Part 2581

<h1>Cricketer</h1> <Xpage=344>

<hw>Crick"et*er</hw> <tt>(kr?k"?t-?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who plays at cricket.</def>

<h1>Cricoid</h1> <Xpage=344>

<hw>Cri"coid</hw> <tt>(kr?"koid)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/<?/<?/<?/ ring + <ets>-oid</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Resembling a ring; -- said esp. of the cartilage at the larynx, and the adjoining parts.</def>

<h1>Cricothyroid</h1> <Xpage=344>

<hw>Cri`co*thy"roid</hw> <tt>(-k?-th?"roid)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages.</def>

<h1>Cried</h1> <Xpage=344>

<hw>Cried</hw> <tt>(kr?d)</tt>, <def><tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> of <er>Cry</er>.</def>

<h1>Crier</h1> <Xpage=344>

<hw>Cri"er</hw> <tt>(kr?"?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>crieur</ets>. See <er>Cry</er>.]</ety> <def>One who cries; one who makes proclamation. Specifically, an officer who proclams the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; <as>as, a town-<ex>crier</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>He openeth his mouth like a <i>crier</i>. <i>Ecclus. xx. 15.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Crime</h1> <Xpage=344>

<hw>Crime</hw> <tt>(kr?m)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt><ety>[F. <ets>crime</ets>, fr. L. <ets>crimen</ets> judicial decision, that which is subjected to such a decision, charge, fault, crime, fr. the root of <ets>cernere</ets> to decide judicially. See <er>Certain</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong.</def> "To part error from <i>crime</i>."

<i>Tennyson.</i>

<note>&hand; <i>Crimes</i>, in the English common law, are grave offenses which were originally capitally punished (murder, rape, robbery, arson, burglary, and larceny), as distinguished from misdemeanors, which are offenses of a lighter grade. See <er>Misdemeanors</er>.</note>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Any great wickedness or sin; iniguity.</def>

<blockquote>No<b>crime</b> was thine, if 'tis no <b>crime</b> to love. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>That which occasion crime.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The tree of life, the <b>crime</b> of our first father's fall. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Capital crime</col>, <cd>a crime punishable with death.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Sin; vice; iniquity; wrong.</syn> <usage> -- <er>Crime</er>, <er>Sin</er>,<er>Vice</er>. <i>Sin</i> is the generic term, embracing wickedness of every kind, but specifically denoting an offense as committed against God. <i>Crime</i> is strictly a violation of law either human or divine; but in present usage the term is commonly applied to actions contrary to the laws of the State. <i>Vice</i> is more distinctively that which springs from the inordinate indulgence of the natural appetites, which are in themselves innocent. Thus intemperance, unchastity, duplicity, etc., are <i>vices</i>; while murder, forgery, etc., which spring from the indulgence of selfish passions, are <i>crimes</i>.</usage>

<h1>Crimeful</h1> <Xpage=344>

<hw>Crime"ful</hw> <tt>(kr?m"f?l)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Crimeless</h1> <Xpage=344>

<hw>Crime"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Free from crime; innocent.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>