Part 640

Crawl"er (kr&add;l"&etilde;r), n. One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.

Crawl"y (kr&add;l"&ybreve;), a. Creepy. [Colloq.]

{ Cray (krā), Cray"er (-&etilde;r) }, n. See Crare. [Obs.]

Cray"fish (krā"f&ibreve;sh), n. (Zo÷l.) See Crawfish.

Cray"on (krā"?n), n. [F., a crayon, a lead pencil (crayon ContÚ ContÚ's pencil, i. e., one made a black compound invented by ContÚ), fr. craie chalk, L. creta; said to be, properly, Cretan earth, fr. Creta the island Crete. Cf. Cretaceous.] 1. An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.

Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon. Dryden.

&fist; The black crayon gives a deeper black than the lead pencil. This and the colored crayons are often called chalks. The red crayon is also called sanguine. See Chalk, and Sanguine.

2. A crayon drawing.

3. (Electricity) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

Crayon board, cardboard with a surface prepared for crayon drawing. -- Crayon drawing, the act or art of drawing with crayons; a drawing made with crayons.

Cray"on, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crayoned (-?nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crayoning.] [Cf. F. crayonner.] To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.

He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably to the plan which he had crayoned out. Malone.

Craze (krāz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crazed (krāzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crazing.] [OE. crasen to break, fr. Scand., perh. through OF.; cf. Sw. krasa to crackle, slň i kras, to break to pieces, F. Úcraser to crush, fr. the Scand. Cf. Crash.] 1. To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.

God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels. Milton.

2. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. [Obs.]

Till length of years, And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs. Milton.

3. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.

Any man . . . that is crazed and out of his wits. Tilloston.

Grief hath crazed my wits. Shak.

Craze, v. i. 1. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.

She would weep and he would craze. Keats.

2. To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

Craze, n. 1. Craziness; insanity.

2. A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.

It was quite a craze with him [Burns] to have his Jean dressed genteelly. Prof. Wilson.

3. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the Šsthetic craze.

Various crazes concerning health and disease. W. Pater.

Craz"ed*ness (-?d-n?s), n. A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the intellect.