CPage 490
- English Word Cretinous Definition Having the characteristics of a cretin.
- English Word Cretism Definition A Cretan practice; lying; a falsehood.
- English Word Cretonne Definition A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and weft of flax.
- English Word Cretonne Definition A fabric with cotton warp and woolen weft.
- English Word Cretonne Definition A kind of chintz with a glossy surface.
- English Word Cretor Definition One who creates, produces, or constitutes. Specifically, the Supreme Being.
- English Word Cretose Definition Chalky; cretaceous.
- English Word Creutzer Definition See Kreutzer.
- English Word Creux Definition Used in English only in the expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design.
- English Word Crevalle Definition The cavally or jurel.
- English Word Crevalle Definition The pompano (Trachynotus Carolinus).
- English Word Crevasse Definition A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.
- English Word Crevasse Definition A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi.
- English Word Crevet Definition A crucible or melting pot; a cruset.
- English Word Crevice Definition A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
- English Word Crevice Definition To crack; to flaw.
- English Word Creviced Definition Having a crevice or crevices; as, a creviced structure for storing ears of corn.
- English Word Crevis Definition The crawfish.
- English Word Crew Definition The Manx shearwater.
- English Word Crew Definition A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.
- English Word Crew Definition The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
- English Word Crew Definition In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.
- English Word Crew Definition imp. of Crow
- English Word Crew Definition of Crow
- English Word Crewel Definition Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.
- English Word Crewelwork Definition Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen.
- English Word Crewet Definition See Cruet.
- English Word Crib Definition A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.
- English Word Crib Definition A stall for oxen or other cattle.
- English Word Crib Definition A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.