Crimp (n.) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
Crimp (n.) Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.
Crimp (n.) A game at cards.
Crimpage (n.) The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.
Crimper (n.) One who, or that which, crimps
Crimper (n.) A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
Crimper (n.) A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
Crimper (n.) A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
Crimpled (imp. & p. p.) of Crimple
Crimpling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crimple
Crimple (v. t.) To cause to shrink or draw together; to contract; to curl.
Crimpy (a.) Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.
Crimson (n.) A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general.
Crimson (a.) Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red.
Crimsoned (imp. & p. p.) of Crimson
Crimsoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crimson
Crimson (v. t.) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
Crimson (b. t.) To become crimson; to blush.
Crinal (a.) Of or pertaining to the hair.
Crinated (a.) Having hair; hairy.
Crinatory (a.) Crinitory.
Crincum (n.) A twist or bend; a turn; a whimsey.
Crincum-crancum (n.) A twist; a whimsey or whim.
Crined (a.) Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture.
Crinel (n.) Alt. of Crinet
Crinet (n.) A very fine, hairlike feather.
Crnged (imp. & p. p.) of Cringe
Cringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cringe
Cringe (v. t.) To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.
Cringe (v. t.) To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.
Cringe (n.) Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility.
Cringeling (n.) One who cringes meanly; a fawner.
Cringer (n.) One who cringes.
Cringingly (adv.) In a cringing manner.
Cringle (n.) A withe for fastening a gate.
Cringle (n.) An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc.
Crinicultural (a.) Relating to the growth of hair.
Crinigerous (a.) Bearing hair; hairy.
Crinital (a.) Same as Crinite, 1.
Crinite (a.) Having the appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike tail or train.
Crinite (a.) Bearded or tufted with hairs.
Crinitory (a.) Of or relating to hair; as, a crinitory covering.
Crinkled (imp. & p. p.) of Crinkle
Crinkling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crinkle
Crinkle (v. t.) To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.
Crinkle (v. i.) To turn or wind; to run in and out in many short bends or turns; to curl; to run in waves; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
Crinkle (n.) A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity.
Crinkled (a.) Having short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag.
Crinkly (a.) Having crinkles; wavy; wrinkly.
Crinoid (a.) Crinoidal.
Crinoid (n.) One of the Crinoidea.
Crinoidal (a.) Of pertaining to crinoids; consisting of, or containing, crinoids.
Crinoidea (n. pl.) A large class of Echinodermata, including numerous extinct families and genera, but comparatively few living ones. Most of the fossil species, like some that are recent, were attached by a jointed stem. See Blastoidea, Cystoidea, Comatula.
Crinoidean (n.) One of the Crinoidea.
Crinoline (n.) A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair.
Crinoline (n.) A lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt.
Crinose (a.) Hairy.
Crinosity (n.) Hairiness.
Crinum (n.) A genus of bulbous plants, of the order Amaryllidace/, cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty.
Criosphinx (n.) A sphinx with the head of a ram.
Cripple (n.) 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.
Cripple (a.) Lame; halting.
Crippled (imp. & p. p.) of Cripple
Crippling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cripple
Cripple (v. t.) To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.
Cripple (v. t.) To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled.
Crippled (a.) Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded.
Crippleness (n.) Lameness.
Crippler (n.) A wooden tool used in graining leather.
Crippling (n.) Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.
Cripply (a.) Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition.
Crises (pl. ) of Crisis
Crisis (n.) The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point.
Crisis (n.) That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat.
Crisp (a.) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.
Crisp (a.) Curled with the ripple of the water.
Crisp (a.) Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow.
Crisp (a.) Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition.
Crisp (a.) Lively; sparking; effervescing.
Crisp (a.) Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively.
Crisped (imp. & p. p.) of Crisp
Crisping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crisp
Crisp (a.) To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.
Crisp (a.) To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp.
Crisp (a.) To make crisp or brittle, as in cooking.
Crisp (v. i.) To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t.
Crisp (n.) That which is crisp or brittle; the state of being crisp or brittle; as, burned to a crisp; specifically, the rind of roasted pork; crackling.
Crispate (a.) Alt. of Crispated
Crispated (a.) Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.
Crispation (n.) The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled.
Crispation (n.) A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, external or internal.
Crispature (n.) The state of being crispate.
Crisper (n.) One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.
Crispin (n.) A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft.
Crispin (n.) A member of a union or association of shoemakers.
Crisply (adv.) In a crisp manner.
Crispness (n.) The state or quality of being crisp.
Crispy (a.) Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks.
Crispy (a.) Crisp; brittle; as, a crispy pie crust.
Crissal (a.) Pertaining to the crissum; as, crissal feathers.