Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 144
Crassament (a.) Alt. of Crassamentum.
Crassamentum (a.) A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.
Crassiment (n.) See Crassament.
Crassitude (n.) Grossness; coarseness; thickness; density.
Crassness (n.) Grossness.
Crastination (n.) Procrastination; a putting off till to-morrow.
Crataegus (n.) A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes.
Cratch (n.) A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack.
Crate (n.) A large basket or hamper of wickerwork, used for the transportation of china, crockery, and similar wares.
Crate (n.) A box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces, -- used especially for transporting fruit.
Crated (imp. & p. p.) of Crate.
Crating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crate.
Crate (v. t.) To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches.
Crater (n.) The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.
Crater (n.) (Mil.) The pit left by the explosion of a mine.
Crater (n.) (Astron.) A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also the Cup.
Crater (n.) A bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano [syn: volcanic crater, crater].
Crater (n.) A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Corvus.
Crater (n.) A bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb.
Crateriform (a.) Having the form of a shallow bowl; -- said of a corolla.
Craterous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater.
Craunched (imp. & p. p.) of Craunch.
Craunching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Craunch.
Craunch (v. t. & i.) To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch.
Cravat (n.) A neckcloth; a piece of silk, fine muslin, or other cloth, worn by men about the neck.
Cravatted (a.) Wearing a cravat.
Craved (imp. & p. p.) of Crave.
Craving (p pr. & vb. n.) of Crave.
Crave (v. t.) To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.
Crave (v. t.) To call for, as a gratification; to long for; hence, to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food.
Crave (v. i.) To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite.
Craven (a.) Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless.
Craven (n.) A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow. See Recreant, n.
Cravened (imp. & p. p.) of Craven.
Cravening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Craven.
Craven (v. t.) To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly.
Craver (n.) One who craves or begs.
Craving (n.) Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching.
Craw (n.) The crop of a bird.
Craw (n.) The stomach of an animal.
-fishes (n. pl. ) of Crayfish.
-fish (n. pl. ) of Crayfish.
Crawfish (n.) Alt. of Crayfish.
Crayfish (n.) (Zool.) Any decapod crustacean of the family Astacid[ae] (genera Cambarus and Cambarus), resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mammoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The common European species is Astacus fluviatilis.
Syn: crawdad, crawdaddy.
Crayfish (n.) Tiny lobsterlike crustaceans usually boiled briefly.
Syn: crawdad, ecrevisse.
Crayfish (n.) A large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters.
Syn: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish, sea crawfish.
Crawfish (v. i.) To back out in a humilating manner; as, We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him.
Syn: retreat, back out, back away, crawfish out, withdraw.
Crawfish (n.) Tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly [syn: crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse].
Crawfish (n.) Small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster [syn: crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy].
Crawfish (n.) Large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters [syn: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish, sea crawfish].
Crawfish (v.) Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns" [syn: retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdraw].
Crawford
(n.) A
Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, with yellow flesh, first raised
by Mr. William Crawford, of
Crawford (n.) United States neoclassical sculptor (1814-1857) [syn: Crawford, Thomas Crawford].
Crawford (n.) United States film actress (1908-1977) [syn: Crawford, Joan Crawford].
Crawford -- U.S. County in Iowa
Population (2000): 16942
Housing Units (2000): 6958
Land area (2000): 714.363789 sq. miles (1850.193642 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.630243 sq. miles (1.632321 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 714.994032 sq. miles (1851.825963 sq. km)
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.026888 N, 95.369384 W
Headwords:
Crawford
Crawford, IA
Crawford County
Crawford County, IA
Crawford -- U.S. County in Illinois
Population (2000): 20452
Housing Units (2000): 8785
Land area (2000): 443.534646 sq. miles (1148.749411 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.204145 sq. miles (5.708708 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 445.738791 sq. miles (1154.458119 sq. km)
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.009225 N, 87.757873 W
Headwords:
Crawford
Crawford, IL
Crawford County
Crawford County, IL
Crawford -- U.S. County in Kansas
Population (2000): 38242
Housing Units (2000): 17221
Land area (2000): 592.907367 sq. miles (1535.622965 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.139813 sq. miles (5.542090 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 595.047180 sq. miles (1541.165055 sq. km)
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 37.462338 N, 94.785443 W
Headwords:
Crawford
Crawford, KS
Crawford County
Crawford County, KS
Crawford -- U.S. County in Indiana
Population (2000): 10743
Housing Units (2000): 5138
Land area (2000): 305.681158 sq. miles (791.710530 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.167583 sq. miles (8.204002 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 308.848741 sq. miles (799.914532 sq. km)
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 38.306130 N, 86.437222 W
Headwords:
Crawford
Crawford, IN
Crawford County
Crawford County, IN
Crawford
-- U.S. County in Michigan
Population (2000): 14273
Housing Units (2000): 10042
Land area (2000): 558.122597 sq. miles (1445.530829 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 5.251439 sq. miles (13.601164 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 563.374036 sq. miles (1459.131993 sq. km)
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 44.677842 N, 84.642559 W
Headwords:
Crawford
Crawford, MI
Crawford County
Crawford County, MI
Crawford
-- U.S. County in Missouri
Population (2000): 22804
Housing Units (2000): 10850
Land area (2000): 742.517900 sq. miles (1923.112450 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.268114 sq. miles (3.284401 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 743.786014 sq. miles (1926.396851 sq. km)
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 38.025235 N, 91.326338 W
Headwords:
Crawford
Crawford, MO
Crawford County
Crawford County, MO
Crawford
-- U.S. County in Ohio
Population (2000): 46966
Housing Units (2000): 20178
Land area (2000): 402.113820 sq. miles (1041.469969 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.716855 sq. miles (1.856647 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 402.830675 sq. miles (1043.326616 sq. km)
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.828034 N, 82.883284 W
Headwords:
Crawford
Crawford, OH
Crawford County
Crawford County, OH
Crawford -- U.S. County in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 90366
Housing Units (2000): 42416
Land area (2000): 1012.723374 sq. miles (2622.941386 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 25.013802 sq. miles (64.785446 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1037.737176 sq. miles (2687.726832 sq. km)
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 41.664479 N, 80.119195 W
Headwords:
Crawford
Crawford, PA
Crawford County
Crawford County, PA
Crawford -- U.S. County in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 17243
Housing Units (2000): 8480
Land area (2000): 572.690570 sq. miles (1483.261703 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 26.530824 sq. miles (68.714517 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 599.221394 sq. miles (1551.976220 sq. km)
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 43.197216 N, 90.981873 W
Headwords:
Crawford
Crawford, WI
Crawford County
Crawford County, WI
Crawford -- U.S. County in Arkansas
Population (2000): 53247
Housing Units (2000): 21315
Land area (2000): 595.392762 sq. miles (1542.060108 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 8.805434 sq. miles (22.805968 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 604.198196 sq. miles (1564.866076 sq. km)
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.523127 N, 94.260230 W
Headwords:
Crawford
Crawford, AR
Crawford County
Crawford County, AR
Crawford -- U.S. County in Georgia
Population (2000): 12495
Housing Units (2000): 4872
Land area (2000): 325.007212 sq. miles (841.764778 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.445328 sq. miles (3.743382 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 326.452540 sq. miles (845.508160 sq. km)
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 32.709958 N, 83.977831 W
Headwords:
Crawford
Crawford, GA
Crawford County
Crawford County, GA
Crawford, NE -- U.S. city in Nebraska
Population (2000): 1107
Housing Units (2000): 537
Land area (2000): 1.141395 sq. miles (2.956200 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.141395 sq. miles (2.956200 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11195
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 42.683617 N, 103.412297 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 69339
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Crawford, NE
Crawford
Crawford, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado
Population (2000): 366
Housing Units (2000): 179
Land area (2000): 0.259616 sq. miles (0.672403 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.259616 sq. miles (0.672403 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17925
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 38.704235 N, 107.610925 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 81415
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Crawford, CO
Crawford
Crawford, GA -- U.S. city in Georgia
Population (2000): 807
Housing Units (2000): 369
Land area (2000): 1.173789 sq. miles (3.040100 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000825 sq. miles (0.002138 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.174614 sq. miles (3.042238 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20288
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 33.883289 N, 83.155413 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 30630
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Crawford, GA
Crawford
Crawford, TX -- U.S. town in Texas
Population (2000): 705
Housing Units (2000): 277
Land area (2000): 0.923859 sq. miles (2.392785 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.923859 sq. miles (2.392785 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17564
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.534579 N, 97.443954 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76638
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Crawford, TX
Crawford
Crawford, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi
Population (2000): 655
Housing Units (2000): 251
Land area (2000): 1.403385 sq. miles (3.634750 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.403385 sq. miles (3.634750 sq. km)
FIPS code: 16420
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 33.306205 N, 88.621933 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 39743
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Crawford, MS
Crawford
Crawled (imp. & p. p.) of Crawl.
Crawling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crawl.
Crawl (v. i.) To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
Crawl (v. i.) to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.
Crawl (v. i.) To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
Crawl (v. i.) To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.
Crawl (n.) The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.
Crawl (n.) A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.
Crawler (n.) One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.
Crawly (a.) Creepy.
Cray (n.) Alt. of Crayer.
Crayer (n.) See Crare.
Crayfish (n.) See Crawfish.
Crayon (n.) An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.
Crayon (n.) A crayon drawing.
Crayon (n.) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
Crayoned (imp. & p. p.) of Crayon.
Crayoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crayon.
Crayon (v. t.) To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.
Crazed (imp. & p. p.) of Craze.
Crazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Craze.
Craze (v. t.) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.
Craze (v. t.) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
Craze (v. t.) To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
Craze (v. i.) To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
Craze (v. i.) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
Craze (n.) Craziness; insanity.
Craze (n.) A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
Craze (n.) A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.
Crazedness (n.) A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the intellect.
Craze-mill (n.) Alt. of Crazing-mill
Crazing-mill (n.) A mill for grinding tin ore.
Crazily (adv.) In a crazy manner.
Craziness (n.) The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs.
Craziness (n.) The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement.
Crazy (a.) 瘋狂的；蠢的；古怪的 [+to-v]；【口】著迷的，熱衷的，狂熱的 [F] [（+about/ for/ on）] 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.
Crazy (a.) Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged.
Over moist and crazy brains. -- Hudibras.
Crazy (a.) 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.
Crazy (a.) Affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged].
Crazy (a.) Foolish; totally unsound; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working" [syn: crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheaded].
Crazy (a.) Possessed by inordinate excitement; "the crowd went crazy"; "was crazy to try his new bicycle".
Crazy (a.) Bizarre or fantastic; "had a crazy dream"; "wore a crazy hat".
Crazy (a.) Intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with; "crazy about cars and racing"; "he is potty about her" [syn: crazy, wild, dotty, gaga].
Crazy (n.) Someone deranged and possibly dangerous [syn: crazy, loony, looney, nutcase, weirdo].
Creable (a.) Capable of being created.
Creaght (n.) A drove or herd.
Creaght (v. i.) To graze.
Creaked (imp. & p. p.) of Creak.
Creaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Creak.
Creak (v. i.) To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak.
Creak (v. t.) To produce a creaking sound with.
Creak (n.) The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
Creaking (n.) A harsh grating or squeaking sound, or the act of making such a sound.
Cream (n.) The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.
Cream (n.) The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface. [R.]
Cream (n.) A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.
Cream (n.) A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.
In vain she tries her paste and creams, To smooth her skin or hide its seams. -- Goldsmith.
Cream (n.) The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures.
Welcome, O flower and cream of knights errant. -- Shelton.
Bavarian cream, A preparation of gelatin, cream, sugar, and eggs, whipped; -- to be eaten cold.
Cold cream, An ointment made of white wax, almond oil, rose water, and borax, and used as a salve for the hands and lips.
Cream cheese, A kind of cheese made from curd from which the cream has not been taken off, or to which cream has been added.
Cream gauge, An instrument to test milk, being usually a graduated glass tube in which the milk is placed for the cream to rise.
Cream nut, The Brazil nut.
Cream of lime. (a) A scum of calcium carbonate which forms on a solution of milk of lime from the carbon dioxide of the air.
Cream of lime. (b) A thick creamy emulsion of lime in water.
Cream of tartar (Chem.), Purified tartar or argol; so called because of the crust of crystals which forms on the surface of the liquor in the process of purification by recrystallization. It is a white crystalline substance, with a gritty acid taste, and is used very largely as an ingredient of baking powders; -- called also potassium bitartrate, acid potassium tartrate, etc.
Creamed (imp. & p. p.) of Cream.
Creaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cream.
Cream (v. t.) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
Cream (v. t.) To take off the best or choicest part of.
Cream (v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, cream.
Creaming the fragrant cups. -- Mrs. Whitney.
To cream butter (Cooking), To rub, stir, or beat, butter till it is of a light creamy consistency.
Cream (v. i.) To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle.
There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pool. -- Shak.
Cream (n.) The best people or things in a group; "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War" [syn: cream, pick].
Cream (n.) The part of milk containing the butterfat.
Cream (n.) Toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin [syn: cream, ointment, emollient].
Cream (v.) Make creamy by beating; "Cream the butter".
Cream (v.) Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" [syn: cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick].
Cream (v.) Put on cream, as on one's face or body; "She creams her face every night".
Cream (v.) Remove from the surface; "skim cream from the surface of milk" [syn: skim, skim off, cream off, cream].
Cream (v.) Add cream to one's coffee, for example.