cranock (kranok)

[Also, as W., crynog, cranreuch (kran'rúch), n. [Also written cran reugh, crandruch, crainroch, derived by Jamie son from Gael. * cranntarach, hoar frost, but the nearest Gael. word for 'hoar frost' appears to be crith-reodhadh, IMG:content-1562.png:[blocks in formation] a mute. Tennyson, To, iii. We cannot contemplate the magnificence of the Cathedral without reflecting on the abject condition of those tattered crapes said to ply here for occasional burials or sermons with the same regularity as the happier drudges who salute us with the cry of "coach!" G. Colman , quoted in N. and Q., 7th ser., V. 126. Australian crape, a French goods made of cotton and wool in imitation of crape. E. H. Knight. - Bird's-eye crape, a thin material made for East Indian crape (krāp), v. t.; pret. and pp. craped, ppr. craping. [ The hour advanced on the Wednesdays and Saturdays is for curling and craping the hair, which it now requires Mme . D'Arblay , Diary, III. 29. twice a week. 2. To cover or drape with crape. crape-cloth (krāp'klôth), n. A woolen mate- rial, heavier and of greater width than crape, but crimped and crisped in imitation of it, used for mourning garments. crape-fish (krāp'fish), n. [ crape (obscure) + fish .] Çodfish salted and pre ed to hardne . crape-hair (krāp'har), n. Loose hair used by actors for making false beards, etc. craplet, n. An obsolete variant of grapple . They did the monstrous Scorpion vew With ugly craples crawling in their way. break, shatter, an imitative variation (with change of s to sh: cf. clash , dash , smash , etc.) of crasen , break: see craze .] I. in trans. To make a loud, clattering, complex sound, as of many solid things falling and breaking toge- ther; fall down or in pieces with such a noise. Sinks the full pride her ample walls enclos'd In one wild havoc crash'd , with burst beyond Heaven's loudest thunder. Mallet , Excursion. To rock. M. Arnold , Rugby Chapel. II. trans. To cause to make a sudden, violent sound, as of breaking or dashing in pieces; dash down or break to pieces violently with a loud noise; dash or shiver with tumult and violence. He shak't his head and crasht his teeth. All within was noise Of songs, and clapping hands, and boys That crash'd the gla and beat the floor. Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxxxvii. crash1 (krash), n. [ crash of a falling tree or a falling house, or any All thro' the crash of the near cataract hears The drumming thunder of the huger fall At distance. 2. A falling down or in pieces with a loud noise of breaking parts; hence, figuratively, destruc- tion; breaking up; specifically, the failure of a commercial undertaking; financial ruin.-3. A basket filled with fragments of pottery or of the breaking of windows, crockery, etc. crash2 (krash), n . [Origin obscure.] 1. A strong, coarse linen fabric used for toweling, for packing, and for dancing-cloths to cover rial, as a dancing-cloth. crasis (krā'sis), n. [NL., κρᾶσις , a min- gling, κεραννύναι , (√* κρα ), mix, > also E. cra- ter.] 1. In med., the mixture of the constituents of a fluid, as the blood; hence, temperament; constitution. [He] seemed not to have had one single drop of Danish blood in his whole crasis . Sterne , Tristram Shandy, i. 11. 2. In gram . , a figure by which two different The drunkard now supinely snores; Yet when he wakes, the swine shall find A crapula remains behind. crapy (kra'pi), a . [ crape + -y1.] Like crape; having the appearance of crape ing the surface crimped, crisped, or waved, either irregularly or in little corrugations nearly parallel. Coggez and crayers , than cro ez thaire mastez, At the commandment of the kynge, unco verde at ones. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 738. A certain crayer of one Thomas Motte of Cley, called the Peter (wherein Thomas Smith was master). Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 168. into a diphthong, as alēthe a into alēthē , tei- cheos into teichous. It is otherwise called syne- res is . Specifically, in Gr . gram ., the blending or con- traction of the final vowel-sound (vowel or diphthong) of one word with the initial vowel-sound of the next, so as to form a long vowel or diphthong. The two words are lar in appearance to a smooth breathing, or instead of the then written as one, and the sign (') called a coronis, simi- coronis the rough breathing of the article or relative pro- noun if these stand first, is written over the contracted vowel-sound, as τἀγαθά for τὰ ἀγαθά, κὰν for καὶ ἐν, ἀνήρ OF. cras, cra .] Fat; lusty; hearty; in good spirits. [Prov. Eng.] craspeda, n. Plural of craspedum . Craspedacusta (kras"pe-da-kus'tä), n. [NL., κράσπεδον , edge, border, + ἀκουστής , a hear- er, ἀκουστός , verbal adj. of ἀκούειν , hear: see acoustic.] A remarkable genus of fresh-water jelly-fishes, the only one known, characterized by the development of otoliths and velar ca- nals: referred by Lankester to the family Peta- sidæ of Trachymedusæ , and by Allman to the Lep- known as Limnocodium victoria , was discovered by Sowerby in a warm-water tank in London, in which the plant Vic- toria regia was growing, and was described almost simul- taneously by Lankester and Allman, under the two names above given. Nature, June 17 and 24, 1880. Fer-de-lance (Craspedocephalus lanceolatus). The term Craspedota refers to those [ Medusa ] in which a well marked velum is found, the Acraspeda where the same is absent. Stand. Nat . Hist . , I. 94. craspedote (kras'pe-dot), a . and n. I. a. Per- taining to the Craspedota . The Hydro idea and Siphonophora are craspedote , the Discophora are supposed to be destitute of a veil, and are therefore acraspedote. Stand. Nat . Hist ., L. 94. craspedum (kras'pe-dum), n .; pl. craspeda (-dä). [NL., κράσπεδον , edge, border.] One of the long convoluted cords attached to and pro- ceeding from the mesenteries of Actinozoa , and bearing thread-cells. Craspemonadina (kras-pe-mon-a-di'nä), n. pl. [NL., for * Craspedomonadina , μονάς ( μοναδ- ), a unit (see monas ), +-ina2.] In Stein's system (1878), a family of flagellate infusorians, represented by the gen- era Codonosiga , Codonocladium, Codon odes mus , and Salpingæca , and corresponding to some ex- tent with the order later named Choanoflagel- lat a . cra (kras), a. [= F. cra e, OF. cras = Sp. craso = Pg. It. cra o = Dan. kras , cra us , thick, dense, fat, solid, perhaps orig. * crattus , with sense of 'thickly woven,' and akin to cratis , a hurdle, and cartilago , cartilage: see crate and cartilage , and cf. crask . Connection with gro is very doubtful.] 1. Thick; coarse; gro ; not thin nor fine: now chiefly used of immaterial things. A cloud of folly darkens the soul, and makes it cra and material. Jer. Taylor , Sermons (1653), p. 208. There were many cra minds Middle march whose George Eliot , Middle march, Î. 171. Give me the hidalgo with all his crack-brained eccentri- J. Owen , Evenings with Skeptics, II. 344. cra amentt (kras'a-ment), n. [Improp. cra i- ment ; cra amentum , thickne , thick sed i- ment, dregs, cra are , make thick, cra us , thick: see cra .] Thickne . IMG:content-1563.png:[graphic][merged small] Cra i ped i a framed for the Tubicola, Pholadaria, Solenacea, and Myiaria.