Part 652

{ Cre*o"le*an (kr?-?"l?-a]/>n), Cre*o"li*an }, a. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Creoles. -- n. A Creole.

Cre"o*sol (kr?"?-s?l), n. [Cresote + phenol.] (Chem.) A colorless liquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum. [Written also creasol.]

Cre"o*sote (kr?"?-s?t), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?;, gen. &?;&?;&?;, flesh + &?;&?;&?; to preserve.] (Chem.) Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood.

&fist; It is remarkable as an antiseptic and deodorizer in the preservation of wood, flesh, etc., and in the prevention of putrefaction; but it is a poor germicide, and in this respect has been overrated. Smoked meat, as ham, owes its preservation and taste to a small quantity of creosote absorbed from the smoke to which it is exposed. Carbolic acid is phenol proper, while creosote is a mixture of several phenols.

Coal-tar creosote (Chem.), a colorless or yellow, oily liquid, obtained in the distillation of coal tar, and resembling wood-tar oil, or creosote proper, in composition and properties.

Cre"o*sote, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Creosoted (-s?"t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Creosoting.] To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay.

{ Cre"pance (kr?"pans), Cre"pane (kr?"p?n), } n. [Cf. L. crepare to crack.] (Far.) An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg. It sometimes forms an ulcer.

||Crŕpe (kr?p), n. Same as Crape.

Crep"i*tant (kr?p"?-tant), a. [See Crepitate.] Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling.

Crepitant rale (Med.), a peculiar crackling sound audible with inspiration in pneumonia and other lung disease.

Crep"i*tate (kr&?;p"&?;-t&?;t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crepitated (- t&?;`t&?;d); p. pr. & vb. n. Crepitating (-t&?;`t&?;ng).] [L. crepitatus, p. p. of crepitare to crackle, v. intensive of crepare to crack. Cf. Crevice.] To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.

Crep`i*ta"tion (kr?p`?-t?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. crÚpitation.] 1. The act of crepitating or crackling.

2. (Med.) (a) A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air. (b) A crepitant rÔle.

||Crep"i*tus (kr?p"?-t?s), n. [L., fr. crepare to crack.] (Med.) (a) The noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels. (b) Same as Crepitation, 2.

||Cre"pon (kr?"p?n; F. kr?`p?n"), n. [F.] A thin stuff made of the finest wool or silk, or of wool and silk.

Crept (kr&ebreve;pt), imp. & p. p. of Creep.

{ Cre*pus"cle (kr&esl;*pŭs"s'l), Cre*pus"cule (kr&esl;*pŭs"k&usl;l), } n. [L. crepusculum, fr. creper dusky, dark: cf. F. crÚpuscule.] Twilight. Bailey.

{ Cre*pus"cu*lar (-k?-l?r), Cre*pus"cu*lous (-l?s), } a. [Cf. F. crÚpusculaire.] 1. Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous.

This semihistorical and crepuscular period. Sir G. C. Lewis.

2. (Zo÷l.) Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise; -- said certain birds and insects.

Others feed only in the twilight, as bats and owls, and are called crepuscular. Whewell.

Cre*pus"cu*line (-l&ibreve;n), a. Crepuscular. [Obs.] Sprat.

Cres"cence (kr&ebreve;s"sens), n. [See Crescent.] Increase; enlargement. [Obs.]

And toward the moon's attractive crescence bend. H. Brooke.

Cres*cen"do (kr?s-s?n"d?; It. kr?-sh?n"d?), a. & adv. [It., from crescere to increase. See Crescent.] (Mus.) With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.

Cres*cen"do, n. (Mus.) (a) A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed. (b) A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone.

Cres"cent (kr&ebreve;s"sent), n. [OE. cressent, cressaunt, crescent (in sense 1), OF. creissant increasing, F. croissant, p. pr. of croţtre, OF. creistre, fr. L. crescere to increase, v. incho.; akin to creare to create. See Create, and cf. Accrue, Increase, Crescendo.] 1. The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state.

2. Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon.