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| CREVICE | | n. Narrow opening or fissure, esp. In rock etc. [french: related to *crevasse] | |
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| CRICKET | | n. Team game played on a grass pitch, with bowling at a wicket defended by a batting player of the other team. not cricket colloq. Unfair behaviour. cricketer n. [origin uncertain]
- n. Grasshopper-like chirping insect. [french, imitative] | |
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| CRIMSON | | —adj. Of a rich deep red. —n. This colour. [ultimately from arabic: related to *kermes] | |
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| CRINKLE | | —n. Wrinkle or crease. —v. (-ling) form crinkles (in). crinkly adj. [related to *cringe] | |
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| CRIPPLE | | —n. Permanently lame person. —v. (-ling) 1 make a cripple of; lame.
- disable, weaken, or damage seriously (crippled by strikes). [old english] | |
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| CROCHET | | —n. Needlework in which yarn is hooked to make a lacy patterned fabric. —v. (crocheted; crocheting) (also absol.) Make using crochet. [french: related to *crotchet] | |
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| CROESUS | | n. Person of great wealth. [name of a king of ancient lydia] | |
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| CROFTER | | n. Person who farms a croft. | |
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| CROOKED | | adj. (-er, -est) 1 not straight or level; bent.
- colloq. Not straightforward; dishonest, criminal. crookedly adv. Crookedness n. | |
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| CROPPER | | n. Crop-producing plant of a specified quality. come a cropper slang fall heavily; fail badly. | |
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