crailcapon

A haddock dried without being split. ( Scotch.) "To augment his drowth, each to his jaws A good Crail - capon holds, at which he rugs and gnaws." Anster Fair, C. ii., st. 20. *crake (1), s . [CRACK, 8. ] 1. Ord. Lang.: A boast. "Leasings, backbitings, and vain-glorious crakes ." Spenser: F. Q. , II. xi, 10. 2. Old Ordn.: A kind of great gun or cannon. "The tothyr, crakys war off wer, That thai befor herd neuir er." Barbour, xix. 399. crāke (2), s. [Imitated from the cry of the bird.] bird; the corncrake (q. v.). IMG:content-1233.png:[blocks in formation] of Bot.) crāke, v. i. & t. [CRACK, v.] I. In trans.: To boast, to bluster, to crack. "Then she is mortal born, how so ye crake." Spenser: F. Q., VII. vii. 50. Followed by of before that which is boasted of. "Each man may crake of that which was his owne." Mir. for Mag ., p. 297. II. Transitive : IMG:content-1234.png:[blocks in formation] *crā'-ker (1), s. [CRACKER.] A boaster, a braggart. "Ne yet great crakers were ever great fighters." Damon and Pythias , sign. E. iiij. cra-ker (2), s. [Eng. crake (2), s.; -er.] The Corncrake. "The land-fowls produced here are hawks extraordinary good, eagles, plovers, crows, wrens, stone-chaker, craker, cuckoo."- Martin : St. Kilda , p. 26. & i . [A. S. crammian. Cogn. with Icel. kremja =to crăm, *crammyn, *cremmyn, *cromme, v . t. squeeze; Sw.krama ; Dan. kramme .] IMG:content-1235.png:[blocks in formation] Entom.: A group of Moths, tribe Pyralid in a. There are four families: (1) Eudoreide, (2) Galleride, (3) Phycide, (4) Crambide. ( Stainton .) crămb-ling, a. [A corruption of scrambling .] (For definition see etymology.) crambling-rocket, s. A name given to (1) Sisymbrium of ficin ale , (2) Reseda lutea . ( Britten & Holland .)