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its progrefs, may at another be co.ngeded in.ice : l'o pity, 
• benevolence, and even humanity, may be frozen in the 
mind, and by tlie prevailing force of fome contrary qua¬ 
lifies, be reftrained in their operation. Thefe examples, 
therefore, are not without their ufe ; they place before 
us in the ftrongeft light the deplorable condition of man, 
when the voice of reafon and confidence is not attended 
to, or v. lien man is left to himfelf unreftrained, and given 
•over to the impulfe of ungoverned paflions. They (hew 
us, likewile, tlie neceffity of correctihg thofe errors of 
education, which may generate in particulars the fame 
barbarous fpirit, and of checking every inclination to 
liardnefs of heart and exceflive anger, left it fliould (well 
into.-revenge, and revenge lhould prompt us to cruelty. 
Children, perhaps, ought not to be allowed to fee even 
the brute creation put to death, or fport with the 
miferies of animals; much lei's ought they to be wit- 
nefles of the dying agonies of unhappy conviCts, for fear 
it lhould degenerate into an infenlibility to human pains; 
■or accuftom them to behold blood and (laughter with 
unpitying eyes. 
CRU'ENTATE, adj. [ cruentatus, Lat.] Smeared with 
blood.—Atomical aporrheas pafs from tlie cruentate cloth 
or weapon to the wound. Glanville. 
CRU'ET,y. \_kruicke, Dut.] A vial for vinegar or oil, 
with a (topple : 
Within thy reach I fet the vinegar; 
And fill’d the cruet with the acid tide, 
While pepper-water worms thy bait fupply’d. Swift. 
CRUISE, f. \_kndckc, Dut.] A fmall cup.—I have 
not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a 
little oil in a cruife. i Kings. 
The train prepare a cruife of curious mould, 
A cruife of fragrance, form’d of burnifh’d gold. Pope. 
CRUISE, f. \_crofe, Fr. from the original crufers, who 
bore the crofs, and plundered only infidels,] A voyage 
in fearcli of plunder, or to circumvent an enemy. 
To CRUISE, ». n. To rove over the fea in fearcli of 
opportunities to plunder, or to intercept, cut off, take, 
or deftroy, the fiiips and veflfels of an nemy. 
CRU]S'£R,y. One that roves upon the fea in fearcli 
of plunder, or to oppofe an enemy.—Amongfl the crufers 
it was complained, that their furgeons were too aCtive 
in amputating fractured members. Wftman. 
CRU'IT, a fmall ifiand in the Atlantic, near the north- 
weft coaft of Ireland ; ten miles fouth of Bloody Farland’s 
Point. Lat. 55. 2. N. Ion. 8. 19. W. Greenwich. 
CRULAY', a town of France, in the department of 
the Eure and Loire : ten miles eaft of Verneuil. 
CRUM, or Crumb, f. [cjiuma, Sa x. kruy?ne, Dut. 
kruminel, Germ.] The fof-t part of bread ; not the cruft. 
•—Take of manchet about three ounces, the crumb only 
thin cut; and let it be boiled in milk till it grow to a 
pulp. Bacon. —A fmall particle or fragment of bread : 
More familiar grown, the table crums 
Attradl his ilender feet. Thomfon. 
CRUMARAD', a mountain of Ireland, in the county 
of Donegal: two miles north of'Killybegs. 
CRU'MAU, or Krumau, or Krumtov/, a town of 
Moravia, in the circle of Znaym : lixteen miles ndrth- 
jnorth-eaft of Znaym. 
CRU'MAU, or Krumlaw, a town of Bohemia, in 
the circle of Prachatitz, on the river Moldaw : feven- 
teen miles fouth-eaft of Prachatitz, and feventy-fix fouth 
of Prague. 
To CRUMBLE, v. a. To break into fmall pieces; to 
comminute.—At the fame time we were crumbled into 
various factions and parties, all aiming at by-interefts, 
without any lincere regard for the public good. Attcrbury. 
Flefin is but the glafs which holds the duft 
That meafures all our time, which alfo ftiall 
ile crumbled into duft, Herbert. 
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To CRUMBLE, v. n. To fall into fmalb pieces.—If 
the (tone is brittle, it will often crumble, and pafs in the 
form of gravel. Arbuthnot. 
Ambition figh’d : (lie found it vain to truft 
Tlie faithleis column, and the crumbling buft. Pope. 
CRU'MENALjy. [from crumena , Lat.] A purfe : 
The fat ox, that woonnt ligye in the (fall, 
Is now faft ftalled in her crumtnal. Sperfer. 
CRUM'I.INWATER, a river of Ireland, which runs 
into Neagh Lough : fix miles fouth of Antrim. 
CRUM'MOCK WATER, a lake of England, in the 
county of Cumberland, which abounds with char and 
trout. 
CRUM'MY, adj. Soft. 
CRUMP, adj. [cjiurrvp, Sax. kroin,'Dwt. krumm, Germ.] 
Crooked in the back.—When the workmen took meafure 
of him, he was crump (liouldered, and the right fide higher 
than the left. L’EJirapge. 
CRUMP-FOOTED, adj. Having the foot contracted 
like the head of a club. Philips. 
CRUMP ISLAND, a fmall ifiand in tlie Weft Indies, 
about a mile long, near the north-eaft of the ifiand of 
Antigua. Lat. 17. 14. N. Ion. 61. 25. W. Greenwich. 
To CRUM'PLE, v. a. [from crump-, or corrupted from 
rumple, rompclen, Dut.] To draw into wrinkles ; to crufts 
together in complications.—Sir Roger alighted from his 
horfe, and expoling his palm to two or three, that flood 
by him, they crumpled it into all fhapes, and diligently 
fcanned every wrinkle that could be made. Addifon. 
CRUMP'LING,/. A kind of fmall apple : 
Norfolk’s the place for a pudding or dumpling. 
Stepney’s the place for a cake or a bun ; 
Kent is the place for a codling or crumpling. 
Song on Farinelli. 
CRU'NA del CONDE, a town of Spain, in Old Caf- 
tile, on the Duero, near Aranda de Duero. 
To CRUNK, or To Crunk le, v. n. To cry like a crane, 
CRUPI'NA,y in botany. See Centaurea. 
CRUP'PER,yi [from croupe, Fr. the buttocks of the 
horfe.] That part of the horfeman’s furniture that reaches 
from the faddle to the tail: 
Full oft the rivals met, and neither fpar’d 
His utmoft force, and each forgot to ward : 
The head of this was to the faddle bent. 
The other backward to the crupper fent. Dryden. 
CRU'RAL, adj. [from crus, cruris, Lat.] Belonging 
to the leg.—The (harpnefs of the teeth, and the ftrength 
of the crural mufcles, in lions and tygers, are the caufe 
of the great and habitual immorality of thofe animals. 
Arbuthnot. 
CRUS CORVI,/. in botany; fee Panicum. CRUS 
GALLI; fee Crataegus and Panicum. 
CRUSA'DE, or CRUSADO,y. See Croisade. An 
expedition againft the infidels. A coin ftamped with a 
crofs, and introduced about the year 1457, by Alphon- 
fus V. king of Portugal, chiefly with a view to encou¬ 
rage his foldiers in the crufade inftituted by pope Ca- 
lixtus. It has a crofs on one fide, and the arms of 
Portugal on the other : 
Believe me, I had rather have loft my purfe 
Full of crufadoes. Shakefpeare . 
CRUSA'DER,/! One employed in a crufade.—They 
fent diftaffs to all the young men of their acquaintance 
or neighbourhood, who had not yet inrolled themfelves 
among the enfaders. Lyttleton .—They obtained commer¬ 
cial privileges and eftabliflnnents of great confequence 
in the fettlements which the crufaders made in Paleftine, 
Robertfon. 
CRUS'CA,/. An Italian term fignifying bran, is in 
life amongft us to denote that celebrated academy called 
della crujea , eftablifiied at Florence for purifying and per¬ 
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