creed maker

One who draws up a creed or summary of articles of belief. *creed, v . t . [CREED, s .] To believe. "That part which is so creeded by the people."- Milton , †creed-le , a . [Eng. creed ; -le .] Without any creed or religion. ( Carlyle : Fr. Rev. ) creek (1), *creke, *krike, *cryk, *cryke, s . [A. S. crecca . Cogn. with Dut. kreek =a creek; Icel. kriki =a nook, a corner; Fr. crique a creek. Skeat suggests also a connection with Wel.crig=a crack, crigyll =a ravine, a creek.] IMG:content-1293.png:[blocks in formation] "As streams, which with their winding banks do play, Stopp'd by their creeks , run softly through the plain." Davies: Immort. of Soul. *3. A turn, a winding, an alley. "A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper; one that commands the pa ages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands."Shakesp.: Comedy of Errors, iv. 2. 4. A rivulet, a stream, a small river. creek (2), s. [Ger. krieche.] The dawn, the break of day. "Like night, soon as the morning creek Has usher'd in the day." Ramsay: Works, i. 121. *creek, v. i. [CREEK, 8.] To form a creek or creeks. "The salt water so creeketh about it that it almost insu. lateth it."- Holland : Camden , p. 451. ( Davies .) creek-ỹ, a. [Eng. creek (1) s.; -y.] Full of or abounding in creeks; winding. créel, s. [Ir. craidhlag.] 1. Ordinary Language: 1. An ozier basket or pannier. "And lightsome be their life that bear The merlin and the creel." 2. A fisherman's basket. Scott: Antiquary , ch. xxvi. II. Spinning: The bar which holds the paying-off bobbins in the bobbin-and-fly, the throstle machine, or the mule. In the first machine the bobbins hold the sliver, which is to be spun and twisted into a roving; in the latter machines, by a substantially similar operation, the roving is converted into yarn. The creel may have several bars with rows of skewers, upon which the bobbins are placed to unwind their contents. To be in a creel: To have one's wits jumbled IMG:content-1294.png:[blocks in formation] Homilies, p. 75. 2. The repetition of the creed. "Himself sti" sleeps before his beads Have marked ten aves and two creeds." II. Figuratively : Scott: Marmion, i. 26. 1. Any solemn profe ion of principles or opinion. "For me, my lords, I love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed." Shakesp.: Hen. VIII ., ii. 2. 2. A severe reprehension or rebuke. (Scotch.) B. Theol. & Ch . Hist .: A summary of the articles or Christian doctrines of which the several churches profe their belief. In the Church of England "The grottos cool, with shaded poplars crown'd, And creeping vines on arbors weav'd around." Dryden. 3. To move forward without bounds or leaps, as insects. creeper 2. To move slowly. either from feeblene and infirmity, or timidity or reluctance. "Creeping like snail unwillingly to school." Shakesp.: As You Like It, ii. 7. 3. To move along slowly and insensibly, as time, the seasons, . "Accordingly, so early as the year 1414, it began to be perceived that the equinoxes were gradually creeping away from the 21st of March and September, where they ought to have always fallen had the Julian year been exact,."-Herschel: Astron ., 5th ed. (1858), § 932. 4. To enter or find the way in insensibly or imperceptibly. "By those gifts of nature and fortune he creeps , nay he flies, into the favor of poor silly women."-Sidney. †5. ( Of literary composition): To move along with timidity; not to venture on anything very high or soaring. "Paradise Lost is admirable; but am I therefore bound to maintain, that there are no flats amongst his elevations, when it is evident he creeps along sometimes for above an hundred lines together?"--Dryden. 6. To enter into the composition of. (Generally in a bad sense, implying intrusion.) "It is not to be expected that every one should guard his understanding from being imposed on ly the sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument." Locke . 7. To come gradually or imperceptibly into vogue or fashion. 8. To behave with servility; to fawn, to court. "They were us'd to bend, To send their smiles before them to Achilles, To come as humbly as they used to creep , To holy altars." Shakesp.: Troilus, iii. 3. 9. To feel a sensation as though insects, worms, ., were creeping over the flesh. creep, s. [CREEP, v.] 1. Ord. Lang. ( Pl .): A sensation as of insects or worms creeping over the flesh. ( Colloquial .) 2. Mining - eng in .: The curving upward of the floor of a gallery, owing to the pre ure of super in. cumbent strata upon the pillars. Opposed to thrust, which is a depre ion of the roof. "The whole of the weight being thus left to rest upon a small area, the pillars were sometimes forced down into the floor, which would bulge upwards and form a creep." -Prof. Gladstone, in Ca ell's Technical Educator , pt. viii., p. 98. creep'-ěr, s . [Eng. creep; -er.] I. Ord. Lang .: One who or that which creeps or crawls; any animal which creeps; a reptile. not only worms and serpents, toads, frogs, and effs, but an innumerable host of creepers ." -Boyle: Works, vol. vi., p. 382. II. Technically : 1. Naut., Mech., .: A four-clawed grapnel or drag, used in dragging the bottom of a harbor, pond, or well, to recover anything which has been lost overboard, or the body of a drowned person. 2. Mach .: An endle moving feeding-apron, or a pair of aprons arranged one above the other, hav ing motion to feed fibers to or from a machine; e.g., the creeper which feeds the sliver or sheet of fibers from the doffer of a carding-machine. [LAP.] 3. Domestic : (1) An iron bar connecting the andirons. (2) Small dogs, with low necks or none at all, used between the usual andirons to support brands above the hearth. (3) A small sole or piece carrying spurs, which may be attached to the boot, to prevent slipping on ice. (4) A kind of patten or clog worn by women. 4. Arch.: Leaves or clusters of foliage used in Gothic buildings ornament the angles of spires, pinnacles, and other parts; crotchets. 5. Bot .: A plant with a creeping stem (q. v.). "Plants that put forth their sap hastily, have bodies not proportionable to their length; therefore they are winders or creepers , asivy, briony, and woodbine."- Bacon . 6. Ornithology : times called the Line Berthimi (a) ( Sing . ): A bird, Certhia familiar is, some Generally: (b) ( Pl . ): The name commonly given to the tenu i rostral birds of the family Certhide (q. v.), or to those of the typical sub-family Certhinse (q. v.). (2) Spec.: Certhia familiar is , called also the Common Creeper, the Tree Creeper, the Tree Climber, . The bill is slender and curved, the head and neck streaked with black and yellow-brown, with a white line above each eye; back, rump, and scapulars tawny; quills dusky, tipped and edged with white or light brown; coverts variegated, a yellow supports. Gower, i. 72. bird white. Length, three inches. It climbs trees and is perpetually in motion, but manages to hide itself from observation. Nests in the hollows or beneath the bark of trees; egg six. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, A. As pr. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : 1. Crawling or moving along the ground. of every creeping thing of the earth. IMG:content-1295.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1296.jpg:[blocks in formation] Bot.: A slender stem which creeps horizontally below the surface of the ground, sending out at intervals roots and new plants. Example, Triticum repens. It is e entially the same as a rhizome, only it is subterranean. creep'-ing-ly, adv . [Eng. creeping; -ly.] †I. Lit .: In a creeping or crawling manner, as a reptile. IMG:content-1297.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1298.png:[ocr errors] IMG:content-1299.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1300.jpg:[blocks in formation] of their bodies, make use of trees and much burning, while they plant a pine-tree by their grave."- Browne : Urn Burial , ch. i. Botany, .: 3 Having the mar- gin with tri an- gular notches. crena to-ser- rate, a . rounded instead the serrations of straight. lạ, s. [Dimin. Cremation was practiced among the Greeks and Romans. The ma of the Hindoos properly so called thus dispose of their dead, while the Moham- medans have recourse to burial. In 1873 an eminent physician, Sir Henry Thompson, advocated its intro- duction into England on sanitary grounds, but public feeling was against tas innovation, and it made little progre there. Lately, however, in dead has received the highest indorsement of the many of the European countries cremation of the governments, while in the United States crem a- tories have been established in many of the cities. cre-năt-u- In Europe there are crematories at Berlin, Copen- hagen, Geneva, Hamburg, London, Milan, Paris, of Lat. crenatus Rome, Stockholm, Vienna, Zurich, and The Hague. (q. v.).] The first crematory in the United States was estab- Zool.: A sub- lished at Washington, Pa., in 1876. It was first genus of Mol- used for the incineration of the body of the Baron Jusks, genus Per- de Palm in December of that year. Other cremana. It consists tories have since been established at Fresh Pond, of thin, oblong, N. Y.; German town, Pa.; Detroit, Mich.; St. Louis, compre ed Mo.; Los Angeles, Cal.; San Francisco, Cal.; San Antonio, Tex.; La Cro e, Wis.; Baltimore, Md.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Troy, N. Y.; Waterville, N. Y.; Davenport, Iowa; Cincinnati, Ohio; Buffalo, N. Y.; Chicago, Ill.; Roxbury, Ma ., and other points. crě-mā-tion-Ist, s. [Eng. cremation ; -ist.] An advocate of the practice of cremation. IMG:content-1301.png:[graphic] IMG:content-1302.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-1304.png:[blocks in formation] cren-cle, *cren-kle, s. [Dut. krinkel a curl, cren'-u-lāte, cren-u-lā-ted, a. [A dim in. for- ring; Icel. kringla =a disk, circle, or orb.] Naut.: The same as CRINGLE (q. v.). *crěň'-cled, pa . par . or a. [CRINKLED.] *crě-něl', *crenell, *crenelle, s. [O. Fr. crenel; Fr. creneaua battlement, dim in. of O. Fr. cren, cran a notch; Lat. crena.] [CARNEL.] I. Fortification : 1. A loop-hole in a parapet, wall, or stockade, through which to discharge musketry. 2. A battlement; an embrasure in an embattled parapet. "'Tis no deceit! distinctly clear Crenell and parapet appear, While o'er the pile that meteor drear Makes momentary pause." Scott : The Bridal of Trier main , iii. 9. II. Old Armor: The peak at the crest of a helmet. III. Bot .: A rounded tooth of a crenelled or crenate leaf. (Generally pl., crenels .) *crē-něl-ět, s. [A dim in. from O. Fr. crenel .] An embrasure or loop-hole. "Through the sloping crenelets of the higher towers."C. Reade: Cloister and Hearth , ch. xliii. ( Davies .)