Part 689

If the stone is brittle, it will crumble and pass into the form of gravel. Arbuthnot.

The league deprived of its principal supports must soon crumble to pieces. Prescott.

Crum"bly (-bl?), a. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. "The crumbly soil." Hawthorne.

Cru"me*nal (kr?"m?-nal), n. [L. crumena purse.] A purse. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Crum"ma*ble (krŭm"m&adot;*b'l), a. Capable of being crumbed or broken into small pieces.

Crum"my (krŭm"m&ybreve;), a. 1. Full of crumb or crumbs.

2. Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty.

Crump (kr?mp), a. [AS. crumb stooping, bent down; akin to OHG. chrumb, G. krumm, Dan. krum, D. krom, and E. cramp.] 1. Crooked; bent. [Obs.]

Crooked backs and crump shoulders. Jer. Taylor.

2. Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Hallivell.

Crump"et (krŭmp"&ebreve;t), n. [Prob. from W. crempog, crammwgth, a pancake or fritter.] A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.

Crum"ple (krŭm"p'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crumpled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crumpling (-pl?ng).] [Dim. fr. crump, a.] To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper.

They crumpled it into all shapes, and diligently scanned every wrinkle that could be made. Addison.

Crum"ple, v. i. To contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple.

Crump"y (krŭmp"&ybreve;), a. Brittle; crisp. Wright.

Crunch (krŭnch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crunched (krŭncht); p. pr. & vb. n. Crunching.] [Prob. of imitative origin; or cf. D. schransen to eat heartily, or E. scrunch.] 1. To chew with force and noise; to craunch.

And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull. Byron.

2. To grind or press with violence and noise.

The ship crunched through the ice. Kane.

3. To emit a grinding or craunching noise.

The crunching and ratting of the loose stones. H. James.

Crunch, v. t. To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.

{ Crunk (krŭ&nsm;k), Crun"kle (krŭ&nsm;"k'l), } v. i. [Cf. Icel. kr&?;nka to croak.] To cry like a crane. [Obs.] "The crane crunketh." Withals (1608).

Cru*no"dal (kr?-n?"dal), a. (Geom.) Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; - - used of curves.

Cru"node (kr?"n?d), n. [Prob. fr. L. crux a cross + E. node.] (Geom.) A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a.

||Cru"or (kr?"?r), n. [L., blood. See Crude.] The coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore.

Cru"o*rin (-?-r?n), n. (Physiol.) The coloring matter of the blood in the living animal; hŠmoglobin.

Crup (kr?p), a. [Cf. OHG. grop, G. grob, coarse.] Short; brittle; as, crup cake. Todd.