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fe&ing the Tufcan language. See Academy. The aca- 
demy^took its name from its office, and the end propofed 
by it; which is, to refine the language, and, as it were, 
to feparate the bran from it. Accordingly, its device 
is a fieve ; and its motto, II piu bel fior ne coglie ; It ga¬ 
thers the fineff flour thereof. In the hall or apartment 
where the academy meets. M. Moneonis informs us, that 
every thing bears an allufion to the name and device ; 
the feats are in form of a baker’s balket; their backs 
like a (hovel for moving of corn; the cufhions of grey 
fattin, in form of facks or wallets ; and the branches 
where the lights are placed refembling facks. The Vo¬ 
cabulary Della Crufca is an excellent Italian didlionary, 
compofed by this academy. 
CRUSE, /. See Cruise. 
CRU'SET,/! A goldfmith’s melting-pot. Phillips. 
To CRUSH, v. a. [ecrajer , Fr.] To prefs between two 
oppofite bodies ; to fqueeze ; to force by compreflion.— 
The afs thruft herfelf unto the wall, and crujhcd Balaam’s 
foot againft the wall. Numbers, xxii. 25. 
Bacchus, that firft from out the purple grape 
Crujh'd the fweet poifon of mifufed wine. Milton. 
To prefs with violence : 
When loud winds from different quarters rufli, 
Vail clouds encount’ring one another crujh. Waller. 
To overwhelm; to beat down : 
Vain is the force of man, and heaven’s as vain, 
To crujh the pillars which the pile fuftain. Dryden. 
To fubdue ; to conquer beyond refiflance.—What can 
that man fear, who takes care to pleafe a Being that is fo 
able to crujh all his adverfaries ? a Being that can divert 
any misfortune from befalling him, or turn any fuch 
misfortune to his advantage i Addijon. 
This act 
Shall bruife the head of Satan, crujh his (Irength, 
Defeating fin and death, his two main arms. Milton. 
To CRUSH, v. n. To be condenfed; to come in a clofe 
body. 
CRUSH,/! A collifion ; the a6t of ruffling together: 
Thou (halt flouriffi in immortal youth. 
Unhurt amidft the war of elements, 
The wreck of matter, and the crujh of worlds. Addijon. 
CRUST,/! \_crujla, Lat.] Any (hell, or external coat, 
by which any body is enveloped.—I have known the 
ltatue of an emperor, quite hid under a cruft of drofs. 
Addijon. —A.n incruftation; colledtion of matter into a 
hard body.—The vifcous cruft (lops the entry of the 
chyle into the laCleals. Arbuthnot .—The cafe or cover 
of a pie, made of meal, and baked.—He was never fuf- 
fered to go abroad, for fear of catching cold : when he 
fhould have been hunting down a buck, he was by his 
mother’s fide, learning how to feafon it, or put it in crujl. 
Addjcn. —The outer hard part of bread : 
Th’ impenetrable crujl thy teeth defies, 
And, petrified with age, fecurely lies. Dryden. 
A wade piece of bread : 
Y’are liberal now; but when your turn is fped. 
You’ll wilh me choak’d with cv’ry crujl of bread. Dryd. 
To CRUST, v. a. To envelope ; to cover with a hard 
cafe.—In fome, who have run up to men without edu¬ 
cation, we may obferve many great qualities darkened 
and eclipfed ; their minds are crujled over, like diamonds 
in the rock. Felton. 
Why gave you me a monarch’s foul, 
And crujled it with bafe plebeian clay ; Dryden. 
To foul with concretions.—If your mafrer hath many 
mufty, or very foul and crujled bottles, let thofe be the 
firft you truck at the alehoufe. Swift. 
To CRUST, v. n. To gather or contra61 a cruft; to 
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gain a hard covering.—I contented myfelf with a plafter 
upon the place that was burnt, which crujled and healed 
in very few days. Temple. 
CRUS'TA OL'L#£, f See Oldenlandia. 
CRUSTA'CEOUS, adj. [from crujla, Lat.] Shelly, 
with joints; not teftaceous ; not with one continued un¬ 
interrupted (hell. Lobfter is crujlaceous, oyfter teftaceous. 
See Concho logy, p. 14, of this volume. 
Dr. Woodward obferves, in his Natural Hiftory, that 
of all the fliells found in beds cf all the different matters 
dug out of the earth, there are fcarcely any of the crufta- 
ceous kind : the reafon he gives for it is, that thefe be¬ 
ing much lighter than the reft, muft have floated on the 
furface at the time of the deluge, when all the ftrata were 
formed ; and there have corrupted and periftied. 
CRUSTA'CEOUSNESS,/! The quality of having 
jointed (hells. 
CRUS'TILY, adv. Peeviftily ; fnappifhly ; hardily. 
CRUS'TINESS,/. The quality of a cruft. Peevifli- 
nefs ; morofenefs. 
CRUS'TULA,/! [dim. of crujla , a (hell.] An ecchy- 
mofis, or dilcoloration of the flefti from a bruife, where 
the (kin is entire and covers it over like a (hell. 
CRUS'TY, adj. Covered with a cruft.—The egg it- 
felf deferves our notice : its parts within, and its crujly 
coat without, are admirably well fitted for the bufinels 
of incubation. Derham. —Sturdy ; morofe ; fnappilh ; a 
low word. 
CRUTCH,/! [_croccia, Ital. croce, Fr. crucke, Germ .3 
A fupport ufed by cripples : 
This fair defefl, this helplefs aid call’d wife. 
The bending crutch of a decrepit life. Dryden • 
Rhyme is a crutch that lifts the weak along. 
Supports the feeble, but retards the ftrong. Smith. 
The dumb (hall fing, the lame his crutch forego. 
And leap exulting like the bounding roe. Pope. 
It is ufed for old age : 
Beauty doth varnifti age, as if new born, 
And gives the crutch the cradle’s infancy. Shakefpeare. 
TbCRUTCH, v. a. Tofupportoncrutchesasacripple: 
I haften Og and Doeg to rehearfe. 
Two fools that crutch their feeble fenfe on verfe. Dryd. 
CRUTCH'ED FRIARS, [Frer« croifes , Fr. friars 
figned with a crofs.] A place in the city of London, 
near Aldgate, called fo from a convent of them near 
that place. 
CRUTH, or Growth,/! The Wellh fiddle, or crowd. 
CRUX ANDRE'.#!, f. in botany. See Ascyrum. 
CRUX'HAVEN, a feaport town of Germany, fituated 
on the north coaft of the duchy of Bremen, in the Ger¬ 
man Ocean, between the mouths of the Elbe and the 
Wefer. Lat. 53. 56. N. Ion. 25. 52. E. Ferro. 
CRUYS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lower Alps : feven miles fouth weft of Sifteron. 
CRUYSFIO'RD, a bay on the coaft of Norway: 
twenty miles fouth-weft of Bergen. 
CRUZ, an Indian port and harbour on the north-weft 
coaft of America, difeovered by the Spaniards under Pe- 
roufe, in 1779. They were introduced into it by a paL 
fage which they called Bucarcl/i’s entrance , and which the 
editor of Peroufe’s Voyage concludes, from the furvey 
made by our celebrated navigator captain Cook on the 
coafts adjacent to the entrance of Bucarelli, that this 
entrance is about 135 0 20' to the weft of Paris, or very 
nearly 133 0 weft of Greenwich. The Spaniards were 
not long in the harbour, before they received a vifit 
from the inhabitants on its banks. Their colour is a 
clear olive ; many among them have, however, a white 
(kin: their countenance well proportioned, of good na¬ 
ture, robuft, courageous, and warlike. They clothe 
themfelves in undreffed (kins of fea wolves, bears, or 
other animals, which they take in hunting. Thefe 
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