<B>Creusa, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Greek and Roman Legend.) a daughter of Priam and the wife of Aeneas, lost or killed on the night Troy fell. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Greek Legend.) the wife of Jason, killed by Medea, whom Jason had deserted. </DL>
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<B>Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a degenerative brain disease of middle and late life, caused by infection with a prion. <BR> <I>Ex. The scientists had noted that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease causes changes in brain tissue similar to those caused by kuru (Richard R. Johnson).</I> </DL>
<B>crevasse, </B>noun, verb, <B>-vassed,</B> <B>-vassing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a deep crack or split in the ice of a glacier, or in the ground after an earthquake. <BR> <I>Ex. Glaciologists investigate crevasses near the junction between grounded ice and floating ice shelf (Science News Letter).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) a break in the levee of a river, dike, or dam. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to make crevasses in. </DL>
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<B>crevette, </B>noun, pl. <B>-vettes.</B> =shrimp.</DL>
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<B>crevice, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a narrow split or crack; cleft; rift; fissure. <BR> <I>Ex. Tiny ferns grew in crevices in the stone wall.</I> (SYN) chink, slit. </DL>
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<B>creviced, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having crevices; cracked; fissured. </DL>
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<B>crew</B> (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the men needed to work a ship, especially: <DD><B> a. </B>the common sailors of a ship's company. <DD><B> b. </B>a work section of a ship's company. <BR> <I>Ex. a boiler crew.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a group of persons manning an aircraft. <DD><B> 3. </B>a group of people working or acting together. <BR> <I>Ex. a crew of loggers, a maintenance crew. A train crew runs a railroad train.</I> (SYN) team. <DD><B> 4. </B>a band or company; gang; crowd. <BR> <I>Ex. The boys on that street are a rough crew.</I> (SYN) group, mob. <DD><B> 5a. </B>the members of a rowing team. <DD><B> b. </B>the sport of rowing as a crew. <BR> <I>Ex. He went out for crew in his sophomore year at college.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Obsolete.) a reinforcement of soldiers. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to staff (a ship) with a crew. <BR> <I>Ex. Arrangements had been made for the crewing of the ship to ensure this (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to operate (a ship) as if with a crew. <BR> <I>Ex. The schooner was crewed by a retired sailor.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to act as a crewman; work with a crew. adj. <B>crewless.</B> </DL>
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<B>crew</B> (2), verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> crowed; a past tense of <B>crow</B> (1). </DL>
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<B>crew chief,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(in the U.S. Air Force) a noncommissioned officer who supervises a ground crew. <DD><B> 2. </B>any person in charge of a ground crew, as at an airport or launch complex. <BR> <I>Ex. the countdown crew chief.</I> </DL>
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<B>crew cut,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a kind of very short haircut for men or boys. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person wearing a crew cut. </DL>
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<B>crew-cut, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> wearing or displaying a crew cut. <BR> <I>Ex. a crew-cut freshman.</I> </DL>
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<B>crewel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a loosely twisted, woolen yarn, used for embroidery. <DD><B> 2. </B>embroidery done with this yarn. </DL>
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<B>crewelwork, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> work done with crewels or worsted yarns, applied to a species of embroidery which became fashionable about 1860. </DL>
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<B>crew haircut,</B> =crew cut.</DL>
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<B>crewman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a crew. <BR> <I>Ex. a crewman on a jet airliner.</I> </DL>
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<B>crewmate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of the same crew. <BR> <I>Ex. A crewmate accepted his medal for him (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
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<B>crew neck</B> or <B>neckline,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a round, close-fitting neckline at the base of the throat, as on sweaters worn by boat crews. </DL>
<B>crib, </B>noun, verb, <B>cribbed,</B> <B>cribbing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a small bed with high barred sides to keep a baby from falling out. <DD><B> 2. </B>a rack or manger for horses and cows to eat from. <DD><B> 3. </B>a building, box, or bin for storing grain, salt, and the like. <BR> <I>Ex. Rats damaged much of the corn in the crib.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a framework of logs or timbers used in building. The wooden lining inside a mine shaft is a crib. <DD><B> 5. </B>a stall or pen for cattle. <BR> <I>Ex. Where no oxen are, the crib is clean (Proverbs 14:4).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Informal.) the use of another's words or ideas as one's own; plagiarism. <DD><B> 7. </B>(Informal.) notes or helps that are unfair to use in doing schoolwork or in examinations. <BR> <I>Ex. A translation of a work in a foreign language, used dishonestly, is a crib.</I> <DD><B> 8a. </B>a small room or house. <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative.) a confined space. <DD><B> 9. </B>a water reservoir. <DD><B> 10. </B>a set of cards in cribbage, made up of discards from each hand and scored by the dealer after the deal has been played. <DD><B> 11. </B>(especially in Australia and New Zealand) a light meal or lunch, especially one carried by a worker to be eaten at his place of work. <DD><B> 12. </B>(New Zealand) a small house at a seaside or vacation resort. <DD><B> 13. </B>(Slang.) a safe. <DD><B> 14. </B>(Obsolete.) a wicker basket; crate. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to provide with a crib or cribs in building. <DD><B> 2. </B>to shut up in a small space, as if in a crib. <BR> <I>Ex. His restraint did not crib nor confine either the vast size of the drama or the rhythm of its unfolding (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) to use (another's words or ideas) as one's own; plagiarize. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>(Informal.) <DD><B> a. </B>to use somebody's words or ideas in an unfair way. <BR> <I>Ex. He cribbed from the encyclopedia to write his report.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to steal; pilfer. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=crib-bite.</B> <BR><I>expr. <B>crack a crib,</B> </I>(Slang.) to break into a house. <BR> <I>Ex. The burglars tried to crack a crib but were caught in the act.</I> </DL>
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<B>cribbage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a card game for two, three, or four people. The players keep score with a narrow board into which movable pegs fit. </DL>
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<B>cribber, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person that cribs. <DD><B> 2. </B>a horse that crib-bites. </DL>
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<B>cribbing, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=crib-biting.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>a mining crib. <DD><B> 3. </B>the pieces of timber forming the lining of a shaft. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Informal.) cheating; plagiarism. <BR> <I>Ex. Cribbing is of two distinctly different kinds: Copying the work of another student, and copying from a self-prepared pony (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
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<B>crib-bite, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-bit,</B> <B>-bitten</B> or <B>-bit,</B> <B>-biting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (of horses) to engage in crib-biting. noun <B>crib-biter.</B> </DL>
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<B>crib-biting, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a harmful habit of horses in which the sides of the stall, manger, or other objects are gnawed. It is accompanied by noisy breathing. </DL>
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<B>crib death,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) the sudden death of an infant in his sleep without any recognized warning symptoms or known cause. <BR> <I>Ex. "Crib deaths" happen in the best-doctored countries and to the best-cared-for babies (Time).</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, (British.) <B>cot death.</B> </DL>
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<B>cribellum, </B>noun, pl. <B>-bella.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a platelike organ by which some spiders spin additional silk. </DL>
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<B>crible, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>engraved by a method in which light and shade are indicated by numerous small round holes sunk in a wooden block. <DD><B> 2. </B>decorated with minute punctures or depressions, as a surface of metal or wood. </DL>
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<B>crib note</B> or <B>sheet,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small piece of paper containing information from which students illicitly copy during a test. <DD><B> 2. </B>any cribbing device. </DL>
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<B>cribriform, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like a sieve; perforated with many small openings. </DL>
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<B>cribrose, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> perforated with many small holes; cribriform. </DL>
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<B>crib tin,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (in Australia and New Zealand) a container in which a worker carries his lunch to work. </DL>
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<B>cribwork, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> work consisting of logs, beams, or the like, arranged in layers at right angles. </DL>
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<B>cricetid, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> any one of a large family of mouselike rodents that includes the hamsters, gerbils, lemmings, and voles. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or belonging to this family. </DL>
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<B>crick</B> (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a muscular cramp; painful stiffness of muscles. <BR> <I>Ex. I got a crick in the neck from sleeping in the chair.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to give a crick to (the neck or back). </DL>
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<B>crick</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Dialect.) creek (def. 1). </DL>
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<B>cricket</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small, black leaping insect related to the grasshopper. Male crickets make a chirping noise by rubbing their front wings together. <DD><B> 2. </B>a metal toy that fits in the hand and when pressed makes a sound like that of the cricket. </DL>
