crioceris

[Gr. krios =a ram, and keras =a horn.] Entom.: A genus of Beetles, by some placed under the Chrysomelide, by others made the type of a family Crioceride (q. v.). Crioceris asparagi is the Asparagus Beetle. The perfect insect and the larva, the latter like green jelly, may be seen on asparagus plants. 1189 cri-o-sphinx, 8. [Gr. kriosphingx=(see def.), krios a goat, and sphingx =a sphinx.] Egypt. Myth.: The name given by Hero dot us to a sphinx with the head of a ram, as distinguished from one with the head of a man or of a woman. No Greek sphinxes seem to have been of this type; all are Egyptian. *cri-ous, a . [Eng. cry; -ous.] Clamorous, noisy. "A fool womman and crious."- Wycliffe : Prov . ix. 13. *crippe, s . [For scrip (q. v.).] A scrip, a bag. "This sustynaunce is in my crippe."- Polit . Relig . and Love Poems , p. 156. *crip-pen, v. t. [Ger. krippen .] To break, to crush, to injure. "Al beeste, that outher with al tobrokun or crippid the ballokis is."-Wycliffe: Lev . xxii. 24. crip-ple, *creeple, *crepel, *creple, *crepul, *crepyll, *cripel, *cripil, *criple, *crupel, *cruppel, *crypylle, s. & a. [A. S. crépel , from creópan=to creep, cognate with O. H. Ger. krupel ; M. H. Ger. krüpel , kruppel ; Icel. kryppill ; Dut. kreupel ; Dan. kröbling , krybe = to creep; Ger. krüppel .] A. As subst.: One who, having lost or wanting the use of his limbs, is unable to walk; one who creeps, halts, or limps. crisp 2. Fig .: The act of disabling. "More serious embarra ments of a different descrip tion were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay."-Palfrey. II. Building: One of a set of spars or beams set up as a support against the side of a building. crip-plý, a. [Eng. crippl (e); -y.] Crippled: like a cripple. "Because he's so cripply he bean't to work no more."Mrs. Trollope: Michael Armstrong , ch. iii. cris, s . [CREESE.] cris-cro -rōw, s. [CRISS-CROSS-ROW.] *crise, s . [Fr.) A crisis. [CRISIS.] "Art and care will quicken the crise if the distemper is not too strong."-Cheyne: Health, ., p. 174. (Latham.)