Crimination

[Lat. criminatio.) Act of criminating; accusation; charge of having been guilty of a criminal act, offence, or wrong. Crim'i native, a . Charging with crime; criminatory. Criminatory, a. Relating to accusation; accusing. Crimp, v. a. [A.S. gecrympt , crimped; Ger. krimpen , to shrink.] To pinch up in ridges; to plait; to curl or crisp the hair; to crimple; as, to crimp the edging of a cap. -To seize. - To decoy or impre into the army; to allure into the hands of a pre -gang; as, to crimp a seaman. (Cookery.) To make crisp by gashing, as cod-fish. -а. [A.S. acrymman , to crumble; D. kruimelen , to crumble; Ger. krümeln ; L. Sax. krumean .] Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. "The fowler. Treads the crimp earth, ranging through fields and glades." Philips . -Inconsistent; not forcible; paradoxical. (R.) "The evidence is crimp ; the witne es swear backwards and forwards." - Arbuthnot. -n. A person employed to entrap seamen into the power of a pre -gang; one who provides a ship with hands by inveigling them on board by means of artifice. "Jack had a run for it from the crimps ."-Marryat. -In England, a kind of factor who supplies shipping with coals, and various other nece aries. Crimp'age, n. Act or practice of crimping. Crimp'ing-iron, n. An instrument for crimping and curling the hair; a curling-tongs. Crimp'ing-machine, n. An apparatus for crimping the ruffles of a shirt, women's cap-borders, .