Cravatted

Having a cravat round the neck. Crave, v. a. [A. S. crafian; Icel. kref; Dan. kræve, to require, demand; Swed. and Goth. kraefeva; Goth. krop jan, to cry out; Sansk. hrap, to speak; W.crefn, to cry, to crave, from cref, a cry, a scream.] To speak to as a suppliant; to ask earnestly and importunately; to ask submi ively; to beseech; to entreat; to solicit; as, to crave a boon. "As for my noble friends, I crave their pardons." -Shaks. -To long for; to desire strongly; to call for or demand, as a gratification or need; as, a craving stomach. Cra'ven, n. [0. Fr. cravanter, to foil, to overthrow. Anciently, a term of disgrace when one that was overcome in a single combat yielded, and cried cravanté, thus begging his life by admitting that he was overcome.] A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritle fellow. "He is a craven and a villain."-Shaks. ( Sports.) In cock-fighting, a beaten and dispirited cock. "No cock of mine; you crow too like a craven."-Shaks. -a. Cowardly; base; mean; contemptible. Cra'ven, in N. Carolina , an E.S.E. co., bordering on Pamlico Sound, at the mouth of the Neuse River, by which it is intersected; area , about 1,000 sq. m. Surface, level. Cap . Newbern. Pop . (1890) 20,600. Craven Mills, in Tenne ee , a village of Wayne co. Craven's Landing, in Tenne ee, a former post office of Hard in county. Cra'vensville, in Mi ouri , a village of Davie co., about 140 m. N.W. of Jefferson City.