crammer

[Eng. cram; -er.] 1. Lit.: One who crams or fills himself or anything to repletion. 2. Fig .: A contemptuous term applied by opponents to those private tutors who prepare students for competitive examinations. "What was demanded was that these studies should be rescued from 'crammers. But what was a 'crammer'? A profe or was a person whose pay came to him irrespect ive of his exertions. A 'crammer' was a teacher whose pay depended wholly on his exertions."-Mr. Sedgwick: University Intelligence , Oxford , in London Times. crăm-ming, pr . par ., a. & s. [CRAM, v.] A. & B. As pr . par . & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) IMG:content-1237.png:[blocks in formation] Bot .: A genus of cruciferous plants, family Raph- anide. The plant is without valves, the upper joint globose, deciduous, bearing one pendulous seed upon a seed from the bottom of the cell, the lower A. As adj .: Crimson. satyne heich nekkit joint resembling a pedicel. Crambe maritima is the withtem ane gowne of crammas velenit all through sinuated, waved, and toothed glaucous leaves and (159) Sea Kale. It is a glabrous plant with roundish, with crammasy velvot without horn is." - Inventories , A. white flowers. It grows, though not very com- monly, on sea-coasts or sandy or stony places. When cultivated and blanched, it is an excellent culinary vegetable. C. tatarica is the Tatar Kenyer or Tartar-bread of the Hungarians. It is eaten by or sometimes is boiled. B. As subst.: Crimson cloth. "In crammesy clede and gran it violate." Douglas: Virgil, 399, 20.