{ ||Crap"u*la (kr?p"?-l?), Crap"ule (kr?p"?l), } n. [L. crapula intoxication.] Same as Crapulence.
Crap"u*lence (-?-lens), n. The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit. Bailey.
{ Crap"u*lent (-lent), Crap"u*lous (- l?s), } a. [L. crapulentus, crapulosus: cf. F. crapuleux.] Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in liquor; drunk; given to excesses. [R.]
Crap"y (kr?p"?), a. Resembling crape.
Crare (kr?r), n. [OF. craier, creer, croyer, ship of war, LL. craiera, creyera, perh. from G. krieger warrior, or D. krijger.] A slow unwieldy trading vessel. [Obs.] [Written also crayer, cray, and craie.] Shak.
Crase (kr?z), v. t. [See Craze.] To break in pieces; to crack. [Obs.] "The pot was crased." Chaucer.
Crash (krăsh>), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crashed (krăsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Crashing.] [OE. crashen, the same word as crasen to break, E. craze. See Craze.] To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. [R.]
He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire.
Fairfax.
Crash, v. i. 1. To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.
Roofs were blazing and walls crashing in every part of the city.
Macaulay.
2. To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.
Crash, n. 1. A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.
The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds.
Addison.
2. Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.
Crash, n. [L. crassus coarse. See Crass.] Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.
Crash"ing, n. The noise of many things falling and breaking at once.
There shall be . . . a great crashing from the hills.
Zeph. i. 10.
Cra"sis (kr?"s?s), n. [LL., temperament, fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;, fr. &?;&?;&?;&?; to mix.] 1. (Med.) A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.
2. (Gram.) A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; synŠresis; as, cogo for coago.
||Cras`pe*do"ta (kr?s`p?-d?"t?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; to be bordered or edged.] (Zo÷l.) The hydroid or naked-eyed medusŠ. See Hydroidea.
Cras"pe*dote (kr?s"p?-d?t), a. (Zo÷l.) Of or pertaining to the Craspedota.
Crass (kr?s), a. [L. crassus thick, fat, gross, prob. orig., closely woven. See Grease animal fat, and cf. Crate, Hurdle.] Gross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined. "Crass and fumid exhalations." Sir. T. Browne. "Crass ignorance" Cudworth.
{ Cras"sa*ment (kr?s"s?-ment), ||Cras`sa*men"tum (-m?n"t?m), } n. [L. crassamentum, fr. crassare to make thick. See Crass, a.] A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.
Cras"si*ment (kr?s"s?-ment), n. See Crassament.
Cras"si*tude (-t?d), n. [L. crassitudo.] Grossness; coarseness; thickness; density. Bacon.
Crass"ness (kr?s"n?s), n. Grossness. [Obs.] Glanvill.
Cras`ti*na"tion (kr?s`t?-n?"sh?n), n. [L. crastinus of to-morrow, from cras to-morrow.] Procrastination; a putting off till to-morrow. [Obs.]
||Cra*tŠ"gus (kr?-t?"g?s), n. [NL., fr. Gr. krataigo`s.] (Bot.) A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes.
Cratch (kr?ch; 224), n. [OE. cracche, crecche, F. crŔche crib, manger, fr. OHG. krippa, krippea, G. krippe crib. See Crib.] A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack. [Obs.]
Begin from first where He encradled was,
In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay.
Spenser.
Cratch cradle, a representation of the figure of the cratch, made upon the fingers with a string; cat's cradle; -- called also scratch cradle.
Crate (kr?t), n. [L. cratis hurdle; perh. akin to E. cradle. See Hurdle, and cf. Crate a framework.] 1. A large basket or hamper of wickerwork, used for the transportation of china, crockery, and similar wares.
2. A box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces, -- used especially for transporting fruit.
Crate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crated; p. pr. & vb. n. Crating.] To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches.
Cra"ter (kr?t?r), n. [L. crater, cratera, a mixing vessel, the mouth of a volcano, Gr. krath`r, fr. keranny`nai to mix; cf. Skr. šrī to mix, šir to cook, šrā to cook. Cf. Grail, in Holy Grail.] 1. 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.