<B>creepy, </B>adjective, <B>creepier,</B> <B>creepiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having a feeling of horror, as if things were creeping over one's skin; frightened. <BR> <I>Ex. Ghost stories make some children creepy.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>causing such a feeling. <BR> <I>Ex. The wind howling through the old house was creepy. The stillness was awful creepy and uncomfortable (Mark Twain).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>moving slowly; creeping. adv. <B>creepily.</B> noun <B>creepiness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="creepycrawly">
<B>creepy-crawly, </B>adjective, noun, pl. <B>-crawlies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>that creeps and crawls. <DD><B> 2. </B>sneaking; servile. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) full of eerie or uncanny suggestions. <BR> <I>Ex. a creepy-crawly feeling.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> (British Informal.) an insect, spider, rodent, or other small crawling animal. <BR> <I>Ex. And all this gentle safari in perfect safety--there are no poisonous snakes, no deadly creepy-crawlies (Sunday Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="creese">
<B>creese, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a type of dagger having a wavy blade, used by the Malays. Also, <B>crease,</B> <B>kris.</B> </DL>
<B>cremains, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> a cremated corpse. <BR> <I>Ex. He suggests a rather thorough overhauling of the language: ... flower car, not flower truck; cremains ... not ashes (Jessica Mitford).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cremaster">
<B>cremaster, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a pointed or rounded part with many hooklike claws at the rear of a pupa's body. </DL>
<A NAME="cremate">
<B>cremate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-mated,</B> <B>-mating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to burn (a dead body) to ashes instead of burying it. <DD><B> 2. </B>to burn. </DL>
<A NAME="cremation">
<B>cremation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the burning of a dead body to ashes instead of burying it. </DL>
<A NAME="cremationist">
<B>cremationist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who advocates cremation instead of burial of the bodies of the dead. </DL>
<A NAME="cremator">
<B>cremator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who cremates corpses. <DD><B> 2. </B>a furnace for cremating dead bodies. <DD><B> 3. </B>an incinerator for burning garbage, rubbish, or the like. </DL>
<A NAME="crematorium">
<B>crematorium, </B>noun, pl. <B>-toriums,</B> <B>-toria.</B> <B>=crematory.</B></DL>
<A NAME="crematory">
<B>crematory, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a furnace for cremating dead bodies. <DD><B> 2. </B>a building that has a furnace for cremating. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with cremating. </DL>
<B>creme de cacao,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a brown liqueur with a chocolate flavor. </DL>
<A NAME="cremedelacreme">
<B>creme de la creme,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD><B> 1. </B>the choicest. <DD><B> 2. </B>(literally) cream of the cream. </DL>
<A NAME="cremedementhe">
<B>creme de menthe,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a liqueur flavored with mint. </DL>
<A NAME="cremocarp">
<B>cremocarp, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the characteristic dry fruit of plants of the parsley family, consisting of two one-seeded carpels which separate from each other at maturity and remain closed while hanging at the end of the axis. </DL>
<A NAME="cremona">
<B>Cremona, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of the violins of outstanding quality made by the Amati, Stradivari, and Guarneri families, and others, during the 1500's, 1600's, and 1700's in Cremona, a city in northern Italy. </DL>
<A NAME="cremonebolt">
<B>cremone bolt,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> one of a pair of vertical rods that operate the bolts of casement windows and French doors by being raised or lowered with a knob or handle. </DL>
<A NAME="cremonese">
<B>Cremonese, </B>adjective, noun, pl. <B>-nese.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Cremona, Italy, or the violins of the same name made there. <DD><I>noun </I> a native of Cremona. </DL>
<A NAME="crena">
<B>crena, </B>noun, pl. <B>-nae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a notch or indentation. <DD><B> 2. </B>a tooth or scallop. </DL>
<A NAME="crenate">
<B>crenate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> with a scalloped edge. <BR> <I>Ex. Many leaves are crenate.</I> (SYN) notched. adv. <B>crenately.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="crenated">
<B>crenated, </B>adjective. <B>=crenate.</B></DL>
<A NAME="crenation">
<B>crenation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a crenate formation; a series of scallops, for example on the margin of a leaf or shell or on the edges of a red blood cell as a result of shrinkage. </DL>
<A NAME="crenature">
<B>crenature, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a crenate formation, for example on the margin of a leaf or shell. <DD><B> 2. </B>a notch between teeth. </DL>
<A NAME="crenel">
<B>crenel, </B>noun, verb, <B>-eled,</B> <B>-eling</B> or (especially British) <B>-elled,</B> <B>-elling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an open space between merlons on a battlement; embrasure. <DD><B> 2. </B>a crenation or crenature. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>=crenelate.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="crenelate">
<B>crenelate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ated,</B> <B>-ating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to furnish with battlements. <DD><B> 2. </B>to form with square indentations with a pattern resembling crenels. <BR> <I>Ex. Moldings are often crenelated.</I> <DD> Also, <B>crenel,</B> <B>crenelle.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="crenelated">
<B>crenelated, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>embattled. <BR> <I>Ex. With its ... delicate cupolas and crenelated battlements (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>furnished with crenels. <BR> <I>Ex. the tall red brick crenelated walls of the Kremlin (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="crenelation">
<B>crenelation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>the act of crenelating. <DD><B> b. </B>the state of being crenelated. <DD><B> 2. </B>a battlement having crenels. <BR> <I>Ex. There is the bishop's residence bristling with the same crenelations as the fortress--those fierce crenelations which are cleft down the center like snakes' tongues (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a notch or indentation, or a series of these. </DL>
<B>creodont, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any animal of an extinct suborder of primitive, carnivorous mammals with small brains, regarded as the ancestors of the modern carnivores. <BR> <I>Ex. Early flesh-eating mammals called creodonts had long bodies and short legs (S. P. Welles).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="creole">
<B>Creole</B> or <B>creole, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a descendant of early French or Spanish settlers in Louisiana. <BR> <I>Ex. "I am a Creole of Louisiana." ... I then explained ... that creole means native, and has no reference to color or race (Harper's).</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>the French language as spoken in Louisiana. <DD><B> b. </B>any French patois. <BR> <I>Ex. Haitian Creole.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a French or Spanish person born in Latin America or the West Indies. <DD><B> 4. </B>a person who is part Negro and part Creole. <DD><B> 5. </B>a Canadian of French descent. <BR> <I>Ex. It was the neighboring Creoles and small Acadian planters (Longfellow).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having to do with the Creoles. <BR> <I>Ex. Compere Martin ... could ... play on the fiddle, an invaluable accomplishment in an old French creole village (Washington Irving).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>cooked in a sauce of stewed tomatoes, peppers, onion, and other spicy foods served over rice. <BR> <I>Ex. shrimp creole.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="creolization">
<B>creolization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the process by which a mixture of several languages becomes the standard native language. <BR> <I>Ex. The creolization of a pidgin language can happen voluntarily (as in certain modern villages in New Guinea), or involuntarily (as when Caribbean plantation owners deliberately separated slaves of the same language, in order to minimize the danger of conspiracy and revolt) (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="creolizedlanguage">
<B>creolized language,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a language formed by a mixture of two languages and learned by later generations as their native tongue. </DL>
<A NAME="creon">
<B>Creon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Legend.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a king of Thebes, contemporary with Oedipus. <DD><B> 2. </B>a king of Corinth, the father-in-law of Jason. </DL>
<B>creophagy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the eating of flesh. </DL>
<A NAME="creosol">
<B>creosol, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a colorless to yellowish, oily liquid obtained from beechwood tar and the resin of the guaiacum tree, used as an antiseptic. Creosol is one of the active constituents of creosote. </DL>
<A NAME="creosote">
<B>creosote, </B>noun, verb, <B>-soted,</B> <B>-soting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an oily liquid with a penetrating odor, obtained by distilling wood tar. It is used to preserve wood and in cough medicine. <BR> <I>Ex. Creosote may be hydrogenated to make motor spirit and is widely used as a timber preservative (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a similar substance obtained from coal tar. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to treat with creosote. </DL>
<A NAME="creosotebush">
<B>creosote bush,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an evergreen shrub with resinous leaves and a strong odor of creosote, growing in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. </DL>
<A NAME="crepe">
<B>crepe, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a thin, light cloth with a finely crinkled surface; crape. Crepe may be silk, cotton, rayon, or wool. <BR> <I>Ex. She was stiff as starched crepe (Winston Churchill).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=crepe paper.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B>a light, thin pancake. <DD><B> 4. </B><B>=crepe rubber.</B> <DD><B> 5. </B><B>=crape </B>(def. 2). <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=creped.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. crepe soles.</I> </DL>
