Part 2588

<h1>Crinose</h1> <Xpage=345>

<hw>Cri*nose"</hw> <tt>(kr?-n?s")</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>crinis</ets> hair.]</ety> <def>Hairy.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Crinosity</h1> <Xpage=345>

<hw>Cri*nos"i*ty</hw> <tt>(kr?-n?s"?-t?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Hairiness.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Crinum</h1> <Xpage=345>

<hw>Cri"num</hw> <tt>(kr?"n?m)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/<?/<?/<?/ lily.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of bulbous plants, of the order <i>Amaryllidace<?/</i>, cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty.</def>

<h1>Criosphinx</h1> <Xpage=345>

<hw>Cri"o*sphinx`</hw> <tt>(kr?"?-sf?nks`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/<?/<?/<?/ ram + <?/<?/<?/<?/ sphinx.]</ety> <def>A sphinx with the head of a ram.</def>

<h1>Cripple</h1> <Xpage=345>

<hw>Crip"ple</hw> <tt>(kr?p"p'l)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>cripel</ets>, <ets>crepel</ets>, <ets>crupel</ets>, AS. <ets>crypel</ets> (akin to D. <ets>kreuple</ets>, G. <ets>kr<?/ppel</ets>, Dan. <ets>kr<?/bling</ets>, Icel. <ets>kryppill</ets>), prop., one that can not walk, but must creep, fr. AS. <ets>cre<?/pan</ets> to creep. See <er>Creep</er>.]</ety> <def>One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.</def>

<blockquote>I am a <b>cripple</b> in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cripple</h1> <Xpage=345>

<hw>Crip"ple</hw> <tt>(kr?p"p'l)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Lame; halting.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "The <i>cripple</i>, tardy-gaited night."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Cripple</h1> <Xpage=345>

<hw>Crip"ple</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Crippled</er> <tt>(-p'ld)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Crippling</er> <tt>(-pl?ng)</tt>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.</def>

<blockquote>He had <b>crippled</b> the joints of the noble child. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; <as>as, to be financially <ex>crippled</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>More serious embarrassments . . . were <b>crippling</b> the energy of the settlement in the Bay. <i>Palfrey.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>An incumbrance which would permanently <b>cripple</b> the body politic. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Crippled</h1> <Xpage=345>

<hw>Crip"pled</hw> <tt>(kr?p"p'ld)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded.</def> "The <i>crippled</i> crone."

<i>Longfellow.</i>

<h1>Crippleness</h1> <Xpage=345>

<hw>Crip"ple*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Lameness.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<h1>Crippler</h1> <Xpage=345>

<hw>Crip"pler</hw> <tt>(-pl?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A wooden tool used in graining leather.</def>