crambo (krambo)

i. [ B. Jonson , Tale of a Tub, iv. 1. crambo-clink (kram'bō-klingk), n. Rime; rim A' ye wha live by sowps o' drink, A' ye wha live by crambo - clink, Come mourn wi' me. The succe ful expositor of a system of thought is not the man who is always cramming , and who perhaps keeps but a few weeks in advance of the particular theme which ing. [Scotch.] he is expounding. J. Fiske , Cosmic Philos., I. 137. cram (kram), n. [ cram , v.] 1. In weaving , a warp having more than two threads in each dent or split of the reed.-2. The act or the result of cramming the memory; information acquired hurriedly and not a imilated. Burns , On a Scotch Bard. That old metre of Provence, saved by the Scottish poets out of the old mystery-plays to become the crambo- clink of Ramsay and his circle, of Fergu on and of Burns. Contemporary Rev. , XLIX. 603. ties of mind that the infinitely various experience of after crambo-jingle (kram'bō-jing"gl), n. Same as It is the purpose of education so to exercise the facul life may be observed and reasoned upon to the best effect. What is popularly condemned as cram is often the best devised and best-conducted system of training towards this all-important end. Jevons, Social Reform, p. 100. The very same lecture is genuine instruction to one boy and mere cram to another. Westminster Rev. , CXXV. 263. 3. A lie. [Slang.] - Cram-paper, a paper on which are written all the questions likely to be asked at an examination.