Crump

[A.S. crumb, crump; Ger, krumm; W.crom; Armor. kromnm, crooked; allied to rump, rumple, crimp, crimple.] Crooked; bowed; bent. "He was crump -shouldered, and the right side higher than the left." L'Estrange. -Crusty; hard; knobby; as, a crump loaf. Crump'et, n . A kind of cake made of flour, milk, and butter, and baked on an iron girdle. (It is similar to a muffin .) Crum'ple, v . a . [From crump. See RUMPLE.] To draw, contract, or pre into wrinkles, creases, or folds; to rumple or crook; as, a crumpled dre . "They crumpled Sir Roger's palm into all shapes." -Add is on. -on. To wrinkle; to pucker; to contract in an irregular manner. the stamp of a cro . "Believe me, I had rather have lost my purse full of crusadors." Shaks Crusca, (Accademia dell a,) ( kroos'kā .) [It., the academy of bran or chaff.] One of the earliest, and one of the most celebrated of the societies of modern Europe. It was founded at Florence in 1582, and has recently been incorporated with two other societies, under the name of the Royal Florentine Academy. Cru's et, n. [Fr. creuset. A goldsmith's melting-pot. Crush, v . a . [Swed. kro a , to bruise; Goth. ga - kroten . to crush together; Fr. écraser ; It. crosciare ; probably allied to Heb. gar as , to break in coarse pieces; Ar. ga- rash.] To bruise; to pre or squeeze into a ma , so as to destroy the previous continuity of the parts; to break or bruise; to pound; as, to crush a lump of sugar. "Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape, -To overwhelm and beat down by power or pre ure. "Vain is the force of man, and heav'n 's as vain, To crush the pillars which the pile sustain." -Dryden.