Crissal (a.) Having highly colored under tail coverts; as, the crissal thrasher.
Crisscross (n.) A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.
Crisscross (n.) A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.
Crisscross (v. t.) To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks.
Crisscross (adv.) In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways.
Crisscross (adv.) With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross.
Crisscross-row (n.) See Christcross-row.
Crissa (pl. ) of Crissum
Crissum (n.) That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts.
Cristate (a.) Crested.
Criteria (pl. ) of Criterion
Criterions (pl. ) of Criterion
Criterion (n.) A standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them.
Crith (n.) The unit for estimating the weight of a/riform substances; -- the weight of a liter of hydrogen at 0/ centigrade, and with a tension of 76 centimeters of mercury. It is 0.0896 of a gram, or 1.38274 grains.
Crithomancu (n.) A kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims.
Critic (n.) One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer.
Critic (n.) One who passes a rigorous or captious judgment; one who censures or finds fault; a harsh examiner or judge; a caviler; a carper.
Critic (n.) The art of criticism.
Critic (n.) An act of criticism; a critique.
Critic (a.) Of or pertaining to critics or criticism; critical.
Critic (v. i.) To criticise; to play the critic.
Critical (n.) Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions.
Critical (n.) Pertaining to criticism or the critic's art; of the nature of a criticism; accurate; as, critical knowledge; a critical dissertation.
Critical (n.) Inclined to make nice distinctions, or to exercise careful judgment and selection; exact; nicely judicious.
Critical (n.) Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
Critical (n.) Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of a subject.
Critical (n.) Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture; important as regards consequences; hence, of doubtful issue; attended with risk; dangerous; as, the critical stage of a fever; a critical situation.
Critically (adv.) In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly.
Critically (adv.) At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation, place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification critically situated.
Criticalness (n.) The state or quality of being critical, or of occurring at a critical time.
Criticalness (n.) Accuracy in examination or decision; exactness.
Criticaster (n.) A contemptible or vicious critic.
Criticisable (a.) Capable of being criticised.
Criticised (imp. & p. p.) of Criticise
Criticising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Criticise
Criticise (v. t.) To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.
Criticise (v. t.) To express one's views as to the merit or demerit of; esp., to animadvert upon; to find fault with; as, to criticise conduct.
Criticise (v. i.) To act as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment; to play the critic; -- formerly used with on or upon.
Criticise (v. i.) To discuss the merits or demerits of a thing or person; esp., to find fault.
Criticiser (n.) One who criticises; a critic.
Criticism (n.) The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism.
Criticism (n.) The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination and review; a critique; animadversion; censure.
Critique (n.) The art of criticism.
Critique (n.) A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason."
Critique (n.) A critic; one who criticises.
Critique (v.) To criticise or pass judgment upon.
Crizzel (n.) A kind of roughness on the surface of glass, which clouds its transparency.
Croaked (imp. & p. p.) of Croak
Croaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Croak
Croak (v. i.) To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.
Croak (v. i.) To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
Croak (v. t.) To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster.
Croak (n.) The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.
Croaker (n.) One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil.
Croaker (n.) A small American fish (Micropogon undulatus), of the Atlantic coast.
Croaker (n.) An American fresh-water fish (Aplodinotus grunniens); -- called also drum.
Croaker (n.) The surf fish of California.
Croat (n.) A native of Croatia, in Austria; esp., one of the native Slavic race.
Croat (n.) An irregular soldier, generally from Croatia.
Croatian (a.) Of or pertaining to Croatia.
Croatian (n.) A Croat.
Crocein (n.) A name given to any one of several yellow or scarlet dyestuffs of artificial production and complex structure. In general they are diazo and sulphonic acid derivatives of benzene and naphthol.
Croceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, saffron; deep reddish yellow.
Crocetin (n.) A dyestuff, obtained from the Chinese crocin, which produces a brilliant yellow.
Croche (n.) A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler.
Crochet (n.) A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively.
Crocheted (imp. & p. p.) of Crochet
Crocheting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crochet
Crochet (v. t. & i.) To knit with a crochet needle or hook; as, to crochet a shawl.
Crociary (n.) One who carries the cross before an archbishop.
Crocidolite (n.) A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.
Crocin (n.) The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora.
Crocin (n.) A red powder (called also polychroite), which is made from the saffron (Crocus sativus). See Polychroite.
Crock (n.) The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth.
Crocked (imp. & p. p.) of Crock
Crocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crock
Crock (v. t.) To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.
Crock (v. i.) To give off crock or smut.
Crock (n.) A low stool.
Crock (n.) Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher.
Crock (v. t.) To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter.
Crocker (n.) A potter.
Crockery (n.) Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds.
Crocket (n.) An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.
Crocket (n.) A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler.
Crocketed (a.) Ornamented with crockets.
Crocketing (n.) Ornamentation with crockets.
Crocky (a.) Smutty.
Crocodile (n.) A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (C. Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.
Crocodile (n.) A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.
Crocodilia (n. pl.) An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds.
Crocodilian (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile.
Crocodilian (n.) One of the Crocodilia.
Crocodility (n.) A caption or sophistical mode of arguing.
Crocoisite (n.) Same as Crocoite.
Crocoite (n.) Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also red lead ore.
Croconate (n.) A salt formed by the union of croconic acid with a base.
Croconic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling saffron; having the color of saffron; as, croconic acid.
Croconic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, croconic acid.
Crocose (n.) A white crystalline sugar, metameric with glucose, obtained from the coloring matter of saffron.