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-Clotted cream, clouted cream. See cloti. Cold creaminess (kre'mi-nes), n 
cream. Sn cuM-i -ream. Cream of lime, the scuin of j t y o f H) e j n g creamy. 
creaming-pan (kre'ming-pan), . A dairy ves- 
sel for milk to stand in till the cream rises to 
the top. Also cream-pan. 
cream-jug (krem 'jug), n. A small jug or 
pitcher for holding cream at table. 
lime-water, or that part of lime which, after being dis- 
solved in its caustic state, separates from the water in the 
mild state of chalk or limestone. Cream of tartar, the 
scum of a boiling solution of tartar; purified and crystal- 
lized potassium bitartrate. Cream of tartar exists in 
grapes and tamarinds, and in the dregs of wine. Mixed 
with boracic acid or sodium borate, it is rendered much , . n-i\ 
more soluble, and it is then called soluble cream of tartar, cream-laid (Krem laa;, a. 
creat 
The state or qual- creant 2 (kre'ant), a. [< L. crean(t-)s, ppr. of mi- 
are, create: see create.'] Formative; creative. 
[Rare.] 
We 
Sprang very beauteous from the creant word 
Which thrilled behind us. 
Mrs. Browning, Drama of Exile. 
It has a pleasant acid taste, and is employed in medicine 
for its mildly cathartic, refrigerant, and diuretic proper- 
ties ; also as a substitute for yeast in bread-making in com- 
bination with sodium bicarbonate, as a mordant in dyeing 
wool, etc. See argoli. Cream-of- tartar tree, the Aus- 
tralian baobab-tree, or gouty-stem, Adansonia Qregorii, - am _,,+ ckT.QTn'rmH n 
so named because the pulp of the fruit has an agreeable Cream-HUt (kremjmt;, n. 
acid taste like that of cream of tartar. It is also known 
laid, or bearing linear water-lines as if laid : 
app li e( i to paper. See laid. 
Take . . . a piece of quite smooth, but not shining, note- 
paper, cream-laid, etc. JtusHu, Klein, of Drawing, p. 24. 
, crease 1 (kres), w. [First in early mod. E.; cf. 
' rand Sc. eras, curl; perhaps of Celtic origin; cf. 
Bret, kriz, a crease, a wrinkle, kriza, crease, 
wrinkle, fold; W. crych, a wrinkle, crych, adj., 
wrinkled, crychu, rumple, ripple, crease. There 
is prob. no connection with G. kraus, curled, 
* , ., T. , 
letia excelxa, the .Brazil-nut. 
The nut of lierthol- crisp, Sw. Icrus, a curl, etc. : see crouse.'} 1. A 
.11 III 1.1-11 Mill 1 11,1 Ul ^1C1H Ml lit" Vttl . *v m - , 
as sour-gourd. In South Africa the same names are given creamOmeter (kre-mom e-ter), n. [= * cre ~ 
to A. digitata. Cream of the cream [F. creme de la . _. ._-.. 
creme], the best or most select portion, especially of 
society. Cream of the valley, a Hue kind of English 
gin. 
cream 1 (krem), v. [< cream 1 , n.] I. trans. 1. 
To take the cream from by skimming; skim: 
as, to cream milk. 2. To remove the quint- 
essence or best part of. 
Such a man, truly wise, creams off nature, leaving the 
sour and dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up. 
Swift, Tale of a Tub, ix. 
3. To add cream to, as tea or coffee. 
II. in trans. 1. To form a layer of cream upon - - , 
the surface; become covered with a scum of cream-pot (krem pot) 
any kind ; froth ; mantle. eream '?. V^Wf: 
Some wicked beast unware 
That breakes into her Dayr' house, there doth draine 
Her creaming pannes. Spenser, F. Q., VII. vi. 48. 
There are a sort of men, whose visages 
l)o cream and mantle, like a standing pond. 
Sttak., M. of V., i. 1. 
mometre, < creme, E. cream, + L. metrum, a mea- 
sure.] An instrument used to measure the 
quantity of cream present in milk. It consists of 
a hollow graduated glass tube which accurately registers 
the amount of cream thrown up from a measured quantity 
of milk within it. 
The cream is determined by means of the creammneter. 
Set. Amer., July 19, 1884. 
cream-pan (krem'pan), n. Same as creaming- 
pan. 
cream-pitcher (krem'pich"er), . Same as 
cream-jug. 
* n. A vessel for holding 
Our ordinary good cheer creamed like a tankard of beer. 
S. Jiuld, Margaret, iii. 
2. To rise like cream. [Rare.] 
When the pre-requisit* of membership is that a man 
must have creamed to the top by prosperity and success, 
such eligibility will soon put an end to the clubableness 
of any gathering. 
cream 2 (krem), v. t. 
crim. 
cream 3 t, An obsolete variant of chrism. 
cream 4 (krem), . Same as crame. 
cream-cake (krem'kak), . A cake filled with 
a custard made of eggs, cream, etc. 
cream-cheese (krem'cheV), . A kind of soft 
rich cheese prepared from curd made with new 
or unskimmed milk and an added quantity of 
cream, the curd being placed in a cloth and 
allowed to drain without pressure ; also, any 
cheese made with an extra proportion of cream. 
From its cloying richness and delicacy, the term cream- 
cream-slice (krem'slis), . 1. A sort of wooden 
knife with a blade 12 or 14 inches long, used 
for skimming cream from milk. 2. A wooden 
knife for cutting and serving ice-cream. E. H. 
Knight. 
cream-ware (krem 'war), . Cream-colored 
china pottery-ware, especially the Wedgwood 
ware known by that name. See ware. 
cream-white (krem'hwit), a. Cream-colored. 
In mosses mixt with violet 
Her cream-white mule his pastern set. 
Tennyson, Lancelot ami Guinevere. 
S. and Q., 7th ser., IV. 57. cream . wove (krem'wov), a. Woven of a cream 
A dialectal variant of co lor : applied to paper. See weave. 
creamy (kre'mi), a. [< cream + -y l .J 1. Like 
cream ; having the consistence or appearance 
of cream ; cream-colored ; viscid ; oily. 
or manner, and the like : as, the Rev. Mr. Creamcheese ; 
there is more cream-cheese than bread in the fare that he 
sets before his readers. See cheesel. 
cream-colored (krem'kul*'ord), . Having or 
resembling the peculiar pale yellowish-white 
color of cream. 
The State coach, drawn by eight cream-coloured horses, 
conveying the Queen. First Year of a Silken Reign, p. 59. 
Cream-colored courser, Cursorius isabellinun, a plover- 
like bird, having the head slate-gray or lavender, and the 
lining of the wings black. It inhabits Africa, breeding 
in the northern parts of that continent, and sometimes 
extending its range to Great Britain, Arabia, Persia, Ba- 
luchistan, the Panjab, Sind, and Rajputana. 
Cream-cups (krem'kups), n. A name given in 
California to Platystemon Californicus, a pretty 
poppy-like plant with small, cream-colored 
flowers. 
creamer (kre'mer), n. 1. An apparatus for 
the artificial separation of cream from milk. 
Your creamy words but cozen. 
Fletcher (and 'another), Queen of Corinth, iii. 1. 
To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, 
And tender curving lines of creamy spray. 
Tennyson, Lotos-Eaters (Choric Song, v.). 
2. Containing cream. 
There each trim lass, that skims the milky store, 
To the swart tribes their creamy bowls allots. 
Collins, Pop. Superstitions in the Highlands. 
creance, (kre'ans), n. [Early mod. E. also writ- cre ase s (kres), n. 
ten creaunce, and, esp. in def. 3, criance, cry- creese, 
ance, criants, crians, < ME. creance, creaunce, < 
OF. creance, faith, confidence (used also as in 
def. 3), F. creance = Pr. creansa = Sp. creencia 
= Pg. crenca, < ML. credentia, faith, confidence, 
credence : see credence, and cf. ereanfl.'] If. 
Faith; belief. Chaucer. 
Wherfore it semethe wel, that Ood lovethe hem and is 
plesed with hire Creance, for hire gode Dedes. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 292. 
2. Credit; pledge; security. 
By creaunce of coyne ffor castes of gile. 
line or long thin mark made by folding or dou- 
bling; hence, a similar mark, however pro- 
duced. 
A sharp penknife would go out of the crease, and dis- 
figure the paper. Swift. 
2. Specifically, one of certain lines used in the 
game of cricket. The bowling-crease is a line 6 feet 8 
inches in length, drawn upon the ground at each wicket, 
so that the stumps stand in the center ; the return-create, 
one of two short lines drawn at either end of the bowl- 
ing-Crease, within which the bowler must be standing 
when he delivers his ball ; and the popping --crease, a line 4 
leet in front of the wicket, and parallel with the bowling- 
crease, and at least of the same length. (See cricket^.) The 
space between the popping- and bowling-creases is the 
batsman's proper ground, passing out of which he risks 
being put out of the game by a touch of the ball in the 
hands of one of the opposite side. 
3. A split or rent. 4. A curved tile. 5. The 
top of a horse's neck. [In the last three senses 
prov. Eng.] _ oiuteofemoral crease. See gluteoftm- 
oral. 
crease 1 (kres), v. t. ; pret. and pp. creased, ppr. 
creasing. [< crease 1 , .] 1. To make a line or 
long thin mark in, as by folding, doubling, or 
indenting. 2. To indent, as a cartridge-case, 
for the purpose of confining the charge ; crimp. 
3. In hunting, to wound by a shot which flat- 
tens the upper vertebra, or cuts the muscles 
of the neck, and stuns, but does not kill. 
crease 2 (kres), v. ; pret. and pp. creased, ppr. 
creasing. [< ME. crescn, creseen, by apheresis 
from encresen, increase : see increase, and cf. 
wesce.] I. intrans. To increase ; grow. 
As fatter lande wol crece and thrive. 
PaUadius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 9. 
II. trans. To increase ; augment. 
[Now only prov. Bug.] 
crease 2 t, [< ME. cres, *crese, by apheresis 
from eucrese, increase : see increase, n., and cf. 
crease 2 , v.~\ Increase ; profit. 
In theyre ocupacion they shoulde have no cres, 
Knyghthode shoulde nat floure in his estate. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 19. 
A less common spelling of 
creaser (kre'ser), n. 1. A tool for creasing or 
crimping cartridge-cases. 2. In bookbinding, 
a tool which creases and sharply defines the 
width of the bands of books, and fixes the posi- 
tion of lines on the backs and sides, the lines 
being afterward covered by a blind roll or blind 
stamp. 3. An attachment to a sewing-ma- 
chine for making a crease to serve as a guide 
for the next row of stitching. 
creasing (kre'sing), . [Verbal n. of crease 1 , .] 
In arch., same as tile-creasing. 
Richard the Redelas, i. 12. greasing-hammer (kre'sing-ham'Sr), n. Aham- 
3. In falconry, a fine small line fastened to a mer with a narrow 
hawk's leash when it is first lured. rounded edge, used 
To the bewits was added the creance, or long thread, by for making grooves 
which the bird in tutoring was drawn back, after she had in sheet-metal, 
been permitted to fly. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 91. creasing-tool (kre'- 
It is usually made on the centrifugal principle, creancet (kre'ans), v. i. [ME. creauncen, < ere- sing-tol), n. Inmetal- 
2. A small vessel for holding cream at table; aunce, belief, credit: see creance, .] To bor- working, a tool used 
row. Chaucer. 
a cream-jug. [Colloq.] 
creamery (kre'me-ri), n. ; pi. creameries (-riz). creantH (kre ant), a. 
[< cream 4- -ery.]' An establishment, usually 
a joint-stock concern, in which milk obtained 
from a number of producers is manufactured 
into butter and cheese. [U. S.] 
Dairymen make a distinction between a butter-factory 
and a creamery ; the first is where butter only is made, 
the skimmed milk going back to patrons as food for do- 
mestic animals, or ... otherwise disposed of than in a 
manufactured product ; the creamery is a place where milk 
is turned into butter and " skim-cheese." 
Encyc. Amer., II. 522. 
cream-faced (krem'fast), a. White ; pale ; hav- 
ing a coward look. 
Thou cream-fac'd loon ! 
Where gott'st thou that goose look? 
Shak., Macbeth, v. 3. 
krem'frot), w. An edible, cream- 
icaiiu-r i,""o ""/i [ME., also creaunt (< OF. 
'creant), also and appar. orig. recreant, < OF. 
recreant, tired, faint-hearted, also appar., as in 
ME., conquered, yielding, < ML. recreden(t-)s, 
ppr. of recredere, refl., to own one's self con- 
quered, lit. believe again, accept another faith : 
see recreant, and cf. miscreant. The word creant 
in ME. was used in the same way as, and was 
appar. confused in form and sense with, the adj 
craven (ME. cravant): see craven, a.] 
come; conquered; yielding. 
Yelde the til us also creant. 
Ywain and Gawain, 1. 3173. 
The thef that had grace of god on Gode Fryday as thow 
speke, 
Was, for he gelt hym creaunt to Cryst on the crosse and 
knewlecned hym gulty. Piers Plowman (B), xii. 193. 
.m) conquered," "I yield." 
Creasing-toots. 
a is an adjustable double creaser 
having two spring-jaws which are 
ines at any re- 
quired distance apart. i> is used 
by sheet-iron workers for rounding 
small beads and tubes. 
in making tubes and 
cylindrical moldings. 
It consists of a stake or set open by means of a screw, 
small anvil, with grooves to make the guide-lii 
of different sizes across its 
surface. The metal is laid 
over these, and by means 
of a wire, or a cylinder of metal corresponding to the inner 
dimensions of the curve required, is driven into the con- 
cavity of the proper groove. 
creasol, . See creosol. 
- creasote, n. and v. See creosote. 
Over ~ creastt, creastedt. Obsolete spellings of crest, 
crested. Npenser. 
creasy (kre'si), a. [< crease 1 + -y 1 .] Full of 
creases ; marked by creases. 
From her lifted hand 
Dangled a length of ribbon and a ring 
To tempt the babe, who rear'd his creasy arms, 
Caught at ami ever miss d it. Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
Africa, said to be produced by some apocyna- 
ceous plaut. 
On knees he fel doune and <*(/</< " rr<-ft<nit,- / 
Richard Coer df Lion, 1 
5819. 
ture, pupil, servant, = Sp. Pg. crindo, a servant, 
client, < L. mtitux, pp. of creare, make, create : 
