Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 154
Crowdy (n.) A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind. [Scot.]
Crowflower (n.) (Bot.) A kind of campion; according to Gerarde, the Lychnis Flos-cuculi.
Crowfoot (n.) (Bot.) The genus Ranunculus, of many species; some are common weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty.
Crowfoot (n.) (Naut.) A number of small cords rove through a long block, or euphroe, to suspend an awning by.
Crowfoot (n.) (Mil.) A caltrop. [Written also crow's-foot.]
Crowfoot (n.) (Well Boring) A tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc. -- Raymond.
Crow's-foot (n.; pl. Crow's-feet) pl. The wrinkles that appear, as the effect of age or dissipation, under and around the outer corners of the eyes. -- Tennyson.
Crow's-foot (n.; pl. Crow's-feet) (Mil.) A caltrop. [Written also crowfoot.]
Crow's-foot (n.; pl. Crow's-feet) (Arch.) Same as Bird's-mouth. [U.S.]
Crowfoot (n.) Any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus [syn: buttercup, butterflower, butter-flower, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup].
Crowkeeper (n.) A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow. [Obs.]
Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper. -- Shak.
Crown () p. p. of Crow. [Obs.]
Crown (n.) A wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction; hence, anything given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward. "An olive branch and laurel crown." -- Shak.
They do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. -- 1 Cor. ix. 25.
Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. -- Rev. ii. 10.
Crown (n.) A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc.
Note: Nobles wear coronets; the triple crown of the pope is usually called a tiara. The crown of England is a circle of gold with crosses, fleurs-de-lis, and imperial arches, inclosing a crimson velvet cap, and ornamented with thousands of diamonds and precious stones.
Crown (n.) The person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown; the sovereign; -- with the definite article.
Parliament may be dissolved by the demise of the crown. -- Blackstone.
Large arrears of pay were due to the civil and military servants of the crown. -- Macaulay.
Crown (n.) Imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty.
There is a power behind the crown greater than the crown itself. -- Junius.
Crown (n.) Anything which imparts beauty, splendor, honor, dignity, or finish.
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. -- Prov. xvi. 31.
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband. -- Prov. xvi. 4.
Crown (n.) Highest state; acme; consummation; perfection.
Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss. -- Milton.
Crown (n.) The topmost part of anything; the summit.
The steepy crown of the bare mountains. -- Dryden.
Crown (n.) The topmost part of the head (see Illust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain.
From toe to crown he'll fill our skin with pinches. -- Shak.
Twenty things which I set down: This done, I twenty more-had in my crown. -- Bunyan.
Crown (n.) The part of a hat above the brim.
Crown (n.) (Anat.) The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth.
Crown (n.) (Arch.) The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.
Crown (n.) (Bot.) Same as Corona.
Crown (n.) (Naut.) That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.
Crown (n.) (Naut.) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
Crown (n.) (Naut.) pl. The bights formed by the several turns of a cable. -- Totten.
Crown (n.) The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
Crown (n.) The dome of a furnace.
Crown (n.) (Geom.) The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters.
Crown (n.) (Eccl.) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
Crown (n.) A size of writing paper. See under Paper.
Crown (n.) A coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a denomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.
Crown (n.) An ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the paper is stamped with a crown.
Crown of aberration (Astron.), A spurious circle around the true circle of the sun.
Crown antler (Zool.), The topmost branch or tine of an antler; also, an antler having a cuplike top, with tines springing from the rim.
Crown bar, One of the bars which support the crown sheet of steam-boiler furnace.
Crown glass. See under Glass.
Crown imperial. (Bot.) See in the Vocabulary.
Crown jewels, The jewels appertaining to the sovereign while wearing the crown. [Eng.] "She pawned and set to sale the crown jewels." -- Milton.
Crown land, Land belonging to the crown, that is, to the sovereign.
Crown law, The law which governs criminal prosecutions. [Eng.]
Crown lawyer, One employed by the crown, as in criminal cases. [Eng.]
Crown octavo. See under Paper.
Crown office. See in the Vocabulary.
Crown paper. See under Paper.
Crown piece. See in the Vocabulary.
Crown Prince, The heir apparent to a crown or throne.
Crown saw. See in the Vocabulary.
Crown scab (Far.), A cancerous sore formed round the corners of a horse's hoof.
Crown sheet, The flat plate which forms the top of the furnace or fire box of an internally fired steam boiler.
Crown shell. (Zool.) See Acorn-shell.
Crown side. See Crown office.
Crown tax (Eccl. Hist.), A golden crown, or its value, which was required annually from the Jews by the king of Syria, in the time of the Maccabees. -- 1 Macc. x. 20.
Crown wheel. See in the Vocabulary.
Crown work. See in the Vocabulary.
Pleas of the crown (Engl. law), Criminal actions.
Crowned (imp. & p. p.) of Crown.
Crowning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crown.
Crown (v. t.) To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power.
Her who fairest does appear, Crown her queen of all the year. -- Dryden.
Crown him, and say, "Long live our emperor." -- Shak.
Crown (v. t.) To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
Thou . . . hast crowned him with glory and honor. -- Ps. viii. 5.
Crown (v. t.) To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
Amidst the grove that crowns yon tufted hill. -- Byron.
One day shall crown the alliance. -- Shak.
To crown the whole, came a proposition. -- Motley.
Crown (v. t.) (Mech.) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.
Crown (v. t.) (Mil.) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
To crown a knot (Naut.), To lay the ends of the strands over and under each other.
Crown (n.) The Crown (or the reigning monarch) as the symbol of the power and authority of a monarchy; "the colonies revolted against the Crown."
Crown (n.) The part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel
Crown (n.) A wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory
Crown (n.) An ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty [syn: crown, diadem].
Crown (n.) The part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head.
Crown (n.) An English coin worth 5 shillings.
Crown (n.) The upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant [syn: crown, treetop].
Crown (n.) The top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill); "the view from the peak was magnificent"; "they clambered to the tip of Monadnock"; "the region is a few molecules wide at the summit" [syn: peak, crown, crest, top, tip, summit].
Crown (n.) The award given to the champion [syn: pennant, crown].
Crown (n.) The top of the head [syn: pate, poll, crown].
Crown (n.) (Dentistry) Dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth; "tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown" [syn: crown, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown, cap].
Crown (n.) The center of a cambered road [syn: crown, crest].
Crown (v.) Invest with regal power; enthrone; "The prince was crowned in Westminster Abbey" [syn: crown, coronate].
Crown (v.) Be the culminating event; "The speech crowned the meeting" [syn: crown, top].
Crown (v.) Form the topmost part of; "A weather vane crowns the building."
Crown (v.) Put an enamel cover on; "crown my teeth."
Crown, () Denotes the plate of gold in the front of the high priest's mitre (Ex. 29:6; 39:30). The same Hebrew word so rendered (ne'zer) denotes the diadem worn by Saul in battle (2 Sam. 1:10), and also that which was used at the coronation of Joash (2 Kings 11:12).
Crown, () The more general name in Hebrew for a crown is _'atarah_, meaning a "circlet." This is used of crowns and head ornaments of divers kinds, including royal crowns. Such was the crown taken from the king of Ammon by David (2 Sam. 12:30). The crown worn by the Assyrian kings was a high mitre, sometimes adorned with flowers. There are sculptures also representing the crowns worn by the early Egyptian and Persian kings. Sometimes a diadem surrounded the royal head-dress of two or three fillets. This probably signified that the wearer had dominion over two or three countries. In Rev. 12:3; 13:1, we read of "many crowns," a token of extended dominion.
Crown, () The ancient Persian crown (Esther 1:11; 2:17; 6:8) was called _kether_; i.e., "a chaplet," a high cap or tiara. Crowns were worn sometimes to represent honour and power (Ezek. 23:42).
They were worn at marriages (Cant. 3:11; Isa. 61:10, "ornaments;" R.V., "a garland"), and at feasts and public festivals.
The crown was among the Romans and Greeks a symbol of victory and reward. The crown or wreath worn by the victors in the Olympic games was made of leaves of the wild olive; in the Pythian games, of laurel; in the Nemean games, of parsley; and in the Isthmian games, of the pine. The Romans bestowed the "civic crown" on him who saved the life of a citizen. It was made of the leaves of the oak. In opposition to all these fading crowns the apostles speak of the incorruptible crown, the crown of life (James 1:12; Rev. 2:10) "that fadeth not away" (1 Pet. 5:4, Gr. amarantinos; comp. 1:4). Probably the word "amaranth" was applied to flowers we call "everlasting," the "immortal amaranth."
Crown. () A covering for the head, commonly used by kings; figuratively, it signifies royal authority. By pleas of the crown, are understood criminal actions.
Crowned (p. p. & a.) Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." -- Shak. "Crowned with conquest." -- Milton.
With surpassing glory crowned. -- Milton.
Crowned (p. p. & a.) Great; excessive; supreme. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Crowned (a.) Having an (artificial) crown on a tooth; "had many crowned teeth" [ant: uncrowned].
Crowned (a.) Crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory [syn: laureled, laurelled, crowned] [ant: unlaureled, unlaurelled].
Crowned (a.) Provided with or as if with a crown or a crown as specified; often used in combination; "a high-crowned hat"; "an orange-crowned bird"; "a crowned signet ring" [ant: crownless, uncrowned].
Compare: Coroner
Coroner (n.) An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred. [In England formerly also written and pronounced crowner.]
Note: In some of the United States the office of coroner is abolished, that of medical examiner taking its place.
Coroner's inquest. See under Inquest.
Crowner (n.) One who, or that which, crowns. -- Beau. & FL.
Crowner (n.) A coroner. [Prov. Eng. or Scot.]
Crownet (n.) A coronet. [R.] -- P. Whitehead.
Crownet (n.) The ultimate end and result of an undertaking; a chief end. [Obs.]
O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm . . . . Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end. -- Shak.
Crown-imperial (n.) A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell-shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.
Crownless (a.) Without a crown.
Crownlet (n.) A coronet.
Crown office () The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases.
Crownpiece (n.) A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle.
Crownpiece (n.) A coin [In sense (b) properly crown piece.] See Crown, 19.
Crown-post (n.) Same as King-post.
Crown-saw (n.) A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion.
Crown side () See Crown office.
Crown wheel () A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.
Crownwork (n.) A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank.
Crow-quill (n.) A quill of the crow, or a very fine pen made from such a quill.
Crows (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians of the Dakota stock, living in Montana; -- also called Upsarokas.
Crow's-feet (n. pl. ) of Crow's-foot.
Crow's-foot (n.) The wrinkles that appear, as the effect of age or dissipation, under and around the outer corners of the eyes.
Crow's-foot (n.) A caltrop.
Crow's-foot (n.) Same as Bird's-mouth.
Crow-silk (n.) A filamentous fresh-water alga (Conferva rivularis of Linnaeus, Rhizoclonium rivulare of Kutzing).
Crow's-nest (n.) A box or perch near the top of a mast, esp. in whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout.
Crowstep (n.) See Corriestep.
Crowstone (n.) The top stone of the gable end of a house.
Crowth (n.) An ancient musical instrument. See 4th Crowd.
Crowtoe (n.) The Lotus corniculatus.
Crowtoe (n.) An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot.
Crow-trodden (a.) Marked with crow's-feet, or wrinkles, about the eyes.
Croylstone (n.) Crystallized cawk, in which the crystals are small.
Croys (n.) See Cross, n.
Croze (n.) A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself.
Crozier (n.) See Crosier.
Croziered (a.) Crosiered.
Crucial (a.) Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.
Crucial (a.) Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test.
Crucian carp () A kind of European carp (Carasius vulgaris), inferior to the common carp; -- called also German carp.
Cruciate (a.) Tormented. [Obs.] -- Bale.
Cruciate (a.) (Bot.) 【動】【植】十字形的，十字狀的 Having the leaves or petals arranged in the form of a cross; cruciform.
Cruciate (v. t.) To torture; to torment. [Obs.] See Excruciate. -- Bale.
Cruciate (a.) Shaped like a cross [syn: cruciate, cruciform].
Cruciation (n.) The act of torturing; torture; torment. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Crucible (n.) [C] 坩堝；熔化鍋；爐缸；嚴酷的考驗 A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc.
Crucible (n.) A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal.
Crucible (n.) A test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the crucible of affliction.
Hessian crucible (Chem.), A cheap, brittle, and fragile, but very refractory crucible, composed of the finest fire clay and sand, and commonly used for a single heating; -- named from the place of manufacture.
Crucible (n.) A vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions [syn: crucible, melting pot].
Crucifer (n.) (Bot.) 十字花科植物；（在行列中）執十字架的人 Any plant of the order Cruciferae.
Cruciferous (a.) Bearing a cross.
Cruciferous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants which have four petals arranged like the arms of a cross, as the mustard, radish, turnip, etc.
Crucifier (n.) One who crucifies; one who subjects himself or another to a painful trial.
Crucifer (n.) Any of various plants of the family Cruciferae [syn: crucifer, cruciferous plant].
Crucifixes (n. pl. ) of Crucifix.
Crucifix (n.) 耶穌十字架受難像 A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, used by the Roman Catholics in their devotions.
The cross, too, by degrees, become the crucifix. -- Milman.
And kissing oft her crucifix, Unto the block she drew. -- Warner.
Crucifix (n.) The cross or religion of Christ. [R.] -- Jer. Taylor.
Crucifix (n.) Representation of the cross on which Jesus died [syn: crucifix, rood, rood-tree].
Crucifix (n.) A gymnastic exercise performed on the rings when the gymnast supports himself with both arms extended horizontally
Crucifixion (n.) 釘死於十字架；刑問；精神痛苦 The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.
Crucifixion (n.) The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross.
Crucifixion (n.) Intense suffering or affliction; painful trial.
Do ye prove What crucifixions are in love? -- Herrick.
Crucifixion (n.) The act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross.
Crucifixion (n.) The death of Jesus by crucifixion.
Crucifixion (n.) The infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering [syn: crucifixion, excruciation].
Crucifixion, () A common mode of punishment among heathen nations in early times. It is not certain whether it was known among the ancient Jews; probably it was not. The modes of capital punishment according to the Mosaic law were, by the sword (Ex. 21), strangling, fire (Lev. 20), and stoning (Deut. 21).
This was regarded as the most horrible form of death, and to a Jew it would acquire greater horror from the curse in Deut. 21:23.
This punishment began by subjecting the sufferer to scourging. In the case of our Lord, however, his scourging was rather before the sentence was passed upon him, and was inflicted by Pilate for the purpose, probably, of exciting pity and procuring his escape from further punishment (Luke 23:22; John 19:1).
The condemned one carried his own cross to the place of execution, which was outside the city, in some conspicuous place set apart for the purpose. Before the nailing to the cross took place, a medicated cup of vinegar mixed with gall and myrrh (the sopor) was given, for the purpose of deadening the pangs of the sufferer. Our Lord refused this cup, that his senses might be clear (Matt. 27:34). The spongeful of vinegar, sour wine, posca, the common drink of the Roman soldiers, which was put on a hyssop stalk and offered to our Lord in contemptuous pity (Matt. 27:48; Luke 23:36), he tasted to allay the agonies of his thirst (John 19:29). The accounts given of the crucifixion of our Lord are in entire agreement with the customs and practices of the Roman in such cases. He was crucified between two "malefactors" (Isa. 53:12; Luke 23:32), and was watched by a party of four soldiers (John 19:23; Matt. 27:36, 54), with their centurion. The "breaking of the legs" of the malefactors was intended to hasten death, and put them out of misery (John 19:31); but the unusual rapidity of our Lord's death (19:33) was due to his previous sufferings and his great mental anguish. The omission of the breaking of his legs was the fulfilment of a type (Ex. 12:46). He literally died of a broken heart, a ruptured heart, and hence the flowing of blood and water from the wound made by the soldier's spear (John 19:34). Our Lord uttered seven memorable words from the cross, namely, (1) Luke 23:34; (2) 23:43; (3) John 19:26; (4) Matt. 27:46, Mark 15:34; (5) John 19:28; (6) 19:30; (7) Luke 23:46.
Cruciform (a.) Cross-shaped; (Bot.) having four parts arranged in the form of a cross.
Cruciform (a.) Shaped like a cross [syn: cruciate, cruciform].
Crucified (imp. & p. p.) of Crucify.
Crucifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crucify.
Crucify (v. t.) 把……的手腳釘在十字架上處死；迫害；折磨；詆毀；克制，壓抑 To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.
They cried, saying, Crucify him, cricify him. -- Luke xxiii. 21.
Crucify (v. t.) To destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue completely; to mortify.
They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts. -- Gal. v. 24.
Crucify (v. t.) To vex or torment. -- Beau. & FL.
Crucify (v.) Kill by nailing onto a cross; "Jesus Christ was crucified."
Crucify (v.) Treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" [syn: torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate].
Crucify (v.) Hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh" [syn: mortify, subdue, crucify].
Crucify (v.) Criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage" [syn: savage, blast, pillory, crucify].
Crucigerous (a.) Bearing the cross; marked with the figure of a cross. -- Sir. T. Browne.