Part 2539

<h1>Crakeberry</h1> <Xpage=339>

<hw>Crake"ber`ry</hw> <tt>(-b?r`r?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>See <er>Crowberry</er>.</def>

<h1>Craker</h1> <Xpage=339>

<hw>Crak"er</hw> <tt>(kr?k"?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who boasts; a braggart.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Old Play.</i>

<h1>Cram</h1> <Xpage=339>

<hw>Cram</hw> <tt>(kr?m)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Crammed</er> <tt>(kr?md)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Cramming</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>crammian</ets> to cram; akin to Icel. <ets>kremia</ets> to squeeze, bruise, Sw. <ets>krama</ets> to press. Cf. <er>Cramp</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrustung one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; <as>as, to <ex>cram</ex> anything into a basket; to <ex>cram</ex> a room with people.</as></def>

<blockquote>Their storehouses <b>crammed</b> with grain. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He will <b>cram</b> his brass down our throats. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.</def>

<blockquote>Children would be freer from disease if they were not <b>crammed</b> so much as they are by fond mothers. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Cram</b> us with praise, and make us As fat as tame things. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; <as>as, a pupil is <ex>crammed</ex> by his tutor</as>.</def>

<h1>Cram</h1> <Xpage=339>

<hw>Cram</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To eat greedly, and to satiety; to stuff.</def>

<blockquote>Gluttony . . . . <b>Cr<?/ms</b>, and blasphemes his feeder. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<h1>Cram</h1> <Xpage=339>

<hw>Cram</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of cramming.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Innformation hastily memorized; as. a <i>cram</i> from an examination.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Weaving)</fld> <def>A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.</def>

<h1>Crambe</h1> <Xpage=339>

<hw>Cram"be</hw> <tt>(-b?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Cramp</er>, <tt>a.</tt>, difficult.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme.</def>

<blockquote>I saw in one corner . . . a cluster of men and women,diverting themselves with a game at <b>crambo</b>. I heard several double rhymes . . . which raised a great deal of mirth. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A werd rhyming with another word.</def>

<blockquote>His similes in order set And every <b>crambo</b> he could get. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Dumb crambo</col>, <cd>a game in which one party of players give a word which rhymes with another, which last to be guessed by the opposing party, who represent in dumb show what they think it to be.</cd></cs>

<h1>Crammer</h1> <Xpage=339>