Crapy

Of the nature of, or resembling, crape. Cra'ry's Mills, in New York, a post-office of St. Law IMG:content-0411.png:[blocks in formation] -[Lat. cra us. A kind of coarse linen cloth. Cra's is, n. [Gr. krasis , from keraō , kerannūmi , to mix, to temper.] ( Med . ) A due mixture of the constituents of a fluid; as, the crasis of the blood, humors, .-Also sometimes used as synonymous with constitution, temperament, . (Gram.) A contraction of two syllables into one, as nil for nihil . Cra , a . [Lat. cra us.] Gro ; crude; not subtilized or refined; as, " cra ignorance." -Cudworth . Cras's ament, Cras's iment, n. [Lat. cra a men tum , the sediment of a liquid, from cra us , thick, gro .] The thick, red part of the blood, as distinct from the serum or aqueous part; the clot. Cra in'idæ, n . pl . ( Zoöl . and Geol .) A family of mollusca, order Lamellibranch i at a , called also A star tid a and Cycladida. They are closely allied to the Venerida , and are interesting chiefly with reference to geology. The fo il species are very numerous, commencing with the lias period, and are distributed over the whole world. They may be regarded as having given place to the Veneridæ, which commenced with the oölitic period, and are among the most abundant bivalve mollusca of the present time.