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  • English Word Criminal Definition One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon.
  • English Word Criminalist Definition One versed in criminal law.
  • English Word Criminality Definition The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt.
  • English Word Criminally Definition In violation of law; wickedly.
  • English Word Criminalness Definition Criminality.
  • English Word Criminate Definition To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.
  • English Word Criminate Definition To involve in a crime or in its consequences; to render liable to a criminal charge.
  • English Word Criminated Definition of Criminate
  • English Word Criminating Definition of Criminate
  • English Word Crimination Definition The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint.
  • English Word Criminative Definition Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory.
  • English Word Criminatory Definition Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience.
  • English Word Criminology Definition A treatise on crime or the criminal population.
  • English Word Criminous Definition Criminal; involving great crime or grave charges; very wicked; heinous.
  • English Word Crimosin Definition See Crimson.
  • English Word Crimp Definition To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp.
  • English Word Crimp Definition To pinch and hold; to seize.
  • English Word Crimp Definition to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.
  • English Word Crimp Definition To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.
  • English Word Crimp Definition Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
  • English Word Crimp Definition Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
  • English Word Crimp Definition A coal broker.
  • English Word Crimp Definition One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
  • English Word Crimp Definition A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
  • English Word Crimp Definition Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.
  • English Word Crimp Definition A game at cards.
  • English Word Crimpage Definition The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.
  • English Word Crimped Definition of Crimp
  • English Word Crimper Definition One who, or that which, crimps
  • English Word Crimper Definition A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.