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n. Acres collectively; as, the acreage of a farm or a country. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a plant of Europe and Asia (Epilobium hirsutum) having purplish-red flowers and hairy stems and leaves; it was introduced into North America.
Syn. -- hairy willowherb, Epilobium hirsutum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. to put coldcream on (one's face). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To create at the same time. [ 1913 Webster ]

If God did concreate grace with Adam. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. creabilis, from creare to create. See Create. ] Capable of being created. [ Obs. ] I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ir. & Gael. graidh, graigh. ] A drove or herd. [ Obs. ] Haliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To graze. [ Obs. ] Sir. L. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Creaked p. pr. & vb. n. Creaking. ] [ OE. creken, prob. of imitative origin; cf. E. crack, and. D. krieken to crackle, chirp. ] To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The creaking locusts with my voice conspire. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Doors upon their hinges creaked. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To produce a creaking sound with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking. Roget. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A harsh grating or squeaking sound, or the act of making such a sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

Start not at the creaking of the door. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. worn down with age or use; in poor condition.
Syn. -- decrepit, flea-bitten, run-down, rundown, woebegone. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. producing a rasping or grating sound under some circumsatance; as, they were alerted by the creaky stairs; my creaky kitchen door needs oiling.
Syn. -- creaking, screaky. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. aching when flexed; -- of body parts; as, my creaky old joints.
Syn. -- arthritic, rheumatic, rheumatoid. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ F. crême, perh. fr. LL. crema cream of milk; cf. L. cremor thick juice or broth, perh. akin to cremare to burn. ] 1. The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation. [ 1913 Webster ]

In vain she tries her paste and creams,
To smooth her skin or hide its seams. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures. [ 1913 Webster ]

Welcome, O flower and cream of knights errant. Shelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bavarian cream, a preparation of gelatin, cream, sugar, and eggs, whipped; -- to be eaten cold. --
Cold cream, an ointment made of white wax, almond oil, rose water, and borax, and used as a salve for the hands and lips. --
Cream cheese, a kind of cheese made from curd from which the cream has not been taken off, or to which cream has been added. --
Cream gauge, an instrument to test milk, being usually a graduated glass tube in which the milk is placed for the cream to rise. --
Cream nut, the Brazil nut. --
Cream of lime. (a) A scum of calcium carbonate which forms on a solution of milk of lime from the carbon dioxide of the air. (b) A thick creamy emulsion of lime in water. --
Cream of tartar (Chem.), purified tartar or argol; so called because of the crust of crystals which forms on the surface of the liquor in the process of purification by recrystallization. It is a white crystalline substance, with a gritty acid taste, and is used very largely as an ingredient of baking powders; -- called also potassium bitartrate, acid potassium tartrate, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Creamed p. pr. & vb. n. Creaming. ] 1. To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take off the best or choicest part of. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To furnish with, or as with, cream. [ 1913 Webster ]

Creaming the fragrant cups. Mrs. Whitney. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cream butter (Cooking), to rub, stir, or beat, butter till it is of a light creamy consistency. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle. [ 1913 Webster ]

There are a sort of men whose visages
Do cream and mantle like a standing pool. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Cookery) A kind of cake filled with custard made of cream, eggs, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the color of cream; light yellow. “Cream-colored horses.” Hazlitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a California plant (Platystemon californicus) with small pale yellow flowers.
Syn. -- Platystemon californicus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a small pitcher for serving cream; as, the coffee set included a sugar bowl and creamer.
Syn. -- cream pitcher. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Creameries [ CF. F. cr&unr_;meric. ] 1. A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place or apparatus in which milk is set for raising cream. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An establishment where cream is sold. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou cream-faced loon. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant of Sierra Leone which yields a wholesome, creamy juice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being creamy. [ 1913 Webster ]

See under Laid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. As white as cream. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of, or containing, cream; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous. “Creamy bowls.” Collins. “Lines of creamy spray.” Tennyson. “Your creamy words but cozen.” Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. créance, lit., credence, fr. L. credere to trust. See Credence. ] 1. Faith; belief; creed. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Falconry) A fine, small line, fastened to a hawk's leash, when it is first lured. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. To get on credit; to borrow. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. creans, p. pr. of creare to create. ] Creative; formative. [ R. ] Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Creese. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LG. krus, G. krause, crispness, krausen, kräusen, to crisp, curl, lay on folds; or perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. kriz a wrinkle, crease, kriza to wrinkle, fold, W. crych a wrinkle, crychu to rumple, ripple, crease. ] 1. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Cricket) One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Lacrosse) The combination of four lines forming a rectangle inclosing either goal, or the inclosed space itself, within which no attacking player is allowed unless the ball is there; -- called also goal crease. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Bowling crease (Cricket), a line extending three feet four inches on each side of the central strings at right angles to the line between the wickets. --
Return crease (Cricket), a short line at each end of the bowling crease and at right angles to it, extending toward the bowler. --
Popping crease (Cricket), , a line drawn in front of the wicket, four feet distant from it, parallel to the bowling crease and at least as long as the latter. J. H. Walsh (Encyc. of Rural Sports). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Creased p. pr. & vb. n. Creasing. ] To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling. [ 1913 Webster ]

Creased, like dog's ears in a folio. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A tool, or a sewing-machine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet iron, or for rounding small tubes. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bookbinding) A tool for making the band impression distinct on the back. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) A layer of tiles forming a corona for a wall. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Creosote. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of creases. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. créat, ultimately fr. L. creatus created, begotten; cf. It. creato pupil, servant, Sp. criado a servant, client. ] (Man.) An usher to a riding master. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be created. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. creatus, p. p. of creare to create; akin to Gr. krai`nein to accomplish, Skr. k&rsdot_; to make, and to E. ending -cracy in aristocracy, also to crescent, cereal. ] Created; composed; begotten. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Hearts create of duty and zeal. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Created; p. pr. & vb. n. Creating. ] 1. To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your eye in Scotland
Would create soldiers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Create in me a clean heart. Ps. li. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer. “I create you companions to our person.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, flesh. ] Relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food; as, creatic nausea. [ Written also kreatic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; flesh. ] (Physiol. Chem.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance found abundantly in muscle tissue. [ Written also kreatine. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol. Chem.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous body closely related to creatin but more basic in its properties, formed from the latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine. [ Written also kretinine. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. creatio: cf. F. cr&unr_;ation. See Create. ] 1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. [ 1913 Webster ]

From the creation to the general doom. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

We know that the whole creation groaneth. Rom. viii. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

A dagger of the mind, a false creation. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Choice pictures and creations of curious art. Beaconsfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation. [ 1913 Webster ]

An Irish peer of recent creation. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to creation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation. “Creative talent.” W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

The creative force exists in the germ. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]