||Cri"num (krī"nŭm), n. [NL., fr. Gr. kri`non lily.] (Bot.) A genus of bulbous plants, of the order AmaryllidaceŠ, cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty.
||Cri"o*sphinx` (krī"&osl;*sf&ibreve;&nsm;ks`), n. [Gr. krio`s ram + sfi`gx sphinx.] A sphinx with the head of a ram.
Crip"ple (kr&ibreve;p"p'l), n. [OE. cripel, crepel, crupel, AS. crypel (akin to D. kreuple, G. krŘppel, Dan. kr÷bling, Icel. kryppill), prop., one that can not walk, but must creep, fr. AS. creˇpan to creep. See Creep.] One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.
I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
Dryden.
Crip"ple (kr&ibreve;p"p'l), a. Lame; halting. [R.] "The cripple, tardy-gaited night." Shak.
Crip"ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crippled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crippling (-pl?ng).] 1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.
He had crippled the joints of the noble child.
Sir W. Scott.
2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled.
More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay.
Palfrey.
An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic.
Macaulay.
Crip"pled (kr?p"p'ld), a. Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. "The crippled crone." Longfellow.
Crip"ple*ness, n. Lameness. [R.] Johnson.
Crip"pler (-pl?r), n. A wooden tool used in graining leather. Knight.
Crip"pling (-pl?ng), n. Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.
Crip"ply (-pl?), a. Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. [R.] Mrs. Trollope.
Cri"sis (kr?"s?s), n.; pl. Crises (-s&?;z). [L. crisis, Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;, fr. &?;&?;&?;&?; to separate. See Certain.] 1. The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point.
This hour's the very crisis of your fate.
Dryden.
The very times of crisis for the fate of the country.
Brougham.
2. (Med.) That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat.
Till some safe crisis authorize their skill.
Dryden.
Crisp (kr?sp), a. [AS. crisp, fr. L. crispus; cf. carpere to pluck, card (wool), and E. harvest. Cf. Crape.] 1. Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.