Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 141
Coyish (a.) Somewhat coy or reserved.
Coyly (adv.) In a coy manner; with reserve.
Coyness (n.) The quality of being coy; feigned o? bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve.
When the kind nymph would coyness feign, And hides but to be found again. -- Dryden.
Syn: Reserve; shrinking; shyness; backwardness; modesty; bashfulness.
Coyness (n.) The affectation of being demure in a provocative way [syn: coyness, demureness].
Coyote (n.) A carnivorous animal (Canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of North America; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl.
Coypu (n.) A South American rodent (Myopotamus coypus), allied to the beaver. It produces a valuable fur called nutria.
Coystrel (n.) Same as Coistril.
Coz (n.) A contraction of cousin.
Coze (v. i.) 談心；聊天 To converse in a friendly way; chat.
Coze (n.) 談心；聊天 A friendly talk; a chat.
Cozened (imp. & p. p.) of Cozen.
Cozening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cozen.
Cozen (v. i.) 騙取，哄騙，詐騙 To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully.
Some cogging, cozening slave. -- Shak.
Cozen (v. t.) 幹欺騙勾當 To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.
He had cozened the world by fine phrases. -- Macaulay.
Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters. -- Locke.
Goring loved no man so well but that he would cozen him, and expose him to public mirth for having been cozened. -- Clarendon.
Cozen (v.) Be false to; be dishonest with [syn: {deceive}, {lead on}, {delude}, {cozen}].
Cozen (v.) Act with artful deceit.
Cozen (v.) Cheat or trick; "He cozened the money out of the old man."
Cozenage (n.) The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud.
Cozener (n.) One who cheats or defrauds.
Cozier (n.) See Cosier.
Cozily (adv.) Snugly; comfortably.
Coziness (n.) The state or quality of being cozy.
Cozy (a.) 舒適的；愜意的 Snug; comfortable; easy; contented. [Written also {cosey} and {cosy}.]
Cozy (a.) Chatty; talkative; sociable; familiar. [Eng.]
Cozy (n.) 茶壺套 A wadded covering, often decorative, for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot. Also called {tea cozy}.
Cozy (a.) Enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space; "a cozy nook near the fire"; "snug in bed"; "a snug little apartment" [syn: {cozy}, {cosy}, {snug}].
Cozy (a.) Having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere; "had a cozy chat"; "a relaxed informal manner"; "an intimate cocktail lounge"; "the small room was cozy and intimate" [syn: {cozy}, {intimate}, {informal}].
Cozy (a.) Suggesting connivance; "a cozy arrangement with the police".
Cozy (n.) 保溫罩 A padded cloth covering to keep a teapot warm [syn: {cosy}, {tea cosy}, {cozy}, {tea cozy}].
Crab (n.) (Zool.) 蟹 [C]；蟹肉 [U] One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.
Note: The name is applied to all the Brachyura, and to certain Anomura, as the hermit crabs. Formerly, it was sometimes applied to Crustacea in general. Many species are edible, the blue crab of the Atlantic coast being one of the most esteemed. The large European edible crab is {Cancer padurus}. {Soft-shelled crabs} are blue crabs that have recently cast their shells. See {Cancer}; also, {Box crab}, {Fiddler crab}, {Hermit crab}, {Spider crab}, etc., under {Box}, {Fiddler}. etc.
Crab (n.) 【天】（大寫）巨蟹座 [the S] The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
Crab (n.) (Bot.) A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
Crab (n.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick. [Obs.] -- Garrick.
Crab (n.) (Mech.) 起重機；絞車 [C ] A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
Crab (n.) (Mech.) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
Crab (n.) (Mech.) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
Crab (n.) (Mech.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
{Calling crab} (Zool.) See {Fiddler}., n., 2.
{Crab apple} A small, sour apple, of several kinds; also, the tree which bears it; as, the European crab apple ({Pyrus Malus} var. sylvestris); the Siberian crab apple ({Pyrus baccata}); and the American ({Pyrus coronaria}).
{Crab grass} (Bot.) (a) A grass ({Digitaria sanguinalis} syn. {Panicum sanguinalis}); -- called also {finger grass}. (b) A grass of the genus {Eleusine} ({Eleusine Indica}); -- called also {dog's-tail grass}, {wire grass}, etc.
{Crab louse} (Zool.) A species of louse ({Phthirius pubis}), sometimes infesting the human body.
{Crab plover} (Zool.) An Asiatic plover ({Dromas ardeola}).
{Crab's eyes} or {Crab's stones} Masses of calcareous matter found, at certain seasons of the year, on either side of the stomach of the European crawfishes, and formerly used in medicine for absorbent and antacid purposes; the gastroliths.
{Crab spider} (Zool.) One of a group of spiders ({Laterigrad[ae]}); -- called because they can run backwards or sideways like a crab.
{Crab tree} The tree that bears crab applies.
{Crab wood} A light cabinet wood obtained in Guiana, which takes a high polish. -- McElrath.
{To catch a crab} (Naut.) A phrase used of a rower: (a) when he fails to raise his oar clear of the water; (b) when he misses the water altogether in making a stroke.
Crab (v. t.) To make sour or morose; to embitter. [Obs.]
Sickness sours or crabs our nature. -- Glanvill.
Crab (v. t.) To beat with a crabstick. [Obs.] -- J. Fletcher.
Crab (v. i.) (Naut.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Crab (a.) Sour; rough; austere.
The crab vintage of the neighb'ring coast. -- Dryden.
Crab (n.) Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
Crab (n.) A quarrelsome grouch [syn: {crab}, {crabby person}].
Crab (n.) (Astrology) A person who is born while the sun is in Cancer [syn: {Cancer}, {Crab}].
Crab (n.) The fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22 [syn: {Cancer}, {Cancer the Crab}, {Crab}].
Crab (n.) The edible flesh of any of various crabs [syn: {crab}, {crabmeat}].
Crab (n.) A louse that infests the pubic region of the human body [syn: {crab louse}, {pubic louse}, {crab}, {Phthirius pubis}].
Crab (n.) A stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply; "he caught a crab and lost the race".
Crab (v. t.) 使（飛機）作航向偏流修正 Direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind.
Crab (v.) Scurry sideways like a crab.
Crab (v. i.) 捉蟹，捕蟹 Fish for crab.
Crab (v. i.) 【口】抱怨，發牢騷 Complain; "What was he hollering about?" [syn: {gripe}, {bitch}, {grouse}, {crab}, {beef}, {squawk}, {bellyache}, {holler}].
Crabbed (n.) Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.
Crabbed (n.) Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.
Crabbed (n.) Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author.
Crabbed (n.) Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting.
Crabber (n.) One who catches crabs.
Crabbing (n.) The act or art of catching crabs.
Crabbing (n.) The fighting of hawks with each other.
Crabbing (n.) A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.
Crabbish (a.) Somewhat sour or cross.
Crabby (a.) Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing.
Crabeater (n.) (Zool.) The cobia.
Crabeater (n.) (Zool.) An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus).
Crabeater (n.) (Zool.) A small European heron ({Ardea minuta, and other allied species).
Craber (n.) (Zool.) The water rat. -- Walton.
Crabfaced (a.) Having a sour, disagreeable countenance.
Crabsidle (v. i.) To move sidewise, as a crab. [Jocular]. -- Southey.
Crabstick (n.) A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the crab tree.
Crab tree () See under Crab.
Compare: Yaws
Yaws (n.) (Med.) A disease, occurring in the Antilles and in Africa, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries. There are several varieties of this disease, variously known as framboesia, pian, verrugas, and crab-yaws.
Crab-yaws (n.) (Med.) A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws. -- Dunglison.
Crache (v.) To scratch.
Cracked (imp. & p. p.) of Crack.
Cracking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crack.
Crack (v. t.) To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
Crack (v. t.) To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
Crack (v. t.) To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.
Crack (v. t.) To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
Crack (v. t.) To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.
Crack (v. i.) 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.
Crack (v. i.) To be ruined or impaired; to fail. [Collog.]
The credit . . . of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out. -- Dryden.
Crack (v. i.) To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.
As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. -- Shak.
Crack (v. i.) To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of.
Crack (n.) 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.
Crack (n.) Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.
My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw. -- Shak.
Crack (n.) 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.
Crack (n.) The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
Though now our voices Have got the mannish crack. -- Shak.
Crack (n.) Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.
Crack (n.) 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.
Crack (n.) A boast; boasting. [Obs.] "Crack and brags." -- Burton. "Vainglorius cracks." -- Spenser.
Crack (n.) Breach of chastity. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Crack (n.) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy. [Obs.]
Val. 'T is a noble child. Vir. A crack, madam. -- Shak.
Crack (n..) A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack. [Eng. & Scot. Colloq.]
Crack (n.) 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.
Crack (n.) A witty remark; a wisecrack.
Crack (n.) A chance or opportunity to do something; an attempt; as, I'll take a crack at it.
Crack (n.) A form of cocaine, highly purified and prepared as small pellets, especially suitable for smoking; -- also called rock. Used in this form it appears to be more addicting than cocaine powder. [slang]
Crack (a.) Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of; as, a crack shot. [Colloq.]
One of our crack speakers in the Commons. -- Dickens.
Cocaine (n.) (Chem.) A powerful narcotic alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain. It is classified as addictive and is not available in the U. S. without a prescription, but is nevertheless one of the most widespread illegal drugs of abuse. It is used in several forms, including small pellets of free base, called crack.
Most of the cacaine illegally used in the U.S. is imported.
Crack (a.) Of the highest quality; "an ace reporter"; "a crack shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party"; "played top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop condition"; "she is absolutely tops" [syn: ace, A-one, crack, first-rate, super, tiptop, topnotch, top-notch, tops(p)].
Crack (n.) A long narrow opening [syn: crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure].
Crack (n.) A narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack" [syn: gap, crack].
Crack (n.) A long narrow depression in a surface [syn: crevice, cranny, crack, fissure, chap].
Crack (n.) A sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the cracking of the ice"; "he can hear the snap of a twig" [syn: crack, cracking, snap].
Crack (n.) A chance to do something; "he wanted a shot at the champion" [syn: shot, crack].
Crack (n.) Witty remark [syn: wisecrack, crack, sally, quip].
Crack (n.) A blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts; "there was a crack in the mirror."
Crack (n.) A purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive [syn: crack, crack cocaine, tornado].
Crack (n.) A usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl" [syn: crack, fling, go, pass, whirl, offer].
Crack (n.) The act of cracking something [syn: fracture, crack, cracking].
Crack (v.) Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated" [syn: crack, check, break].
Crack (v.) Make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked."
Crack (v.) Make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped" [syn: snap, crack].
Crack (v.) Hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise; "The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler."
Crack (v.) Pass through (a barrier); "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county" [syn: break through, crack].
Crack (v.) Break partially but keep its integrity; "The glass cracked."
Crack (v.) Break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The pipe snapped" [syn: snap, crack].
Crack (v.) Gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions; "she cracked my password"; "crack a safe."
Crack (v.) Suffer a nervous breakdown [syn: crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse].
Crack (v.) Tell spontaneously; "crack a joke."
Crack (v.) Cause to become cracked; "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair."
Crack (v.) Reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking.
Crack (v.) Break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The petroleum cracked."
Crack, () [warez d00dz]
Crack (v.) To break into a system (compare cracker).
Crack (v.) Action of removing the copy protection from a commercial program.
People who write cracks consider themselves challenged by the copy protection measures. They will often do it as much to show that they are smarter than the developer who designed the copy protection scheme than to actually copy the program.
Crack (n.) A program, instructions or patch used to remove the copy protection of a program or to uncripple features from a demo/ time limited program.
Crack (n.) An exploit.
Crack-brained (a.) Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy.
Crackdown (n.) 壓迫；鎮壓；痛擊 Severely repressive actions.
Crackdown (n.) [Usually in singular] Severe measures to restrict or discourage undesirable or illegal people or behavior.
‘A crackdown on crime and corruption.’
Cracked (a.) Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.
Cracked (a.) Crack-brained.
Cracker (n.) One who, or that which, cracks.
Cracker (n.) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. [Obs.]
What cracker is this same that deafs our ears? -- Shak.
Cracker (n.) A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker.
Cracker (n.) A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.
Cracker (n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. -- Bartlett.
Cracker (n.) (Zool.) The pintail duck.
Cracker (n.) pl. (Mach.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc. -- Knight.
Cracker (n.) A thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet.
Cracker (n.) A poor White person in the southern United States [syn: redneck, cracker].
Cracker (n.) A programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things; "crackers are often mistakenly called hackers."
Cracker (n.) Firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing [syn: firecracker, cracker, banger].
Cracker (n.) A party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends [syn: cracker, snapper, cracker bonbon].
Cracker (n.) One who breaks security on a system. Coined ca. 1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of hacker (q.v., sense 8). An earlier attempt to establish worm in this sense around 1981--82 on Usenet was largely a failure.
Use of both these neologisms reflects a strong revulsion against the theft and vandalism perpetrated by cracking rings. The neologism ?cracker? in this sense may have been influenced not so much by the term ?safe-cracker? as by the non-jargon term ?cracker?, which in Middle English meant an obnoxious person (e.g., ?What cracker is this same that deafs our ears / With this abundance of superfluous breath?? ? Shakespeare's King John, Act II, Scene I) and in modern colloquial American English survives as a barely gentler synonym for ?white trash?.
While it is expected that any real hacker will have done some playful cracking and knows many of the basic techniques, anyone past larval stage is expected to have outgrown the desire to do so except for immediate, benign, practical reasons (for example, if it's necessary to get around some security in order to get some work done).
Thus, there is far less overlap between hackerdom and crackerdom than the { mundane reader misled by sensationalistic journalism might expect. Crackers tend to gather in small, tight-knit, very secretive groups that have little overlap with the huge, open poly-culture this lexicon describes; though crackers often like to describe themselves as hackers, most true hackers consider them a separate and lower form of life. An easy way for outsiders to spot the difference is that crackers use grandiose screen names that conceal their identities. Hackers never do this; they only rarely use noms de guerre at all, and when they do it is for display rather than concealment.
Ethical considerations aside, hackers figure that anyone who can't imagine a more interesting way to play with their computers than breaking into someone else's has to be pretty losing. Some other reasons crackers are looked down on are discussed in the entries on cracking and phreaking. See also samurai, dark-side hacker, and hacker ethic. For a portrait of the typical teenage cracker, see warez d00dz.
Cracker
Cracking
An individual who attempts to gain unauthorised access to a computer system. These individuals are often malicious and have many means at their disposal for breaking into a system. The term was coined ca. 1985 by hackers in defence against journalistic misuse of "{hacker". An earlier attempt to establish "worm" in this sense around 1981--82 on Usenet was largely a failure.
Use of both these neologisms reflects a strong revulsion against the theft and vandalism perpetrated by cracking rings.
The neologism "cracker" in this sense may have been influenced not so much by the term "safe-cracker" as by the non-jargon term "cracker", which in Middle English meant an obnoxious person (e.g., "What cracker is this same that deafs our ears / With this abundance of superfluous breath?" -- Shakespeare's King John, Act II, Scene I) and in modern colloquial American English survives as a barely gentler synonym for "white trash".
While it is expected that any real hacker will have done some playful cracking and knows many of the basic techniques, anyone past larval stage is expected to have outgrown the desire to do so except for immediate practical reasons (for example, if it's necessary to get around some security in order to get some work done).
Contrary to widespread myth, cracking does not usually involve some mysterious leap of hackerly brilliance, but rather persistence and the dogged repetition of a handful of fairly well-known tricks that exploit common weaknesses in the security of target systems. Accordingly, most crackers are only mediocre hackers.
Thus, there is far less overlap between hackerdom and crackerdom than the mundane reader misled by sensationalistic journalism might expect. Crackers tend to gather in small, tight-knit, very secretive groups that have little overlap with the huge, open hacker poly-culture; though crackers often like to describe *themselves* as hackers, most true hackers consider them a separate and lower form of life, little better than virus writers. Ethical considerations aside, hackers figure that anyone who can't imagine a more interesting way to play with their computers than breaking into someone else's has to be pretty losing.
See also Computer Emergency Response Team, dark-side hacker, hacker ethic, phreaking, samurai, Trojan horse. [{Jargon File] (1998-06-29)
Crackle (v. i.) To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.
The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. -- Dryden.
Crackle (n.) The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.
Crackle (n.) (Med.) A kind of crackling sound or r[^a]le, heard in some abnormal states of the lungs; as, dry crackle; moist crackle. -- Quain.
Crackle (n.) (Fine Arts) A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.
Crackle (a.) Having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware; "a crackle glaze."
Crackle (n.) The sharp sound of snapping noises [syn: crackle, crackling, crepitation].
Crackle (n.) Glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface [syn: crackle, crackleware, crackle china].
Crackle (v.) Make a crackling sound; "My Rice Krispies crackled in the bowl" [syn: crepitate, crackle].
Crackle (v.) Make a crushing noise; "his shoes were crunching on the gravel" [syn: crunch, scranch, scraunch, crackle].
Crackle (v.) To become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand."
Crackled (a.) Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
Crackleware (n.) See Crackle, n., 3.
Crackling (n.) The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.
Crackling (n.) The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork.
Crackling (n.) Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.
Cracknel (v. t.) A hard brittle cake or biscuit.
Cracksmen (n. pl. ) of Cracksman.
Cracksman (n.) A burglar. [Slang]
Cracksman (n.) A thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents [syn: safebreaker, safecracker, cracksman].
Cracovian (a.) Of or pertaining to Cracow in Poland.
Cracovienne (n.) (Mus.) A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time.
Cracowes (n. pl.) Long-toed boots or shoes formerly worn in many parts of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century. -- Fairholt.
Cradle (v. i.) To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.
Withered roots and husks wherein the acorn cradled. -- Shak.
Cradle (n.) A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty.
The cradle that received thee at thy birth. -- Cowper.
No sooner was I crept out of my cradle But I was made a king, at nine months old. -- Shak.