Part 631

A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif.

3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily. "A pair of crafty knaves." Shak.

With anxious care and crafty wiles. J. Baillie.

Syn. -- Skillful; dexterous; cunning; artful; wily; sly; fraudulent; deceitful; subtle; shrewd. See Cunning.

Crag (krăg), n. [W. craig; akin to Gael. creag, Corn. karak, Armor. karrek.] 1. A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.

From crag to crag the signal flew. Sir W. Scott.

2. (Geol.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.

Crag, n. [A form of craw: cf. D. kraag neck, collar, G. kragen. See Craw.] 1. The neck or throat [Obs.]

And bear the crag so stiff and so state. Spenser.

2. The neck piece or scrag of mutton. Johnson.

Crag"ged (-g&ebreve;d), a. Full of crags, or steep, broken rocks; abounding with prominences, points, and inequalities; rough; rugged.

Into its cragged rents descend. J. Baillie.

Crag"ged*ness, n. The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess.

Crag"gi*ness (-g?-n?s), n. The state of being craggy.

Crag"gy (krăg"g&ybreve;), a. Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain. "The craggy ledge." Tennyson.

Crags"man (krăgz"man), n.; pl. Cragsmen (- men). One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.

Craie (krā), n. See Crare. [Obs.]

Craig" floun`der (krāg" floun`d&etilde;r). [Scot. craig a rock. See 1st Crag.] (Zo÷l.) The pole flounder.

Crail (krāl), n. [See Creel.] A creel or osier basket.

Crake (krāk), v. t. & i. [See Crack.] 1. To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.

2. To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. [Obs.]

Each man may crake of that which was his own. Mir. for Mag.

Crake, n. A boast. See Crack, n. [Obs.] Spenser.

Crake, n. [Cf. Icel. krāka crow, krākr raven, Sw. krňka, Dan. krage; perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crow.] (Zo÷l.) Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.

Crake"ber`ry (-b?r`r?), n. (Bot.) See Crowberry.

Crak"er (kr?k"?r), n. One who boasts; a braggart. [Obs.] Old Play.

Cram (krăm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crammed (krămd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cramming.] [AS. crammian to cram; akin to Icel. kremja to squeeze, bruise, Sw. krama to press. Cf. Cramp.] 1. To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.

Their storehouses crammed with grain. Shak.