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[A word of doubtful etymology. Skeat suggests that it is a doublot from Dut. kruick =a pot, a pitcher; Wedg wood, that it is due to the lo of z in O. Fr. cruzet, dim. of cruse.] 1. A bottle or ve el. ( Palsgrave .) 2. A small gla pot or bottle for holding vinegar, oil, "[I] filled the cruet with the acid tide."- Swift . cruet-stand, s. A frame in which cruets stand on the table. crûişe s [Dut. kruis = a cro , from Latin crucem, acc us. of crux .] A voyage made in several directions; a sailing here and there for pleasure, exercise, or in search of an enemy. "In his first cruise , 'twere pity he should founder." Smollett Epilogue to the Reprisal crûişe, v . i . [Dut kruisen , from kruis =cro .] To sail here and there; to rove about on the sea for pleasure, exercise, or in search of an enemy ""Mid sands and rocks and storms to cruise for pleasure" Young: Night Thoughts, viii. 900 crûiş-er, s . [Eng. cru is(e), v.; -er.) One who cruises about; specifically, an armed ve el which cruises about, either to protect the commerce of its own country or to inflict damage on that of another. The cruiser rates just below the battleship and just above the gunboat. An armored cruiser has side or vertical armor and horizontal or deck armor. A protected cruiser has horizontal or deck armor only. An unprotected cruiser has no armor. IMG:content-1442.png:[blocks in formation] The United States Cruiser "Columbia." It will be remembered that the Columbia and her sister ship, the Minneapolis, are the two fastest cruisers of their size (7,475 tons) afloat to-day, the former having a record of 22.8 knots per hour and the latter having slightly over 23 knots to her credit. -Scientific American , Feb. 20, 1897, [WARSHIP.) crûiş'-Ing, pr . par ., a. & s. [CRUISE, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip . adj.: (See the ."- Bacon . †3. Extremely, exceedingly. a speculation which shows how cruelly the country are led astray in following the town." -Spectator : No. 129. †crû-ěl-ne , *crû'-ěl-ne e, s. [Eng. cruel; -ne .] 1. The quality of being cruel; cruelty, inhumanity. "My people's daughters live By reason of the foe's great cruelne e , *2. Destructivene . "Once have the winds the trees despoiled cleane, And once again begins their cruelne ." .." Donne: Poems, p. 362. 445. C. As subst.: The act of sailing about here and there for pleasure, practice, or in search of an enemy. to secure the trade of the nation by cruising ." -Ludlow: Memoirs , vol. i., p. 369. cruive, *crufe, *crove, s . [Gael cro .] 1. A sty. "Gif thair be ony swine cruivis bigg it on the foregait, stoppand the sam in, or doand on it unhonest lie."-Chaim.: Air; Balfour's Pract ., p. 588. IMG:content-1443.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1444.png:[ocr errors] he knows t ' a crum how much Lo e is in twenty dozen of bread, between That which is broke by th' hand, and that is cut." Cartwright: Ordinary (1651). ( Nares .) IMG:content-1445.png:[blocks in formation] "The hopes his yearning bosom forward cast, And the ancestral glories of the past; All fell together, crumbling in disgrace, A turret rent from battlement to base. IMG:content-1446.png:[blocks in formation] horns. crum-mět, a . [CRUMB (1), v.] Having crooked force and noise. "Spying an unco crummet beast Amang his broomy knowes." Davidson: Seasons , p. 51. crum-mie, crum-mock, s. [CRUMMIE, a.] A horns. name for a cow; properly, one that has crooked "My crummie is an useful cow, And she is come of a good kine." crumb, a. (q. v.)] Crooked, curved, bent. crum-mle, crum-mỹ, a . [A dim in. form from crummie-staff, s. A staff with a crooked head, on which the hand leans. crum-mock (1), s . [ Gael.crumag .] Skirret, an umbelliferous plant, Sium sisarum . "Cabbage, turnip, carrot, parsnip, skirret, or crum- mocks, ., grow to as great a bigne here as anywhere." -Wallace: Orkney, p. 35. crooked.] crum-mock (2), s. [A dim in. from Gael. crom = 1. The same as CRUMMIE, 8. (q. v.) "They tell me ye was in the other day, "But wither'd beldams, auld and droll,- Lowpin' and fling in' on a crummock." some brittle substance. 2. To force a way with violence and noise through IMG:content-1447.png:[blocks in formation] best hammer."-Tennant: Card. Beaton, p. 154. 2. To shrivel, to contract. IMG:content-1448.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Infested with parasites, particularly Pediculus corp or is. ( Colloq .) crump (1), a. "Wi' sweet milk-cheese in monie a whang, And farls bak'd wi' butter. [CRUMB, a.] crump (2), *croump, a. & 8. IMG:content-1449.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Short, brittle; as, a crup cake. 2. Snappish; as, a crup answer. "That piece of deformity! that monster! that crump!" - Vanbrugh: Æsop, ii. *crump-shouldered, *croump-should reed, a . Crook-backed. "Crump- shouldered and shrunken so vngoodly."- Udall : Apoph. of Erasmus , p. 203. of thin tea-cake, very light and spongy. crump'-ět, s. [Prob. from crump (1), a.] A sort fixed on the top."- Kitchener : Cook's Oracle, p. 456. "Muffins and crumpets on a stone with an iron plate crăm-ple, v . t. & i. [A freq. form from cramp (q. v.).] A. Trans.: To draw or pre into wrinkles; to rumple. "Sir Roger alighted from his horse, and exposing his palm to two or three that stood by him, they crumpled it could be made."- Add is on . into all shapes, and diligently scanned every wrinkle that *B. In trans.: To become wrinkled; to contract. "The locust and gra hopper are both of them hard, crusty, cragged, crumpling creatures."-Smith. Portrait . ure of Old Age, p. 175. IMG:content-1450.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1451.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1452.png:[blocks in formation] When the crusades to Palestine were abandoned similar enterprises were attempted against the Mu ulmans of Spain, against European heathens, who still were numerous in Pru ia and Lithuania, against the Albigensian "heretics," and others. Enterprises conducted for two centuries with all the might of Europe could not fail of producing great changes in the several kingdoms. Millions of lives had been lost, yet more millions of money spent unproductively, and the domination of the Papacy unduly increased. But Europe was made more than previously one great federation, feudal power was broken, and the commercial and labor- ing cla es received an impulse, bigotry was dim in- ished, and the germs of new ideas sown in inquir- ing minds, which, in future centuries, were to advance to maturity. "With gallant Frederick's princely power He sought the bold Crusade ." Jerusalem and the Holy Sepulchre itself fell into Moslem hands. This did not deter Christian pil- grims from thronging to the Holy Land, and as long as the Saracens were in power in the East they had the prudence to act with tolerable kindne to the pilgrims. When the Saracens yielded their dominion to the Turks all this pa ed away. The pilgrims were pillaged, insulted, or even barbar- ously murdered, and those who returned filled all Europe with their complaints of Turkish insolence and barbarity. The Christians of every land felt humiliated that places of the most sacred interest should be in such custody, and as early as the con- cluding years of the tenth century Pope Sylvester II. attempted to induce the Christian world to suc- cor the afflicted Church of Jerusalem, but, with the exception of the Pisans, none responded to the call, a subordinate capacity. and the feeble and abortive effort of the people of Pisa is not reckoned a crusade. 2. Fig .: Any enterprise carried on with intense zeal, like that shown during the crusades by the soldiers of the cro ; as, a crusade against vice, a crusade against intemperance. crû-sāde', v . i. [From crusade , s. (q. v.)] 1. Lit .: To conduct a crusade or engage in one in 2. Fig .: To prosecute any object with intense ardor. "Religion with free thought dispense, And cease crusading against sense."" crû-sā'-der, s. [Eng. crusad (e); -er.] One who engages in a crusade. the settlements, which the crusaders made in Palestine." - Robertson . crû-sa-dō, s. [Port. crusado , from Lat. crux (gen it.crucis)=a cro . So named from having a cro stamped upon it.] A Portuguese coin worth about 64 cents of our money. "Believe me, I had rather have lost my purse Full of crusadoes ." --Shakesp .: Othello , iii. 4. crûşe, *cruce, *crouse, *crowse, s. [Icel. krus =a pot; Dut. kroes =a pot, a cup; Sw. krus ; Dan. kruus =a jug or mug.] A small bottle or cruet. and the cruse of water, and let us go." 1. To pre or squeeze between two harder bodies; to destroy by pre ing. "Cruschyn or quaschyn. Qua o."-Prompt. Parv 2. To force or pre with violence. "The a thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Ba- laam's foot against the wall."- Numbers xxii. 25. 3. To squeeze or pre together in a ma . "Wedg'd in the trench, by our troops conf us'd, In one promiscuous carnage crushed and bru is'd." Pope : Homer's Iliad , xii. 82, 83. 4. To destroy or overwhelm by the pre ure or weight of a superincumbent ma . IMG:content-1453.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1454.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-1456.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1457.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Zool.: The same as CRUST, 8., B. 3. 3. Bot .: A brittle crustaceous thallus, constitut bring up the rear, with numerous imperfect limbs vegetatively repeated in indefinite numbers in the higher orders and none at all in the lower. Both the English book-name Crustaceans and the corre sponding one in Latin point to the fact that the cla of animals so designated po e a crusta, crust, or shell, cast periodically. [CRUSTA, Zool .] The body consists of a variable number of "som- ites" or definite segments, in the higher members of the cla divided into three regions: a head, a thorax, and an abdomen. Of the "somites," in the view of some zoologists, theoretically twenty-one in number, seven belong to the head, seven to the thorax, and seven to the abdomen. Profe or Hux- ley believes that their number should be six, eight, and six. All these somites, except the last, may have appendages; the last, called the "telson, does not po e any. Generally the head and called the cephalo-thorax; it is generally covered by a great shield or buckler called the "carapace." The upper part of a somite is termed its "ter gum," and the lower one its "sternum," while the plate, constituted by the dividing line produced downward and outward, is called in the singular "pleuron," or in the plural "pleura." Of the ap- pendages in the higher Crustacea, the first segment of the head has a pair of compound eyes borne upon long stalks, the second the le er antenne or an- tennules, a pair of jointed feelers; the third, the great antenne; the fourth, the mandibles or jaws; the fifth, the first pair of maxille, a kind of jaws; the sixth, the second pair of maxille; the seventh, three pairs of foot-jaws or maxillipedes. The eighth segment, the first of the thorax, carries a second pair of foot-jaws, and the ninth, a third pair; the tenth, a pair of jointed limbs, constituting the nipping claws in a crab or lobster. The tenth to the fourteenth somites carry ambulatory limbs; these, taken collectively, constitute the appendages of the cephalo-thorax. The fifteenth to the twen tieth segments have swimming appendages, called "swimmerets;" the last of all, called the "telson," have none. Respiration is by branchise. Crustacea occur in all seas; there are also fresh-water and IMG:content-1458.png:[merged small][ocr errors] 2.-Abdominal i a. 3.-Apoda. Sub-cla III.-Entomos- traca. Order 1.-Ostracod a. 2.-Copepod a. 3.-Cladocera. IMG:content-1459.png:[ocr errors] Sub-cla III. (continued): Order 4.-Phyllopod a. 5.-Trilobita. 6.-Merostomata. Sub-cla IV.-Mala cost raca Division L.-Edriophthal- Order 1-Læmodipoda. 2.-Isopod a. 3.-Amphipod a. Order 1.-Stomapoda. 2. Decapod a. IMG:content-1460.png:[blocks in formation] "The crustation of the building was changed to what it now is."- Pegge : Anecdotes of the Eng. Language. crŭs-těd, pa.par.ora . [CRUST, v.] A. As pa . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : IMG:content-1461.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1462.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Shipwright ing : (a) One of the struts or stay-plates in the prow or stern of an iron ve el, which supports the sides where they nearly approach each other. They occupy a position corresponding to that of the dead-wood in a timber-ve el, and are used to prevent the crushing in of the plating. (b) A knee-timber placed inside a ve el to secure the heels of the cant timbers abaft. (c) A support upon the taffrail for the boom. (d) A forked row-lock upon the gunwale. 4. Founding : The cro -handle on the end of a shank (a founder's metal-ladle), by which it is tipped. For the difference between crutch and staff , see STAFF. *crutch-back, s. A crooked back. "Esope for all his crutch - back had a quick wit."-Nine Worthies of London, 1592. (Davies.)