Cre"tose (kr?"t?s), a. [L. cretosus, fr. creta chalk.] Chalky; cretaceous. [Obs.] Ash.
Creut"zer (kroit"s&etilde;r) n. See Kreutzer.
||Creux (kr?), n. [F., adj., hollow, n., a hollow.] Used in English only in the expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design.
||Cre`val*le" (kr?`v?l-l?"), n. [Prob. of same origin as cavally. See Cavally.] (Zo÷l.) (a) The cavally or jurel. See Cavally, and Jurel. (b) The pompano (Trachynotus Carolinus).
||Cre`vasse" (kr?`v?s"), n. [F. See Crevice.] 1. A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.
2. A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi. [U.S.]
Crev"et (kr?v"?t), n. [Cf. Creut.] A crucible or melting pot; a cruset. Crabb.
Crev"ice (kr?v"?s), n. [OE. crevace, crevice. F. crevasse, fr. crever to break, burst, fr. L. crepare to crack,break. Cf. Craven, Crepitate, Crevasse.] 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.
Crev"ice, v. t. To crack; to flaw. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.
Crev"iced (-?st), a. Having a crevice or crevices; as, a creviced structure for storing ears of corn.
Trickling through the creviced rock.
J. Cunningham.