The crunching and ratting of the loose stones.
H. James.
Crunch, v. t. To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.
{ Crunk (krŭ&nsm;k), Crun"kle (krŭ&nsm;"k'l), } v. i. [Cf. Icel. kr&?;nka to croak.] To cry like a crane. [Obs.] "The crane crunketh." Withals (1608).
Cru*no"dal (kr?-n?"dal), a. (Geom.) Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; - - used of curves.
Cru"node (kr?"n?d), n. [Prob. fr. L. crux a cross + E. node.] (Geom.) A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a.
||Cru"or (kr?"?r), n. [L., blood. See Crude.] The coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore.
Cru"o*rin (-?-r?n), n. (Physiol.) The coloring matter of the blood in the living animal; hŠmoglobin.
Crup (kr?p), a. [Cf. OHG. grop, G. grob, coarse.] Short; brittle; as, crup cake. Todd.
Crup (kr?p), n. See Croup, the rump of a horse.
Crup"per (kr?p"p?r in U.S.; kr?p"?r in Eng.), n. [F. croupi&?;re, fr. croupe. See Croup the rump of a horse.] [Written also crouper.] 1. The buttocks or rump of a horse.
2. A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.
Crup"per, v. t. To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon; as, to crupper a horse.
||Cru"ra (kr?"r?), n. pl. (Anat.) See Crus.
Cru"ral (-ral), a. [L. cruralis, fr. crus, cruris, leg: cf. F. crural.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the thigh or leg, or to any of the parts called crura; as, the crural arteries; crural arch; crural canal; crural ring.
||Crus (kr?s), n.; pl. Crura (kr&?;"r&?;). [L., the leg.] (Anat.) (a) That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and the ankle, or tarsus; the shank. (b) Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a pair of muscles attached to it; crura cerebri, two bundles of nerve fibers in the base of the brain, connecting the medulla and the forebrain.
Cru*sade" (kr?-s?d"), n. [F. croisade, fr. Pr. crozada, or Sp cruzada, or It. crociata, from a verb signifying to take the cross, mark one's self with a cross, fr. L. crux cross; or possibly taken into English directly fr. Pr. Cf. Croisade, Crosado, and see Cross.] 1. Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans.
2. Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a crusade against intemperance.