Crudely Crude"ly adverb In a crude, immature manner.

Crudeness Crude"ness noun A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans.

Crudity Cru"di·ty (kru"dĭ*tȳ) noun ; plural Crudities (- tĭz). [ Latin cruditas , from crudus : confer French crudité . See Crude .] 1. The condition of being crude; rawness.

2. That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form. " Crudities in the stomach." Arbuthnot.

Crudle Cru"dle (-d'l) intransitive verb See Cruddle .

Crudy Crud"y adjective [ From Crud .] Coagulated. [ Obsolete]

His cruel wounds with crudy blood congealed.
Spenser.

Crudy Cru"dy adjective [ From Crude .] Characterized by crudeness; raw. [ Obsolete]

The foolish and dull and crudy vapors .
Shak.

Cruel Cru"el (kru"ĕl) noun See Crewel .

Cruel Cru"el (kru"ĕl) adjective [ French cruel , from Latin crudelis , from crudus . See Crude .] 1. Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.

Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are cruel and have no mercy.
Jer. vi. 22,23.

2. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.

Cruel wars, wasting the earth.
Milton.

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath for it was cruel .
Gen. xlix. 7.

3. Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.

You have seen cruel proof of this man's strength.
Shak.

Cruelly Cru"el·ly adverb 1. In a cruel manner.

2. Extremely; very. [ Colloq.] Spectator.

Cruelness Cru"el·ness noun Cruelty. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Cruels Cru"els (kru"ĕlz) noun plural [ Corrupt. from French écrouelles scrofula.] Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.

Cruelty Cru"el·ty (-tȳ) noun ; plural Cruelties (-tĭz). [ Old French cruelté , F. cruauté , from Latin crudelitas , from crudelis . See Cruel .]

1. The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity.

Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty .
Shak.

2. A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain.

Cruelties worthy of the dungeons of the Inquisition.

Macaulay.

Cruentate Cru"en·tate adjective [ Latin cruentatus , past participle of cruentare to make bloody, from cruentus bloody, from cruor . See Crude .] Smeared with blood. [ Obsolete] Glanwill.

Cruentous Cru·en"tous adjective [ Latin cruentus .] Bloody; cruentate. [ Obsolete]

Cruet Cru"et (kru"ĕt) noun [ Anglo-French cruet , a dim. from Old French crue , cruie ; of German or Celtic origin, and akin to English crock an earthen vessel.] 1. A bottle or vessel; esp., a vial or small glass bottle for holding vinegar, oil, pepper, or the like, for the table; a caster. Swift.

2. (Eccl.) A vessel used to hold wine, oil, or water for the service of the altar.

Cruet stand , a frame for holding cruets; a caster.

Cruise Cruise (krus) noun See Cruse , a small bottle.

Cruise Cruise (kruz) intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Cruised (kruzd); present participle & verbal noun Cruising .] [ Dutch kruisen to move crosswise or in a zigzag, to cruise, from kruis cross, from Old French crois , croiz , French croix , or directly from Old French croisier , French croiser , to cross, cruise, from crois a cross. See Cross .]

1. To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure.

» A ship cruises in any particular sea or ocean; as, in the Baltic or in the Atlantic. She cruises off any cape; as, off the Lizard; off Ushant. She cruises on a coast; as, on the coast of Africa. A priate cruises to seize vessels; a yacht cruises for the pleasure of the owner.

Ships of war were sent to cruise near the isle of Bute.
Macaulay.

'Mid sands, and rocks, and storms to cruise for pleasure.
Young.

2. To wander hither and thither on land. [ Colloq.]

Cruise Cruise noun A voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure.

He feigned a compliance with some of his men, who were bent upon going a cruise to Manilla.
Dampier.

Cruise Cruise intransitive verb (Forestry) To inspect forest land for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield.

Cruise Cruise transitive verb 1. To cruise over or about.

2. (Forestry) To explore with reference to capacity for the production of lumber; as, to cruise a section of land.

Cruiser Cruis"er noun One who, or a vessel that, cruises; -- usually an armed vessel.

Cruiser Cruis"er noun Specif.: (Nav.) A man-of-war less heavily armed and armored than a battle ship, having great speed, and generally of from two thousand to twelve thousand tons displacement.

Cruive Cruive (kruv) noun A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon; also, a hovel. [ Scot.]

Crull Crull (krul) adjective [ See Curl .] Curly; curled. [ Obsolete]

Cruller Crul"ler (krŭl"lẽr) noun [ Confer Curl .] A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat. [ Also written kruller .]

Crumb Crumb (krŭm) noun [ Anglo-Saxon cruma , akin to Dutch kruim , G. krume ; confer German krauen to scratch, claw.] [ Written also crum .] 1. A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.

Desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table.
Luke xvi. 21.

2. Fig.: A little; a bit; as, a crumb of comfort.

3. The soft part of bread.

Dust unto dust, what must be, must;
If you can't get crumb , you'd best eat crust.
Old Song.

Crumb brush , a brush for sweeping crumbs from a table. -- To a crum , with great exactness; completely.

Crumb Crumb transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Crumbed (kr?md); present participle & verbal noun Crumbing (kr?m"?ng).] To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread. [ Written also crum .]

Crumbcloth Crumb"cloth` (-kl...th`; 115) noun A cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean. [ Written also crumcloth .]

Crumble Crum"ble transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Crumbled (-b'ld); present participle & verbal noun Crumbling (-bl?ng).] [ Dim. of crumb , transitive verb , akin to D. krimelen German kr...meln .] To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.

He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints,
And crumble all thy sinews.
Milton.

Crumble Crum"ble intransitive verb To fall into small pieces; to break or part into small fragments; hence, to fall to decay or ruin; to become disintegrated; to perish.

If the stone is brittle, it will crumble and pass into the form of gravel.
Arbuthnot.

The league deprived of its principal supports must soon crumble to pieces.
Prescott.

Crumbly Crum"bly adjective Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. "The crumbly soil." Hawthorne.

Crumenal Cru"me·nal noun [ Latin crumena purse.] A purse. [ Obsolete] Dr. H. More.

Crummable Crum"ma·ble (krŭm"mȧ*b'l) adjective Capable of being crumbed or broken into small pieces.

Crummy Crum"my (krŭm"mȳ) adjective 1. Full of crumb or crumbs.

2. Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty.

Crump Crump adjective [ Anglo-Saxon crumb stooping, bent down; akin to Old High German chrumb , German krumm , Dan. krum , D. krom , and English cramp .] 1. Crooked; bent. [ Obsolete]

Crooked backs and crump shoulders.
Jer. Taylor.

2. Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Hallivell.

Crumpet Crump"et (krŭmp"ĕt) noun [ Prob. from W. crempog , crammwgth , a pancake or fritter.] A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.

Crumple Crum"ple (krŭm"p'l) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Crumpled (-p'ld); present participle & verbal noun Crumpling (-pl?ng).] [ Dim. from crump , adjective ] To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper.

They crumpled it into all shapes, and diligently scanned every wrinkle that could be made.
Addison.

Crumple Crum"ple intransitive verb To contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple .

Crumpy Crump"y (krŭmp"ȳ) adjective Brittle; crisp. Wright.

Crunch Crunch (krŭnch) intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Crunched (krŭncht); present participle & verbal noun Crunching .] [ Prob. of imitative origin; or confer D. schransen to eat heartily, or English scrunch .] 1. To chew with force and noise; to craunch.

And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull.
Byron.

2. To grind or press with violence and noise.

The ship crunched through the ice.
Kane.

3. To emit a grinding or craunching noise.

The crunching and ratting of the loose stones.
H. James.

Crunch Crunch transitive verb To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.

Crunk Crunk (krŭnk), Crun"kle (krŭn"k'l) intransitive verb [ Confer Icelandic kr...nka to croak.] To cry like a crane. [ Obsolete] "The crane crunketh ." Withals (1608).

Crunodal Cru·no"dal adjective (Geom.) Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; - - used of curves.

Crunode Cru"node noun [ Prob. from Latin crux a cross + E. node .] (Geom.) A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point , under Double , adjective

Cruor Cru"or noun [ Latin , blood. See Crude .] The coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore.

Cruorin Cru"o·rin noun (Physiol.) The coloring matter of the blood in the living animal; hæmoglobin.

Crup Crup adjective [ Confer Old High German grop , German grob , coarse.] Short; brittle; as, crup cake. Todd.

Crup Crup noun See Croup , the rump of a horse.

Crupper Crup"per noun [ French croupi...re , from croupe . See Croup the rump of a horse.] [ Written also crouper .] 1. The buttocks or rump of a horse.

2. A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.

Crupper Crup"per transitive verb To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon; as, to crupper a horse.

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