Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 142
Cradle (n.) 搖籃 [C]；策源地，發源地 [S1][（+of）]；嬰兒時期 [the S] Infancy, or very early life.
From their cradles bred together. -- Shak.
A form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles. -- Clarendon.
Cradle (n.) (Agric.) An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
Cradle (n.) (Engraving) A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
Cradle (n.) A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
Cradle (n.) (Med.) A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
Cradle (n.) (Med.) A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.
Cradle (n.) (Mining)A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker. [U. S.]
Cradle (n.) (Mining) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
Cradle (n.) (Carp.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster. -- Knight.
Cradle (n.) (Natu.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
Cat's cradle. See under Cat.
Cradle hole, A sunken place in a road, caused by thawing, or by travel over a soft spot.
Cradle scythe, A broad scythe used in a cradle for cutting grain.
Cradled (imp. & p. p.) of Cradle.
Cradling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cradle.
Cradle (v. t.) 把……放在搖籃內；撫育；把……擱在支架上；用架支住 To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking.
It cradles their fears to sleep. -- D. A. Clark.
Cradle (v. t.) To nurse or train in infancy.
He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars. -- Glanvill.
Cradle (v. t.) To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.
Cradle (v. t.) To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
In Lombardy . . . boats are cradled and transported over the grade. -- Knight.
To cradle a picture, To put ribs across the back of a picture, to prevent the panels from warping.
Cradle (n.) A baby bed with sides and rockers.
Cradle (n.) Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization" [syn: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience].
Cradle (n.) Birth of a person; "he was taught from the cradle never to cry."
Cradle (n.) A trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold [syn: rocker, cradle].
Cradle (v.) Hold gently and carefully; "He cradles the child in his arms."
Cradle (v.) Bring up from infancy.
Cradle (v.) Hold or place in or as if in a cradle; "He cradled the infant in his arms."
Cradle (v.) Cut grain with a cradle scythe.
Cradle (v.) Wash in a cradle; "cradle gold."
Cradle (v.) Run with the stick.
Cradlesong (n.) 搖籃曲A quiet song that lulls a child to sleep.
Syn: lullaby.
Cradling (n.) 搖籃；保育；【建】弧頂架；cradle 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 The act of using a cradle.
Cradling (n.) Cutting a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterward united and rehooped.
Cradling (n.) The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed.
Craft (n.) 工藝，手藝 [C] [U]；（需要手藝的）行業，職業 [C]；同業；行會；行會成員 [the S]；手腕，狡猾，奸計 [U]；船；飛機；太空船 [C] [M] Strength; might; secret power.
Craft (n.) Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.
Craft (n.) Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers.
Craft (n.) Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices.
Craft (n.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense.
Craft (v. t.) 【美】精巧地製作 [H] To play tricks; to practice artifice.
Craftily (adv.) 狡猾地；詭詐地；熟練地；巧妙地 With craft; artfully; cunningly.
Craftiness (n.) 狡猾；詭詐；熟練 Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. -- Job. v. 13.
Craftiness (n.) Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception [syn: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness].
Craftiness (n.) The quality of being crafty [syn: craftiness, deceitfulness, guile].
Craftless (a.) Without craft or cunning.
Helpless, craftless, and innocent people. -- Jer. Taylor.
Craftsmen (n. pl. ) of Craftsman.
Craftsman (n.) 工匠；技工；巧匠；工藝師 [C] One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.
Craftsman (n.) A professional whose work is consistently of high quality; "as an actor he was a consummate craftsman".
Craftsman (n.) A creator of great skill in the manual arts; "the jewelry was made by internationally famous craftsmen" [syn: craftsman, crafter].
Craftsman (n.) A skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft [syn: craftsman, artisan, journeyman, artificer].
Craftsmanship (n.) 技巧；技術 [U] The work of a craftsman.
Craftsmaster (n.) One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning.
In cunning persuasion his craftsmaster. -- Holland.
Craftsperson (n.) (Craftspeople) （不分性別用語）工匠；手藝人；工藝師 A person who is skilled at making things by hand (used as a neutral alternative).
Crafty (a.) 狡猾的，詭計多端的，奸詐的 Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. [Obs.] "Crafty work." -- Piers Plowman.
Crafty (a.) Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.
A noble crafty man of trees. -- Wyclif.
Crafty (a.) Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily. "A pair of crafty knaves." -- Shak.
With anxious care and crafty wiles. -- J. Baillie.
Syn: Skillful; dexterous; cunning; artful; wily; sly; fraudulent; deceitful; subtle; shrewd. See Cunning.
Crafty (a.) Marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney" [syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily].
Crag (n.) 險崖，峭壁 [C] 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.
Crag (n.) (Geol.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.
Crag (n.) The neck or throat. [Obs.]
And bear the crag so stiff and so state. -- Spenser.
Crag (n.) The neck piece or scrag of mutton. -- Johnson.
Crag (n.) A steep rugged rock or cliff.
Cragged (a.) 多巖的；多峭壁的；崎嶇的 Full of crags, or steep, broken rocks; abounding with prominences, points, and inequalities; rough; rugged.
Into its cragged rents descend. -- J. Baillie.
Cragged (a.) Having hills and crags; "hilly terrain" [syn: cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous].
Craggedness (n.) The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess.
Cragginess (n.) The state of being craggy.
Craggy (a.) 峭壁多的；崎嶇的 Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain. "The craggy ledge." -- Tennyson.
Craggy (a.) Having hills and crags; "hilly terrain" [syn: cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous].
Cragsmen (n. pl. ) of Cragsman.
Cragsman (n.) 爬岩名手 One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.
Crare (n.) A slow unwieldy trading vessel. [Obs.] [Written also crayer, cray, and craie.] -- Shak.
Craie (n.) See Crare. [Obs.]
Pole (n.) A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.
Pole (n.) [C] 柱；竿；桿（長度單位，合5.5碼） A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically:
Pole (n.) (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back.
Pole (n.) (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported.
Pole (n.) (c) A Maypole. See Maypole.
Pole (n.) (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers.
Pole (n.) (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.
Pole (n.) A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5? yards, or a square measure equal to 30? square yards; a rod; a perch. -- Bacon.
Pole bean (Bot.), Any kind of bean which is customarily trained on poles, as the scarlet runner or the Lima bean.
Pole flounder (Zool.), A large deep-water flounder ({Glyptocephalus cynoglossus), native of the northern coasts of Europe and America, and much esteemed as a food fish; -- called also craig flounder, and pole fluke.
Pole lathe, A simple form of lathe, or a substitute for a lathe, in which the work is turned by means of a cord passing around it, one end being fastened to the treadle, and the other to an elastic pole above.
Pole mast (Naut.), A mast formed from a single piece or from a single tree.
Pole of a lens (Opt.), The point where the principal axis meets the surface.
Pole plate (Arch.), A horizontal timber resting on the tiebeams of a roof and receiving the ends of the rafters.
It differs from the plate in not resting on the wall.
Craig flounder (n.) (Zool.) 比目魚；鰈 A fish of the north Atlantic, The pole flounder. Glyptocephalus cynoglossus.
Crail (n.) A creel or osier basket.
Crake (v. t. & i.) To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
Crake (v. t. & i.) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. [Obs.]
Each man may crake of that which was his own. -- Mir. for Mag.
Crake (n.) A boast. See {Crack}, n. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Crake (n.) (Zool.) Any species or rail of the genera {Crex} and {Porzana}; -- so called from its singular cry. See {Corncrake}.
Crake (n.) Any of several short-billed Old World rails.
Crakeberry (n.) (Bot.) See Crowberry.
Compare: Crowberry
Crowberry (n.) (Bot.) A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry.
Craker (n.) One who boasts; a braggart. [Obs.] -- Old Play.
Cram (v. i.) 狼吞虎嚥地吃東西；吃得過飽；【口】（為應考）死記硬背功課 [（+up/ for）] To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
Gluttony . . . . Crams, and blasphemes his feeder. -- Milton.
Cram (v. i.) To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study. [Colloq.]
Cram (n.) The act of cramming.
Cram (n.) Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination. [Colloq.]
Cram (n.) (Weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
Crammed (imp. & p. p.) of Cram.
Cramming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cram.
Cram (v. t.) 把……塞進 [（+into）]；把……塞滿，把……擠滿 [（+with）]；狼吞虎嚥地吃；塞飽 [O] To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.
Their storehouses crammed with grain. -- Shak.
He will cram his brass down our throats. -- Swift.
Cram (v. t.) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
Children would be freer from disease if they were not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers. -- Locke.
Cram us with praise, and make us As fat as tame things. -- Shak.
Cram (v. t.) To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.
Cram (v.) Crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad].
Cram (v.) Put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase."
Cram (v.) Study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone].
Cram (v.) Prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam.
CRAM, () Cache RAM (RAM).
CRAM, () Card Random Access Memory (RAM, IC).
Crambo (a.) A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme.
I saw in one corner . . . a cluster of men and women, diverting themselves with a game at crambo. I heard several double rhymes . . . which raised a great deal of mirth. -- Addison.
Crambo (a.) 對韻遊戲（由一方說出一字或一句，再由另一方對以同韻之字或句）；劣詩 A word rhyming with another word.
His similes in order set And every crambo he could get. -- Swift.
Dumb crambo, A game in which one party of players give a word which rhymes with another, which last to be guessed by the opposing party, who represent in dumb show what they think it to be.
Crammer (n.) [C] 為應考而死記硬背的人；【英】【口】為應考而做填鴨式教學的老師（或學校）；臨時抱佛腳用的參考書 One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared. -- Dickens. Cramoisie
Crammer (n.) A student who crams.
Crammer (n.) A teacher who is paid to cram students for examinations.
Crammer (n.) A special school where students are crammed.
Crammer (n.) A textbook designed for cramming.
Cramoisie (a.) Alt. of Cramoisy.
Cramoisy (a.) Crimson. [Obs.]
A splendid seignior, magnificent in cramoisy velevet. -- Motley.
Cramp (n.) [C] 鐵夾鉗；夾鉗；鐵箍；約束物，束縛物；約束，束縛 [（+on）] That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind. -- L'Estrange.
Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear. -- Cowper.
Cramp (n.) (Masonry) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
Cramp (n.) (Carp.) A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.
Cramp (n.) A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
Cramp (n.) A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.
Cramped (imp. & p. p.) of Cramp.
Cramping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cramp.
Cramp (v. t.) 用夾鉗夾緊；限制；約束；妨礙 To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.
The mind my be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance. -- Layard.
Cramp (v. t.) To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
Cramp (v. t.) Hence, to bind together; to unite.
The . . . fabric of universal justic is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts. -- Burke.
Cramp (v. t.) To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
Cramp (v. t.) To afflict with cramp.
When the gout cramps my joints. -- Ford.
To cramp the wheels of wagon, To turn the front wheels out of line with the hind wheels, so that one of them shall be against the body of the wagon.
Cramp (a.) Knotty; difficult. [R.]
Care being taken not to add any of the cramp reasons for this opinion. -- Coleridge.
Cramp (n.) A painful and involuntary muscular contraction [syn: spasm, cramp, muscle spasm].
Cramp (n.) A clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are Glued.
Cramp (n.) A strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together [syn: cramp, cramp iron].
Cramp (v.) Secure with a cramp; "cramp the wood."
Cramp (v.) Prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries" [syn: hamper, halter, cramp, strangle].
Cramp (v.) Affect with or as if with a cramp.
Cramp (v.) Suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle.
Crampet (n.) A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard.
Crampfish (n.) The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.
Cramp iron () See Cramp, n., 2.
Crampit (n.) See Crampet.
Crampon (n.) (Bot.) An a["e]rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.
Crampon (n.) 起重釣鉤；（防滑的）帶釘鞋底；防滑的尖釘鐵鞋 A device with pointed metal projections worn over the shoes to provide traction when walking over ice, or in mountaineering; -- usually used in the plural.
Crampon (n.) Same as {crampoon}.
Crampon (n.) A hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects [syn: crampon, crampoon].
Crampon (n.) An iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing [syn: {crampon}, {crampon}, {climbing iron}, {climber}].
Cramponee (a.) (Her.) Having a cramp or square piece at the end; -- said of a cross so furnished.
Crampoons (n.) A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.
Crampoons (n.) Iron instruments with sharp points, worn on the shoes to assist in gaining or keeping a foothold.
Crampy (a.) Affected with cramp.
Crampy (a.) Productive of, or abounding in, cramps. "This crampy country." -- Howitt.
Crampy (a.) Resembling cramp.
Crampy (a.) Causing cramp.
Cran (n.) Alt. of Crane.
Crane (n.) A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel. [Scot.] -- H. Miller.
Cran (n.) A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
Cranage (n.) 起重機之使用 The liberty of using a crane, as for loading and unloading vessels.
Cranage (n.) 起重機使用費 The money or price paid for the use of a crane.
Cranage (n.) A toll paid for drawing merchandise out of vessels to the wharf, so called, because the instrument used for the purpose is called a crane. 8 Co. 46.
Cranberries (n. pl. ) of Cranberry.
Cranberry (n.) (Bot.) 【植】蔓越莓，蔓越橘，小紅莓 [C] A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a Viburnum ({Viburnum Opulus"> species of Viburnum ({Viburnum Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it. Cranberry tree
Cranberry (n.) Any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries.
Cranberry (n.) Very tart red berry used for sauce or juice.
Cranch (v. t.) See Craunch.
Cranch (v.) Press or grind with a crushing noise [syn: crunch, cranch, craunch, grind].