crake2 (krak)

i.; pret. and pp. craked, ppr. craking. [Ult. identical with crake1, crack: see crake2, n.] To cry like a crake; utter the harsh cry of the corn-crake. crakeberry (krāk'ber"i), n.; pl. crakeberries (-iz). [ crake2, a crow, + berryl: so called from its black color.] A species of Empetrum, or berry-bearing heath; the crowberry, E. nigrum. Portugal crakeberry, the Corema alba. crake-herring (krak'hering), n. An Irish name for the scad. Day. IMG:content-1540.png:[blocks in formation] cramming. [ ceits. Tennyson, Prince , iv. crammed with effete and monstrous con- E. Go e, From Shakespeare to Pope, p. 122. However full, with something more We fain the bag would cram . Whittier , The Common Question. 3. To fill with food beyond what is nece ary, or to satiety; stuff. Children would. be freer from diseases... if they were not crammed so much... by fond mothers. Locke , Education, § 13. 4. To endeavor to qualify (a pupil or one's self) for an examination, or other special purpose, in a comparatively comparatively short time, by storing the memory with information, not so much with a view to real learning as to pa ing the examination; coach. I can imagine some impertinent inspector, having crammed the children, to put. us old people out to show our grammatical paces. Blackwood's Mag. 5. To tell lies to; fill up with false stories. [Slang.] II. in trans. 1. To eat greedily or to satiety; stuff one's self. Swinish gluttony Crams, and blasphemes his feeder. Milton , Comus, 1. 779. 2. To store the memory hastily with facts, for the purpose of pa ing an examination or for some other immediate use; in general, to acquire knowledge hurriedly by a forced proce , without a imilating it: as, to cram for a civil service examination; to cram for a lecture. Knowledge acquired by cramming is soon lost. H. Spencer , Prin. of Psychol., § 109. + -ida.] A family of pyralid microlepidopterous insects, taking name from the genus Cram bus; the gra -moths. The technical characters are: palpi similar in both sexes, long, stretched forward horizontally; maxillary palpi brush shaped; fore wings with 12, rarely 11, veins, the first not forked; hind wings with an open middle cell, and the hinder middle vein hairy at the base. It is a large and homogeneous family of small moths which fly among gra and are usually found in open Crambus vulgivagellus, slightly enlarged. fields. The numerous species are widely distributed over the globe; the larvæ feed on various cultivated cereals, as well as other gra es, often doing much damage. Also Crambidi, Crambinæ, and Crambites. Crambinæ (kram-bi'nē), n. pl. [NL.,