Crucible

a melting-pot of earthenware, porcelain, refractory metal, or plumbago, adapted to withstand high temperatures, Crucifix, a cro with the effigy of Christ fixed to it. The crucifix first began to take the nd of the plain cro in the time of Const an tine, but was never publicly acknowledged i the Greek Church. It was not till the Car loving i an age that it became general in the Latin Church. On the earlier crucifixes, Christ is represented as alive, with open eyes, and generally clad, and fastened with four nails. On later ones he is represented as dead, naked, —- for a cloth round the loins, and fastened with three nails, the two feet pierced by a single nail.