crevassed 
n fM /, r< *rfrn<t*p 4- *Y?2 1 Now mate is blind and captain lame, 
(kre-vast ), a. L<. ucia** t And half the crew are sick or dead. 
Intersected by crevasses ; fissured. Tennyson, The Voyage. 
The displacement of the point of maximum motion, ,j. The eompanv or gang of a ship's carpenter, 
^f^^^^i^^rSK^^rn?^ guLertboat'swa'in, SEU Any" comp'any or 
SrtS^erf^g^^^^^S*ttD gang of laborers engaged upon a particular 
the western. Tini'itill, forms of Water, p. ill. wor 5;, as the company of men (engineer, nre- 
crevecoeur (F pron. krav'ker'), [F. creve- man, conductor, brakemen, etc.) who manage 
r lit heart-break, < crever, break, + casr, and run a railroad-tram. = Syn. 2. Band, party, 
or horns. It is of French origin, of large size, 
and valuable both for eggs and for the table. 
crevest, A Middle English form of craw- 
fish. 
crevet (krev'et), . [A var. of cruet.] 1. A 
cruet. [Prov. Eng.] 2. A melting-pot used 
by goldsmiths. 
Crevettina (krev-e-ti'na), n.pl. [NL.] In some 
systems, a tribe of amp'hipods, with small head 
and eyes and multiarticulate pediform maxilli- 
peds. It is contrasted with Lcemodipoda (oftener made 
a higher group) and Hyperina,. It contains such families 
as CorophiidfK, OrchcstiidtK, and Gantinaridfe. 
creveyst, A- Middle English form of craw- 
fish. 
crevice 1 (krev'is), . [< ME. crevice, crevisse, 
crevesxe, cravas, crevace, crevasse, also cravas, 
crayves, < OF. crevace, F. crevasse (> mod. E. 
of thread: see clue, clew.] 1. A kind of fine 
worsted or thread of wool, used in embroidery 
and fancy-work. 
Ha, ha : hewearscnji[apun : In some editions, crewel] 
garters ! . . . When a man is over-lusty at legs, then he 
wears wooden nether-stocks. Shak., Lear, ii. 4. 
Here and there a tuft of crimson yarn, 
Or scarlet crewel in the cushion flx'd. 
Cowper, The Task, 1. 54. 
2f. Formerly, any ornamented woolen cord, 
thread, tape, or the like. See caddis*. Fairholt. 
[An] old hat 
Lined with vellure, and on it, for a band, 
A skein of crimson crewel. 
Fletcher (and another), Noble Gentleman. 
3. The cowslip. Dunglison. Crewel lace, a kind 
of edging made of crewel or worsted thread, intended as 
a border or binding for garments. 
crevasse), a chink, crevice, < crever, break, crewel-t, a. An obsolete spelling of cruel. 
burst, < L. crepare, break, burst, crack: see crewels (kro'elz), n. pi. [< F. ecrouelles, scrof- 
crepitate, craven.] 1. A crack; a cleft; a u l a : gee scrofula.] Scrofulous swelling ; lym- 
fissure; a rent; a narrow opening of some phadenitis of the glands of the neck. Also 
length, as between two parts of a solid surface, spelled eruels. [Scotch.] 
or between two adjoining surf aces: as, a crevice crewel-stitch (kro ' el - stich), n. A stitch in 
in a wall, rock, etc. embroidery by which a band of rope-like or 
spiral aspect is produced. It is common in 
crewel-work, whence its name. 
crewel-work (kro'el-werk), n. A kind of em- 
broidery done with crewel usually upon linen, 
the foundation forming the background, 
crewett, crewettet, Obsolete spellings of 
,<Gr. 
It 
jjan out crepe at soni crevace. 
Chavcer, House of Fame, 1. 2086. 
I pry'd me through the crevice of a wall. 
Shak., Tit. And., v. 1. 
The mouse 
Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, 
Or from the crevice peer'd about. 
Tennyson, Mariana. 
._ , n. [NL. (Bechstein 1803), 
2. Specifically, in lead-mining, in the Missis- K p^ a sor t o f land-rail : see crake*.] A genus 
sippi valley, a fissure in which the ore of lead o f gma ll short-billed rails, containing such as 
occurs. =Syn. 1. chink, interstice, cranny. the corn-crake, C, pratensis. See crake*. 
crevice 1 
ppr. 
crevices 
nament 
crevice 2 !, An obsolete form of crawfish. "cryb = O&kribbia = MD. kribbe, D. krib = MLGi 
creviced (krev'ist), a. [< crevice 1 + -erf 2 .] j_,G. kribbe, krubbc = OHG. crippea, crippa (> 
OF. creche, > E. cratch*, q. v.), also chripfa, 
krippha, MHG. krippe, kripfe, G. krippe = Icel. 
krubba = Sw. krubba = Dan. krybbe, a crib, 
In senses 14-16, the noun is from the 
Having a crevice or crevices; cracked; cleft; 
fissured. 
Some [tendrils of plants] being most excited by contact 
with flue fibers, others by contact with bristles, others 
with a flat or creviced surface. 
Darwin, Insectiv. Plants, p. 365. 
crevln (krev'in), n. [E. dial.: see crevice*.'] 
A crevice ; a chink. [Prov. Eng.] 
crevist, An obsolete form of crawfish. 
crevisse (kre-veV), n. [OF., a crab, crawfish: 
see crawfish.] In medieval armor, any piece 
which consists of plates of steel sliding one over 
the other, as in the culets, tassets, and gaunt- 
lets. This kind of armor is qualified in French as <i queue 
d'ecrecisse, and also d queue d'hoinard. See cut under 
armor (flg. 3). 
crew 1 (kro), n. [Formerly also erne; < late 
ME. crewe, a clipped form of *acrewe, accrewe, 
manger. 
verb.] 1. The manger or rack of a stable or 
house for cattle; a feeding-place for cattle; 
specifically, in the Bom. Cath. Ch., a represen- 
tation of the manger in which Christ was born. 
See bambino. 
And a lytel before the sayde hyghe aulter is the cribbe 
of oure Lorde, where our blessyd Lady her dere sone layde 
byfore the oxe anil the asse. 
Sir .ft. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 37. 
The steer and lion at one crib shall meet. 
Pope, Messiah, 1. 79. 
2. A stall for oxen or other cattle ; a pen for 
cattle. 
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. Prov. xiv. 4. 
3. A small frame with inclosed sides for a 
crib-biting 
The platform and cribs were put together and secured 
under the vessels its they rode at anchor, the oxen were 
attached to the cables, and one after another the largest 
of the vessels were hauled high and dry upon the shore. 
Harper's Man., LXXVI. 376. 
10. A solidly built floating foundation or sup- 
port. 1 1 . An inner lining of a shaft, consist- 
ing of a frame of timbers and a backing of 
planks, used to keep the earth from caving in, 
prevent water from trickling through, etc. Also 
called cribbing. 12. A reel for winding yam. 
13. A division of a raft of staves, containing 
a thousand staves. [St. Lawrence river.] 
These rafts cover acres in extent. . . . Sometimes they 
are composed of logs, sometimes of rough staves. The 
latter are bound together in cribs. 
. B. Roosevelt, Game-Fish (1884), p. 190. 
14. In the game of cribbage, a set of cards made 
up of two thrown from the hand of each player. 
See cribbage. 15. A theft, or the thing stolen; 
specifically, anything copied from an author 
without acknowledgment. 
Good old gossips waiting to confess 
Their cribs of barrel-dropping*, candle-ends. 
Browninrj, Fra Lippo Lippi. 
16. A literal translation of a classic author for 
the illegitimate use of students. [Colloq.] 
When I left Eton ... I could read Greek fluently, and 
even translate it through the medium of the Latin version 
technically called a crib. Bvlmr, Pelham, ii. 
17. The bowl or trap of a pound-net To crack 
a crib. See crack. 
crib 1 (krib), v. ; pret. and pp. cribbed, ppr. crib- 
bing. [= MHG. krippen, lay in a crib, G. kri})- 
jieii, feed at a crib; from the noun.] I. trans. 
1. To shut or confine as in a crib; cage; coop. 
Now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, connn'd, bound in 
To saucy doubts and fears. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 4. 
2. To line with timbers or planking: said of a 
shaft or pit. 
A race possessing intelligence to sink and afterward 
crib the walls of these primitive oil wells had certainly 
arrived at a sufficient state of civilization to utilize it. 
Cone and Johns, Petroha, in. 
3. To pilfer; purloin; steal. [Colloq.] 
Child, being foud of toys, cribbed the necklace. 
Dickens, Pickwick, xxxii. 
Nor cribs at dawn its pittance from a sheep, 
Destined ere dewfall to be butcher's meat ! 
Browning, Ring and Book, II. 243. 
There is no class of men who labor under a more per- 
fect delusion than those . . . who think to get the wea- 
ther-gauge of all mankind by cribbing sixpences from the 
bills they incur, passing shillings for quarters, and never 
giving dinners. 
W. Mathews, Getting on in the World, p. 320. 
4. To translate (a passage from a classic) by 
means of a crib. See crib 1 , n., 16. 
II. intrans. 1. To be confined in or to a crib. 
To make . bishops to crib to a Presbyterian trundle- 
bed. Bp. Gauden, Anti-Baal-lierith (1661), p. 35. 
2. To make use of cribs in translating. See 
crib 1 , n., 16. 
crib 2 (krib), H. Short for cribble. 
cribbage (krib'aj). t. [< crib 1 , n., 14, + -ge.] 
A game of cards played with the full pack, gen- 
erally by two persons, sometimes by three or 
four. Each player receives six cards, or in a variety of 
the game five, two of which he throws out, face down- 
ward, to form the crib, which belongs to the dealer. The 
later accrue, an accession, a company : see ac- 
crue,n.] If. An accession ; a reinforcement ; a -- 
company of soldiers or others sent as a rein- child's bed. 4f. A small chamber; a small 
forcement, or on an expedition. See accrue, n. lodging or habitation. 
Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . 
Than in the pert um'd chambers of the great ? 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1. 
The Frensh kynge sent soone after into Scotland &crewe 
of Frenshemen. Fabyan, Chron., ii. fol. 98. 
2. Any company of people; an assemblage; 
a crowd: nearly always in a derogatory or a 
humorous sense. 
There a noble crew 
Of Lords and Ladies stood on every side. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. iv. 7. 
I see but few like gentlemen 
Amang yon frighted crew. 
Battle of Sheri/-Muir (Child's Ballads, VII. 261). 
His words impression left 
Of much amazement to the infernal crew, 
Milton, P. K., i. 107. 
Mirth, admit me of thy crew. 
Milton, L'Allegro, 1. 38. 
3. Naut. : (a) The company of seamen who man 
a ship, vessel, or boat; the seamen belonging 
to a vessel; specifically, the common sailors of 
a ship's company. In a broad (but not properly nauti- 
cal) sense the word comprises all the officers and men on 
board a ship, enrolled on the books. It has received this 
interpretation in law. 
5. A situation ; a place or position: as, a snug 
crib. [Slang.] 6. A house, shop, warehouse, 
or public house. [Thieves' slang.] 
The style of the article, in imitation of the sporting ar- 
ticle of that time, proves that prize-fighting had not yet 
died out, and that the cribs (public-houses) kept by the 
pugilists were still frequented by not a few " Corinthians " 
and patrons of the Noble Art. 
Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XL. 63. 
7. A box or bin for storing grain, salt, etc. See 
corn-crib. 8. A lockup. Halliwell. 9. A solid 
structure of timber or logs (see cribwork) se- 
cured under water to serve as a wharf, jetty, 
dike, or other support or barrier ; also, a foun- 
dation so made with the superstructure raised 
upon it, as the crib in Lake Michigan from 
which water is supplied to Chicago. 
The water supply was entirely cut off by ice accumula- 
tion in the tunnel between the lake crib and the pumping 
station. Sci. Amer., N. S., LIV. SO. 
Diagram of Cribbage-board. 
cards in counting have a value according to the number 
of pips or spots on them, the face-cards being counted as 
ten-spots. Each player strives, with the cards in his band, 
with the one turned up from the ondealt pack, and with 
the crib when it is his turn to have it, to secure as many 
counting combinations as possible, as, for instance, se- 
quences, pairs, cards the spots on which will equal 15, etc. 
The counting is done by moving a peg forward on the 
cribbage-board as many holes as the player secures points, 
that player winning who first advances his peg the length 
of the board and back to the end hole. 
cribbage-board (krib'aj-bord), . A board used 
for marking in the game of cribbage. 
cribber (krib'er), n. One who cribs. 
cribbing (krib'ing), w. [< crib 1 + -inn 1 ."] 1. 
Same as crib 1 , 11. 2. Same :is i-rih-hitiiifi. 
Crib-biter (krib'bl"ter), n. A horse addicted 
to crib-biting. 
crib-biting (Srib'bJ'ting), An injurious hab- 
it of horses which art- much in tin- stable, con- 
sisting in seizing with the teeth the manpT. 
rack, or other object, and at the same time draw- 
ing in the breath with a peculiar noise known 
as wind-sucking. Also called cribbing. 
