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a. [ From Cancer. ] Having the qualities of a crab; crablike. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after Count Cancrin, a minister of finance in Russia. ] (Min.) A mineral occurring in hexagonal crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carbon dioxide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A heavy, colorless liquid, CCl3.NO2, of a strong pungent odor, obtained by subjecting picric acid to the action of chlorine. [ Written also chloropikrin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. crinalis, fr. crinis the hair. ] Of or pertaining to the hair. [ R. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having hair; hairy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Crinitory. Craig. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Crinkle. ] A twist or bend; a turn; a whimsey. [ Colloq. ] Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A twist; a whimsey or whim. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. crinis hair. ] (Her.) Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. crinis hair. ] A very fine, hairlike feather. Booth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cringed p. pr. & vb. n. Cringing. ] [ As. crincgan, cringan, crincan, to jield, fall; akin to E. crank. ] To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence, to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

When they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad to cringe behind, for they were afraid of the lions. Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sly hypocrite, . . . who more than thou
Once fawned and cringed, and servilely adored
Heaven's awful monarch? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flatterers . . . are always bowing and cringing. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Till like a boy you see him cringe his face,
And whine aloud for mercy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility. “With cringe and shrug, and bow obsequious.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who cringes meanly; a fawner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who cringes. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a cringing manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Icel. kringla orb; akin to kring around, and to D. kring circle, and to E. cringe, crank. ] 1. A withe for fastening a gate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. crinis hair + cultura. ] Relating to the growth of hair. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. criniger; crinis hair + gerere to bear. ] Bearing hair; hairy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Crinite, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

He the star crinital adoreth. Stanyhurst. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. crinitus, p. p. of crinire to provide or cover with hair, fr. crinis hair. ] 1. Having the appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike tail or train. “Comate, crinite, caudate stars.” Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Bearded or tufted with hairs. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to hair; as, a crinitory covering. T. Hook. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Crinkled p. pr. & vb. n. Crinkling ] [ A dim., fr. the root of cringe; akin to D. krinkelen to wind or twist. Cf. Cringle, Cringe. ] To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl. [ 1913 Webster ]

The house&unr_;s crinkled to and fro. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her face all bowsy,
Comely crinkled,
Wondrously wrinkled. Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The flames through all the casements pushing forth,
Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To turn or wind; to run in and out in many short bends or turns; to curl; to run in waves; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved. [ 1913 Webster ]

The green wheat crinkles like a lake. L. T. Trowbridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

And all the rooms
Were full of crinkling silks. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The crinkles in this glass, making objects appear double. A. Tucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag. “The crinkled lightning.” Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a North American herb (Dentaria diphylla) with pungent scaly or toothed roots; -- called also toothwort.
Syn. -- pepper root, toothwort, Cardamine diphylla, Dentaria diphylla. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having crinkles; wavy; wrinkly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Crinoidea. ] (Zool.) Crinoidal. -- n. One of the Crinoidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of pertaining to crinoids; consisting of, or containing, crinoids. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. kri`non lily + -oid: cf. F. crinoïde. ] (Zool.) A large class of Echinodermata, including numerous extinct families and genera, but comparatively few living ones. Most of the fossil species, like some that are recent, were attached by a jointed stem. See Blastoidea, Cystoidea, Comatula. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool) One of the Crinoidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. crin hair, L. crinis. ] 1. A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. crinis hair. ] Hairy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Hairiness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. kri`non lily. ] (Bot.) A genus of bulbous plants, of the order Amaryllidaceæ, cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Paleon.) Relating to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; in + &unr_; a lily: cf. F. encrinite. ] (Paleon.) A fossil crinoid, esp. one belonging to, or resembling, the genus Encrinus. Sometimes used in a general sense for any crinoid.

{ } a. (Paleon.) Pertaining to encrinites; encrinal. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Encrinus and -oid. ] (Zoöl.) That order of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Encrini [ NL. See Encrinite. ] (Paleon.) A genus of fossil encrinoidea, from the Mesozoic rocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quinacrine, a drug once used to treat malaria; Atabrine is a trademark.
Syn. -- quinacrine, Atabrine. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Paleo-, and Crinoidea. ] (Zool.) A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol. Chem.) A red and purple pigment found in certain crinoids of the genus Pentacrinus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Penta- + Gr. kri`non a lily. ] (Zool.) Any species of Pentacrinus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pentacrinus + -oid. ] (Zool.) An immature comatula when it is still attached by a stem, and thus resembles a Pentacrinus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Penta-, and Crinum. ] (Zool.) A genus of large, stalked crinoids, of which several species occur in deep water among the West Indies and elsewhere. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. "ro`don rose + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; lily.] (Paleon.) A rose encrinite. [1913 Webster]