<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>
<A NAME="cribriform">
<B>cribriform, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like a sieve; perforated with many small openings. </DL>
<A NAME="cribrose">
<B>cribrose, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> perforated with many small holes; cribriform. </DL>
<A NAME="cribtin">
<B>crib tin,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (in Australia and New Zealand) a container in which a worker carries his lunch to work. </DL>
<A NAME="cribwork">
<B>cribwork, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> work consisting of logs, beams, or the like, arranged in layers at right angles. </DL>
<A NAME="cricetid">
<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>
<A NAME="crick">
<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>
<A NAME="crick">
<B>crick</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Dialect.) creek (def. 1). </DL>
<A NAME="cricket">
<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>
<A NAME="cricket">
<B>cricket</B> (2), noun, adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an outdoor game played by two teams of eleven players each, with a ball, a flattened bat, and a pair of wickets. Cricket is very popular in England. <BR> <I>Ex. The sport of cricket and its curiously languid vocabulary ... "Well-played, sir," for "Great catch," and "How-zat?" for "Is he out?" are as British as a crumpet (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) fair play; good sportsmanship. <BR> <I>Ex. It's not cricket to bully little children. Many Englishmen think ill of some present policies of the government of South Africa. But Lord's is the last place to mention it. That would not be cricket (New York Times).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> (Informal.) according to good sportsmanship; fair; honest. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to play the game of cricket. noun <B>cricketer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="cricket">
<B>cricket</B> (3), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small, low, wooden stool. </DL>
<A NAME="cricketfrog">
<B>cricket frog,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several small tree frogs that make a chirping noise resembling that of a cricket. </DL>
<A NAME="cricoid">
<B>cricoid, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>ring-shaped. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or denoting the ring-shaped cartilage at the lower part of the larynx. <DD><I>noun </I> the cricoid cartilage. </DL>
<A NAME="cridecoeur">
<B>cri de coeur,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a heartfelt plea. <BR> <I>Ex. His words are a cri de coeur for peace.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an appeal to sympathy. <BR> <I>Ex. The poor man's cri de coeur was impossible to resist.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(literally) cry of the heart. </DL>
<A NAME="cried">
<B>cried, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> the past tense and past participle of <B>cry.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. The baby cried for its mother. The baby has cried all day.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="crier">
<B>crier, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an officer in a law court who makes the public announcements. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=town crier.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B>a person who shouts out announcements of goods for sale; hawker. <DD><B> 4. </B>a person who cries or shouts. </DL>
<A NAME="cries">
<B>cries, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> plural of <B>cry.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. the cries of birds.</I> <DD><I>verb </I> third person, present tense of <B>cry.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. The baby cries when he sees a stranger.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="crikey">
<B>crikey, </B>interjection.<DL COMPACT><DD> an exclamation or mild oath. </DL>
<B>crime, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an act that is against the law. Any felony or misdemeanor is a crime. Murder, kidnaping, and treason are high crimes often punishable by death. <BR> <I>Ex. Murder is a vile and loathsome crime.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the activity of criminals; violation of law. <BR> <I>Ex. Crime is increasing in the cities.</I> <DD><B> 3a. </B>an evil or wrong act; sin. <BR> <I>Ex. It is a crime to let people live without food and clothing. War is a crime against humanity.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative:) <BR> <I>Ex. It's a crime to neglect such a lovely garden.</I> adj. <B>crimeless.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="crimeagainstnature">
<B>crime against nature,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy. </DL>
<A NAME="crimean">
<B>Crimean, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the Crimea, a large peninsula extending into the Black Sea from the north. <DD><I>noun </I> a native or inhabitant of the Crimea. </DL>
<A NAME="crimeful">
<B>crimeful, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> full of crime; criminal. </DL>
<A NAME="crimen">
<B>crimen, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) a crime. </DL>
<A NAME="crimepassionnel">
<B>crime passionnel, </B>noun, pl. <B>crimes passionnels.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a crime of passion, especially a murder prompted by a wife's or husband's unfaithfulness. </DL>
<A NAME="crimeridden">
<B>crime-ridden, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> dominated by crime. </DL>
<A NAME="crimewave">
<B>crime wave,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a sudden surge of criminal activity; a noticeable increase in the number of crimes committed in an area at a given time. <BR> <I>Ex. They pointed with alarm to increasing unrest ... and new crime waves in the cities (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="criminal">
<B>criminal, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person who has committed a crime. <BR> <I>Ex. The criminal was sentenced to prison for theft.</I> (SYN) offender, lawbreaker, malefactor, felon, culprit. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>guilty of wrongdoing. <BR> <I>Ex. a criminal person.</I> (SYN) culpable. <DD><B> 2. </B>that is a crime. <BR> <I>Ex. Murder and stealing are criminal acts.</I> (SYN) unlawful, illegal, felonious. <DD><B> 3. </B>of or having to do with crime or its punishment. <BR> <I>Ex. a criminal court, criminal law.</I> <DD><B> 4a. </B>like crime; wrong; sinful. <BR> <I>Ex. criminal behavior. It is criminal to let a pet die of neglect.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative:) <BR> <I>Ex. As long as magnetic-tape recordings have certain built-in possibilities, it would be criminal to ignore them (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="criminalcontempt">
<B>criminal contempt,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> contempt of court due to evasion of a court order. <BR> <I>Ex. The Senate bill permits jury trials not only in cases involving voting--it permits jury trials in all criminal contempt cases (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="criminalconversation">
<B>criminal conversation,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) unlawful intercourse with a married person; adultery. </DL>
<A NAME="criminalist">
<B>criminalist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who studies criminal law or criminology. <BR> <I>Ex. A criminalist is a specialist, but not in any one scientific field. He must be qualified as an expert to identify any of a large number of different kinds of evidence from blood groups to ink, from textiles to metals, from vegetation to soils (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="criminalistic">
<B>criminalistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with criminalists or criminology. </DL>
<A NAME="criminalistics">
<B>criminalistics, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> criminology; the method of crime investigation and detection that employs the latest scientific techniques (as comparison of blood types, or tape-recording analysis) to collect incriminating evidence. </DL>
<A NAME="criminality">
<B>criminality, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the fact or quality of being criminal; guilt. <BR> <I>Ex. A higher ratio of criminality is found among the unmarried and divorced than among those living a normal family life (Emory S. Bogardus).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a criminal act. </DL>
<A NAME="criminalize">
<B>criminalize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to declare (a person or activity) criminal; make liable for punishment as a crime. <BR> <I>Ex. to criminalize the use of addictive drugs.</I> noun <B>criminalization.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="criminallaw">
<B>criminal law,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the law of a community or state that deals with crimes and their punishment. <BR> <I>Ex. Criminal law is frankly a separate specialty and one which does not interest the corporate lawyers, though they will very occasionally undertake a defense in an unpopular cause celebre (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="criminallawyer">
<B>criminal lawyer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a lawyer who deals with cases involving crime, as distinguished from civil cases or tort. </DL>
<A NAME="criminally">
<B>criminally, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>in a criminal manner. <DD><B> 2. </B>according to criminal law. </DL>
<A NAME="criminaloid">
<B>criminaloid, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person of a typebelieved to be predisposed to criminal acts. </DL>
<A NAME="criminate">
<B>criminate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-nated,</B> <B>-nating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to accuse of a crime. <DD><B> 2. </B>to furnish evidence of the guilt of; incriminate. <DD><B> 3. </B>to censure as criminal; condemn. noun <B>crimination.</B> noun <B>criminator.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="criminative">
<B>criminative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> tending to or involving crimination; accusatory. </DL>
