Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 148
Crevasse (n.) A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi. [U.S.]
Crevasse (n.) A deep fissure.
Crevet (n.) A crucible or melting pot; a cruset. -- Crabb.
Crevice (n.) A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
The mouse, Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked, Or from the crevice peered about. -- Tennyson.
Crevice (v. t.) To crack; to flaw. [R.] -- Sir H. Wotton.
Crevice (n.) A long narrow depression in a surface [syn: crevice, cranny, crack, fissure, chap].
Crevice (n.) A long narrow opening [syn: crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure].
Creviced (a.) Having a crevice or crevices; as, a creviced structure for storing ears of corn.
Trickling through the creviced rock. -- J. Cunningham.
Crevis (n.) (Zool.) The crawfish. [Prov. Eng.]
Crew (n.) (Zool.) The Manx shearwater.
Crew (n.) A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.
There a noble crew Of lords and ladies stood on every side. -- Spenser.Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew? -- Milton.
Crew (n.) The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
Note: The word crew, in law, is ordinarily used as equivalent to ship's company, including master and other officers. When the master and other officers are excluded, the context always shows it. -- Story. -- Burrill.
Crew (n.) In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.
Syn: Company; band; gang; horde; mob; herd; throng; party.
Crew () imp. of Crow
Compare: Crow
Crow (v. i.) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance. "The cock had crown." -- Bayron.
The morning cock crew loud. -- Shak.
Crow (v. i.) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
Crow (v. i.) To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.
The sweetest little maid, That ever crowed for kisses. -- Tennyson.
To crow over, To exult over a vanquished antagonist.
Sennacherib crowing over poor Jerusalem. -- Bp. Hall.
Crew (n.) The men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.).
Crew (n.) An organized group of workmen [syn: gang, crew, work party].
Crew (n.) An informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd" [syn: crowd, crew, gang, bunch].
Crew (n.) The team of men manning a racing shell
Crew (v.) Serve as a crew member on.
Crew () Those persons who are employed in the navigation of a vessel.
Crew () A vessel to be seaworthy must have a sufficient crew. 1 Caines, R. 32; 1 John. R. 184.
Crew () In general, the master or captain (q.v.) has the selection of the crew. Vide Muster roll; Seaman; Ship; Shipping articles.
Crewel (n.) Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.
Crewelwork (n.) Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen.
Crewet (n.) See Cruet.
Crib (n.) 飼料槽 A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.
The steer lion at one crib shall meet. -- Pope.
Crib (n.) A stall for oxen or other cattle.
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. -- Prov. xiv. 4.
Crib (n.) （有欄杆的）嬰兒床 A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.
Crib (n.) 糧倉；貯藏箱 A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.
Crib (n.) 小屋 A hovel; a hut; a cottage.
Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great? -- Shak.
Crib (n.) (Mining) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.
Crib (n.) A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.
Crib (n.) A small raft of timber. [Canada]
Crib (n.) A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiarism; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons. [Colloq.]
The Latin version technically called a crib. -- Ld. Lytton.
Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib -- Wilkie Collins.
Crib (n.) A miner's luncheon. [Cant] -- Raymond.
Crib (n.) (Card Playing) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.
Cribbed (imp. & p. p.) of Crib
Cribbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crib
Crib (v. t.) To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped. -- I. Taylor.
Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined. -- Shak.
Crib (v. t.) To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton. [Colloq.]
Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace. -- Dickens.
Crib (v. i.) To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations. [R.]
Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed. -- Gauden.
Crib (v. i.) To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination. [College Cant]
Crib (v. i.) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.
Crib (n.) Baby bed with high sides made of slats [syn: crib, cot].
Crib (n.) A literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) [syn: pony, trot, crib].
Crib (n.) A bin or granary for storing grains.
Crib (n.) The cards discarded by players at cribbage.
Crib (n.) A card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two [syn: cribbage, crib].
Crib (v.) Use a crib, as in an exam.
Crib (v.) Take unauthorized (intellectual material).
Crib (v.) Line with beams or planks; "crib a construction hole".
Cribbage (v. t.) A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances.
A man's fancy would be summed up in cribbage. -- John Hall.
Cribbage board, A board with holes and pegs, used by cribbage players to score their game. Cribber
Cribbage (n.) A card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two [syn: cribbage, crib].
Cribber (n.) Alt. of Crib-biter
Crib-biter (n.) A horse that has the habit of cribbing.
Cribbing (n.) The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.
Cribbing (n.) Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing. [Colloq.]
Cribbing (n.) (Mining) A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc.
Cribbing (n.) A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound.
Crib-biting (n.) Same as Cribbing, 4.
Cribble (n.) A coarse sieve or screen.
Cribble (n.) Coarse flour or meal. [Obs.] -- Johnson.
Cribbled (imp. & p. p.) of Cribble
Cribbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cribble
Cribble (v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift.
Cribble (a.) Coarse; as, cribble bread.
Cribellum (n.) A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used for spinning a special kind of silk.
Cribrate (a.) Cribriform.
Cribration (n.) The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting.
Cribriform (a.) 篩狀的；有小孔的 Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress.
Cribriform cells (Bot.), Those which have here and there oblique or transverse sieve plates, or places perforated with many holes.
Cribrose (a.) Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.
Cric (n.) The ring which turns inward and condenses the flame of a lamp.
Crick (n.) The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. [Obs.] -- Johnson.
Crick (n.) （頸或背的）痛性痙攣；痛痙 A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part.
Crick (n.) A small jackscrew. -- Knight.
Crick (n.) A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) [syn: crick, kink, rick, wrick].
Crick (n.) English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004) [syn: Crick, Francis Crick, Francis Henry Compton Crick].
Crick (v.) (v. t.) 引起（頭、背等）痛痙，扭傷；把（頭等）強扭 Twist (a body part) into a strained position; "crick your neck".
Cricket (n.) [C] (Zool.) 蟋蟀；一按即發出唧唧聲的金屬小玩具（或信號器）；擱腳木矮凳； [U] 【體】板球 An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings.
Note: The common European cricket is Gryllus domesticus; the common large black crickets of America are Gryllus niger, Gryllus neglectus, and others.
Balm cricket. See under Balm.
Cricket+bird,+A+small+European+bird+({Silvia+locustella">Cricket bird, a small European bird ({Silvia locustella); -- called also grasshopper warbler.
Cricket+frog,+A+small+American+tree
+frog+({Acris+gryllus">Cricket frog, a small American tree frog ({Acris gryllus); -- so called from its chirping.
Cricket (n.) A low stool.
Cricket (n.) A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.
Cricket (n.) (Arch.) A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.
Cricket (v. i.) To play at cricket. -- Tennyson.
Cricketer (n.) One who plays at cricket.
Cricoid (a.) Resembling a ring; -- said esp. of the cartilage at the larynx, and the adjoining parts.
Cricothyroid (a.) Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages.
Cried () imp. & p. p. of Cry.
Crier (n.) One who cries; one who makes proclamation.
Crier (n.) an officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a town-crier.
Crime (n.) Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.
Crime (n.) Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong. "To part error from crime." -- Tennyson.
Note: Crimes, in the English common law, are grave offenses which were originally capitally punished (murder, rape, robbery, arson, burglary, and larceny), as distinguished from misdemeanors, which are offenses of a lighter grade. See Misdemeanors.
Crime (n.) Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity
No crime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love. -- Pope.
Crime (n.) That which occasion crime. [Obs.]
The tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall. -- Spenser.
Capital crime, A crime punishable with death.
Syn: Sin; vice; iniquity; wrong.
Crime, +Sin, {Vice”>Usage: Crime, Sin, {Vice. Sin is the generic term, embracing wickedness of every kind, but specifically denoting an offense as committed against God. Crime is strictly a violation of law either human or divine; but in present usage the term is commonly applied to actions contrary to the laws of the State. Vice is more distinctively that which springs from the inordinate indulgence of the natural appetites, which are in themselves innocent. Thus intemperance, unchastity, duplicity, etc., are vices; while murder, forgery, etc., which spring from the indulgence of selfish passions, are crimes.
Crime (n.) (Criminal law) An act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act; "a long record of crimes" [syn: crime, offense, criminal offense, criminal offence, offence, law-breaking]
Crime (n.) An evil act not necessarily punishable by law; "crimes of the heart".
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Crime, () A crime is an offence against a public law. This word, in its most general signification, comprehends all offences but, in its limited sense, it is confined to felony. 1 Chitty, Gen. Pr. 14.
Crime, () The term misdemeanor includes every offence inferior to felony, but punishable by indictment or by particular prescribed proceedings.
Crime, The term offence, also, may be considered as, having the same meaning, but is usually, by itself, understood to be a crime not indictable but punishable, summarily, or by the forfeiture of, a penalty. Burn's Just. Misdemeanor.
Crime, Crimes are defined and punished by statutes and by the common law. Most common law offences are as well known, and as precisely ascertained, as those which are defined by statutes; yet, from the difficulty of exactly defining and describing every act which ought to be punished, the vital and preserving principle has been adopted, that all immoral acts which tend to the prejudice of the community are punishable by courts of justice. 2 Swift's Dig.
Crime, Crimes are mala in se, or bad in themselves; and these include. all offences against the moral law; or they are mala prohibita, bad because prohibited, as being against sound policy; which, unless prohibited, would be innocent or indifferent. Crimes may be classed into such as affect:
Crime, Religion and public worship: viz. blasphemy, disturbing public worship.
Crime, The sovereign power: treason, misprision of treason.
Crime, The current coin: as counterfeiting or impairing it.
Crime, Public justice: 1. Bribery of judges or jurors, or receiving the bribe. 2. Perjury. 3. Prison breaking. 4. Rescue. 5. Barratry. 6. Maintenance. 7. Champerty. 8. Compounding felonies. 9. Misprision of felonies. 10. Oppression. 11. Extortion. 12. Suppressing evidence. 13. Negligence or misconduct in inferior officers. 14. Obstructing legal process. 15. Embracery.
Crime, Public peace. 1. Challenges to fight a duel. 2. Riots, routs and unlawful assemblies. 3. Affrays. 4. Libels.
Crime, Public trade. 1. Cheats. 2. Forestalling. S. Regrating. 4. Engrossing. 5. Monopolies.
Crime, Chastity. 1. Sodomy. 2. Adultery. 3. Incest. 4. Bigamy. 5. Fornication.
Crime, Decency and morality. 1. Public indecency. 2. Drunkenness. 3. Violating the grave.
Crime, Public police and economy. 1. Common nuisances. 2. Keeping disorderly houses and bawdy houses. 3. Idleness, vagrancy, and beggary.
Crime, Public. policy. 1. Gambling. 2. Illegal lotteries.
Crime, Individuals. 1. Homicide, which is justifiable, excusable or felonious. 2. Mayhem. 3. Rape. 4. Poisoning, with intent to murder. 5. Administering drugs to a woman quick with child to cause, miscarriage. 6. Concealing death of bastard child. 7. Assault and battery, which is either simple or with intent to commit some other crime. 8. kidnapping. 9. False imprisonment. 10. Abduction.
Crime, Private property. 1. Burglary. 2. Arson. 3. Robbery. 4., Forgery. Counterfeiting. 6. Larceny. 7. Receiving stolen goods, knowing them to have been stolen, or theft-bote. 8. Malicious mischief.
Crime, The public, individuals, or their property, according to the intent of the criminal. 1. Conspiracy.
Crimea (n.) 克里米亞半島，簡稱克里米亞，是黑海北岸的一個幾乎完全被海包圍的半島。東部為刻赤半島，與大陸隔刻赤海峽相望。Crimea is a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea in Eastern Europe that is almost completely surrounded by both the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov to the northeast. It is located south of the Ukrainian region of Kherson and west of the Russian region of Kuban. It is connected to Kherson Oblast by the Isthmus of Perekop and is separated from Kuban by the Strait of Kerch. The Arabat Spit is located to the northeast, a narrow strip of land that separates a system of lagoons named Sivash from the Sea of Azov.
Crimea (or the Tauric Peninsula, as it was called from antiquity until the early modern period) has historically been at the boundary between the classical world and the Pontic–Caspian steppe. Its southern fringe was colonised by the Greeks, the Persians, the Romans, the Byzantine Empire, the Crimean Goths, the Genoese and the Ottoman Empire, while at the same time its interior was occupied by a changing cast of invading steppe nomads and empires, such as the Cimmerians, Scythians, Sarmatians, Goths, Alans, Bulgars, Huns, Khazars, Kipchaks, Mongols and the Golden Horde. Crimea and adjacent territories were united in the Crimean Khanate during the 15th to 18th century.
In 1783, Crimea became a part of Russian Empire as the result of Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774). Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Crimea became an autonomous republic within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in the USSR. During World War II, Crimea was downgraded to the Crimean Oblast and then, in 1954, it was transferred to the Ukrainian SSR from the Russian SFSR by Nikita Khrushchev. [3]
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine was formed as an independent state in 1991. Most of the peninsula was reorganized as the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, while the city of Sevastopol retained its special status within Ukraine. In 1997 Ukraine and Russia signed the Partition Treaty on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet that partitioned the former Soviet Black Sea Fleet, setting terms that allowed Russia to continue basing its fleet in Crimea. Sevastopol remained the location of the Ukrainian Naval Forces, while Russian's Black Sea Fleet headquarters was also headquartered in the city. Ukraine extended Russia's lease of the naval facilities under the 2010 Kharkiv Pact in exchange for discounted natural gas.
In March 2014, following the Ukrainian revolution and subsequent takeover of the territory by pro-Russian separatists and Russian Armed Forces, [4] a referendum, deemed unconstitutional by the Ukrainian Constitutional Court, [5] [6] [7] was held on the issue of reunification with Russia; the official result was that a large majority of Crimeans wished to join with Russia. [8] Russia then annexed Crimea to incorporate the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol as federal subjects of Russia. [9] While Russia and ten other UN member states recognize Crimea as part of the Russian Federation, Ukraine continues to claim Crimea as an integral part of its territory, supported by most foreign governments and United Nations General Assembly Resolution 68/262. [10]
Crimean Bridge () 克里米亞大橋 The Crimean Bridge , also called Kerch Strait Bridge or Kerch Bridge, is a pair of parallel bridges, one for a four-lane road and one for a double-track railway, spanning the Kerch Strait between the Taman Peninsula of Krasnodar Krai in Russia and the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea in Ukraine. The bridge was built by Russia after it annexed Crimea at the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014. It cost ₽227.92 billion (US $3.7 billion) [11] and has a length of 19 km (12 mi), [d] which made it the longest bridge Russia has ever built [13] [e] and the longest bridge in Europe. [15] [14] [16] Besides transportation, Russia intended the bridge to support its claims to Crimea. [17] [18]
Crimeful (a.) Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Crimeless (a.) Free from crime; innocent. -- Shak.
Criminal (a.) 犯了罪的，罪的，有罪的 Guilty of crime or sin.
The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God. -- Rogers.
Criminal (a.) Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness.
Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications of vice, not criminal in themselves. -- Addison.
Criminal (a.) Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal code.
The officers and servants of the crown, violating the personal liberty, or other right of the subject . . . were in some cases liable to criminal process. -- Hallam.
Criminal action (Law), An action or suit instituted to secure conviction and punishment for a crime.
Criminal conversation (Law), Unlawful intercourse with a married woman; adultery; -- usually abbreviated, crim. con.
Criminal law, The law which relates to crimes.
Criminal (n.) 罪犯，犯人，刑事 One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon.
Criminal (a.) Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife" [syn: {condemnable}, {criminal}, {deplorable}, {reprehensible}, {vicious}].
Criminal (a.) Guilty of crime or serious offense; "criminal in the sight of God and man".
Criminal (a.) Involving or being or having the nature of a crime; "a criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent" [syn: {criminal}, {felonious}].
Criminal (n.) Someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime [syn: {criminal}, {felon}, {crook}, {outlaw}, {malefactor}].
Criminal. () Relating to, or having the character of crime; as, criminal law, criminal conversation, &c. It also signifies a person convicted of a crime.
Criminal (n.) [ C ] (B1) 罪犯 Someone who commits a crime.
// A dangerous/ violent criminal.
Criminalist (n.) One versed in criminal law.
Criminality (n.) The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt.
Criminally (adv.) In violation of law; wickedly.
Criminalness (n.) Criminality.
Criminated (imp. & p. p.) of Criminate
Criminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Criminate
Criminate (v. t. ) To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.
Criminate (v. t. ) To involve in a crime or in its consequences; to render liable to a criminal charge.
Crimination (n.) The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint.
Criminative (a.) Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory.
Criminatory (a.) Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience.
Criminology (n.) A treatise on crime or the criminal population.
Criminous (a.) Criminal; involving great crime or grave charges; very wicked; heinous.
Crimosin (n.) See Crimson.
Crimped (imp. & p. p.) of Crimp
Crimping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crimp
Crimp (v. t.) 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.
Crimp (v. t.) To pinch and hold; to seize.
Crimp (v. t.) to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.
Crimp (v. t.) 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.
Crimp (a.) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
Crimp (a.) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
Crimp (n.) A coal broker.
Crimp (n.) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.