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‖n.; pl. Ambulacra [ L., an alley or covered way. ] (Zool.) (a) One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays. (b) One of the suckers on the feet of mites. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. cruma, akin to D. kruim, G. krume; cf. G. krauen to scratch, claw. ] [ Written also crum. ] 1. A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off. [ 1913 Webster ]

Desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. Luke xvi. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: A little; a bit; as, a crumb of comfort. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The soft part of bread. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dust unto dust, what must be, must;
If you can't get crumb, you'd best eat crust. Old Song. [ 1913 Webster ]

Crumb brush, a brush for sweeping crumbs from a table. --
To a crum, with great exactness; completely. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Crumbed p. pr. & vb. n. Crumbing ] To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread. [ Written also crum. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean. [ Written also crumcloth. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Crumbled p. pr. & vb. n. Crumbling ] [ Dim. of crumb, v. t., akin to D. kruimelen G. krümeln. ] To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces. [ 1913 Webster ]

He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints,
And crumble all thy sinews. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To fall into small pieces; to break or part into small fragments; hence, to fall to decay or ruin; to become disintegrated; to perish. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the stone is brittle, it will crumble and pass into the form of gravel. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

The league deprived of its principal supports must soon crumble to pieces. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. broken into small fragments; as, crumbled cookies.
Syn. -- fragmented. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. “The crumbly soil.” Hawthorne.
Syn. -- crimp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. crumena purse. ] A purse. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being crumbed or broken into small pieces. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full of crumb or crumbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. of very poor quality. [ informal ]
Syn. -- bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ AS. crumb stooping, bent down; akin to OHG. chrumb, G. krumm, Dan. krum, D. krom, and E. cramp. ] 1. Crooked; bent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Crooked backs and crump shoulders. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] Hallivell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. from W. crempog, crammwgth, a pancake or fritter. ] 1. A kind of large, thin, unsweetened muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider, or sometimes toasted. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a sexually attractive woman. [ British slang ] RHUD [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Crumpled p. pr. & vb. n. Crumpling ] [ Dim. fr. crump, a. ] To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

They crumpled it into all shapes, and diligently scanned every wrinkle that could be made. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Brittle; crisp. Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. L. Fulcra E. Fulcrums [ L., bedpost, fr. fulcire to prop. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A prop or support. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mech.) That by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like. [ R. ] Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) (a) The horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects. (b) One of the small, spiniform scales found on the front edge of the dorsal and caudal fins of many ganoid fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Anat.) The connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina of the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Interambulacra E. Interambulacrums (Zool.) In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Involucra E. Involucrums [ L. See Involucre. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Bot.) See Involucre. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A sheath which surrounds the base of the lasso cells in the Siphonophora. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. sacra [ NL., fr. L. sacer sacred, os sacrum the lowest bone of the spine. ] (Anat.) That part of the vertebral column which is directly connected with, or forms a part of, the pelvis. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It may consist of a single vertebra or of several more or less consolidated. In man it forms the dorsal, or posterior, wall of the pelvis, and consists of five united vertebrae, which diminish in size very rapidly to the posterior extremity, which bears the coccyx. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Scrimmage. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Nice; particular; fastidious; excellent; fine. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]