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t. & i. [CRIB, s.] A. Transitive: 1. Lit .: To shut up in a crib or narrow habitation; to confine. "Now I am cabin'd, críbb'd , conf in'd, bound in To saucy doubts and fears." Shakesp.: Macbeth, iii. 3. 2. Fig .: To steal, to appropriate, to plagiarize. I have a habit of never writing letters but at the office; 'tis so much time oribbed out of the Company." -Lamb: E ays of Elia; Letter to Wilson. *B. In trans.: To be shut up or confined in a crib. "Who sought to make the glory of the nation and Church truckle under a Scotch canopy, and bishops to crib in a presbyterian trundle-bed."-Bp. Gauden : Anti - Baal Berith , 1661, p. 35. crib-bage (bage as big), *crib-bidge, s . [Prob. from crib , s.] Cards : A game at cards played usually by two players, but sometimes by three or even four. The B. As adj.: Made of the material described in A. whole pack of cards is used, and the leader deals "Ere we contribute a new crewel garter To his most worsted worship." B. Jonson: Alchemist. IMG:content-1322.png:[blocks in formation] "Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee 6. A reel for winding yarn. (Scotch.) II. Figuratively : 1. Anything stolen, a theft; a plagiarism. 2. A translation or key used by schoolboys, . ( Colloquial .) (Lytton: Pelham , ch. ii.) *3. The stomach. ( Slang .) crěv'-ět, s. [CRUET.] A crucible or melting-pot. boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, cell, chorus, 75 out five (or sometimes six) cards to each player. The crib is made up of two cards thrown out by each player, the non-dealer discarding first. The of fifteen formed by the pips, and also by pairs of points are counted by the number of separate sets any cards and runs or succe ions of three or more cards in regular order. The crib, or cards discarded, belong to the dealer, who scores all the points gained by it. "For cardes, the philologie of them is not for an e ay. A man's fancy would be summ'd up in cribbidge ." John Hall: Horæ Vaciva, p. 150 (1646). críbbed, pa. par.ora. [CRIB, v.] crib-bing, pr. par., a. & s. [CRIB, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) IMG:content-1323.jpg:[graphic] C. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. Lit .: The act of inclosing in a crib or narrow place. 2. Fig .: Stealing, thieving, plagiarizing. II. Min .: Internal lining of a shaft with frame timbers and plank-backing, to prevent caving, stop percolation of water, . The different styles are known as spiking-cribs and wedging-cribs. *crib-ble, s. & a. [Lat. cribellum, dim in. of cribrum a sieve.] A. As substantive : 1. A sieve. 2. Coarse flour or meal. B. As adj .: Coarse, as flour or meal. *cribble-bread, s . Bread made of coarse, unsifted flour. "The gardens, with digging for novelties, are turned over and over, because we will not eat common cribble bread." Transl. of Bullinger's Sermons, p. 243. crib-ble, v . t. [CRIBBLE, 8.] To sift, to riddle. *crib-bled, pa . par . or a. [CRIBBLE, v.] *crib'-bling, pr . par ., a . & 3. [CRIBBLE, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of sifting or riddling. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. cribella