Their storehouses crammed with grain. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He will cram his brass down our throats. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff. [ 1913 Webster ]

Children would be freer from disease if they were not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cram us with praise, and make us
As fat as tame things. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gluttony . . . .
Crams, and blasphemes his feeder. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed. [ 1913 Webster ]

I saw in one corner . . . a cluster of men and women, diverting themselves with a game at crambo. I heard several double rhymes . . . which raised a great deal of mirth. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A word rhyming with another word. [ 1913 Webster ]

His similes in order set
And every crambo he could get. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dumb crambo, a game in which one party of players give a word which rhymes with another, which last to be guessed by the opposing party, who represent in dumb show what they think it to be. [ 1913 Webster ]

A splendid seignior, magnificent in cramoisy velevet. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Masonry) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Carp.) A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Med.) A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cramp, divers nights, gripeth him in his legs. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Med.) A paralysis of certain muscles due to excessive use; as, writer's cramp; milker's cramp, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Cramp bone, the patella of a sheep; -- formerly used as a charm for the cramp. Halliwell. “He could turn cramp bones into chess men.” Dickens. --
Cramp ring, a ring formerly supposed to have virtue in averting or curing cramp, as having been consecrated by one of the kings of England on Good Friday. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mind my be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance. Layard. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence, to bind together; to unite. [ 1913 Webster ]

The . . . fabric of universal justic is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To afflict with cramp. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the gout cramps my joints. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cramp the wheels of wagon, to turn the front wheels out of line with the hind wheels, so that one of them shall be against the body of the wagon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Care being taken not to add any of the cramp reasons for this opinion. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of the plates of iron, with attached spikes, forming a pair of crampoons; hence (Curling), an iron plate for a player to stand on when delivering the stones. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. a device with pointed metal projections worn over the shoes to provide traction when walking over ice, or in mountaineering; -- usually used in the plural. [ PJC ]

3. same as crampoon. [ PJC ]

2. Iron instruments with sharp points, worn on the shoes to assist in gaining or keeping a foothold. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Productive of, or abounding in, cramps. “This crampy country.” Howitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a coarse lace, made by weaving and knotting cords; macrame lace. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

I'll take the sacrament on't. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The pledge or token of an oath or solemn covenant; a sacred thing; a mystery. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

God sometimes sent a light of fire, and pillar of a cloud . . . and the sacrament of a rainbow, to guide his people through their portion of sorrows. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Theol.) One of the solemn religious ordinances enjoined by Christ, the head of the Christian church, to be observed by his followers; hence, specifically, the eucharist; the Lord's Supper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sacrament, Eucharist. -- Protestants apply the term sacrament to baptism and the Lord's Supper, especially the latter. The R. Cath. and Greek churches have five other sacraments, viz., confirmation, penance, holy orders, matrimony, and extreme unction. As sacrament denotes an oath or vow, the word has been applied by way of emphasis to the Lord's Supper, where the most sacred vows are renewed by the Christian in commemorating the death of his Redeemer. Eucharist denotes the giving of thanks; and this term also has been applied to the same ordinance, as expressing the grateful remembrance of Christ's sufferings and death. “Some receive the sacrament as a means to procure great graces and blessings; others as an eucharist and an office of thanksgiving for what they have received.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bound by a sacrament. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sacramental host of God's elect. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who holds extreme opinions regarding the efficacy of sacraments. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the Sacramentarians. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the Sacramentarians. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Same as Sacramentarian, n., 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

Papists, Anabaptists, and Sacramentaries. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Both to preach and sacramentize. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of other care they little reckoning make,
Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To prepare (eggs) as a dish for the table, by stirring the yolks and whites together while cooking. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of jostling and pushing for something desired; eager and unceremonious struggle for what is thrown or held out; as, a scramble for office. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scarcity [ of money ] enhances its price, and increases the scramble. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A greedy and unceremonious contestant. [ 1913 Webster ]

A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]