Part 44

=craniologiste=, _n.m._, craniologist.

=craniomètre=, _n.m._, craniometer.

=craniométrie=, _n.f._, craniometry.

=craniométrique=, _adj._, craniometrical.

=cranioscopie=, _n.f._, cranioscopy.

=cranologie=, _n.f._ _V._ =craniologie=.

=cranson=, _n.m._, scurvy-grass. _— rustique_; horse-radish.

=crapaud=, _n.m._, toad; urchin, brat, fellow; low-seat chair; (artil.) mortar-carriage; (vet.) crepane, maltworm. _La bave d’un —_; toad-spittle. _C’est un vilain —_; he is a mean, despicable fellow. _Il est chargé d’argent comme un — de plumes_; all the money he has he can put in his eye. _— de gouvernail_; (nav.) goose-neck. _— de mer_; toad-fish; hog-fish. _— pécheur_; fishing frog. _— volant_; churn-owl. _— de timon_; pole-end (of a carriage).

*=crapaudaille=, _n.f._, a gang of vagabonds, riff-raff. _V._ =crépodaille=.

=crapaudière=, _n.f._, toad-hole; (fig.) low, swampy place.

=crapaudine=, _n.f._, (min.) bufonite, toad-stone, wolf’s-tooth; leaden grating; valve of an escape pipe; (vet.) crepane, crack; (bot.) sideritis, iron-wort; (mec.) socket. _À la —_; cut open and broiled; spatch-cocked.

=crapelet=, _n.m._, young toad; toadlet.

=crapone=, _n.f._, (horl.) square flat file.

=crapoussin=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, scrubby little man _or_ woman, dwarf, bloated little shrimp.

=crapule=, _n.f._, low vulgar debauchery; intemperance; gluttony, drunkenness; low, debauched people; blackguards.

=crapuler=, _v.n._, to live in vice, to fuddle or drink hard, to give one’s self up to all sorts of low debauchery.

=crapuleusement=, _adv._, dissolutely.

=crapuleu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, drunken, intemperate, vulgar, debauched; grossly vicious, dissolute.

=craque=, _n.f._, fib, humbug, fudge, bouncer. _int._, crack, bang.

=craquelé=, =-e=, _adj._, crackled, fissured (of china).

=craqueler=, _v.n._, to crack; to crackle (of china).

=craquelin= (kra-klin), _n.m._, cracknel.

=craquelot= (kra-klo), _n.m._, red-herring.

=craqueloti-er=, _n.m._, =-ère= (kra-klo-tièr), _n.f._, herring-curer.

=craquelure=, _n.f._, fissure, crack (in china).

=craquement= (krak-mān), _n.m._, crack, cracking noise, crunching; crepitation, creaking, snapping (of trees, boughs). _Un — de dents_; a chattering of the teeth.

=craquer=, _v.n._, to creak, to crunch, to crack, to crackle, to snap; to chatter (of the teeth); to tell a lie, to boast, to draw the long bow. _Faire — ses doigts_; to make one’s fingers snap.

=craquerie=, _n.f._, cracking, boasting, drawing the long bow, fiction, story, fib, fudge.

=craquètement=, _n.m._, crackling; gabbling (of the stork and other birds).

=craqueter= (kra-kté), _v.n._, to crackle, to crepitate; to gabble (of some birds). _Le laurier craquète au feu_; laurel crackles in the fire.

=craquette=, _n.f._, notch (of a tailor); scum (on melted butter).

=craqueu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, noisy, boasting fellow; bouncer, braggart.

=crase=, _n.f._, (gram.) crasis, contraction of two syllables into one; (med.) crasis.

=crasiologie=, _n.f._, crasiology.

=crassane=, _n.f._, cresane (a sort of pear).

=crasse=, _n.f._, dirt, filth, scurf; squalor; niggardliness, stinginess; coat of filth, layer of dirt; rusticity, bad manners; (of coals) ashes, cinders. _— de la tête_; dandruff. _La — des métaux_; the dross, scum, scale, of metals.

=crasse=, _adj._, gross, thick, coarse, crass. _Une ignorance —_; gross or crass ignorance.

=crasser=, _v.a._, to foul, to dirty (of fire-arms).

_se_ =crasser=, _v.r._, to become foul (of fire-arms).

=crasseu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, dirty, filthy, nasty, squalid, rusty; sordid, stingy, mean. _Cheveux —_; greasy hair.

=crasseu-x=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, sloven, slut; niggard, miser, skinflint. _Un —_; a filthy fellow.

=crassule=, _n.f._, (bot.) crassula.

=cratère=, _n.m._, (geol.) crater; (antiq.) bowl, cup; (astron.) Crater, Cup.

=craticulation=, _n.f._, (paint.) squaring.

=craticuler=, _v.a._, (paint.) to square. _V._ =graticuler=.

=cratirites=, _n.f.pl._, wild Grecian figs.

=craupécherot= _or_ =corbeau pêcheur=, _n.m._, (orni.) bald-buzzard, osprey, fishing-eagle.

=cravache=, _n.f._, horsewhip, riding-whip.

=cravan=, _n.m._, (orni.) brent-barnacle, brand-goose, brent.

=cravate=, _n.f._, cravat, neck-tie, neckcloth, neckerchief; (of curtains) band. _— d’un drapeau_; knot of a flagstaff. _— longue_; scarf.

=cravate=, _n.m._, Croat; Croatian horse. _Régiment de —s_; formerly regiment of light cavalry; regiment of Croats. _adj._, Croatian. _Cheval —_; Croatian horse.

=cravater=, _v.a._, to put any one’s neck-tie on for him; to go round the neck; to fit.

_se_ =cravater=, _v.r._, to put on one’s neck-tie.

=crayère=, _n.f._, chalk-pit.

=crayeu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, chalky.

=crayon=, _n.m._, chalk; pencil; pencil drawing, portrait in crayons; description of a person, manner, style; sketch, rough-draft, outline. _— noir_; blacklead-pencil. _— d’ardoise_; slate-pencil. _— de pastel_; pastel, crayon. _Affûter un —_, _donner une pointe à un —_; to point a pencil. _Au —_; in pencil.

=crayonner=, _v.a._, to draw with a pencil; to sketch rudely or imperfectly; to sketch, to trace the outline, to chalk, to delineate; to paint badly.

=crayonneur=, _n.m._, (b.s.) dauber.

=crayonneu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, chalky.

=cré=, _adj._, abbreviation of _sacré_.

=créadier=, _n.m._, sort of drag-net.

=créance=, _n.f._, credence, credit, trust, belief; debt, money owing; influence; (hunt.) command. _Lettres de —_; letter of credence, credentials. _Lettre de —_; letter of credit. _Donner — à une chose_; to give credit to a thing. _Chien de bonne —_; dog well in hand. _Oiseau de peu de —_; (hawking) bird that will not come back to its master.

=créanci-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, creditor; (jur.) covenantee, obligee. _— hypothécaire_; mortgagee. _— importun_; dun.

=créat=, _n.m._, (man.) riding-master’s assistant.

=créateur=, _n.m._, creator, maker.

=créat-eur=, =-rice=, _adj._, creative, creating, inventive. _Il a le génie —_; he has an inventive genius.

=créatine=, _n.f._, (chem.) creatine.

=création=, _n.f._, creation; production; foundation; establishment.

=créature=, _n.f._, creature; thing; dependant, tool.

☉=crébèbe=, _n.m._ _V._ =cubèbe=.

=crécelle=, _n.f._, rattle.

=crécerelle=, _n.f._, (orni.) kestrel, windhover.

=crèche=, _n.f._, crèche, manger, crib; day-nursery; foundling-hospital; (arch.) starling.

=crédence=, _n.f._, credence, credence-table; buttery, pantry, safe.

=crédencier=, _n.m._, pantler, clerk of the buttery, buttery-keeper.

=crédibilité=, _n.f._, credibility.

=crédit=, _n.m._, credit; trust; authority, interest, influence, patronage, sway, power; repute, esteem, name, vogue, favor, request. _Lettre de —_; letter of credit. _Faire —_, _vendre_, _donner_, _à —_; to credit, to give trust, to give credit. _Ouvrir un — à quelqu’un_; to open an account with any one. _Il a bon —_; his credit is good. _Avoir — en banque_; to have funds in the bank. _Faire — de la main à la bourse_; to trust no farther than one can see. _— est mort_; old Trust is dead. _Cela l’a mis en —_; that brought him into repute. _Être en grand —_; to be in high repute. _À —_; on credit, on trust; to no purpose; gratuitously, without proof, without ground, at random. _Avoir du —_; to have influence.

=créditer=, _v.a._, to trust; to enter upon the credit side (of an account), to credit. _Être crédité sur une ville_; to have letters of credit on a town.

=créditeur=, _n.m._, creditor.

=créditeur=, _adj._ _Compte —_; creditor’s account.

=credo=, _n.m._, (_—_) creed, belief.

=crédule=, _adj._, credulous, easy of belief.

=crédulement=, _adv._, with credulity, credulously.

=crédulité=, _n.f._, credulity.

=créer=, _v.a._, to create; to invent; to imagine; to produce; to beget; to appoint; to establish. _— un chevalier_; to dub a knight. _— une rente_; to invest funds for an annuity. _Se — des moyens_; to find means. _Se — des ressources_; to find resources.

*=crémaillère=, _n.f._, hook, pot-hanger, pot-hook; (horl.) rack; (tech.) rack, toothed rack. _La — d’une cric_; the rack of a screw-jack. _Chaise à —_; spring-back chair. _Pendre la —_; to give a house-warming. _Aller pendre la —_; to go to a house-warming.

*=crémaillon=, _n.m._, small pot-hook.

=crémaster=, _n._ and _adj._ _m._, (anat.) cremaster.

=crémation=, _n.f._, cremation.

=crème=, _n.f._, cream; the best part of a thing, the cream. _— fouettée_; whipt cream. _Fromage à la —_; cream-cheese. _— de tartre_; cream of tartar. _Pot à —_; cream-jug.

=crément=, _n.m._, (gram.) increase (of a word).

=crémer=, _v.n._, to cream, to gather cream.

=crémerie=, _n.f._, milk-shop, dairy.

=crémeu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, creamy.

=crémi-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, milkman, milk-woman; dairy man or woman. _f._, cream-jug, milk-jug.

*=crémillée=, _n.f._, ward (of a lock).

=crémone=, _n.m._, a Cremona violin.

=crémone=, _n.f._, window-fastening, spring.

=crénage=, _n.m._, (letter-founding) kerning.

=créné=, =-e=, _adj._, (bot.) crenated, indented.

=créneau=, _n.m._, battlement; embrasure; loop-hole.

=crénelage=, _n.m._, (coin.) milling.

=crénelé=, =-e=, _part._ _adj._, (her.) embattled; loop-holed; indented, notched; (of wheels) cogged; (of coins) milled; (bot.) denticulated, crenated.

=créneler= (kré-n-lé), _v.a._, to embattle; to loop-hole; to indent, to notch. _— une roue_; to tooth, to cog, a wheel. _— une pièce de monnaie_; to mill a piece of money.

=crénelure= (kré-n-lur), _n.f._, crenelation; notching; (anat.) indentation; (bot.) crenature; crenel.

=créner=, _v.a._, (type-founding) to kern.

=crénerie=, _n.f._, (type-founding) kerning.

=crénilabre=, _n.m._, (ich.) gold-finny.

=crénom=, _int._, by George! by Jove! hang it!

=crénon=, _n.m._, first splitting of a block of slate.

=crénulé=, =-e=, _adj._, notched, indentated; crenulate.

=crénure=, _n.f._, (print.) hole in the bar of a frame.

=créole=, _n.m.f._, Creole; West Indian.

=créosote=, _n.f._, (chem.) creosote.

=crêpage=, _n.f._, glossing of crape; crisping.

=crêpe=, _n.m._, crape; (fig.) vail. _Il porte un — à son chapeau_; he wears a crape hat-band. _— crêpé_; crisped crape. _— lisse_; smooth crape.

=crêpe=, _n.f._, pancake.

=crêper=, _v.a._, to crisp, to crape, to frizzle. _Cheveux crêpés_; frizzed hair.

=crépi=, _n.m._, rough-cast, parget.

_saint_-=crépin=, _n.m._, Saint Crispin; kit (of a journeyman shoemaker). _Perdre son saint-—_; to lose one’s all.

=crépine=, _n.f._, fringe (woven on the top); caul covering the bowels of sheep. _À —_; fringy.

=crépir=, _v.a._, to parget, to rough-cast, to plaster. _— le cuir_; to work leather in grain, to pummel a hide on the flesh side. _— le crin_; to crisp hair.

=crépissage=, _n.m._, (mas.) plastering, pargeting, rough-casting.

=crépissement=, _n.m._, pargeting, rough-casting; parget.

=crépissure=, _n.f._, pargeting, rough-casting.

=crépitant=, =-e=, _adj._, crepitating, crackling.

=crépitation=, _n.f._, _or_ =crépitement=, _n.m._, crepitation, crackling.

=crépodaille= _or_ =crapaudaille=, _n.f._, thin crape, gauze-crape.

=crépon=, _n.m._, crepon, frizette, rouge-puff, hair-pad.

=crépu=, =-e=, _adj._, crisped, frizzled, crisp, crispy, woolly. _Les nègres ont les cheveux —s_; negroes have woolly hair.

=crépusculaire=, _adj._, crepuscular. _Lumière —_; twilight.

=crépuscule=, _n.m._, crepuscule, twilight; dawn. _— du soir_; owl-light, twilight.

=créque=, _n.f._, sloe.

=créquier=, _n.m._, sloe tree.

=cresane=, _n.f._ _V._ =crassane=.

=crescendo=, _adv._, (mus.) crescendo.

=créseau=, _n.m._, species of woolen stuff, kersey.

=cresserelle=, _n.f._ _V._ =crécerelle=.

=cresson=, _n.m._, cress, cresses, water-cress. _— alénois_, _de jardin_; dittander; garden-cress. _— doré_; golden saxifrage. _— des prés_; lady’s smock. _— sauvage_; water-plantain. _— de rivière_; water-rocket.

=cressonnière=, _n.f._, cress-bed.

=crésus=, _n.m._, (_—_) very rich man. _C’est un —_; he is a very Crœsus.

=crétacé=, =-e=, _adj._, cretaceous.

=crête=, _n.f._, crest, tuft, comb of a cock or hen; top-knot; (anat.) ridge; (arch.) ridge; top; bank; coping. _— de morue_; head-piece (of a cod). _Lever la —_; to be conceited; to hold one’s head high. _Baisser la —_; to come down a peg. _Rabaisser la — à quelqu’un_; to bring anyone down a peg. _— d’un fossé_; bank on the side of a ditch. _— d’une montagne_; ridge of a mountain. _— d’une grosse vague_; crest of a billow. _— marine_; samphire. _— de coq_; cock’s-comb; hog’s-ear shell. _Crête-de-coq_, (_—s-—_) louse-wort.

=crêté=, =-e=, _adj._, crested, tufted.

=crételer=, _v.n._, (of hens) to cackle.

=crétin=, _n.m._, (med.) cretin; idiot, dunce. _C’est un —_; he is a dunce.

=crétiniser=, _v.a._, to brutalize, to brutify, to make an idiot of.

_se_ =crétiniser=, _v.r._, to become brutified; to become stupid.

=crétinisme=, _n.m._, cretinism, idiocy.

=crétique=, _adj._, cretic.

=crétois=, =-e=, _n._ and _adj._, Cretan.

=cretonne=, _n.f._, fine linen, long-cloth, cretonne.

=cretons=, _n.m.pl._, residuum of melted tallow and kitchen-stuff; graves. _— de lard_; scrapings.

=creusage=, _n.m._, deepening, hollowing; plowing; digging.

=creusement= (kreuz-mān), _n.m._, (l.u.) digging; excavation, hollowing, deepening.

=creuser=, _v.a._, to dig, to delve; to hollow, to make hollow, to excavate, to scoop out; to sink, to deepen. _— la terre_; to dig the ground. _— un fossé_; to dig a ditch. _— un puits_; to sink a well. _— une question_; to examine a question thoroughly.

_se_ =creuser=, _v.r._, to become hollow. _Se — le cerveau_; to rack one’s brain.

=creuser=, _v.n._, to dig. _— sous terre_; to dig underground. _— bien avant_; to dig deep.

=creuset=, _n.m._, crucible, melting-pot; (chem.) test, trial. _Passer par le —_; to assay, to refine.

=creux=, _n.m._, hollow, cavity; pit, hole, chasm; gutter, delve; mold; mortar, trough; pit of the stomach. _— planté d’arbres_; dell planted with trees. _— profond dans une mine_; groove in a mine. _Le — de la main_; the hollow of the hand. _Il a un bon —_; he has a fine bass voice. _— d’un vaisseau_ (nav.); depth of a ship’s hold. _— d’une voile_; cavity of a sail (which retains the wind).

=creu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, hollow, cavernous; deep; empty, unsubstantial, airy, fantastical, chimerical, extravagant. _Des yeux —_; eyes sunk in the head. _Avoir les joues —ses_; to have hollow cheeks. _Il a le ventre —_; his belly is empty. _Un fossé — de trois pieds_; a ditch three feet deep. _Esprit —_; _cerveau —_; cracked-brain, empty head. _Pensées —ses_; airy notions. _Viande —se_; frothy, unsubstantial food. _Songer —_; to be in a brown study.

=crevaille=, _n.f._, guzzling, gormandizing, stuffing; tuck out, blow out.

=crevaison=, _n.m._, puncture (bicycle).

=crevasse=, _n.f._, crevice, chink, rift, crack; gap, cranny; (vet.) malt-worm, cratches. _Des —s aux mains_; chaps.

=crevasser=, _v.a._, to split, to crack; to chap; to make cracks.

_se_ =crevasser=, _v.r._, to crack, to split, to gape, to become chapped.

=crevé=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, (l.ex.) very fat man; bloated fellow. _Petit —_; fast young fellow; one used up, done up.

=crevé=, _n.m._, opening, slash (in sleeves).

=crève-cœur=, _n.m._, (_—_) heart-break, heart-breaking thing, heart-sore; heart-rending thing.

=crever=, _v.a._, to burst, to break, to split, to crack, to rift, to tear, to rend; to stave in; to cram any one with victuals. _— une botte_; to burst a boot. _— les yeux à quelqu’un_; to put out any one’s eyes. _— un cheval_; to kill a horse. _Cela vous crève les yeux_; that lies under your very nose (_i.e._, is obvious, self-evident).

=crever=, _v.n._, to burst; to die, to perish. _C’est une médecine à faire — un cheval_; this medicine is enough to kill a horse. _— de graisse_; to be extremely fat. _— de chaud_; to be dying with heat. _— de rire_; to split one’s sides with laughing. _— de faim_; to be dying with hunger. _— d’orgueil_; to be bursting with pride. _— de biens_; to wallow in wealth.

_se_ =crever=, _v.r._, to burst; to kill oneself. _Se — de boire et de manger_; to cram or stuff till one is ready to burst. _Se — de travail_; to overwork oneself.

=crevet=, _n.m._, stay-lace with tags at both ends.

=crevette=, _n.f._, prawn, shrimp.

=cri=, _n.m._, cry; scream; screaming; roar, roaring; bawling, howling, yell, yelling, outcry, clamor; whine, whining; squeak, squeaking; opinion. _— de joie_, _— d’allégresse_; shout, shouting, hallooing, huzza, acclamation. _— aigre_, _aigu_, _perçant_; scream, shriek, squeak, shrill cry. _Les —s des femmes_; the squalling of women. _— de guerre_; watchword. _— d’armes_; (her.) motto. _Jeter un —_, _faire des —s_, _pousser un —_; to utter a cry, to cry out lustily; to raise an outcry; to complain loudly. _Demander à grands —s_; to demand with a loud voice. _Je poussai un grand —_; I shrieked out. _Jeter les hauts —s_; to cry out. _Le — de la nature_; the voice of nature. _Donner du — à la soie_; to sulphur silk. _À cor et à —s_; with hue and cry. _Il n’y a qu’un — sur son compte_; there is only one opinion about him.

=criage=, _n.m._, public crying.

*=criaillement=, _n.m._, act of wrangling; brawling; (of geese) gabbling.

*=criailler=, _v.n._, to bawl, to brawl, to cry, to clamor; to scold, to chide; (of geese) to gabble.

*=criaillerie=, _n.f._, brawling, clamoring, scolding, wrangling.

*=criailleu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, brawler, bawler, wrangler; shrew, scold.

=criant=, =-e=, _adj._, crying; glaring, shocking, shameful; noisy. _Injustice —e_; crying, daring injustice.

=criard=, =-e=, _adj._, crying, bawling, squalling, noisy; brawling, clamorous, scolding; (paint.) discordant; shrill. _Dettes —es_; dribbling or small debts. _Voix —e_; shrill voice.

=criard=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, brawler, clamorer; scold, shrew.

=criarde=, _n.f._, thick gummed cloth; varnished cloth.

=criblage=, _n.m._, sifting.

=crible=, _n.m._, sieve; riddle. _Percé comme un —_; as full of holes as a sieve; riddled.

=cribler=, _v.a._, to sift, to riddle; to scan, to examine; to pepper (a person). _— de coups_; to shoot, run, or stab through and through. _Criblé de mitraille_; riddled with shot. _Criblé de dettes_; over head and ears in debt.

=cribleu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, sifter.

=cribleu-x=, =-se=, _adj._, (anat.) pierced like a sieve, sieve-like.

=criblier=, _n.m._, sieve-maker.

=criblure=, _n.f._, siftings.

=cribration=, _n.f._, (chem.) cribration.

=cribriforme=, _adj._, cribriform.

=cric= (krî), _n.m._, lifting-jack, screw-jack, hand-screw; little ratchet-wheel on which the braces of carriages are fixed. _— à baril_; tilting-jack.

=cric-crac= (krik-krak), (_onomatopœia_) imitation of the creaking noise produced by breaking or tearing.

=cricoïde=, _n.m._ and _adj._, (anat.) cricoid.

=cri-cri=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (pop.) (ent.) cricket; (ornith.) bunting.

=crid= (krid), _n.m._ _V._ =criss=.

=criée=, _n.f._, proclamation of sale; auction. _Sa maison est en —_; his house is to be sold by auction. _Audience des —s_; auction mart. _À la —_; by auction.

=crier=, _v.n._, to cry, to cry out, to halloo, to shout, to bawl; to scream, to shriek, to screech; to squall, to clamor; to squeak; to call out; to whine, to pule; to complain loudly, to brawl, to exclaim; to scold; to huzza, to talk loudly; to gabble (of geese); to screech (of owls); to troat (of deer); to chirp (of grasshoppers and other insects); to groan (of roe-bucks); to creak (of doors). _— aux armes_; to cry to arms. _— au secours_; to call out for help. _— au meurtre_; to cry out murder. _— au voleur_; to cry out thief. _— au feu_; to cry out fire. _— à l’injustice_; to exclaim against an injustice. _— au scandale_; to inveigh against a scandal. _— gare_; to cry out beware! take care. _— misère_; to plead poverty. _— miséricorde_; to cry for mercy. _— famine_; to cry out famine. _— à tue-tête_, _comme un perdu_; to cry out; to shriek at the top of one’s voice or as loud as one can. _— bien fort_; to cry out lustily. _Les boyaux lui crient_; his bowels rumble. _Il crie avant qu’on l’écorche_; he cries before he is hurt. _Tout le monde crie contre cela_; everybody cries out against it.

=crier=, _v.a._, to proclaim; to cry; to hawk; to put up for sale; to publish, to blazon. _Cet enfant est perdu, il faut le faire —_; the child is lost, we must have him cried. _Faites — ce paquet de livres_; put up this lot of books.

=crierie= (kri-rî), _n.f._, bawling, clamor; wrangling; scolding, brawling.

=crieu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, bawling man or woman, squaller, bawler; crier; auctioneer; hawker. _— public_; town-crier.

=crime=, _n.m._, crime; sin, transgression, offense, felony; guilt, guiltiness, wickedness, sinfulness. _— d’Etat_; treason. _— de lèse-majesté_; high treason. _— capital_; capital offense, crime; (jur.) felony. _— dénaturé_; unnatural crime. _— abominable_; base, foul crime. _— qualifié_; indictable offense. _Faire un — à quelqu’un de_; to impute as a crime to any one. _Être porté au —_; to be prone to crime. _Endurci dans le —_; hardened in crime.

=criminaliser=, _v.a._, to remove a cause from a civil to a criminal court.

=criminaliste=, _n.m._, writer on criminal law.

=criminalité=, _n.f._, criminality.

=criminel=, =-le=, _adj._, criminal, felonious, guilty, unlawful. _Juge —_; a judge that tries criminal cases. _Chambre —le_, _cour —le_; criminal court.

=criminel=, _n.m._, =-le=, _n.f._, criminal, culprit, offender, felon. _m._, criminal affair, proceedings before a criminal court. _— d’état_; state criminal. _Au —_; in criminal matters, criminally.

=criminellement= (-nèl-mān), _adv._, criminally, culpably, guiltily.

=crin=, _n.m._, hair (of the mane and tail of the horse and other animals); horse-hair; abrupt termination of a metallic vein. _Un sommier_ or _matelas de —_; horse-hair mattress. _Se prendre aux —s_; to seize one another by the hair. _A tous —s_; with flowing mane and tail; (fig.) a zealous, indefatigable worker.

=crinal=, _n.m._, (surg.) Anel’s probe.

=crincrin=, _n.m._, (_onomatopœia_), screeching fiddle; scraper; scraping (of fiddles).

=crinier=, _n.m._, horse-hair worker, chair stuffer.

=crinière=, _n.f._, lion’s mane, horse’s mane. _Vilaine —_; ugly head of hair; shock.

=crinoline=, _n.f._, crinoline.

=crinon=, _n.m._, crinodes. (_pl._)

=criocère= _or_ =porte-croix=, (_—_) _n.m._, (ent.) crioceris.

=crique=, _n.f._, creek, cove; flaw, crack.

=criquer=, _v.n._, to crack, to chink (of metals).

=criquet=, _n.m._, bad horse, tit; little man; (ent.) gryllus, locust.

=crise=, _n.f._, crisis; fit, convulsion. _L’affaire est dans sa —_; the matter is come to a crisis. _— de nerfs_; fit of hysteria.

=crispation=, _n.f._, crispation, shriveling; thrilling sensation. _Donner des —s à quelqu’un_; to put any one on thorns.

=crisper=, _v.a._, to shrivel, to contract, to make shrink; to thrill, to make thrill, to thrill through; to irritate (the nerves); to give any one the fidgets, to fidget.

_se_ =crisper=, _v.r._, to shrivel, to shrivel up.

=crispin=, _n.m._, valet (in Molière’s comedies). _C’est un —_; he looks like a valet. _Jouer les —s_; (thea.) to perform the parts of valets.

=criss=, _n.m._, creese, Malay dagger.

=crissement=, _n.m._, grating of the teeth.

=crisser=, _v.n._, to grate (of the teeth).

=cristal=, _n.m._, (_cristaux_) crystal. _pl._, crystal ware, cut glass dishes, _— de roche_; rock crystal. _— de mine_; quartz. _Le — de l’eau_; the limpidity of water. _Le Palais de —_; the Crystal Palace.

=cristallerie= (-tèl-rî), _n.f._, glass-cutting; crystal manufactory; glass-house, glassworks.

=cristallier=, _n.m._, glass-cutter.

=cristallière=, _n.f._, crystal mine.

=cristallin=, =-e=, _adj._, crystalline; pellucid.

=cristallin=, _n.m._, (anat.) crystalline lens; (astron.) crystalline heaven.

☉=cristallin=, _n.m._, colored transparent crystals.

=cristallisable=, _adj._, crystallizable.

=cristallisant=, =-e=, _adj._, (chem.) crystallizing.

=cristallisation=, _n.f._, crystallizing, crystallization.