A line drawn across or through another line. 11. Hence: A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind. Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler. --Lord Dufferin. | |
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12. (Surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course. 13. (Mech.) A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle. {Cross and pile}, a game with money, at which it is put to chance whether a coin shall fall with that side up which bears the cross, or the other, which is called pile, or reverse; the game called heads or tails. {Cross} {bottony [or] botton[82]}. See under {Bottony}. {Cross estoil[82]} (Her.). a cross, each of whose arms is pointed like the ray of a star; that is, a star having four long points only. {Cross of Calvary}. See {Calvary}, 3. {Southern cross}. (Astron.) See under {Southern}. {To do a thing on the cross}, to act dishonestly; -- opposed to acting on the square. [Slang] {To take up the cross}, to bear troubles and afflictions with patience from love to Christ. | |
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Cross \Cross\ (kr[ocr]s), a. 1. Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting. The cross refraction of the second prism. --Sir I. Newton. 2. Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse. [bd]A cross fortune.[b8] --Jer. Taylor. The cross and unlucky issue of my design. --Glanvill. The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvelously cross to the common experience of mankind. --South. We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross, One must be happy by the other's loss. --Dryden. 3. Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman. He had received a cross answer from his mistress. --Jer. Taylor. 4. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other. {Cross action} (Law), an action brought by a party who is sued against the person who has sued him, upon the same subject matter, as upon the same contract. --Burrill. {Cross aisle} (Arch.), a transept; the lateral divisions of a cruciform church. {Cross axle}. (a) (Mach.) A shaft, windlass, or roller, worked by levers at opposite ends, as in the copperplate printing press. (b) A driving axle, with cranks set at an angle of 90[deg] with each other. {Cross bedding} (Geol.), oblique lamination of horizontal beds. {Cross bill}. See in the Vocabulary. {Cross bitt}. Same as {Crosspiece}. {Cross bond}, a form of bricklaying, in which the joints of one stretcher course come midway between those of the stretcher courses above and below, a course of headers and stretchers intervening. See {Bond}, n., 8. {Cross breed}. See in the Vocabulary. {Cross breeding}. See under {Breeding}. {Cross buttock}, a particular throw in wrestling; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse. --Smollet. {Cross country}, across the country; not by the road. [bd]The cross-country ride.[b8] --Cowper. {Cross fertilization}, the fertilization of the female products of one physiological individual by the male products of another, -- as the fertilization of the ovules of one plant by pollen from another. See {Fertilization}. {Cross file}, a double convex file, used in dressing out the arms or crosses of fine wheels. {Cross fire} (Mil.), lines of fire, from two or more points or places, crossing each other. {Cross forked}. (Her.) See under {Forked}. {Cross frog}. See under {Frog}. {Cross furrow}, a furrow or trench cut across other furrows to receive the water running in them and conduct it to the side of the field. {Cross handle}, a handle attached transversely to the axis of a tool, as in the augur. --Knight. {Cross lode} (Mining), a vein intersecting the true or principal lode. {Cross purpose}. See {Cross-purpose}, in the Vocabulary. {Cross reference}, a reference made from one part of a book or register to another part, where the same or an allied subject is treated of. {Cross sea} (Naut.), a chopping sea, in which the waves run in contrary directions. {Cross stroke}, a line or stroke across something, as across the letter t. {Cross wind}, a side wind; an unfavorable wind. {Cross wires}, fine wires made to traverse the field of view in a telescope, and moved by a screw with a graduated head, used for delicate astronomical observations; spider lines. Fixed cross wires are also used in microscopes, etc. | |
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Cross \Cross\, prep. Athwart; across. [Archaic or Colloq.] A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village. --L'Estrange. {To go cross lots}, to go across the fields; to take a short cut. [Colloq.] | |
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Cross \Cross\, v. i. 1. To lie or be athwart. 2. To move or pass from one side to the other, or from place to place; to make a transit; as, to cross from New York to Liverpool. 3. To be inconsistent. [Obs.] Men's actions do not always cross with reason. --Sir P. Sidney. 4. To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds. If two individuals of distinct races cross, a third is invariably produced different from either. --Coleridge. | |
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Cross \Cross\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crossed} (kr?st; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crossing}.] 1. To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms. 2. To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t. 3. To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream. A hunted hare . . . crosses and confounds her former track. -- I. Watts. 4. To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. [bd]Your kind letter crossed mine.[b8] --J. D. Forbes. 5. To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with. In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing. --Shak. An oyster may be crossed in love. -- Sheridan. 6. To interfere and cut off; to debar. [Obs.] To cross me from the golden time I look for. --Shak. 7. To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself. 8. To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name. 9. To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of. {To cross one's path}, to oppose one's plans. --Macaulay. | |
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Cross \Cross\ (kr[ocr]s), a. 1. Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting. The cross refraction of the second prism. --Sir I. Newton. 2. Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse. [bd]A cross fortune.[b8] --Jer. Taylor. The cross and unlucky issue of my design. --Glanvill. The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvelously cross to the common experience of mankind. --South. We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross, One must be happy by the other's loss. --Dryden. 3. Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman. He had received a cross answer from his mistress. --Jer. Taylor. 4. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other. {Cross action} (Law), an action brought by a party who is sued against the person who has sued him, upon the same subject matter, as upon the same contract. --Burrill. {Cross aisle} (Arch.), a transept; the lateral divisions of a cruciform church. {Cross axle}. (a) (Mach.) A shaft, windlass, or roller, worked by levers at opposite ends, as in the copperplate printing press. (b) A driving axle, with cranks set at an angle of 90[deg] with each other. {Cross bedding} (Geol.), oblique lamination of horizontal beds. {Cross bill}. See in the Vocabulary. {Cross bitt}. Same as {Crosspiece}. {Cross bond}, a form of bricklaying, in which the joints of one stretcher course come midway between those of the stretcher courses above and below, a course of headers and stretchers intervening. See {Bond}, n., 8. {Cross breed}. See in the Vocabulary. {Cross breeding}. See under {Breeding}. {Cross buttock}, a particular throw in wrestling; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse. --Smollet. {Cross country}, across the country; not by the road. [bd]The cross-country ride.[b8] --Cowper. {Cross fertilization}, the fertilization of the female products of one physiological individual by the male products of another, -- as the fertilization of the ovules of one plant by pollen from another. See {Fertilization}. {Cross file}, a double convex file, used in dressing out the arms or crosses of fine wheels. {Cross fire} (Mil.), lines of fire, from two or more points or places, crossing each other. {Cross forked}. (Her.) See under {Forked}. {Cross frog}. See under {Frog}. {Cross furrow}, a furrow or trench cut across other furrows to receive the water running in them and conduct it to the side of the field. {Cross handle}, a handle attached transversely to the axis of a tool, as in the augur. --Knight. {Cross lode} (Mining), a vein intersecting the true or principal lode. {Cross purpose}. See {Cross-purpose}, in the Vocabulary. {Cross reference}, a reference made from one part of a book or register to another part, where the same or an allied subject is treated of. {Cross sea} (Naut.), a chopping sea, in which the waves run in contrary directions. {Cross stroke}, a line or stroke across something, as across the letter t. {Cross wind}, a side wind; an unfavorable wind. {Cross wires}, fine wires made to traverse the field of view in a telescope, and moved by a screw with a graduated head, used for delicate astronomical observations; spider lines. Fixed cross wires are also used in microscopes, etc. | |
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Crosse \Crosse\, n. [F., crosier, hooked stick.] The implement with which the ball is thrown and caught in the game of lacrosse. | |
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Cross-eye \Cross"-eye`\ (-?`), n. See {Strabismus}. | |
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Crossway \Cross"way`\ (-w?`), n. See {Crossroad}. | |
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Crouch \Crouch\ (krouch; 129), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Crouched} (kroucht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crouching}.] [OE. cruchen, crouchen, crouken; cf. E. creep, G. krauchen, kriechen, or E. crook to bend, also crouch to cross.] 1. To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear. Now crouch like a cur. --Beau. & Fl. 2. To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe. [bd]A crouching purpose.[b8] --Wordsworth. Must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor? --Shak. | |
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Crouch \Crouch\, v. t. [OE. cruchen, crouchen, from cruche, crouche, cross. Cf. {Crosier}, {Crook}.] 1. To sign with the cross; to bless. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear. She folded her arms across her chest, And crouched her head upon her breast. --Colerige. | |
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Crouke \Crouke\ (krouk), n. A crock; a jar. [Obs.] --Chauser. | |
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Crouse \Crouse\ (kr??s), a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent. [Scot.] --Burns. | |
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Crows \Crows\ (kr?z), n. pl.; sing. {Crow}. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians of the Dakota stock, living in Montana; -- also called {Upsarokas}. | |
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Croys \Croys\ (krois), n. See {Cross}, n. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Croze \Croze\ (kr?z), n. [Cf. {Cross}, and {Crosier}.] A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself. | |
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Cruise \Cruise\, v. t. 1. To cruise over or about. 2. (Forestry) To explore with reference to capacity for the production of lumber; as, to cruise a section of land. | |
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Cruise \Cruise\, v. i. (Forestry) To inspect forest land for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield. | |
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Cruise \Cruise\, n. A voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure. He feigned a compliance with some of his men, who were bent upon going a cruise to Manilla. --Dampier. | |
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Cruise \Cruise\ (kr[udd]s), n. See {Cruse}, a small bottle. | |
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Cruise \Cruise\ (kr[udd]z), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cruised} (kr[udd]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cruising}.] [D. kruisen to move crosswise or in a zigzag, to cruise, fr. kruis cross, fr. OF. crois, croiz, F. croix, or directly fr. OF. croisier, F. croiser, to cross, cruise, fr. crois a cross. See {Cross}.] 1. To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure. Note: A ship cruises in any particular sea or ocean; as, in the Baltic or in the Atlantic. She cruises off any cape; as, off the Lizard; off Ushant. She cruises on a coast; as, on the coast of Africa. A priate cruises to seize vessels; a yacht cruises for the pleasure of the owner. Ships of war were sent to cruise near the isle of Bute. --Macaulay. 'Mid sands, and rocks, and storms to cruise for pleasure. --Young. 2. To wander hither and thither on land. [Colloq.] | |
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Cruse \Cruse\ (kr?s), n. [Akin to LG. kruus, kroos, mug, jug, jar, D. kroes, G. krause, Icel. krus, Sw. krus, Dan. kruus. Cf. {Crucible}, {Cresset}.] 1. A cup or dish. Take with thee . . . a cruse of honey. --1 Kings xiv. 3. 2. A bottle for holding water, oil, honey, etc. So David took . . . the cruse of water. --1 Sam. xxvi. 12. | |
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Crush \Crush\ (kr?sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crushed} (kr?sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crushing}.] [OE. cruschen, crousshen, Of. cruisir, croissir, fr. LL. cruscire, prob. of Ger. origin, from a derivative of the word seen in Goth. kruistan to gnash; akin to Sw. krysta to squeeze, Dan. kryste, Icel. kreysta.] 1. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes. Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut. --Lev. xxii. 24. The ass . . . thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall. --Num. xxii. 25. 2. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz. 3. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight. To crush the pillars which the pile sustain. --Dryden. Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again. --Bryant. 4. To oppress or burden grievously. Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway. --Deut. xxviii. 33. 5. To overcome completely; to subdue totally. Speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels. --Sir. W. Scott. {To crush a cup}, to drink. [Obs.] {To crush out}. (a) To force out or separate by pressure, as juice from grapes. (b) To overcome or destroy completely; to suppress. | |
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Crush \Crush\ (kr?sh), v. i. To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily. | |
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Crush \Crush\, n. 1. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. --Addison. 2. Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception. {Crush hat}, a hat which collapses, and can be carried under the arm, and when expanded is held in shape by springs; hence, any hat not injured by compressing. {Crush room}, a large room in a theater, opera house, etc., where the audience may promenade or converse during the intermissions; a foyer. Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush room of the opera at night. --Macaulay. | |
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Cuirass \Cui*rass"\ (kw[esl]*r[adot]s", [or] kw[emac]"r[acr]s; 277), n.; pl. {Cuirasses}(-[ecr]z). [F. cuirasse, orig., a breastplate of leather, for OF. cuir[82]e, cuirie influenced by It. corazza, or Sp. coraza, fr. an assumed LL. coriacea, fr. L. coriaceus, adj., of leather, fr. corium leather, hide; akin to Gr. cho`rion intestinal membrane, OSlav. skora hide, Lith. skura hide, leather. Cf. {Coriaceous}.] 1. (a) A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle. (b) The breastplate taken by itself. Note: The cuirass covered the body before and behind. It consisted of two parts, a breast- and backpiece of iron fastened together by means of straps and buckles or other like contrivances. It was originally, as the name imports, made of leather, but afterward of metal. --Grose. 2. (Zo[94]l) An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass. | |
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Curacy \Cu"ra*cy\ (k?"r?-s?), n.; pl. {Curacies} (-s[?]z). [See {Cure}, {Curate}.] The office or employment of a curate. | |
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Curassow \Cu*ras"sow\ (k?-r?s"s?), n. [Native name in Brazil.] (Zool.) A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera {Crax}, {Ourax}, etc., of the family {Cracid[91]}. Note: The crested curassow ({Crax alector}) is black, and about the size of a small hen-turkey, with an erectile crest of curled feathers. It ranges from Mexico to Brazil. The galeated curassow or cushew bird ({Ourax Pauxi}) is similar in size, and has a large, hollow, blue, pear-shaped protuberance on the head. | |
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Courche \Courche\ (k??rsh), n. [Cf. {Kerchief}.] A square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of a cap; a kerchief. [Scot.] [Written also {curch}.] --Jamieson. | |
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Curch \Curch\ (k??rch), n. See {Courche}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Courche \Courche\ (k??rsh), n. [Cf. {Kerchief}.] A square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of a cap; a kerchief. [Scot.] [Written also {curch}.] --Jamieson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curch \Curch\ (k??rch), n. See {Courche}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curio \Cu"ri*o\ (k?"r?-?), n.; pl. {Curios} (-[?]z). [Abbreviation of curiosity.] Any curiosity or article of virtu. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curious \Cu"ri*ous\ (k?"r?-?s), a. [OF. curios, curius, F. curieux, L. curiosus careful, inquisitive, fr. cura care. See {Cure}.] 1. Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact. [Obs.] Little curious in her clothes. --Fuller. How shall we, If he be curious, work upon his faith? --Beau. & Fl. 2. Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill. To devise curious works. --Ex. xxxv. 32 His body couched in a curious bed. --Shak. 3. Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of. It is a pity a gentleman so very curious after things that were elegant and beautiful should not have been as curious as to their origin, their uses, and their natural history. --Woodward. 4. Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare. [bd]Acurious tale[b8] --Shak. A multitude of curious analogies. --Macaulay. Many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. --E. A. Poe. Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light curious results. --C. J. Smith. {Curious arts}, magic. [Obs.] Many . . . which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them. --Acts xix. 19. Syn: Inquisitive; prying. See {Inquisitive}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Currish \Cur"rish\ (k?r"r?sh), a. [From {Cur}.] Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal. Thy currish spirit Governed a wolf. --Shak. Some currish plot, -- some trick. --Lockhart. -- {Cur"rish*ly}, adv. -- {Cur"rish*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curse \Curse\ (k?rs), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cursed} (k?rst) or {Curst}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cursing}.] [AS. cursian, corsian, perh. of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. korse to make the sign of the cross, Sw. korsa, fr. Dan. & Sw. kors cross, Icel kross, all these Scand. words coming fr. OF. crois, croiz, fr. L. crux cross. Cf. {Cross}.] 1. To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate. Thou shalt not . . . curse the ruler of thy people. --Ex. xxii. 28. Ere sunset I'll make thee curse the deed. --Shak. 2. To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment. On impious realms and barbarous kings impose Thy plagues, and curse 'em with such sons as those. --Pope. {To curse by bell, book, and candle}. See under {Bell}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curse \Curse\, v. i. To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear. Then began he to curse and to swear. --Matt. xxi. 74. His spirits hear me, And yet I need must curse. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curse \Curse\, n. [AS. curs. See {Curse}, v. t.] 1. An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction. Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. --Shak. 2. Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation. The priest shall write these curses in a book. --Num. v. 23. Curses, like chickens, come home to roost. --Old Proverb. 3. The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment. The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance. --Shak. All that I eat, or drink, or shall beget, Is propagated curse. --Milton. {The curse of Scotland} (Card Playing), the nine of diamonds. {Not worth a curse}. See under {Cress}. Syn: Malediction; imprecation; execration. See {Malediction}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Czarish \Czar"ish\ (z?r"?sh), a. Of or pertaining to the czar. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Ceres, CA (city, FIPS 12524) Location: 37.59935 N, 120.95623 W Population (1990): 26314 (9075 housing units) Area: 14.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 95307 Ceres, NY Zip code(s): 14721 Ceres, VA Zip code(s): 24318 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Ceresco, MI Zip code(s): 49033 Ceresco, NE (village, FIPS 8570) Location: 41.05773 N, 96.64533 W Population (1990): 825 (305 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68017 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cherokee, AL (town, FIPS 14152) Location: 34.75637 N, 87.96669 W Population (1990): 1479 (633 housing units) Area: 5.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 35616 Cherokee, IA (city, FIPS 13080) Location: 42.75059 N, 95.55249 W Population (1990): 6026 (2663 housing units) Area: 15.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 51012 Cherokee, KS (city, FIPS 12825) Location: 37.34494 N, 94.82126 W Population (1990): 651 (319 housing units) Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66724 Cherokee, NC Zip code(s): 28719 Cherokee, OK (city, FIPS 13750) Location: 36.75413 N, 98.35493 W Population (1990): 1787 (1010 housing units) Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73728 Cherokee, TX Zip code(s): 76832 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Craig, AK (city, FIPS 17740) Location: 55.48280 N, 133.12315 W Population (1990): 1260 (504 housing units) Area: 15.3 sq km (land), 6.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 99921 Craig, CO (city, FIPS 17760) Location: 40.51693 N, 107.55338 W Population (1990): 8091 (3559 housing units) Area: 12.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 81625 Craig, IA (city, FIPS 16950) Location: 42.89555 N, 96.31012 W Population (1990): 116 (47 housing units) Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Craig, MO (city, FIPS 17056) Location: 40.19222 N, 95.37336 W Population (1990): 346 (166 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Craig, NE (village, FIPS 11090) Location: 41.78495 N, 96.36159 W Population (1990): 228 (116 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68019 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cresco, IA (city, FIPS 17220) Location: 43.37177 N, 92.11566 W Population (1990): 3669 (1651 housing units) Area: 8.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52136 Cresco, PA Zip code(s): 18326 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Crook, CO (town, FIPS 18640) Location: 40.85833 N, 102.80108 W Population (1990): 148 (71 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 80726 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Crooks, SD (city, FIPS 14740) Location: 43.66017 N, 96.80726 W Population (1990): 671 (215 housing units) Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57020 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cross, SC Zip code(s): 29436 | |
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Crouch, ID (city, FIPS 19720) Location: 44.11533 N, 115.97164 W Population (1990): 75 (41 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Crouse, NC Zip code(s): 28033 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cyrus, MN (city, FIPS 14446) Location: 45.61514 N, 95.73698 W Population (1990): 328 (162 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56323 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
corge /korj/ n. [originally, the name of a cat] Yet another {metasyntactic variable}, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the {GOSMACS} documentation. See {grault}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
crash 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the {system} (q.v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses). "Three {luser}s lost their files in last night's disk crash." A disk crash that involves the read/write heads dropping onto the surface of the disks and scraping off the oxide may also be referred to as a `head crash', whereas the term `system crash' usually, though not always, implies that the operating system or other software was at fault. 2. v. To fail suddenly. "Has the system just crashed?" "Something crashed the OS!" See {down}. Also used transitively to indicate the cause of the crash (usually a person or a program, or both). "Those idiots playing {SPACEWAR} crashed the system." 3. vi. Sometimes said of people hitting the sack after a long {hacking run}; see {gronk out}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
crock n. [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] 1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner. For example, using small integers to represent error codes without the program interpreting them to the user (as in, for example, Unix `make(1)', which returns code 139 for a process that dies due to {segfault}). 2. A technique that works acceptably, but which is quite prone to failure if disturbed in the least. For example, a too-clever programmer might write an assembler which mapped instruction mnemonics to numeric opcodes algorithmically, a trick which depends far too intimately on the particular bit patterns of the opcodes. (For another example of programming with a dependence on actual opcode values, see {The Story of Mel} in Appendix A.) Many crocks have a tightly woven, almost completely unmodifiable structure. See {kluge}, {brittle}. The adjectives `crockish' and `crocky', and the nouns `crockishness' and `crockitude', are also used. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Chorus A distributed {operating system} developed at {INRIA}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CORC CORnell Compiler. Simple language for student math problems. ["The Cornell Computing Language", R.W. Conway et al, CACM 6(6):317-320 (Jun 1963) Sammet 1969, p.294-296]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
corge /korj/ Yet another {metasyntactic variable}, named after a cat invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the {GOSMACS} documentation. See {grault}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
crash 1. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the {system}, especially of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happened when the air gap of a hard disk collapses). "Three {lusers} lost their files in last night's disk crash." A disk crash that involves the read/write heads dropping onto the surface of the disks and scraping off the oxide may also be referred to as a "head crash", whereas the term "system crash" usually, though not always, implies that the operating system or other software was at fault. 2. To fail suddenly. "Has the system just crashed?" "Something crashed the OS!" See {down}. Also used transitively to indicate the cause of the crash (usually a person or a program, or both). "Those idiots playing {SPACEWAR} crashed the system." [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CRC {cyclic redundancy check} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
crock [American scatologism "crock of shit"] 1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner. For example, using small integers to represent error codes without the program interpreting them to the user (as in, for example, Unix "make(1)", which returns code 139 for a process that dies due to {segfault}). 2. A technique that works acceptably, but which is quite prone to failure if disturbed in the least. For example, a too-clever programmer might write an assembler which mapped {instruction mnemonics} to numeric {opcode}s {algorithm}ically, a trick which depends far too intimately on the particular bit patterns of the opcodes. (For another example of programming with a dependence on actual opcode values, see {The Story of Mel}.) Many crocks have a tightly woven, almost completely unmodifiable structure. See {kluge}, {brittle}. The adjectives "crockish" and "crocky", and the nouns "crockishness" and "crockitude", are also used. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
.cshrc configuration file. This file is found in a user's {home directory} and can contain shell and other commands to set variables, define aliases, and perform any other initialisation which should happen for every shell (as opposed to {.login} which is only run for a {login shell}). Compare {AUTOEXEC.BAT} on {MS-DOS}. See also {rc}. (1996-04-09) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Cyrix {Intel 486} equivalent - the {Cy486SLC} and a {Pentium} equivalent - the {Cyrix 6x86}. {Home (http://www.cyrix.com/)}. (1996-03-23) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Cyrix 6x86 64-bit {80x86}-compatible {microprocessor}. The 6x86 combines aspects of both {RISC} and {CISC}. It has a {superscalar}, {superpipelined} {core}, and performs {register renaming}, {speculative execution}, {out-of-order completion}, and {data dependency removal}. It has a 16-kilobyte {primary cache} and is socket-compatible with the {Pentium} P54C. It has four performance levels: PR 120+, PR 150+, PR 166+ and PR 200+. The chip was designed by Cyrix and is manufactured by IBM. The architecture of the 6x86 is more advanced than that of the Pentium, incorporating some of the features of Intel's {Pentium Pro}. At a given {clock rate} it executes most code more quickly than a Pentium would. However, its {FPU} is considerably less efficient than Intel's. {IBM FAQ (http://www.chips.ibm.com/products/x86/6x86/faqs/6x86_faqs.html)}, {Cyrix FAQ (http://www.cyrix.com/process/prodinfo/6x86/faq-6x86.htm)}. (1997-05-26) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Carriage In the Authorized Version this word is found as the rendering of many different words. In Judg. 18:21 it means valuables, wealth, or booty. In Isa. 46:1 (R.V., "the things that ye carried about") the word means a load for a beast of burden. In 1 Sam. 17:22 and Isa. 10:28 it is the rendering of a word ("stuff" in 1 Sam. 10:22) meaning implements, equipments, baggage. The phrase in Acts 21:15, "We took up our carriages," means properly, "We packed up our baggage," as in the Revised Version. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Church Derived probably from the Greek kuriakon (i.e., "the Lord's house"), which was used by ancient authors for the place of worship. In the New Testament it is the translation of the Greek word ecclesia, which is synonymous with the Hebrew _kahal_ of the Old Testament, both words meaning simply an assembly, the character of which can only be known from the connection in which the word is found. There is no clear instance of its being used for a place of meeting or of worship, although in post-apostolic times it early received this meaning. Nor is this word ever used to denote the inhabitants of a country united in the same profession, as when we say the "Church of England," the "Church of Scotland," etc. We find the word ecclesia used in the following senses in the New Testament: (1.) It is translated "assembly" in the ordinary classical sense (Acts 19:32, 39, 41). (2.) It denotes the whole body of the redeemed, all those whom the Father has given to Christ, the invisible catholic church (Eph. 5:23, 25, 27, 29; Heb. 12:23). (3.) A few Christians associated together in observing the ordinances of the gospel are an ecclesia (Rom. 16:5; Col. 4:15). (4.) All the Christians in a particular city, whether they assembled together in one place or in several places for religious worship, were an ecclesia. Thus all the disciples in Antioch, forming several congregations, were one church (Acts 13:1); so also we read of the "church of God at Corinth" (1 Cor. 1:2), "the church at Jerusalem" (Acts 8:1), "the church of Ephesus" (Rev. 2:1), etc. (5.) The whole body of professing Christians throughout the world (1 Cor. 15:9; Gal. 1:13; Matt. 16:18) are the church of Christ. The church visible "consists of all those throughout the world that profess the true religion, together with their children." It is called "visible" because its members are known and its assemblies are public. Here there is a mixture of "wheat and chaff," of saints and sinners. "God has commanded his people to organize themselves into distinct visible ecclesiastical communities, with constitutions, laws, and officers, badges, ordinances, and discipline, for the great purpose of giving visibility to his kingdom, of making known the gospel of that kingdom, and of gathering in all its elect subjects. Each one of these distinct organized communities which is faithful to the great King is an integral part of the visible church, and all together constitute the catholic or universal visible church." A credible profession of the true religion constitutes a person a member of this church. This is "the kingdom of heaven," whose character and progress are set forth in the parables recorded in Matt. 13. The children of all who thus profess the true religion are members of the visible church along with their parents. Children are included in every covenant God ever made with man. They go along with their parents (Gen. 9:9-17; 12:1-3; 17:7; Ex. 20:5; Deut. 29:10-13). Peter, on the day of Pentecost, at the beginning of the New Testament dispensation, announces the same great principle. "The promise [just as to Abraham and his seed the promises were made] is unto you, and to your children" (Acts 2:38, 39). The children of believing parents are "holy", i.e., are "saints", a title which designates the members of the Christian church (1 Cor. 7:14). (See {BAPTISM}.) The church invisible "consists of the whole number of the elect that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one under Christ, the head thereof." This is a pure society, the church in which Christ dwells. It is the body of Christ. it is called "invisible" because the greater part of those who constitute it are already in heaven or are yet unborn, and also because its members still on earth cannot certainly be distinguished. The qualifications of membership in it are internal and are hidden. It is unseen except by Him who "searches the heart." "The Lord knoweth them that are his" (2 Tim. 2:19). The church to which the attributes, prerogatives, and promises appertaining to Christ's kingdom belong, is a spiritual body consisting of all true believers, i.e., the church invisible. (1.) Its unity. God has ever had only one church on earth. We sometimes speak of the Old Testament Church and of the New Testament church, but they are one and the same. The Old Testament church was not to be changed but enlarged (Isa. 49:13-23; 60:1-14). When the Jews are at length restored, they will not enter a new church, but will be grafted again into "their own olive tree" (Rom. 11:18-24; comp. Eph. 2:11-22). The apostles did not set up a new organization. Under their ministry disciples were "added" to the "church" already existing (Acts 2:47). (2.) Its universality. It is the "catholic" church; not confined to any particular country or outward organization, but comprehending all believers throughout the whole world. (3.) Its perpetuity. It will continue through all ages to the end of the world. It can never be destroyed. It is an "everlasting kindgdom." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Cross in the New Testament the instrument of crucifixion, and hence used for the crucifixion of Christ itself (Eph. 2:16; Heb. 12:2; 1 Cor. 1:17, 18; Gal. 5:11; 6:12, 14; Phil. 3:18). The word is also used to denote any severe affliction or trial (Matt. 10:38; 16:24; Mark 8:34; 10:21). The forms in which the cross is represented are these: 1. The crux simplex (I), a "single piece without transom." 2. The crux decussata (X), or St. Andrew's cross. 3. The crux commissa (T), or St. Anthony's cross. 4. The crux immissa (t), or Latin cross, which was the kind of cross on which our Saviour died. Above our Lord's head, on the projecting beam, was placed the "title." (See {CRUCIFIXION}.) After the conversion, so-called, of Constantine the Great (B.C. 313), the cross first came into use as an emblem of Christianity. He pretended at a critical moment that he saw a flaming cross in the heavens bearing the inscription, "In hoc signo vinces", i.e., By this sign thou shalt conquer, and that on the following night Christ himself appeared and ordered him to take for his standard the sign of this cross. In this form a new standard, called the Labarum, was accordingly made, and borne by the Roman armies. It remained the standard of the Roman army till the downfall of the Western empire. It bore the embroidered monogram of Christ, i.e., the first two Greek letters of his name, X and P (chi and rho), with the Alpha and Omega. (See {A}.) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Cruse a utensil; a flask or cup for holding water (1 Sam. 26:11, 12, 16; 1 Kings 19:6) or oil (1 Kings 17:12, 14, 16). In 1 Kings 14:3 the word there so rendered means properly a bottle, as in Jer. 19:1, 10, or pitcher. In 2 Kings 2:20, a platter or flat metal saucer is intended. The Hebrew word here used is translated "dish" in 21:13; "pans," in 2 Chr. 35:13; and "bosom," in Prov. 19:24; 26:15 (R.V., "dish"). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Curse denounced by God against the serpent (Gen. 3:14), and against Cain (4:11). These divine maledictions carried their effect with them. Prophetical curses were sometimes pronounced by holy men (Gen. 9:25; 49:7; Deut. 27:15; Josh. 6:26). Such curses are not the consequence of passion or revenge, they are predictions. No one on pain of death shall curse father or mother (Ex. 21:17), nor the prince of his people (22:28), nor the deaf (Lev. 19:14). Cursing God or blaspheming was punishable by death (Lev. 24:10-16). The words "curse God and die" (R.V., "renounce God and die"), used by Job's wife (Job 2:9), have been variously interpreted. Perhaps they simply mean that as nothing but death was expected, God would by this cursing at once interpose and destroy Job, and so put an end to his sufferings. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Cyrus (Heb. Ko'resh), the celebrated "King of Persia" (Elam) who was conqueror of Babylon, and issued the decree of liberation to the Jews (Ezra 1:1, 2). He was the son of Cambyses, the prince of Persia, and was born about B.C. 599. In the year B.C. 559 he became king of Persia, the kingdom of Media being added to it partly by conquest. Cyrus was a great military leader, bent on universal conquest. Babylon fell before his army (B.C. 538) on the night of Belshazzar's feast (Dan. 5:30), and then the ancient dominion of Assyria was also added to his empire (cf., "Go up, O Elam", Isa.21:2). Hitherto the great kings of the earth had only oppressed the Jews. Cyrus was to them as a "shepherd" (Isa. 44:28; 45:1). God employed him in doing service to his ancient people. He may posibly have gained, through contact with the Jews, some knowledge of their religion. The "first year of Cyrus" (Ezra 1:1) is not the year of his elevation to power over the Medes, nor over the Persians, nor the year of the fall of Babylon, but the year succeeding the two years during which "Darius the Mede" was viceroy in Babylon after its fall. At this time only (B.C. 536) Cyrus became actual king over Palestine, which became a part of his Babylonian empire. The edict of Cyrus for the rebuilding of Jerusalem marked a great epoch in the history of the Jewish people (2 Chr. 36:22, 23; Ezra 1:1-4; 4:3; 5:13-17; 6:3-5). This decree was discovered "at Achmetha [R.V. marg., "Ecbatana"], in the palace that is in the province of the Medes" (Ezra 6:2). A chronicle drawn up just after the conquest of Babylonia by Cyrus, gives the history of the reign of Nabonidus (Nabunahid), the last king of Babylon, and of the fall of the Babylonian empire. In B.C. 538 there was a revolt in Southern Babylonia, while the army of Cyrus entered the country from the north. In June the Babylonian army was completely defeated at Opis, and immediately afterwards Sippara opened its gates to the conqueror. Gobryas (Ugbaru), the governor of Kurdistan, was then sent to Babylon, which surrendered "without fighting," and the daily services in the temples continued without a break. In October, Cyrus himself arrived, and proclaimed a general amnesty, which was communicated by Gobryas to "all the province of Babylon," of which he had been made governor. Meanwhile, Nabonidus, who had concealed himself, was captured, but treated honourably; and when his wife died, Cambyses, the son of Cyrus, conducted the funeral. Cyrus now assumed the title of "king of Babylon," claimed to be the descendant of the ancient kings, and made rich offerings to the temples. At the same time he allowed the foreign populations who had been deported to Babylonia to return to their old homes, carrying with them the images of their gods. Among these populations were the Jews, who, as they had no images, took with them the sacred vessels of the temple. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Cyrus, as miserable; as heir |