List of Old English Words in the OED/CR

Old English	sb	English
Crab	n.	Any decapod crustaceous animal of the tribe Brachyura; esp the edible species found on or near the seacoast.
Crabbed	adj	Fractitious, dogged, refractory, cantankerous, morose, contrary, disagreeable, churlish, acerbic. 2. crooked, awkward ingait.
Crabbedly	adv	Crossly, ill-temperedly, sourly, morosely.
Crabbedness	n	The quality of being crabbed, in a fractious state. 2. crookedness, refractoriness, ill-disposedness, harshness of mood, crossness, irritability.
Crab-harrow	n.	A harrow with bent teeth for tearing up the ground.
Crab-harrow	vb	To break up soil or ground with a crab-harrow
Crabbish	adj	Somewhat crabbed, irritated, ill-disposed, fractitous.
Crabby	adj	Ill-tempered, morose, cantankerous, contrary, dogged.
Crabdom	n	The life and habitat of crabs.
Crablike	adj	Walking and moving characteric of a crab; sidle-like.
Crabmeat	n	Flesh or meat of the crab.
Crab sidle	vb	To sidle or shuffle somewhat like a crab. 2. with a sideways and backward movement; crabwise.
Crab-spider	n	A spider (Latrigadae) so named because they can run backwards like a crab.
Crabwise	adj	In a sidle-up-to mannner.
Crabword	n	Palindrome.
Crack	n	A sharp noise.
Crack	vb.	From Middle English crakken, craken, from Old English cracian ‎(“to resound, crack”). 2. to form cracks. 2. to break apart under pressure. 3. to become debilitated by psychological pressure. 4. to break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture. 5. to make a cracking sound. 6. to change rapidly in register; of a pubescent boy's voice) - to alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering. 6. to make a sharply humorous comment. 7. to make a crack or cracks in. 8. to break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress. 9. to strike forcefully. 10. to open slightly. 11. to cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (figurative) 12. to solve a difficult problem (fig, from cracking a nut.) 13. to overcome a security system or a component. 14. to cause to make a sharp sound. 15. to crack a whip. 16. to tell (a joke) 17. to break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse. 18. to circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits. 19. to open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food. 20. be ruined or impaired; to fail.
Crack	phr	"Crack a Book" - to open a book and read it.
Crack	phr	"Crack a Smile" - (informal) to smile.
Crack	phr	"Crack Down On (something or someone)" -
Crack	phr	"Crack Hardy" (or hearty) - to put a good face on; to assure or maintain a bold bearing.
Crack	phr	"Crack of Dawn" - a time very early in the morning; daybreak.
Crack	phr	"Crack of Doom" - a peal of thunder announcing the day of judgement.
Crack	phr	"Crack Through" - to penetrate, to overcome, get by, manage
Crack	phr	"Crack Up" - disintegrate under emotional strain. 2. to physical break up.
Crack	phr	"Crack Wise" - to wisecrack.
Crack	phr	"Hard Nut to Crack" - a difficult problem. 2. a person not easily understood or influenced.
Crackberry	n	The huckleberry, 'Gaylussacia bacca'
Crackbrain	n	One addicted to crack cocaine. 2. a weak-minded person.
Crack-brained	adj	Stupid, foolish, idiotic.
Crackdown	n	An instance of cracking down. 2. legal or disciplinary severity, repression.
Cracked	adj	Broken by a sharp blow. 2. having a thin break or fracture on the surface of an object or body. 3. of the brain: unsound of mind; crazy.
Crackhead	n	A Cocaine user.
Cracked-headed	adj	Crazy, mad,
Crackedness	n	The state or quality of being cracked: having a thin break or fracture on the surface.
Cracker	n	A bragger or boaster.
Crackhouse	n	A house or other building where crack cocaine, is made, sold or consumed.
Crackiness	n	Some prone to cracking, brittleness, fracture, fragility.
Crackingly	adv	In a cracking manner. 2. (sl) excellently, first-rate,
Crackle	n	Fizzing, popping sound. 2. (sl) banknotes, money, paper cash.
Crackle	vb	To make a fizzing, popping sound.
Crackless	adj	Without a crack, flawless, whole, fractureless, unbroken.
Crackling	adj	That which cracks. 2. pork rind roast. 3. attractive women collectively.
Crackly	adv	Prone to crackle, crisp and brittle.
Crack of Dawn	n	A time very early in the morning; daybreak.
Cracksman	n	A housebreaker. 2. safebreaker. 3. a sharp-shooter.
Crack-up	n	An emotional breakdown. 2. disentregration under emotional strain; a collapse, a crash.
Crackwhore	n	One addicted to crack cocaine, who finances the habit through working as a prostitute.
Crackwise	adj	To make a smart answer or smart comment in an attempt to impress and seem intelligent and sophisticated.
Cracky	adj	Having cracks or fractures. 2. prone to cracking or fracture. 2. abounding in conversation, verbose.
Cradle	n.	A little bed or cot for an infant. 2. infancy, or the first stage of existence. 3. the place in which anything is nurtured in its earlier stage.
Cradle	vb	To lay or place in a cradle. 2. to nurture, shelter in one's arms.
Cradle	phr	"From Cradle to the Grave" - from infancy to death.
Cradle-board	n	A traditional protective baby-carriers used by many indigenous cultures in North America.
Cradle-books	n	Incunabula.
Cradled	adj	Laid or reposing in a cradle. 2. provided with a cradle.
Cradlehood	n	Infancy, babyhood. 2. the condition of a child in a cradle..
Cradle-land	n	A land or region in which people have dwell for centuries (or from earliest times)
Cradle-like	adj	Resembling a cradle.
Cradle-scythe	n	A scythe fitted with device for laying the grain evenly in a swath as it is cut.
Cradle-song	n	A lullaby.
Cradle-to-the-grave	n	Life-span, from birth to death; one's entire life; from tomb to womb.
Cradle-to-grave	adj	Life span; lifetime.
Cradle-walk	n	A walk or avenue with an archway of trees.
Cradle-witted	adj	Having the wit or intelligence of a baby or infant. 2. puerile.
Cradling	n	The act by which one cradles a child or a person who is extremely ill or injured.
Craft	n.	Power, strength, force. 2. intellectual power, skill, art, ability in planning and construction. 3. ingenuity, dexterity.
Craft	n.	Guild, union, syndicate
Craft	sfx	-craft; in combinations such as handicraft, watercraft, witchcraft.
Craft	vb	To construct skillfully. 2. to use crafty devices; to use crafty ways, to act craftily. 3. to exercise one's craft, make a job of it. 5. to make or build skilfully.
Craft-brother	n	A fellow worker in the same trade.
Crafted	adj	Craftily or cunningly devised. 2. manufactured, made, produce.
Craftedness	n.	Possessing a handicraft
Crafter	n	Someone who participates in a particular handicraft, either as a hobby or in a small business.
Craftful	adj.	Skillful, dexterous, able.
Craftfulness	n	Quality of being craftful. 2. skilfulness, cleverness, appitude in a handicraft. 2. artfulness in decieving or overreaching.
Craftihood	n	Craftiness, cunning,
Craftily	adv	In a crafty manner; slying, surreptitiously.
Craftiness	n	Skill and cunning in deception and stealth. 2. slyness.
Crafting	n	Crafting or artful dealing, using crafty or cunning devices.
Craftless	adj	Without, unskilled in a craft. 2. without cunning.
Craftlike	adj	Skilfully, cleverly. 2. in a bad sense: cunningly, artfully, willing
Craftly	adj	Artificail, skilfull, ingenious, crafty cunningly.
Craftsman	n.	A person who practices a handicraft; artificier, an artisan.
Craftsmanlike	adj	Resembling or character of a craftsman, artisanal.
Craftsmanship	n	One skilled in various forms of handicraft
Craftwork	n	Handicraft. 2. an item produced by handicraft.
Craftworker	n	Maker of craft work; handcrafter.
Crafty	adj.	Strong, weighty, skillful, dexterous, cunning, ingenuous.
Cram	vb.	To press, squeeze. 2. to fill a space, etc in more than it properly holds by compression. 2. to thrust, force, stuff, crowd. 3. to fed with an excess of food.
Cramdown	n	A court settlement in bankruptcy in which creditors receive less than they were owed.
Cramfull	adj	Filled up, crowd-in or crammed-in beyond capacity, (in various senses), such as a sporting or entertainment stadium.
Crammed	adj	Pushed in, crowded or filled up to or beyond the capacity of the thing which contains it.
Crammer	n	A book used for accelerated study in preparing for exam. 2. a student who is studying hard for an exam. 3. a teacher who assists a student cramming for an exam. 4. a school whose speciality is helping students pass certain exams.
Cramming	n	Intensive learning aimed at passing a neccessary exam.
Crammy	adj	Characterized by crammimg or crowding; affording insufficient space.
Crane	n.	A large grallatorial bird of the family Gruidae, characterised by very long legs, neck and bill.
Crane	vb.	To stretch (the neck) like a crane; to lean or bend forwatd with the neck stretched out.
Cranelike	n	Resembling a crane (bird) or some aspect of. 2. resembling a crane (mechanic lifting device) or some aspect of.
Crank	n	Old English *cranc, implied in crancstæf "a weaver's instrument," crencestre "female weaver, spinster," from Proto-Germanic base *krank-, and related to crincan "to bend, yield" (see crinkle, cringe ). English retains the literal sense of the ancient root, while German and Dutch krank "sick," formerly "weak, small," is a figurative use.
Crankily	adv	Crotchety, cantankerous, perverse.
Crankiness	n	Irascibility,asperity, ill-will, rancor, harshness, rudeness, churlishness.
Crankness	n	The state or quality of being strange, weird, odd or eccentric.
Cranky	adj	Given to fretful fussiness. 2. readily angered when opposed.
Crate	n	OE craet: cart, wagon, chariot.
Crave	vb.	OE: cratian: to demand, to ask with authority, or by right. 2. to long for, yearn, to need greatly.
Cravenness	n	The state of yearning, longing for.
Craving	n	Strong desire, yearning, great need for.
Cravingly	adv	With a manner yearning or great need for
Cravingness	n	The state or condition of longing for, yearning.
Craw	n.	The crop of birds or insects. 2. stomach (of man or animals) derisively.
Creed	n	A Latin borrowing: a system of religious belief; a faith. 2. a formal statement of christian beliefs. 3. a set of beliefs or aims which guides someone's actions.
Creed	vb	To believe.
Creedful	adj	Full of belief.
Creedless	adj	Lacking a creed; not having a creed.
Creedlessness	n	State of not having a creed.
Creedsman	n	An adherent of a creed, or of the same creed.
Creep	vb.	To move with the body close to the ground, as a reptile, insect, quadruped moving stealthily. 2. to come on slowly by degree. 3. to move timorously, cautiously, or slowly. 4. to grow extending along the ground, as a creeper.
Creep	n.	A sensation as of creeping thing on ones body. Also phr: 'It gives me the creeps.'
Creep	phr	"Creep Into" - enter stealthily; sneak in. 2. move with the body close to the ground. 3. to move slowly and cautiously. 4. to move or proceed very slowly.
Creep	phr	"Creep Someone Out" - give someone an unpleasant feeling of fear or unease.
Creep	phr	"Creep Up On" - to approach someone quietly, so that the person is surprised unexpectedly.
Creeper	n	Any plant that grows along the ground, on another plant, up a wall, along a fence.
Creephole	n	A hole to which an animal may go to avoid danger.
Creepily	adv	In a creepy manner; grimly, awfully, in a somewhat blood-chilling manner.
Creepiness	n	Sensation or feeling of uneasiness or fear.
Creeping	adj	That creeps as a reptile. 2. of the flesh: chilly, shuddering feeling caused by horror or repugnance.
Creepingly	adv	In a creeping manner.
Creeping thistle	n	Cirsium arvense, a plant native to Europe and Northern Asia, and as an introduced plant elsewhere.
Creep	n	A term used by a woman to describe an undesirable man. 2.
Creepy	adj	Characterized by creeping.
Cress	n.	Name of various cruciferous plants, having mostly edible leaves of a pungent flavour. 2. as a type something of little worth.
Cresswort	n	A book name for any plant of the Order: Criciferae.
Crib	n.	In OE. cryb, cribb: couch, bed, manger; a barrel, receptacle for fodder, manger. 2. the stall or cabin for an ox, manger. 3. a cabin, a hovel or narrow room. 4. bed for a child with barrel sides. 5. a dwelling, house, shop, pub. 6. a wickerwork basket. 7. something cribbed or plagiarized. 8. a petty theft.
Crib	vb	To feed in a crib. 2. to shut up in a crib or small compartment. 3. to confine in a small space or narrow limit; to hamper. 4. to lock up in a prison. 5. to live in a crib. 6. to furnish with a crb. 7. to pilfer, purloin, steal, appropraite furtively. 7. to plagiarize; to take (a passage, piece of translation)without acknowledgement and use as one's own. 8. complaint, grumble.
Cribbed	adj	Confined within narrow spaces or limits.
Cribber	n	An occupant of a crib (a young child.) 2. one who appropriates clandestinely.
Cribbing	n	Petty theft, pilfering. 2. something that is pilfered. 3. provender, provisions.
Crib death	n	The sudden and unexpected death of an infant.
Criblike	n	Resembling or characteristic of acrib in some aspect
Crimble	vb	OE: crimman - to press, compress, to crimb. 2. to shrink, cringe; go shrinking from observation.
Crimp	n
Crimping-iron	n
Cringe	vb.	OE: crencan, crencgan: cause to fall, turn; to draw in or contract any part of the body. 2. behave obsequiously to show base or servile deference. 3. recede from ones purpose. 4. to compress, draw together.
Cringeling	n	A cringing creature.
Cringer	n	One who is obsequious or servile.
Cringing	n	The action of behaving obsequiously or servility. 2. muscular contraction, slinking.
Cringingly	adv	In obsequious and servile manner.
Cringingness	n	Having a cringing quality. 2. timidity, servility.
Cringe-maker	n	Someone who, or that, which makes your feel uncomfortable, or uneasy
Cringe-making	n	The act of making something or someone feeling uncomfortable or uneasy.
Cringeworthy	adj	Embarrassing, pitiful, uncomfortably, undesireworthy, shameful.
Cringe-worthiness	n	The state or quality of being cringe-worthy.
Cringy	adj	Having the attribute of cringing.
Crinkle	vb.	OE: crinclian, frequentative form or stem of OE crincan ('to yield"); to form many short twists or turns; crumple. 2. to emit sharp thin sounds.
Crinkled	adj	That has been crinkled.
Crinkleroot	n	The pepperwort.
Crinkliness	n	A crinkly condition.
Crinkling	n	The action of the verb "crinkle" - twisting to and fro; crimpling. 3. a thin, sharp sound.
Crinkly	adj	Full of crinkles.
Crinky	adj	Having crinkles, of the nature of crinkles.
Cripple	n.	OE: crypel: one who is disabled, either from birth or by accident or injury; a lame person.
Cripple	n	A dense thicket in swampy or low-lying ground. 2. a lumberman's term fo a rocky shallow in a stream
Cripple	vb.	To deprive (wholly or fully) of the use of one's limbs; disable, hobble. 2. impair the action of a person in his resources, efforts, etc, in trade, schemes, strength.
Crippled	adj	Deprive of the use of one's limbs; disabled.
Crippledom	n	State, conditin or realm of being crippled or severely impaired. 2. collective term for the disabled.
Cripple-hole	n.	A hole left in the fence, hedge or walls for sheep to creep through.
Crippleness	n	The state or quality of being crippled or disabled.
Crippler	n	One who crippled.
Crippling	adj	Disabling, incapacitating, paralyzing, constraining, hindering, impairing, maiming, burdensome.
Crippingly	adv	So as to cripple or disable.
Cripplish	adj	Somewhat crippled or disabled.
Crippleware	n	An software program that cannot be fully utilized until the user register or, in the case of shareware , purchased the program.
Cripply	adj	Somewhat crippled or disabled.
Crisp	adj	Of the hair:curly, frizzy. 2. having a surface or fretted into minute waves, ripple folds or wrinkles. 3. applied to fabrics of a crepe-like texture. 4. smooth, shining, clear. 5. brittle. 6. crisp snow. 7. short, sharp, brisk, decided in manner. 8. clean, neat, clearly defined.
Crisp	phr	"Burn Something to a Crisp" - burn completely.
Crispbread	n	A Nordic style dry biscuit.
Crisped	adj	Of hair: closely and stiffly curled. 2. having surface curled into minute waves, or folds. 3. crisple, brittle.
Crispen	vb	Made crisp, curly, wavy.
Crisper	n	One who or that which crisps or curls: spec. an instruments for frizzy or crisping hair. 3. a container in a fridge.
Crisping	adj	Firm, but easily broken or crumbled. 2. brittle, fragile, frangible. 3. bracing, invigorating.
Crisping	adj	Crisping, curling, frizzing.
Crispish	adj	Somewhat
Crispness	n	The state of being crispy.
Crispy	adj	Curly, crisping, undulated.
Crock	n.	OE: croc, crocca, an earthen pot, jar, a metal pot. 2. a broken piece of earthenware. 3. a sick weak or emaciated beast; an old ewe past bearing; a broken down horse.
Crock	phr	"Crock of Gold" - a large but distant or imaginary reward.
Crocked	adj	Old, broken-down, decrepit person or thing.
Crocker	n	A potter; maker of earthenware pots.
Crock of Gold	n	(Pot of Gold) - a large but distant or imaginary reward.
Crock pot	n	A slow cooker, used for simmering food at a very low temperature.
Croft	n.	A piece of enclosed ground, used for tillage or pasture. 2. a small piece of arable land attached to a house. 3. a small agricultural holding worked by a peasant, esp. in the Highlands of Scotland.
Croftdom	n	The life of those living on, and working small agricultural holdings.
Crofter	n	One who rents and farms a croft.
Crofting	n	The state of being successively cropped; that which is cropped in this way. 3. practice or system of croft-tenancy. 4. the holding as a crofter.
Croftland	n	Land of superior quality, which according to the old mode of farming was still-crofted.
Croh	n	OE: a small vessel, pitcher, water-pot, crockpot.
Cromb	n.	A hook, crook. In early use , also a talon, claw. 2. also crome: a stick with a hook at the end of it, to pull the boughs of a tree. 3. the drawing of weeds out of a ditches.
Cromb	vb	To seize or draw with a crook, hook, cromb.
Crook	n	OE:. 2. hook, herd,????
Crop	n.	A pouch like enlargement in the oesophagus or gullet of many birds, from which food is prepared for digestion; the craw. 2. head of a herb, flower, tree, etc. 3. the annual produce of plants grown or gathered for food; the produce of some particular plant in one season or locality. O.E. cropp "bird's craw," also "head or top of a plant, sprout or herb." Meaning of "harvest product" is c.1300, probably through verb meaning "cut off the top of a plant" (early 13c.). The general meaning of "to cut off" is early 15c. See stonecrop.
Crop	phr	"Crop Out" - to appear above the surface, as a seam of coal. 2. to come to light; to be manifest, to appear.
Crop	phr	"Crop Up" - to sprout, spring up, appear, suddenly.
Crop	phr	"Crop and Neck" - completely; altogether.
Crop-duster	n	An aircraft built or converted for use in agricultural spraying of pesticides and fertilizers.
Crop dusting	n	The act of agricultural spraying of spraying and fertilizers.
Cropfull	adj	Crop or stomach filled, filled to repletion.
Cropland	n	Arable, fertile land.
Cropless	adj	Without, lacking or having no crops.
Croplike	adj	Resembling or characteristic of crops grown for food.
Cropper	n	A person who nurtures and harvests a crop. 2. a machine for cropping. 3. a tenant-farmer with a small agricultural holding.
Croppy	adj	Of hair cut short.
Cropsick	adj	A bird having a sickness or disease of the crop or craw.
Croptop	n	A short hair style.
Cross	n.	Late OE. a borrowing from Latin - a kind of gibbet, a stake with a transverse bar, on which anciently criminals were put to death. 2. The holy Rood (late OE.) 3. in place names, such as Crosby.
Cross	phr	"Cross My Heart" - said to show that what you just said or promised is completely true or sincere.
Cross	phr	"Cross Ones Fingers" - wish or hope for luck by crossing the fingers of one hand.
Cross	phr	"Cross Out" - put a line through, cancel, call out.
Cross	phr	"Cross Over" - a point or place of crossing from one side to another. 2. the process of achieving success in a different field or style, esp. in pop music. 3. go over, span, transverse, connect,bridge.
Cross	phr	"Cross Someone Path" - to meet, or come across; hap upon.
Cross	phr	"Cross the Floor" - vote against one's own political party in parliament.
Cross	phr	"Cross the Line" (crossing the line) - to cross the Equator, as a vessel at sea. 2. to go beyond a boundary, line, limit. 3. to do something unacceptable.
Cross	phr	"Cross Someone's Path" - to meet or thwart s person.
Cross	phr	"Cross Swords" - fight a duel.
Cross	phr	"Everyone Must Bear His Own Cross" - everyone must carry his own burden or troubles.
Cross-beam	n	A transverse beam.
Cross bedding	n	(In geology) layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification.
Cross-bench	n	Usually plural; a seat in Parliament occupied by a neutral or independent member
Cross-bencher	n	One who occupies the cross-bench in a parliament.
Cross-birth	n	A birth in which the foetus is positioned with the head and the feet lying in the direction of the birth canal.
Cross-biting	n	Cheating.
Cross body	n	In wrestling a move in which the wrestler jumps onto his opponent and land horizontally across the opponents torso, forcing them to the mat.
Cross-bones	n	Skull and cross-bones - representation of a skull with thigh bones crossed below it as an emblem of piracy or death.
Crossbow	n	A medieval bow.
Crossbreed	n	A breed of animals or plants produced by crossing. 2. an individual animal or plant of a crossbreed.
Cross-dressing	n	The practice of wearing the clothes of the opposite sex.
Cross-eyed	adj	Having one or both eyes turned permanent towards the nose.
Cross-fingers	n	The crossing of fingers as a sign of hope for future good luck.
Crossfire	n	firing in two crossing directions at the same time.
Crossfish	n	A kind of starfish.
Cross foster	vb	To remove an offspring from its biological mother to be reared by another, esp. so as to equalize the number in a litter.
Cross-fostering	n	The technique used in animal husbandry in removing an offspring from its biological mother to be reared by another, esp. so as to equalize the number in a litter.
Crosshair(s)	n	Fine wire at the top of the focus of an optical instrument for use in measurement etc.
Cross-hatch	vb	To shade with intersecting sets of parallel lines.
Cross hatching	n	Shade with intersecting sets of parallel lines.
Crosshead	n	A bar between the piston rod and the connecting rod in a steam engine.
Crossheading	n	A heading to a paragraph printed across a column in the body of an article in a newspaper etc.
Crossing	n	A voyage across a body of water (usually across an Ocean). 2. crossing the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids. 3. crossing a path (often marked) where something (as a street) can be crossed to get from one side to the other. 4. crossing a junction where one street or road crosses another. 5. crossing a point where two lines (paths etc.) intersect. 6. crossing a shallow area in a stream that can be forded.
Crossmatch	vb	To test the compatibility of (a donor's and recipient's blood or tissue).
Crossmatching	n	The testing of the compatibilty of (a donor's and recipient blood or tissue).
Crossness	n	Angriness
Crossover	n	A point or place of crossing from one side to another. 2. the process of achieving success in a different field or style, esp. in pop music.
Cross-play	n	An activity in which a person dresses up as a character of a different gender.
Cross-reading	n	The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.
Cross-sea	n	A sea state in two wave systems traveling at oblique angles.
Cross-sell	n	The process of selling or suggesting relating or complimentary to a prospect or customer.
Cross-shaped	adj	Of the form of a cross.
Cross talk	n	Conversation that is incidental to the topic discussed.
Cross talk	vb	To hold an incidental conversation.
Crosstown	adj	Extending across a city or town.
Crosstree	n	Horizontal timbers at the top of a lower mast, supporting the top mast.
Crosswalk	n	A pedestrian crossing.
Crossway	n	A road that crosses a main road or joins two roads.
Crosssways	adv	Crosswise.
Crosswind	n	A wind blowing across one's direction of travel.
Crosswise	adv	In the form of a cross; intersecting.
Crossword	n	A puzzle of a grid with squares and blanks into which words crossing vertically and horizontally have to be filled from clues.
Cross words	n	Angry words; words spoken in anger.
Crosswort	n	A name applied to several plants, including Crucianella stylosa, Crucianella laevipes, and Lysimachia quadrifolia.
Crouch	n	OE cruc: cross. (crouch; to bend down is from Old Norse.
Crow	n.	A black carrion-eating bird of the genus Corvus 2. southern constellation "Corvus" - The Raven, as 'towards the horizon are distinguished the Balance, the Crow and the Cup.'
Crow	vb.	To utter the loud cry of a crow. of persons, to utter an inarticulate sound of joy or exultation, as an infant. 2. to exult loudly, boast, swagger. 3. to utter a loud cry of a rooster.
Crow	phr	"As the Crow Flies" - in a direct line, without any detour.
Crow	phr	"Crow Over (one)" - to triumph over a vanquished or abased person.
Crow	phr	"Eat Crow" - to force to do something extremely disrespectful and humiliating.
Crow	phr	"Have a Crow to Pluck With" - to have an explanation or account to demand from.
Crowbells	n	A name for the daffodil.
Crowberry	n.	The fruit of Empctum nigrum a heath-like shrub, bearing a black berry; the cranberry.
Crowbill	n.	Forceps for extracting bullets from wounds
Crowd	n	A group of people congregated or collected into a close body witho‎ut order. 2. several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other. 3. the so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar; the crowd. 4. a group of people united or at least characterized by a common interest
Crowd	vb	OE: crudan - to push, push forward, press 2. crowd to gather together in large numbers 2. to cause to herd, drive, or crowd together. 3. to approach a certain age or speed. 4. to fill or occupy to the point of overflowing
Crowd	phr	"Crowd Out" - exclude by crowding.
Crowd	phr	"Crowd Up" - to come together to form a crowd. 2. of or concerning a crowd.
Crowd-drawing	adj	Drawing a large number of people to come and watch an event.
Crowded	adj	Full of people, pressed in, thronged, gathered.
Crowdedly	adv	In a crowded or pushing throng or manner.
Crowdedness	n	The state or quality of being crowded.
Crowder	n	One who crowds or pushes.
Crowding	n	The state of crowding or pressing together closely; thronging.
Crowdlike	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a crowd.
Crowd-mind	n	"Crowds and the crowd-mind have gone forever"
Crowd-puller	n	A person, object, event etc., that attracts a large audience.
Crowd-pulling	adj	The act or process of attracting a large audience.
Crowdy	adj	Of of concerning a crowd. 2. somewhat crowded or thronged.
Croweater	n	A nickname for an inhabitant of the Australian state of South Australia.
Crowfoot	n	The ranunculus or buttercup.
Crowing	n	The action or sound of a crow.
Crow-iron	n.	Crowbar
Crowish	adj	Pertaining to a crow; crowlike.
Crowke	n	Pitcher, jug.
Crow-keeper	n.	One who guard cornfields from crows and rooks; a scarecrow.
Crow-leek	n.	The wild hyacinth (Scilla nutans)
Crowlike	adj	Resembling, characteristic of a crow.
Crow needle	n	Umbelliferous, 'Sandix Pecten'
Crow's foot	n	a wrinkle at the outer corner of a person's eyes.
Crow's nest	n	A fortress placed on a height or hill.
Crowsoap	n	The soapwort, 'Saponica oficinialis'
Crowstone	n	The top stone on the cable of a house.
Crow-tread	vb	To tread (a fowl) as crows or rooks were supposed to do. 2. to subject to ignominious treatment.
Crow trodden	adj	Marked with crow's feet or wrinkles about the eye.
Crud	n	Dialect form of curd.
Crudwort	n	Name of the Yellow Bedstraw or cheese-benet, 'gallium verum.'
Crumb	n.	A small particle (of anything); a small particle of bread; a small piece of earth, including ploughed earth; a grain, as of dust. 2. a scrap of s.t. immaterial. 3. the soft part of the bread as opposed to the crust.
Crumb	vb	To break down into crumbs or small fragments. 2. to reduce to crumbs. 3. to crumble, fall into crumbs. 4. to put crumbs on or over. 5. to thicken or cover with crumbs.
Crumb	phr	To Gather (or pick up) One's Crumbs: to pick up or recover strength gradually. 2. to improve one's health gradually; get better.
Crumb cloth	n	A cloth laid under a dining table tocatch falling fragments and to keep the floor and carpet clean.
Crumbily	adv	In a crumbing manner.
Crumbiness	n	The state or condition of falling apart; disintegration
Crumbing	n	Material that has fallen away; crumble away or disintegrated.
Crumble	n	Small crumbs; tiny crumbs of anything friable; particle of dust. 2. crumbly substance, crumbly consistency, fine debris. 3. food such as bread or a mixture of flour that is in the form of crumbs.
Crumble	vb	To fall aprt; disintegrate. 2. to render into crumbs.
Crumbled	adj	Reduced to minute fragments, pulverized, disintegrated.
Crumbleness	n	The quality of being crumbly.
Crumbless	adj	Without crumbs, like crumbless bread.
Crumbling	adj	Decaying, breaking up, disintegrating, collapsing, wearing out, waning.
Crumbly	adj	Easy broken int pieces or fragments.
Crumbs	n	Expressing dismay or surprise
Crumby	adj	Resembling, covered or coated in crumbs; also spelt 'crummy'.
Crumminess	n	State of being crummy.
Crummy	adj	Dirty, filthy, squalid, inferior, worthless.
Crump	vb.	To curl up, bend into a curve.
Crutch	n.	A staff for a lame or a person with an infirmity to lean on for walking. 2. (transfig & fig.) a support or prop to lean on. 3. the area of the body where the legs fork from a trunk.
Crutch	vb	To support (on a crutch), prop-up. 2. to shear or dag, the wool from the crutch or hindquarters of sheep.
Crutched	adj	Supported of a sustain by a crutch (lit & fig.)
Crutchlike	adj	Resembling, like or chracteristic of a crutch.
Crystal	n	A borrowing late OE: cristal, a borrowing from Latin: clear, ice, mineral, the mineral has been so-called since OE times and regarded by the ancients as fossilized ice