crummable (krumabl)

[ IMG:content-1723.png:[blocks in formation] crumbs. crummet (krum'et), a. [Sc., equiv. to crump ed.] Having crooked horns, as a cow. crummie (krum'i), n. [Sc., equiv. to *crum pie, dim. of * crump.] A cow with crooked horns. Also crombie, crummock. crummock (krum'ok), n. [Se. dim., equiv. to * crumpock, dim. of crump1. Cf. crummie.] 1. Same as crummie.-2. A staff with a crooked Also called crummie stick. crummy, crumby (krum'i), a. [ cally; recover health and strength. Thank God I have pa ed the brunt of it [illne ], and am recovering and picking up my Crumbs apace. Howell , Letters, I. ii. 1. crump1t (krump), a. [ crumb , croume, crooked, crump , crumb, crooked (with verbal noun crymbing , a bending), = OS. krumb = OFries. krumb = D. krom = OHG. chrumb , MHG. krump (also OHG . MHG. krumpf ), G. krumm = Dan. krum , crook- ed, = Sw. krum , compa ing (cf. Icel. krumma , a crooked hand, krummi , a name for the raven, crookbeak?); in normal form crumb (mod. pron. krum), but with accom. termination, as if related to E. cramp (= OHG. chramph), crooked, and crimp (=MHG. krimpf ), crooked, being appar. from the pp. (as cramp1 from the pret. and crimp from the present) of the verb represented by crimp : see crimp , and cf. also cramp, crumb1. Prob. akin to W. crom, crwm, bending, concave, = Corn. Ir. Gael. crom , crook- ed, bent. Hence crome , a hook: see crome1.] Crooked; bent. All those steep Mountaines, whose high horned tops The misty cloak of wandring Clouds enwraps, Vnder First Waters their crump shoulders hid, And all the Earth as a dull Pond abid. IMG:content-1724.png:[blocks in formation] It [aqua-vitæ] keepeth the sinues from shrinking, the veins from crumpling . Holinshed, Ireland, ii. How much the muslin fluttered and crumpled before Eleanor and another nymph were duly seated! Trollope, The Warden, ix. crumple (krum'pl), n. [ crumple , v.] That which is crumpled, shriveled, or pre ed into wrinkles; an irregular fold or wrinkle. Crumples or anticlinal rolls, which are so frequently found in extensive basins. Science, VI. 184. crumpler (krum'pler), n. A cravat. [Colloq.] The fit of his crumpler and the crease of his breeches. R. D. Black more , Lorna Doone, iii. crumpling (krum'pling), n. [ , shrink, shrivel, + dim. -ing .] A degenerate or shriv- eled apple. Johnson. crumply (krum'pli), a. [ crumple , n., + -y1.] Full of crumples or wrinkles. crumpy (krum'pi), a. [ crump3 +-y1.] Easi- ly broken; brittle; crisp; crump. [Prov. Eng.] crunch (krunch), v. [Also in var. forms craunch , cranch, scrunch, scranch: see these forms, and also crump3; all appar. orig. imitative.] trans. To crush with the teeth; chew with vio- lence and noise: as, to crunch a biscuit; hence, to crush or grind violently and audibly in any crump1t (krump), n. [ crump1 , a.] A deformed other way. or crooked person. Davies. That piece of deformity! that monster! that crump ! Vanbrugh, Æsop, ii. crump1 (krump), v. i. [ pen , as in def. def. 3; 3; otherwise not found in ME., except as in freq. crumple , and perhaps crum- pet , q. v.; crimp , v., and cramp1, v.] 1. To bend; God had sent on hin i a wrake, That in the palsye he gan schake A sound of heavy wheels crunching a stony road. Charlotte Brontë , Shirley, ii. 14. Our wheels went crunching the gravel Of the oak-darkened avenue. crunch (krunch), n. [ What so frightfully old as we ourselves, who can, if we choose, hold in our memories every syllable of recorded time, from the first crunch of Eve's teeth in the apple? Lowell , Fireside Travels, p. 13. crune (krön), v. Another spelling of croon . crunkt (krungk), v. i. [= Icel. krūnka , croak as a raven, krunk , a croak. Cf. cronk , the note of wild geese. Imitative words.] To cry like a crane. Withals, Dict. (ed. 1608), p. 20. crunklel (krung'kl), v . t .; pret. and pp. crunkled , ppr. crunkling crunkling. [Var. of crinkle . Cf. crumple.] To rumple; crinkle or wrinkle. crunkle2+ (krung'kl), v . i. [Freq. cry like a crane. crunodal (krö'no-dal), a. [ IMG:content-1725.png:[ocr errors] crunode (krö'nōd), n. [Irreg. crux ( cruc- ), cro , + по- dus = E. knot : see cro and node . Cf. acnode .] A point at which a curve cro es itself; a double point on a curve with two real tangents. cruor (krö'or), n. [L., blood, internal oblique muscles, and externally by the femoral vein.- Crural septum, the layer of sub peritoneal con- nective ti ue which spans the crural ring in a normal state. Crural sheath, the sheath which incloses the femoral ve els as they leave the abdomen. It is a con- tinuation of the fasciæ lining the abdomen, and becomes closely adherent to the femoral ve els about an inch be- low the saphenous opening; but above it is larger, and contains some areolar ti ue, and frequently a lymphatic gland. Crural vein, the femoral vein. - Deep crural arch, a thickened band of fibers arching over the begin- ning of the crural sheath. It arises from the middle of Poupart's ligament, and is inserted into the iliopectineal line. crus (krus), n.; pl. crura (krö'rä). [L., the leg.] In an at . and zool .: ( a ) The low- er leg; the part of the hind blood, + -in2, -ine2.] 2. The red coloring matter of blood-corpuscles. It may be obtained in the form of a brick-red powder. Now called hemoglobin (which Previous to the introduction of spectrum analysis, red and purple cruorine were perfectly unknown. J. N. Lockyer , Spectroscope, p. 85. crup1 (krup), a. [E. dial. (south.), prob. = crump3, brittle, with lo of the nasal.] 1. Short; brittle: as, " crup cake," Todd.-2. Snappish; testy: as, “a crup answer," Todd . [Prov. Eng. in both uses.] crup2 (krup), n. [F. croupe : see croup2 and crupper .] Same as croup2 . crupper (krup'er), n. [F. croup ière , croupe , the buttocks of a horse: see croup2 .] 1. The buttocks of a horse; the rump. IMG:content-1726.png:[blocks in formation] the ankle; the second seg ment of the hind limb, corre- sponding to the forearm or ante brachium of the fore limb, represented by the length of the tibia or shin- bone. (b) Some part likened to a leg, as one of a pair of supporting parts; a pillar; a peduncle. Vacuole about in the centre of each crus , filled with moving gran- ules. H. C. Wood , Fresh-Water Algæ, [p. 107. Crura cerebelli, the peduncles of the cerebellum. - Crura cerebelli ad cerebrum, the superior pedun- cles of the cerebellum. Crura ce- rebelli ad corpora quadrigemi- na, the superior peduncles of the cerebellum. Crura cerebelli ad of the cerebellum. - Crura cere- bell i ad pontem, the middle pe duncles of the cerebellum.- Crura the fornix. Crura of the dia- phragm, the right and left tend i- IMG:content-1727.png:[blocks in formation] per . nous attachments of the diaphragm to the sides of the bodies of lumbar vertebræ, uniting above to inclose the crus aortic opening. - Crus anterius medullæ oblong atæ. Same as crus cerebri. - Crus cerebelli super i us, one of the superior peduncles of the cerebellum. - Crus cerebri, the peduncle of the brain; the ma of white nerve ti ue forming with its fellow the lower portion of the mesencephalon and in part of the thalamencephalon, and extending from the pons Varolii to the optic tract. - Crus e cerebello ad medullam, the inferior peduncle of the cerebellum. See peduncle. - Crus fornicis anterius, the column a fornicis, or anterior pillar of the for. nix.- Crus medium, the middle peduncle of the cerebellum; a ma of white nerve-ti ue pa ing down on each side from the cerebellum to form the pons Varolii. - Crus olfactorium, cruschinencephalitost improperly called, in anatomy, nerve tract, being a contracted portion of the brain itself, between the prosencephalon and the rhinencephalon. - Crus penis, the posterior fourth of one of the corpora cavernosa, which, diverging from its fellow, is attached to the pubic and ischial rami.