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are to be placed; also called 'ful- 

 lering. ' 



creasote, n., kr&&*>8t t also cre- 

 osote, n., Icre'-os-ot (Gr. kreas, 

 flesh; zozo; I preserve), an oily, 

 colourless liquid, with a charac- 

 teristic smell, obtained from wood 

 or coal tar. 



creatine or creatin, n., kre'-dt-m 

 (Gr. kreas, flesh, kreatos, of flesh), 

 a substance in the form of colour- 

 less transparent crystals, obtained 

 from flesh of different animals, 

 as sheep, oxen, fowls, fish : creat- 

 inin, n., kre-dt^m-m, an alkaline 

 substance in the form of prism- 

 atic crystals, procured chiefly 

 from the urine. 



cremaster, n., krVm-dstf-Zr (Gr. 

 kremao, I suspend ; kremdmai,. I 

 am suspended, I hang), a muscle 

 which draws up or suspends the 

 testis in males : cremasteric, 

 a., kr%m''dst-er f -ik, pert, to the 

 cremaster muscle ; applied to a 

 fascia. 



cremocarpj n,, krVm'o-kdrp (Gr. 

 kremao, I suspend ; karpos, 

 fruit), the fruit of the Umbellif- 

 erse, consisting of two one-seeded 

 carpels, completely invested by 

 the tube of the calyx. 



crenate, a., kren-dt (Mid. L. 

 crena, a notch), in bot., having 

 a series of rounded marginal 

 prominences ; having convex 

 teeth, as on the margin of a leaf : 

 denature, n.,. krZn'dt-ur, a di- 

 vision or notch of the margin of 

 a crenate leaf ; a notch in a leaf 

 or style : crenulate, a., kren'- 

 ul-dt (dim. of crena), having the 

 edge slightly or minutely notched. 



crepitant, a., IcrZp'it-ant (L. 

 crepitans, creaking or crackling 

 gen. crepitantis), crackling : 

 crepitant rale, rdl (F. rale, a 

 rattling in the throat), a fine 

 crackling sound heard in respira- 

 tion, caused by the passage of the 

 air through mucus in the bron- 

 chial tubes : crepitation, n., 

 Icrtp'U-d'shftn, a small, sharp, 



crackling noise, as of salt when 

 thrown on the fire ; a rubbing 

 of hair, a similar sound heard in 

 inspiration' at the commencement 

 of pneumonia. 



crepuscular, a., krZp-ftsk'ul-er 

 (L. crepusculum, twilight, dusk), 

 applied to animals which are 

 active in the dusk or twilight. 



CrescentieaB, n. plu.,r2s'gg>i-^'g-e 

 (after Crescenti of Bologna), a 

 Sub-order of trees, whose fruit is 

 woody and melon-shaped, Ord. 

 Bignoniacese : Crescentia, n., 

 IcreS'Sen'-shi'd, a genus of hand- 

 some trees, some of them having 

 edible fruits : Crescentia. Cujete, 

 kudj-et'-& (from Jamaica), also 

 called C. cuneifolia, kun'e-i* 



fol f 'i-d (L. cuneus, a wedge ; 



folium,, & leaf), the calabash tree 

 of tropical America, the hard 

 pericarps of whose melon-like 

 fruit are used as cups and 

 bottles. 



crest, ,n., Icrest (L. crista, the tuft 

 or plume on the head of birds), 

 an appendage to fruits or seeds 

 having the form of a crest. 



cretaceous,, a., kret-a'-shtis (L. 

 creta, chalk), composed of chalk ; 

 chalky ; in bot. , chalky- white : 

 creta preparata, kret'-d prep'-ar- 

 at'd (L. prepardtus, prepared), 

 a medical preparation of chalk. 



cretinism, n., kret'm-fam (F. 

 Cretin, one of certain inhabitants 

 of the Alps and other mountains, 

 remarkable for their stupid and 

 languid appearance), a peculiar 

 kind of idiocy, attended with 

 goitre and other malformations, 

 with arrest of development, 

 especially of the skull, which 

 prevails in districts about the 

 Alps and other mountains : 

 Cretin, n., kret'in, one of the 

 deformed idiots of the Alpine 

 and other mountainous regions : 

 in the Pyrenees they are called 



cribriform, a., krib'rl-fdrm (L. 

 cribrum, a sieve ; forma, shape), 



