Part 2538

<i>Johnson.</i>

<h1>Cragged</h1> <Xpage=339>

<hw>Crag"ged</hw> <tt>(-g?d)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Full of crags, or steep, broken <?/<?/cks; abounding with prominences, points, and inequalities; rough; rugged.</def>

<blockquote>Into its <b>cragged</b> rents descend. <i>J. Baillie.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cradgedness</h1> <Xpage=339>

<hw>Crad"ged*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess.</def>

<h1>Cragginess</h1> <Xpage=339>

<hw>Crag"gi*ness</hw> <tt>(-g?-n?s)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being craggy.</def>

<h1>Craggy</h1> <Xpage=339>

<hw>Crag"gy</hw> <tt>(kr?g"g?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; <as>as, the <ex>craggy</ex> side of a mountain</as>.</def> "The <i>craggy</i> ledge."

<i>Tennyson.</i>

<h1>Cragsman</h1> <Xpage=339>

<hw>Crags"man</hw> <tt>(kr?gz"m<it>a</it>n)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Cragsmen</plw> <tt>(-m<i>e</i>n)</tt>.</plu> <def>One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.</def>

<h1>Craie</h1> <Xpage=339>

<hw>Craie</hw> <tt>(kr?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Crare</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Craig flounder</h1> <Xpage=339>

<hw>Craig" floun`der</hw> <tt>(kr?g" floun`d?r)</tt>. <ety>[Scot. <ets>craig</ets> a rock. See 1st <er>Crag</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The pole flounder.</def>

<h1>Crail</h1> <Xpage=339>

<hw>Crail</hw> <tt>(kr?l)</tt>,, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Creel</er>.]</ety> <def>A creel or osier basket.</def>

<h1>Crake</h1> <Xpage=339>

<hw>Crake</hw> <tt>(kr?k)</tt>, <tt>v. t. & i.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Crack</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called <i>crake</i>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Each man may <b>crake</b> of that which was his own. <i>Mir. for Mag.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Crake</h1> <Xpage=339>

<hw>Crake</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A boast. See <er>Crack</er>, <tt>n.</tt></def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Crake</h1> <Xpage=339>

<hw>Crake</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Icel. <ets>kr<?/ka</ets> crow, <ets>kr<?/kr</ets> raven, Sw. <ets>kr<?/ka</ets>, Dan. <ets>krage</ets>; perh. of imitative origin. Cf. <er>Crow</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Any species or rail of the genera <i>Crex</i> and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See <er>Corncrake</er>.</def>