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6. (Paint.) Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.

Crude"ly, adv. In a crude, immature manner.

Crude"ness, n. A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans.

Cru"di*ty (kr&udd;"d&ibreve;*t&ybreve;), n.; pl. Crudities (- t&ibreve;z). [L. cruditas, fr. crudus: cf. F. cruditÚ. See Crude.] 1. The condition of being crude; rawness.

2. That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form. "Crudities in the stomach." Arbuthnot.

Cru"dle (-d'l), v. i. See Cruddle.

Crud"y (kr?d"?), a. [From Crud.] Coagulated. [Obs.]

His cruel wounds with crudy blood congealed. Spenser.

Cru"dy (kr?"d?), a. [From Crude.] Characterized by crudeness; raw. [Obs.]

The foolish and dull and crudy vapors. Shak.

Cru"el (kr&udd;"&ebreve;l), n. See Crewel.

Cru"el (kr&udd;"&ebreve;l), a. [F. cruel, fr. L. crudelis, fr. crudus. See Crude.] 1. Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.

Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are cruel and have no mercy. Jer. vi. 22,23.

2. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.

Cruel wars, wasting the earth. Milton.

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath for it was cruel. Gen. xlix. 7.

3. Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.

You have seen cruel proof of this man's strength. Shak.

Cru"el*ly, adv. 1. In a cruel manner.

2. Extremely; very. [Colloq.] Spectator.

Cru"el*ness, n.Cruelty. [Obs.] Spenser.

Cru"els (kr&udd;"&ebreve;lz), n. pl. [Corrupt. fr. F. Úcrouelles scrofula.] Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.

Cru"el*ty (-t&ybreve;), n.; pl. Cruelties (-t&ibreve;z). [OF. crueltÚ, F. cruautÚ, fr. L. crudelitas, fr. crudelis. See Cruel.]

1. The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity.

Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty. Shak.

2. A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain.

Cruelties worthy of the dungeons of the Inquisition. Macaulay.

Cru"en*tate (kr?"?n-t?t), a. [L. cruentatus, p. p. of cruentare to make bloody, fr. cruentus bloody, fr. cruor. See Crude.] Smeared with blood. [Obs.] Glanwill.