creach, creagh

[Gael. creach =plunder.] An incursion into a country for plunder; what is termed on the Borders a raid. "A creagh and its consequences."-Scott: Waverley, ch. xv. creak, *creke, *kreke, v. i. & t. [A word imitated from the sound. Comp. O. Fr. criquer.] [CRACK.] A. Intransitive : 1. To make a continued sharp, grating noise. "And the branches to ed and troubled, Creaked, and groaned, and split asunder.' Long fellow: The Song of Hiawatha , xviii. *2. To utter a sharp, grating cry; to croak. "He cryeth and he creketh." B. Transitive : Skelton : Colin Clout. 1. To cause to make a sharp, grating noise. " Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry." Shakesp.: All's Well, ii. 1. *2. To utter in a creaking voice. "My songe is bot he trewe and pleyne, Althogh I cannot creke hit so in veyne." Chaucer: Cuckoo and Night , 118. creak, *creake, s. [CREAK, v.] A protracted sharp, grating noise. To cry creak: To yield, to repent. "I now cry creake , that ere I scorned love, Whose might is more than other gods above." Watson: Pa ionate Centurie , 1581. ( Nares .) creak-Ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [CREAK, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) IMG:content-1274.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Fig .: Rough, uncouth. "Still must I hear? shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl His creaking couplets in a tavern hall?" Byron : English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. C. As subst.: The act of making a harsh, grating noise; a creak. "Then start not at the creaking of the door." Long fellow: The Golden Legend, vi. cream (1), *cray me, *creame, *creme, 8. [Ο. Fr. cresme ; Fr. crème , from Low Lat. crem a. Prob. allied to A. S. reám =cream; Icel. rjómi. ( Skeat .)] [CHRISM.] A. Ordinary Language : I. Literally : 1. In the same sense as B. " Cream is matured and made to rise speedily, by putting in cold water, which, as it seemeth, getteth down the whey."-Bacon: Natural History. 2. A sweetmeat prepared from cream, various fruits, . *3. A cosmetic. "In vain she tries her pastes and creams To smooth her skin or hide its seams." Goldsmith: The Double Transformation. *4. Consecrated oil, chrism. "Ich sign i the with signe of croys, And with the creme of heli confermi." II. Figuratively : Shoreham, p. 15. 1. The best part of anything; the choicest bit; the e ence or quinte ence. "In an instant all the leads of the courts and entries were thronged with men and maid-servants of the duke's, who cried aloud, Welcome, Oh flower and cream of knights errant."- Shelton : Don Quixote , bk. ii., ch. xxx i. 2. A name given to the finest liquors. B. Technically: 1. Dairy Produce : The most oily part of milk. It is specifically lighter than the other constituents, and therefore rises to the surface, whence it is generally skimmed to be used as an adjunct in making tea and coffee palatable, to be eaten with various fruits (such as strawberries), or for other purposes. If a saturated solution of white sugar be boiled for a couple of minutes and cream added before it cools, the cream, if preserved in a cool place, will keep fresh for some weeks. 2. Chem.: [ Cream of Tartar .] 3. Masonry, .: [ Cream of Lime.] (1) Cream of Lime : (For def. see extract.) "Adjacent to these reservoirs are others containing pure slaked lime-the so-called cream of lime."- Tyndall : Frag. of Science (3d. ed.), ch. xl., p. 341. (2) Cream of Tartar : Chem. & Pharm.: Hydrogen pota ium tart a rate KHCHO6, Pota e Tartras Acida . A salt obtained from the crude tartar, or argol, which is deposited on the sides of wine casks during the fermentation of grape juice. It is a gritty white powder which IMG:content-1275.png:[blocks in formation] forms small rhombic prisms, is sparingly soluble in water, and insoluble in alcohol. Heated in a cru- cible it evolves inflammable gas and the odor of burned sugar, and leaves a black residue of char- coland pota ium carbonate a small does it is a refrigerant and diuretic; in large doses a power ful hydragogue purgative. It is given, mixed with jalap, as a purgative in cases of dropsy, and is used as a drink in febrile affections. (3) Cream of Tartar Tree: A tree, A dans on i a Gregorii, growing in the north of Australia. It is called also the Sour Gourd. cream-bowl, s. A bowl for holding cream. "Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream - bowl duly set." cream-slice, s. A wooden knife for dividing and serving frozen cream. cream-white, a. The same as CREAM-COLORED (q. v.). "In such cases the serum is opaque and nearly as white surface like cream. as milk, and on standing a short time, a film forms on the pellicle is di olved, and the serum loses its opacity."- Todd & Bowman: Physiol. Anat . , vol. i., ch. iii., p. 85. *3. Soft, flattering. Beaum. & Flet.: Queen of Corinth , iii. 1. *cre-ançe, *creaunce, s . [Fr., from Low Lat. credent i a=belief; Lat. credo =to believe.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Faith, belief. "This maiden taught the creaunce unto this wife." Gower, i. 185, "... by creaunce of coyne." -Depos. of Rich . II ., p. 4. hawk's leash when she is first lured. II. Falconry : A fine small line, fastened to a *cré-ançe, *creaunce, v. t. & i. [O. Fr. cre- anser .] [CREANCE, 8.] creaunced hath and payed Chaucer: C. Т. , 14,776. "Now goth this march a und and bieth and creaunceth." Chaucer: C. Т. , 14,713. *cre-an-çer, *creaunser, *creaunsour, s. [Fr. créancier.] A creditor. "Sylle the oyle and yielde to thy creaunser."- Wycliffe : 2 Kings iv. 7. *creant, a. [Fr. créant , pr. par. of créer ; Lat. ing. creans, pr. par. of creo =to create.] Creating, form- IMG:content-1276.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1277.png:[blocks in formation] sour and dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up."- is a short line drawn at an angle to the end of the Swift . *B. Intransitive: bowling-crease. The bowler in delivering his ball must have one foot behind the bowling-crease, and within the return-crease. The popping-crease is a "There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond." Shakesp.: Merch. of Venice, i. 1. "With my cramery gif ye list mell; Heir I haif foly hattis to sell." distance of 4 feet from it. It is unlimited in length. The batsman cannot move out of the space between the bowling and popping-creases except at the risk of being put out. crease (2), s . [CREESE.] crease, v . t . [CREASE, 8.] To make a crease or creased, pa . par . or a. [CREASE, v.] creas-er, s . [Eng. creas ( e ); -er .] I. Ord. Lang.: One who or that which creases. II. Technically . 1. Leather- working : A tool used for making single or double lines on leather, to form guides or creases to sew by. They are also used for lining leather, to give it a finished appearance. IMG:content-1278.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1279.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1280.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1281.png:[blocks in formation] "Since Adam was create , fiue you sand yeeres I ge e Fiue hundreth, forty more and fiue as stories do expre e." Gas coigne: Dan Bartholomew of Bathe. 2. Composed, made up. "Hearts create of duty and of zeal." Shakesp.: Henry V., ii. 2. crě-āt'-ěd, pa . par . or a. [CREATE, v .] cré-ā-tic-o-læ, s . pl . [The pl. of Lat. creaticola =the worshiper of a created being, from creatus = created, i connective, and colo =. to worship.] C3H7NO2 + urea CO" forms colorle prisms, very soluble in water and in alcohol; a concentrated solution has an alkaline taste, reddens turmeric, and turns red litmus blue. It is a strong base. Creatinine concentrated solu- tion gives a ruby-red color, when made slightly alkaline with potash and nitro-pru ide of sodium is added. Creatinine forms salts with acids. (Watts: Dict. Chem., .) crě-ā-tion, *creacion, s. [Lat. creatio, from creo=to create; Fr. création; Sp. creacion; Ital. creazione .] I. Ordinary Language : 1. The act of creating, or of calling into existence nounced also that the King had set out for the Continent." -Macaulay : Hist. Eng., ch. xx. 5. The foundation or first constituting of any- thing. "The treach'rous colors the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away!" Pope: E ay on Criticism, 492-3. 1.(Spec.): The universe, the world. "For me your tributary stores combine. Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine." Goldsmith The Traveler. IMG:content-1282.png:[ocr errors][merged small][merged small] 1. Theol.: The act of creating out of nothing, one of the three great operations attributed to God, the others being providence and redemption. 2. Geol.: In the same sense as 1. NH-CO. 1 N(CH3)-CH2. gint numbers. [ANTIQUITY OF MAN.] Various Christian harmonists have attempted to reconcile Scripture and science in this and other respects. [HARMONY.] (3) The hypothesis of succe ive creations: The view was held by Murchison and many others that succe ive creations have taken place, each an advance on its predece or. races are, it is true, mainly based upon the progre ive rise in the scale of the vertebrate sub-kingdom." - Murchi recrystallization; the solution in boiling water called into existence. is then digested with hydrated lead oxide, filtered whom God, on their creation -day, from the oxide of zinc and oxy chloride of lead, 1. Having the power of creating. "But come ye generous minds, in whose wide thought, Of all his works, creative beauty burns With warmest beam" Thomson: Spring. IMG:content-1283.png:[blocks in formation] creatures." Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xii. 9. An offspring, produce, or result. "And most attractive is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polish'd mind." Cowper: The Task , bk. iii. 10. Drink, liquor. ( Irish .) "When they had latter a cup of the creature."-1. Brown: Works , i. 32. (Davies.) IMG:content-1284.png:[blocks in formation] creature le crea-ture-le , adj. [Eng. creature; -le .] Without created beings around; alone, solitary. "God was alone And creature le at first." Donne: To the Counte of Bedford.