Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 146
Credit foncier () A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out improvements, by means of loans and advances upon real securities.
Credit mobilier () A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the credit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed.
Creditor (n.) One who credits, believes, or trusts.
Creditor (n.) One who gives credit in business matters; hence, one to whom money is due; -- correlative to debtor.
Creditress (n.) Alt. of Creditrix.
Creditrix (n.) A female creditor.
Credo (n.) The creed, as sung or read in the Roman Catholic church.
Credulity (n.) Readiness of belief; a disposition to believe on slight evidence.
Credulous (a.) 輕信的，易受騙的；因輕信而產生的 Apt to believe on slight evidence; easily imposed upon; unsuspecting. -- Landor.
Eve, our credulous mother. -- Milton.
Credulous (a.) Believed too readily. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Credulous (a.) Disposed to believe on little evidence; "the gimmick would convince none but the most credulous" [ant: incredulous].
Credulous (a.) Showing a lack of judgment or experience; "so credulous he believes everything he reads".
Credulously (adv.) 輕信地；易受騙地 With credulity.
Credulously (adv.) In a credulous manner; "the children followed the teacher credulously" [syn: credulously, believingly] [ant: disbelievingly, incredulously, unbelievingly].
Credulousness (n.) 輕信；老實 Readiness to believe on slight evidence; credulity.
Beyond all credulity is the credulousness of atheists. -- S. Clarke.
Credulousness (n.) Tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived [syn: credulousness, gullibility].
Creed (v. t.) A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive.
Creed (v. t.) Any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.
Creed (v. t.) To believe; to credit.
Creedless (a.) Without a creed.
Creek (n.) 小溪，小河，小灣 A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.
Creek (n.) A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
Creek (n.) Any turn or winding.
Creekfish (n.) The chub sucker.
Creeks (n. pl.) A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.
Creeky (a.) Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding.
Creel (n.) An osier basket, such as anglers use.
Creel (n.) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
Crept (imp.) of Creep.
Crope () of Creep.
Crept (p. p.) of Creep.
Creeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Creep.
Creep (v.) To advance, grow, or multiply inexorably. In hackish usage this verb has overtones of menace and silliness, evoking the creeping horrors of low-budget monster movies.
CREEP (Acronym) Committee for the Re-Election of the President, a pejorative nickname used by opponents.
Creep (v. t.) (v. i.) 躡手躡足地走；緩慢地行進 [Q]；不知不覺地到來；漸漸產生 [Q]；爬行，匍匐而行 To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.
Ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep. -- Milton.
Creep (v. t.) To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail, Unwillingly to school. -- Shak.
Like a guilty thing, I creep. -- Tennyson.
Creep (v. t.) To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us.
The sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument. -- Locke.
Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women. -- 2. Tim. iii.
Creep (v. t.) To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.
Creep (v. t.) To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
To come as humbly as they used to creep. -- Shak.
Creep (v. t.) To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length.
Creep (v. t.) To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i., 4.
Creep (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
Creep (n.) 爬，蠕動 [M] [C]；【俚】諂媚者，卑鄙小人 [C]；毛骨悚然的感覺 [the P] The act or process of creeping.
Creep (n.) A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
A creep of undefinable horror. -- Blackwood's Mag.
Out of the stillness, with gathering creep, Like rising wind in leaves. -- Lowell.
Creep (n.) (Mining) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.
Creep (n.) Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric [syn: {creep}, {weirdo}, {weirdie}, {weirdy}, {spook}].
Creep (n.) A slow longitudinal movement or deformation.
Creep (n.) A pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot.
Creep (n.) A slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep" [syn: {crawl}, {crawling}, {creep}, {creeping}].
Creep (v.) Move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed" [syn: {crawl}, {creep}].
Creep (v.) To go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" [syn: {sneak}, {mouse}, {creep}, {pussyfoot}].
Creep (v.) Grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface); "ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings".
Creep (v.) Show submission or fear [syn: {fawn}, {crawl}, {creep}, {cringe}, {cower}, {grovel}].
Creeper (n.) One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing.
Standing waters are most unwholesome, . . . full of mites, creepers; slimy, muddy, unclean. -- Burton.
Creeper (n.) (Bot.) A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia).
Creeper (n.) (Zool.) A small bird of the genus {Certhia}, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is {Certhia familiaris}, a variety of which (var. Americana) inhabits America; -- called also {tree creeper} and {creeptree}. The American black and white creeper is {Mniotilta varia}.
Creeper (n.) A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from slipping.
Creeper (n.) pl. A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often {telegraph creepers}.
Creeper (n.) A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
Creeper (n.) pl. An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there.
Creeper (n.) Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
Creeper (n.) pl. (Arch.) Crockets. See {Crocket}.
Creeper (n.) Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping.
Creeper (n.) A person who crawls or creeps along the ground [syn: {crawler}, {creeper}].
Creeper (n.) Any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet [syn: {creeper}, {tree creeper}].
Creephole (n.) A hole or retreat into which an animal may creep, to escape notice or danger.
Creephole (n.) A subterfuge; an excuse.
Creepie (n.) A low stool. [Scot.]
Creepiness (n.) An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin.
She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness. -- Mrs. Alexander.
Creepiness (n.) An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin.
Creeping (a.) Crawling, or moving close to the ground. "Every creeping thing." -- Gen. vi. 20.
Creeping (a.) Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.
Casements lined with creeping herbs. -- Cowper.
{Ceeping crowfoot} (Bot.), A plant, the {Ranunculus repens}.
{Creeping snowberry}, An American plant ({Chiogenes hispidula}) with white berries and very small round leaves having the flavor of wintergreen.
Creeping (n.) A slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep" [syn: {crawl}, {crawling}, {creep}, {creeping}].
Creepingly (adv.) by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly.
How slily and creepingly did he address himself to our first parents. -- South.
Creeple (n.) A creeping creature; a reptile. [Obs.]
There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age. -- Morton (1632).
Creeple (n.) One who is lame; a cripple. [Obs.]
Thou knowest how lame a creeple this world is. -- Donne.
Creepy (a.) 令人毛骨悚然的；不寒而慄的；蠕動的；緩行的 Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. [Colloq.]
One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. -- R. Browning.
Creepy (a.) Annoying and unpleasant; "some creepy kids were bothering her".
Creepy (a.) Causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin; "a creepy story"; "I had a creepy-crawly feeling" [syn: {creepy}, {creepy-crawly}].
Crees (n. pl.) An Algonquin tribe of Indians, inhabiting a large part of British America east of the Rocky Mountains and south of Hudson's Bay.
Creese (n.) A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade. [Written also {crease} and {kris}.]
From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. -- Julian Hawthorne.
Creese (n.) A Malayan dagger with a wavy blade [syn: {kris}, {creese}, {crease}].
Crema (n.) Cream in a food, a cream sauce, or the topping on a dessert or espresso coffee, esp. tan-colored foam that forms on top of an espresso shot as a result of the brewing process. Cream in a food, a cream sauce, or the topping on a dessert or espresso coffee, esp. tan-colored foam that forms on top of an espresso shot as a result of the brewing process. Ital, Sp. Cooking.
Cremaillere (n.) An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.
Cremaster (n.) A thin muscle which serves to draw up the testicle.
Cremaster (n.) The apex of the last abdominal segment of an insect.
Cremasteric (a.) Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
Cremate (v. t.) To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.
Cremation (n.) A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead.
Cremationist (n.) One who advocates the practice of cremation.
Cremator (n.) One who, or that which, cremates or consumes to ashes.
Crematoriums (n. pl. ) of Crematory.
Crematories (n. pl. ) of Crematory.
Crematorium (n.) Alt. of Crematory.
Crematory (n.) A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace.
Crematorium (n.) A mortuary where corpses are cremated [syn: crematory, crematorium].
Crematorium (n.) A furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes [syn: crematory, crematorium, cremation chamber].
Crematory (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, cremation.
Crematory (n.) A mortuary where corpses are cremated [syn: crematory, crematorium]
Crematory (n.) A furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes [syn: crematory, crematorium, cremation chamber].
Cremocarp (n.) (Bot.) The peculiar fruit of fennel, carrot, parsnip, and the like, consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting axis.
Compare: Krummhorn
Krummhorn, Krumhorn (n.) (Mus.) A reed instrument of music of the cornet kind, now obsolete (see Cornet, 1, a.).
Krummhorn, Krumhorn (n.) (Mus.) A reed stop in the organ; -- sometimes called cremona.
Cremona (n.) A superior kind of violin, formerly made at Cremona, in Italy.
Cremona (n.) A city in Lombardy on the Po River; noted for the manufacture of fine violins from the 16th to the 18th centuries
Cremona (n.) A high-priced violin made in Connecticut.
Cremor (n.) Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum.
Cremosin (n.) See Crimson.
Crems (n.) See Krems.
Crenate (a.) Alt. of Crenated
Crenated (a.) Having the margin cut into rounded teeth notches, or scallops.
Crenation (n.) A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.
Crenation (n.) The condition of being crenate.
Crenature (n.) A rounded tooth or notch of a crenate leaf, or any part that is crenate; -- called also crenelle.
Crenature (n.) The state of being crenated or notched.
Crenel (n.) See Crenelle.
Crenelated (imp. & p. p.) of Crenelate.
Crenelating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crenelate.
Crenelate (v. t.) To furnish with crenelles.
Crenelate (v. t.) To indent; to notch; as, a crenelated leaf.
Crenelation (n.) The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.
Crenelle (n.) Alt. of Crenel.
Crenel (n.) An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement.
Crenel (n.) Same as Crenature.
Crenelled (a.) Same as Crenate.
Crengle (n.) Alt. of Crenkle.
Crenkle (n.) See Cringle.
Crenulate (a.) Alt. of Crenulated.
Crenulated (a.) Minutely crenate.
Crenulation (n.) A minute crenation.
Crenulation (n.) The state of being minutely scalloped.