Part 637

Crape"fish` (kr?p"f?sh`), n. Salted codfish hardened by pressure. Kane.

Crap"nel (kr?p"nel), n. A hook or drag; a grapnel.

Crap"pie (kr?p"p?), n. (Zo÷l.) A kind of fresh-water bass of the genus Pomoxys, found in the rivers of the Southern United States and Mississippi valley. There are several species. [Written also croppie.]

Crap"ple (kr?p"p'l), n. [See Graple.] A claw. [Obs.]

Craps (kr?ps), n. A gambling game with dice. [Local, U.S.]

{ ||Crap"u*la (kr?p"?-l?), Crap"ule (kr?p"?l), } n. [L. crapula intoxication.] Same as Crapulence.

Crap"u*lence (-?-lens), n. The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit. Bailey.

{ Crap"u*lent (-lent), Crap"u*lous (- l?s), } a. [L. crapulentus, crapulosus: cf. F. crapuleux.] Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in liquor; drunk; given to excesses. [R.]

Crap"y (kr?p"?), a. Resembling crape.

Crare (kr?r), n. [OF. craier, creer, croyer, ship of war, LL. craiera, creyera, perh. from G. krieger warrior, or D. krijger.] A slow unwieldy trading vessel. [Obs.] [Written also crayer, cray, and craie.] Shak.

Crase (kr?z), v. t. [See Craze.] To break in pieces; to crack. [Obs.] "The pot was crased." Chaucer.

Crash (krăsh>), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crashed (krăsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Crashing.] [OE. crashen, the same word as crasen to break, E. craze. See Craze.] To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. [R.]

He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire. Fairfax.

Crash, v. i. 1. To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.

Roofs were blazing and walls crashing in every part of the city. Macaulay.

2. To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.

Crash, n. 1. A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.

The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds. Addison.

2. Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.

Crash, n. [L. crassus coarse. See Crass.] Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

Crash"ing, n. The noise of many things falling and breaking at once.

There shall be . . . a great crashing from the hills. Zeph. i. 10.

Cra"sis (kr?"s?s), n. [LL., temperament, fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;, fr. &?;&?;&?;&?; to mix.] 1. (Med.) A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.

2. (Gram.) A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; synŠresis; as, cogo for coago.

||Cras`pe*do"ta (kr?s`p?-d?"t?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; to be bordered or edged.] (Zo÷l.) The hydroid or naked-eyed medusŠ. See Hydroidea.

Cras"pe*dote (kr?s"p?-d?t), a. (Zo÷l.) Of or pertaining to the Craspedota.

Crass (kr?s), a. [L. crassus thick, fat, gross, prob. orig., closely woven. See Grease animal fat, and cf. Crate, Hurdle.] Gross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined. "Crass and fumid exhalations." Sir. T. Browne. "Crass ignorance" Cudworth.

{ Cras"sa*ment (kr?s"s?-ment), ||Cras`sa*men"tum (-m?n"t?m), } n. [L. crassamentum, fr. crassare to make thick. See Crass, a.] A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.