Cradle (n.) Infancy, or very early life.
Cradle (n.) An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
Cradle (n.) A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
Cradle (n.) A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
Cradle (n.) A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
Cradle (n.) A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.
Cradle (n.) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker.
Cradle (n.) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
Cradle (n.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
Cradle (n.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
Cradled (imp. & p. p.) of Cradle
Cradling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cradle
Cradle (v. t.) To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking.
Cradle (v. t.) To nurse or train in infancy.
Cradle (v. t.) To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.
Cradle (v. t.) To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
Cradle (v. i.) To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.
Cradling (n.) The act of using a cradle.
Cradling (n.) Cutting a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterward united and rehooped.
Cradling (n.) The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed.
Craft (n.) Strength; might; secret power.
Craft (n.) Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.
Craft (n.) Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers.
Craft (n.) Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices.
Craft (n.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense.
Craft (v. t.) To play tricks; to practice artifice.
Craftily (adv.) With craft; artfully; cunningly.
Craftiness (n.) Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.
Craftless (a.) Without craft or cunning.
Craftsmen (pl. ) of Craftsman
Craftsman (n.) One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.
Craftsmanship (n.) The work of a craftsman.
Craftsmaster (n.) One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning.
Crafty (a.) Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.
Crafty (a.) Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.
Crafty (a.) Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
Crag (n.) A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.
Crag (n.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.
Crag (n.) The neck or throat
Crag (n.) The neck piece or scrag of mutton.
Cragged (a.) Full of crags, or steep, broken //cks; abounding with prominences, points, and inequalities; rough; rugged.
Cradgedness (n.) The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess.
Cragginess (n.) The state of being craggy.
Craggy (a.) Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain.
Cragsmen (pl. ) of Cragsman
Cragsman (n.) 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.
Craie (n.) See Crare.
Craig flounder () The pole flounder.
Crail (n.) A creel or osier basket.
Crake (v. t. & i.) To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
Crake (v. t. & i.) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
Crake (n.) A boast. See Crack, n.
Crake (n.) Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.
Crakeberry (n.) See Crowberry.
Craker (n.) One who boasts; a braggart.
Crammed (imp. & p. p.) of Cram
Cramming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cram
Cram (v. t.) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.
Cram (v. t.) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
Cram (v. t.) To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.
Cram (v. i.) To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
Cram (v. i.) To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.
Cram (n.) The act of cramming.
Cram (n.) Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.
Cram (n.) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
Crambo (a.) A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme.
Crambo (a.) A word rhyming with another word.
Crammer (n.) One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared.
Cramoisie (a.) Alt. of Cramoisy
Cramoisy (a.) Crimson.
Cramp (n.) That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
Cramp (n.) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
Cramp (n.) A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.
Cramp (n.) A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
Cramp (n.) A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.
Cramped (imp. & p. p.) of Cramp
Cramping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cramp
Cramp (v. t.) To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.
Cramp (v. t.) To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
Cramp (v. t.) to bind together; to unite.
Cramp (v. t.) To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
Cramp (v. t.) To afflict with cramp.
Cramp (n.) Knotty; difficult.
Crampet (n.) A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard.
Crampfish (n.) The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.
Cramp iron () See Cramp, n., 2.
Crampit (n.) See Crampet.
Crampon (n.) An a/rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.
Cramponee (a.) Having a cramp or square piece at the end; -- said of a cross so furnished.
Crampoons (n.) A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.
Crampoons (n.) Iron instruments with sharp points, worn on the shoes to assist in gaining or keeping a foothold.
Crampy () Affected with cramp.
Crampy () Productive of, or abounding in, cramps.
Cran (n.) Alt. of Crane
Crane (n.) A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel.
Cranage (n.) The liberty of using a crane, as for loading and unloading vessels.
Cranage (n.) The money or price paid for the use of a crane.
Cranberries (pl. ) of Cranberry
Cranberry (n.) A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it.
Cranch (v. t.) See Craunch.