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Coo
  • (v. i.) To make a low repeated cry or sound, like the characteristic note of pigeons or doves.

    Cook
  • (n.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.
  • (v. i.) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
  • (v. t.) To concoct or prepare

    Cool
  • (n.) A moderate state of cold
  • (superl.) Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount
  • (v. i.) To become less hot
  • (v. t.) To make cool or cold

    Coon
  • (n.) A raccoon.

    Coop
  • (n.) A barrel or cask for liquor.
  • (v. t.) To confine in a coop

    Coordinate
  • (a.) Equal in rank or order
  • (n.) A thing of the same rank with another thing
  • (v. t.) To give a common action, movement, or condition to

    Coordination
  • (n.) The act of coordinating

    Coot
  • (n.) A stupid fellow

    Cop
  • (n.) A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.

    Copartner
  • (n.) One who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.

    Cope
  • (n.) A covering for the head.
  • (v. i.) To encounter
  • (v. t.) To bargain for

    Copier
  • (n.) An imitator

    Coping
  • (n.) The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water

    Copious
  • (a.) Large in quantity or amount

    Copper
  • (n.) A coin made of copper
  • (v. t.) To cover or coat with copper

    Coppice
  • (n.) A grove of small growth
  • (v. t.) To cause to grow in the form of a coppice

    Copra
  • (n.) The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed.

    Coprolite
  • (n.) A piece of petrified dung

    Copse
  • (n.) A wood of small growth
  • (v. t.) To plant and preserve, as a copse.

    Coptic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Copts.
  • (n.) The language of the Copts.

    Copula
  • (n.) The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals

    Copy
  • (n.) An abundance or plenty of anything.
  • (v. i.) To make a copy or copies

    Coquet
  • (v. i.) To trifle in love
  • (v. t.) To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of

    Coquille
  • (n.) A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, and named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled

    Coquina
  • (n.) A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St

    Cor
  • (n.) A Hebrew measure of capacity

    Coracle
  • (n.) A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland

    Coracoid
  • (a.) Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most mammals
  • (n.) The coracoid bone or process.

    Coral
  • (n.) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything

    Coranto
  • (n.) A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion.

    Corban
  • (n.) An alms basket

    Corbel
  • (n.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a corbel or corbels

    Cord
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Core
  • (n.) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve.
  • (v. t.) To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.

    Core
  • (n.) A body of individuals
  • (v. t.) To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.

    Corf
  • (n.) A basket.

    Coriaceous
  • (a.) Consisting of or resembling, leather

    Coriander
  • (n.) An umbelliferous plant, the Coriandrum sativum, the fruit or seeds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative

    Corinthian
  • (a.) Debauched in character or practice
  • (n.) A gay, licentious person.

    Corium
  • (n.) Armor made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans

    Corival
  • (n.) A rival
  • (v. t.) To rival

    Cork
  • (n.) A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.
  • (v. t.) To furnish or fit with cork

    Corm
  • (n.) A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus.

    Corn
  • (n.) A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize
  • (v. t.) To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats

    Corol
  • (n.) A corolla.

    Coromandel
  • (n.) The west coast, or a portion of the west coast, of the Bay of Bengal.

    Corona
  • (n.) A character

    Coroner
  • (n.) An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred

    Coronet
  • (n.) An ornamental or honorary headdress, having the shape and character of a crown

    Corporal
  • (n.) A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry

    Corporate
  • (a.) Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body.
  • (v. i.) To become incorporated.
  • (v. t.) To incorporate.

    Corporation
  • (n.) A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession

    Corporator
  • (n.) A member of a corporation, esp. one of the original members.

    Corporeal
  • (a.) Having a body

    Corporeity
  • (n.) The state of having a body

    Corposant
  • (n.) St. Elmo's fire.

    Corps
  • (n.) In some countries of Europe, a form of students' social society binding the members to strict adherence to certain student customs and its code of honor
  • (n. sing. & pl.) A body of men

    Corpulent
  • (a.) Solid

    Corpus
  • (n.) A body, living or dead

    Corral
  • (n.) A pen for animals
  • (v. t.) To surround and inclose

    Corrasion
  • (n.) The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water

    Correct
  • (a.) Set right, or made straight
  • (v. t.) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals

    Correlate
  • (n.) One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son
  • (v. i.) To have reciprocal or mutual relations
  • (v. t.) To put in relation with each other

    Correlation
  • (n.) Reciprocal relation

    Correlative
  • (a.) Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing

    Correspond
  • (v. i.) To be adapted

    Corridor
  • (n.) A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.

    Corrigendum
  • (n.) A fault or error to be corrected.

    Corrival
  • (a.) Having rivaling claims
  • (n.) A fellow rival
  • (v. i. & t.) To compete with

    Corroborate
  • (a.) Corroborated.
  • (v. t.) To make more certain

    Corroboration
  • (n.) That which corroborates.

    Corroboree
  • (n.) A festivity or social gathering, esp. one of a noisy or uproarious character

    Corrode
  • (v. i.) To have corrosive action
  • (v. t.) To consume

    Corrosion
  • (n.) The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change

    Corrosive
  • (a.) Eating away
  • (n.) That which has the power of fretting or irritating.

    Corrugate
  • (a.) Wrinkled
  • (v. t.) To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise

    Corrugation
  • (n.) The act corrugating

    Corrugator
  • (n.) A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.

    Corrupt
  • (a.) Abounding in errors
  • (v. i.) To become putrid or tainted
  • (v. t.) To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state

    Corsac
  • (n.) The corsak.

    Corsage
  • (n.) a flower or small arrangement of flowers worn by a person as a personal ornament. Typically worn by women on special occasions (as, at a ball or an anniversary celebration), a corsage may be worn pinned to the chest, or tied to the wrist

    Corsair
  • (n.) A Californian market fish (Sebastichthys rosaceus).

    Corselet
  • (n.) Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together

    Corset
  • (n.) An article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape
  • (v. t.) To inclose in corsets.

    Cortege
  • (n.) A train of attendants

    Cortex
  • (n.) Bark, as of a tree

    Corundum
  • (n.) The earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety

    Coruscant
  • (a.) Glittering in flashes

    Coruscate
  • (v. i.) To glitter in flashes

    Corvette
  • (n.) A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns

    Corvine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the crow

    Corybant
  • (n.) One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc

    Corymb
  • (n.) A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn

    Coryza
  • (n.) Nasal catarrh.

    Cosecant
  • (n.) The secant of the complement of an arc or angle.

    Cosine
  • (n.) The sine of the complement of an arc or angle.

    Cosmetic
  • (n.) Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.

    Cosmogony
  • (n.) The creation of the world or universe

    Cosmography
  • (n.) A description of the world or of the universe

    Cosmology
  • (n.) The science of the world or universe

    Cosmopolite
  • (a.) Common everywhere
  • (n.) One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place

    Cosmos
  • (n.) A genus of composite plants closely related to Bidens, usually with very showy flowers, some with yellow, others with red, scarlet, purple, white, or lilac rays

    Cossack
  • (n.) One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions

    Cosset
  • (n.) A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.
  • (v. t.) To treat as a pet

    Cost
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Cost
  • (n.) A rib
  • (v. t.) Expenses incurred in litigation.

    Cot
  • (n.) A cover or sheath

    Cotangent
  • (n.) The tangent of the complement of an arc or angle.

    Cote
  • (n.) A cottage or hut.
  • (v. t.) To go side by side with

    Cotidal
  • (a.) Marking an equality in the tides

    Cotillion
  • (n.) A brisk dance, performed by eight persons

    Cotinga
  • (n.) A bird of the family Cotingidae, including numerous bright-colored South American species

    Cotswold
  • (n.) An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England

    Cotta
  • (n.) A kind of very coarse woolen blanket.

    Cotter
  • (v. t.) To fasten with a cotter.

    Cottier
  • (n.) In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land

    Cotton
  • (n.) A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant
  • (v. i.) To go on prosperously

    Cotyledon
  • (n.) A leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo

    Coucal
  • (n.) A large, Old World, ground cuckoo of the genus Centropus, of several species.

    Couch
  • (v. i.) To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.
  • (v. t.) A bed or place for repose or sleep

    Cougar
  • (n.) An American feline quadruped (Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits

    Cough
  • (v. i.) A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc
  • (v. t.) To bring to a specified state by coughing

    Could
  • (imp.) of Can

    Coulee
  • (n.) A stream

    Coulisse
  • (n.) A fluting in a sword blade.

    Couloir
  • (n.) A deep gorge

    Coulomb
  • (n.) The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantity transferred by one ampere in one second

    Coumarin
  • (n.) The concrete essence of the tonka bean, the fruit of Dipterix (formerly Coumarouna) odorata and consisting essentially of coumarin proper, which is a white crystalline substance, C9H6O2, of vanilla-like odor, regarded as an anhydride of coumaric acid, and used in flavoring

    Council
  • (n.) A body of man elected or appointed to constitute an advisory or a legislative assembly

    Counsel
  • (n.) A secret opinion or purpose
  • (v. t.) To advise or recommend, as an act or course.

    Count
  • (n.) A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl.
  • (v. i.) To number or be counted
  • (v. t.) A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court

    Coup
  • (n.) Among some tribes of North American Indians, the act of striking or touching an enemy in warfare with the hand or at close quarters, as with a short stick, in such a manner as by custom to entitle the doer to count the deed an act of bravery
  • (v. i.) To make a coup.

    Courage
  • (n.) Heart

    Courier
  • (n.) A messenger sent with haste to convey letters or dispatches, usually on public business.

    Courlan
  • (n.) A South American bird, of the genus Aramus, allied to the rails.

    Course
  • (n.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building
  • (v. i.) To move with speed
  • (v. t.) To cause to chase after or pursue game

    Coursing
  • (n.) The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent.

    Court
  • (n.) An inclosed space
  • (v. i.) To play the lover
  • (v. t.) To attempt to gain

    Couscous
  • (n.) A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab

    Cousin
  • (n.) Allied

    Couth
  • (imp. & p. p.) Could

    Couvade
  • (n.) A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill

    Covariant
  • (n.) A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor

    Cove
  • (n.) A boy or man of any age or station.
  • (v. t.) To arch over

    Coving
  • (n.) A cove or series of coves, as the concaved surface under the overhang of a projecting upper story

    Cow
  • (n.) A chimney cap
  • (v. t.) To depress with fear

    Coward
  • (a.) Belonging to a coward
  • (n.) A person who lacks courage
  • (v. t.) To make timorous

    Cowbane
  • (n.) A poisonous umbelliferous plant

    Cowberry
  • (n.) A species of Vaccinium (V. Vitis-idaea), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery

    Cowbird
  • (n.) The cow blackbird (Molothrus ater), an American starling. Like the European cuckoo, it builds no nest, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds

    Cowboy
  • (n.) A cattle herder

    Cower
  • (v. i.) To stoop by bending the knees
  • (v. t.) To cherish with care.

    Cowfish
  • (n.) A California dolphin (Tursiops Gillii).

    Cowherd
  • (n.) One whose occupation is to tend cows.

    Cowhide
  • (n.) A coarse whip made of untanned leather.
  • (v. t.) To flog with a cowhide.

    Cowl
  • (n.) A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilating shaft, etc

    Coworker
  • (n.) One who works with another

    Cowpea
  • (n.) A leguminous plant (Vigna Sinensis, syn. V. Catjang) found throughout the tropics of the Old World

    Cowpox
  • (n.) A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox

    Cowry
  • (n.) A marine shell of the genus Cypraea.

    Cowslip
  • (n.) A common flower in England (Primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring

    Cox
  • (n.) A coxcomb

    Coxa
  • (n.) The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.

    Coxcomb
  • (n.) A name given to several plants of different genera, but particularly to Celosia cristata, or garden cockscomb

    Coy
  • (a.) Quiet
  • (v. i.) To behave with reserve or coyness
  • (v. t.) To allure

    Coyote
  • (n.) A carnivorous animal (Canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of North America

    Coyotillo
  • (n.) A low rhamnaceous shrub (Karwinskia humboldtiana) of the southwestern United States and Mexico

    Coypu
  • (n.) A South American rodent (Myopotamus coypus), allied to the beaver. It produces a valuable fur called nutria

    Coz
  • (n.) A contraction of cousin.

    Cozen
  • (v. i.) To deceive
  • (v. t.) To cheat

    Cozy
  • (a.) A wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot.
  • (superl.) Chatty

    Crab
  • (a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
  • (n.) One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace
  • (v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
  • (v. t.) To beat with a crabstick.

    Crack
  • (a.) Of superior excellence
  • (n.) A boast
  • (v. i.) To be ruined or impaired
  • (v. t.) To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts

    Cradle
  • (n.) A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots
  • (v. i.) To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.
  • (v. t.) To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.

    Craft
  • (n.) Art or skill
  • (v. t.) To play tricks

    Crag
  • (n.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.

    Crake
  • (n.) A boast.
  • (v. t. & i.) To boast

    Cram
  • (n.) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
  • (v. i.) To eat greedily, and to satiety
  • (v. t.) To fill with food to satiety

    Cranberry
  • (n.) A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.

    Crane
  • (n.) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.
  • (v. i.) to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better
  • (v. t.) To cause to rise

    Crania
  • (n.) A genus of living Brachiopoda

    Craniofacial
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the cranium and face

    Craniology
  • (n.) The department of science (as of ethnology or archaeology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc

    Craniometer
  • (n.) An instrument for measuring the size of skulls.

    Craniometry
  • (n.) The art or act of measuring skulls.

    Craniotomy
  • (n.) The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.

    Cranium
  • (n.) The skull of an animal

    Crank
  • (n.) A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it

    Cranny
  • (a.) Quick
  • (n.) A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
  • (v. i.) To crack into, or become full of, crannies.

    Crape
  • (n.) A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill. Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for the dress of some clergymen

    Crappie
  • (n.) A kind of fresh-water bass of the genus Pomoxys, found in the rivers of the Southern United States and Mississippi valley

    Craps
  • (n.) A gambling game with dice.

    Crapulence
  • (n.) The sickness occasioned by intemperance

    Crapulous
  • (a.) Surcharged with liquor

    Crash
  • (n.) A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.
  • (v. i.) To break with violence and noise
  • (v. t. ) To break in pieces violently

    Crass
  • (a.) Gross

    Crate
  • (n.) A box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces
  • (v. t.) To pack in a crate or case for transportation

    Cravat
  • (n.) A neckcloth

    Crave
  • (v. i.) To desire strongly
  • (v. t.) To ask with earnestness or importunity

    Craving
  • (n.) Vehement or urgent desire
  • (p pr. & vb. n.) of Crave

    Craw
  • (n.) The crop of a bird.

    Crayfish
  • (n.) Any crustacean of the family Astacidae, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters

    Crayon
  • (n.) A crayon drawing.
  • (v. t.) To sketch, as with a crayon

    Crazing
  • (n.) Fine cracks resulting from shrinkage on the surface of glazed pottery, concrete, or other material

    Creak
  • (n.) The sound produced by anything that creaks
  • (v. i.) To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances
  • (v. t.) To produce a creaking sound with.

    Creamery
  • (n.) An establishment where cream is sold.

    Creamy
  • (a.) Full of, or containing, cream

    Crease
  • (n.) A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance
  • (v. t.) To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling.

    Create
  • (a.) Created
  • (v. t.) To bring into being

    Creation
  • (n.) That which is created

    Creative
  • (a.) Having the power to create

    Creature
  • (n.) A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.

    Credence
  • (n.) A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one intended for the display of rich vessels or plate, and consisting chiefly of open shelves for that purpose
  • (v. t.) To give credence to

    Credential
  • (a.) Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence
  • (n.) Testimonials showing that a person is entitled to credit, or has right to exercise official power, as the letters given by a government to an ambassador or envoy, or a certificate that one is a duly elected delegate

    Credibility
  • (n.) The quality of being credible

    Credible
  • (a.) Capable of being credited or believed

    Credit
  • (n.) A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence
  • (v. t.) To bring honor or repute upon

    Credo
  • (n.) The creed, as sung or read in the Roman Catholic church.

    Credulity
  • (n.) Readiness of belief

    Credulous
  • (a.) Apt to believe on slight evidence

    Creed
  • (v. t.) A definite summary of what is believed

    Creek
  • (n.) Any turn or winding.

    Creel
  • (n.) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule

    Creep
  • (n.) A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
  • (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
  • (v. t.) To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length

    Cremate
  • (v. t.) To burn

    Cremation
  • (n.) A burning

    Crematory
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, cremation.
  • (n.) A furnace for cremating corpses

    Crenation
  • (n.) A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.

    Crenature
  • (n.) A rounded tooth or notch of a crenate leaf, or any part that is crenate

    Crenel
  • (n.) An embrasure or indentation in a battlement

    Crenulation
  • (n.) A minute crenation.

    Creole
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles.
  • (n.) One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp

    Creosol
  • (n.) A colorless liquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum

    Creosote
  • (n.) Wood-tar oil
  • (v. t.) To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay.

    Crepe
  • (n.) Any of various crapelike fabrics, whether crinkled or not.

    Crepitate
  • (v.) To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire

    Crept
  • (imp.) of Creep
  • (p. p.) of Creep

    Crescendo
  • (a. & adv.) With a constantly increasing volume of voice
  • (n.) A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed

    Crescent
  • (a.) Increasing
  • (n.) Any one of three orders of knighthood
  • (v. t.) To adorn with crescents.

    Cresol
  • (n.) Any one of three metameric substances, CH3.C6H4.OH, homologous with and resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids

    Cress
  • (n.) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic

    Crest
  • (n.) A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually above it, or separately as an ornament for plate, liveries, and the like
  • (v. i.) To form a crest.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest

    Cresylic
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cresol, creosote, etc.

    Cretaceous
  • (a.) Having the qualities of chalk

    Cretan
  • (a.) Pertaining to Crete, or Candia.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Crete or Candia.

    Cretic
  • (n.) A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (- / -).

    Cretonne
  • (n.) A fabric with cotton warp and woolen weft.

    Crevalle
  • (n.) The cavally or jurel.

    Crevasse
  • (n.) A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi

    Crevice
  • (n.) A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction
  • (v. t.) To crack

    Crew
  • (imp.) of Crow
  • (n.) A company of people associated together

    Crib
  • (n.) A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.
  • (v. i.) To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
  • (v. t.) To pilfer or purloin

    Crick
  • (n.) A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part

    Cricoid
  • (a.) Resembling a ring

    Crier
  • (n.) an officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation

    Crime
  • (n.) Any great wickedness or sin

    Criminal
  • (a.) Guilty of crime or sin.
  • (n.) One who has commited a crime

    Criminology
  • (n.) A treatise on crime or the criminal population.

    Crimp
  • (a.) Easily crumbled
  • (n.) A coal broker.
  • (v. t.) In cartridge making, to fold the edge of (a cartridge case) inward so as to close the mouth partly and confine the charge

    Crimson
  • (a.) Of a deep red color tinged with blue
  • (b. t.) To become crimson
  • (n.) A deep red color tinged with blue
  • (v. t.) To dye with crimson or deep red

    Cringe
  • (n.) Servile civility
  • (v. t.) To contract

    Cringle
  • (n.) An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail

    Crinkle
  • (n.) A winding or turn
  • (v. i.) To turn or wind
  • (v. t.) To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles

    Crinoid
  • (a.) Crinoidal.
  • (n.) One of the Crinoidea.

    Crinoline
  • (n.) A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it

    Crinum
  • (n.) A genus of bulbous plants, of the order Amaryllidace/, cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty

    Criosphinx
  • (n.) A sphinx with the head of a ram.

    Crisis
  • (n.) That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death

    Crisp
  • (a.) Brisk
  • (n.) That which is crisp or brittle
  • (v. i.) To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t.

    Crisscross
  • (adv.) In opposite directions
  • (n.) A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross
  • (v. t.) To mark or cover with cross lines

    Crissum
  • (n.) That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening

    Criterion
  • (n.) A standard of judging

    Critic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to critics or criticism
  • (n.) An act of criticism
  • (v. i.) To criticise

    Critique
  • (n.) A critic
  • (v.) To criticise or pass judgment upon.


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