Cream"-faced` (kr?m"f?st`), a. White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion.
Thou cream-faced loon.
Shak.
Cream"-fruit` (kr?m"fr?t`), n. (Bot.) A plant of Sierra Leone which yields a wholesome, creamy juice.
Cream"i*ness (-?-n?s), n. The quality of being creamy.
Cream" laid` (kr?m" l?d`). See under Laid.
Cream"-slice` (-sl?s`), n. A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream.
Cream"-white` (-hw?t`), a. As white as cream.
Cream"y (kr?m"?), a. Full of, or containing, cream; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous. "Creamy bowls." Collins. "Lines of creamy spray." Tennyson. "Your creamy words but cozen." Beau. & Fl.
Cre"ance (krē"ans), n. [F. crÚance, lit., credence, fr. L. credere to trust. See Credence.] 1. Faith; belief; creed. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. (Falconry) A fine, small line, fastened to a hawk's leash, when it is first lured.
Cre"ance (krē"ans), v. i. & t. To get on credit; to borrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Cre"ant (krē"ant), a. [L. creans, p. pr. of creare to create.] Creative; formative. [R.] Mrs. Browning.
Crease (krēs), n. See Creese. Tennyson.
Crease, n. [Cf. LG. krus, G. krause, crispness, krausen, krńusen, to crisp, curl, lay on folds; or perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. kriz a wrinkle, crease, kriza to wrinkle, fold, W. crych a wrinkle, crychu to rumple, ripple, crease.] 1. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
2. (Cricket) One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker.
Bowling crease (Cricket), a line extending three feet four inches on each side of the central strings at right angles to the line between the wickets. -- Return crease (Cricket), a short line at each end of the bowling crease and at right angles to it, extending toward the bowler. -- Popping crease (Cricket),, a line drawn in front of the wicket, four feet distant from it, parallel to the bowling crease and at least as long as the latter. J. H. Walsh (Encyc. of Rural Sports).
Crease, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Creased (kr?st); p. pr. & vb. n. Creasing.] To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling.
Creased, like dog's ears in a folio.
Gray.
Creas"er (kr?s"?r), n. 1. A tool, or a sewing-machine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by.
2. A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet iron, or for rounding small tubes.
3. (Bookbinding) A tool for making the band impression distinct on the back. Knight.
Creas"ing (krēs"&ibreve;ng), n. (Arch.) A layer of tiles forming a corona for a wall. Knight.
Cre"a*sote (krē"&adot;*sōt), n. See Creosote.
Creas"y (kr?s"?), a. Full of creases. Tennyson.
Cre"at (krē"ăt), n. [F. crÚat, ultimately fr. L. creatus created, begotten; cf. It. creato pupil, servant, Sp. criado a servant, client.] (Man.) An usher to a riding master.
Cre*at"a*ble (kr?-?"t?-b'l), a. That may be created.
Cre*ate" (kr&esl;*āt"), a.[L. creatus, p. p. of creare to create; akin to Gr. krai`nein to accomplish, Skr. k&rsdot; to make, and to E. ending -cracy in aristocracy, also to crescent, cereal.] Created; composed; begotten. [Obs.]
Hearts create of duty and zeal.
Shak.
Cre*ate", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Created; p. pr. & vb. n. Creating.] 1. To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist.
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
Gen. i. 1.
2. To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew.
Your eye in Scotland
Would create soldiers.
Shak.
Create in me a clean heart.
Ps. li. 10.
3. To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer. "I create you companions to our person." Shak.
Cre*at"ic (kr?-?t"?k), a. [Gr. &?;&?;&?;, &?;&?;&?;, flesh.] Relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food; as, creatic nausea. [Written also kreatic.]
Cre"a*tin (kr?"?-t?n), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; flesh.] (Physiol. Chem.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance found abundantly in muscle tissue. [Written also kreatine.]
Cre*at"i*nin (kr?-?t"?-n?n), n. (Physiol. Chem.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous body closely related to creatin but more basic in its properties, formed from the latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine. [Written also kretinine.]
Cre*a"tion (kr?-A"sh?n), n. [L. creatio: cf. F. cr&?;ation. See Create.] 1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.
From the creation to the general doom.
Shak.
As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation.
Locke.
2. That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature.
We know that the whole creation groaneth.
Rom. viii. 22.
A dagger of the mind, a false creation.
Shak.
Choice pictures and creations of curious art.
Beaconsfield.
3. The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation.
An Irish peer of recent creation.
Landor.
Cre*a"tion*al (-al), a. Of or pertaining to creation.
Cre*a"tion*ism (-?z'm), n. The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism.
Cre*a"tive (-t?v), a. Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation. "Creative talent." W. Irving.
The creative force exists in the germ.
Whewell.
Cre*a"tive*ness, n. The quality of being creative.
Cre*a"tor (kr&esl;*ā"t&etilde;r), n. [L. creator: cf. F. crÚateur.] One who creates, produces, or constitutes. Specifically, the Supreme Being.
To sin's rebuke and my Creater's praise.
Shak.
The poets and artists of Greece, who are at the same time its prophets, the creators of its divinities, and the revealers of its theological beliefs.
Caird.
Cre*a"tor*ship, n. State or condition of a creator.
Cre*a"tress, n. [L. creatrix: cf. F. crÚatrice.] She who creates. Spenser.
||Cre*a"trix (-tr?ks), n. [L.] A creatress. [R.]
Crea"tur*al (kr?"t?r-a]/>l; 135), a. Belonging to a creature; having the qualities of a creature. [R.]
Crea"ture (krē"tūr; 135), n. [F. crÚature, L. creatura. See Create.] 1. Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.
He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him.
Fuller.
God's first creature was light.
Bacon.
On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol
Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Milton.
And most attractive is the fair result
Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.
Cowper.
2. A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature.
The world hath not a sweeter creature.
Shak.
3. A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.
A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen.
Shak.
Both Charles himself and his creature, Laud.
Macaulay.