Chapter 92

Coy"o*te (k?"?-t? or k?"?t), n. [Spanish Amer., fr. Mexican coyotl.] (Zo÷l.) A carnivorous animal (Canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of North America; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl.

||Coy"pu (koi"p??), n. [Native name.] (Zo÷l.) A South American rodent (Myopotamus coypus), allied to the beaver. It produces a valuable fur called nutria. [Written also coypou.]

Coys"trel (kois"tr&ebreve;l), n. Same as Coistril.

Coz (kŭz), n. A contraction of cousin. Shak.

Coz"en (k?z"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cozened (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cozening (-'n-?ng). ] [From cousin, hence, literally, to deceive through pretext of relationship, F. cousiner.] To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.

He had cozened the world by fine phrases. Macaulay.

Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters. Locke.

Goring loved no man so well but that he would cozen him, and expose him to public mirth for having been cozened. Clarendon.

Coz"en, v. i. To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully.

Some cogging, cozening slave. Shak.

Coz"en*age (-&asl;j), n. [See Cozen, and cf. Cousinage.] The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.

Coz"en*er (k?z"'n-?r), n. One who cheats or defrauds.

Co*zier (k?"zh?r), n. See Cosier.

Co"zi*ly (k?"z?-l?), adv. Snugly; comfortably.

Co"zi*ness, n. The state or quality of being cozy.

Co"zy (k?"z?), a. [Compar. Cozier (-z?-?r); superl. Coziest.] [Cf. Scot. cosie, cozie, prob. from Gael. cosach abounding in hollows, or cosagach full of holes or crevices, snug, sheltered, from cos a hollow, a crevice.]

1. Snug; comfortable; easy; contented. [Written also cosey and cosy.]

2. [Cf. F. causer to chat, talk.] Chatty; talkative; sociable; familiar. [Eng.]

Co"zy, n. [See Cozy,a.] A wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot.

Crab (krăb), n. [AS. crabba; akin to D. krab, G. krabbe, krebs, Icel. krabbi, Sw. krabba, Dan. krabbe, and perh. to E. cramp. Cf. Crawfish.] 1. (Zo÷l.) One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.

&fist; The name is applied to all the Brachyura, and to certain Anomura, as the hermit crabs. Formerly, it was sometimes applied to Crustacea in general. Many species are edible, the blue crab of the Atlantic coast being one of the most esteemed. The large European edible crab is Cancer padurus. Soft-shelled crabs are blue crabs that have recently cast their shells. See Cancer; also, Box crab, Fiddler crab, Hermit crab, Spider crab, etc., under Box, Fiddler. etc.

2. The zodiacal constellation Cancer.

3. [See Crab, a.] (Bot.) A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.

When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl. Shak.

4. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick. [Obs.] Garrick.

5. (Mech.) (a) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc. (b) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc. (c) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn. (d) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

Calling crab. (Zo÷l.) See Fiddler., n., 2. -- Crab apple, a small, sour apple, of several kinds; also, the tree which bears it; as, the European crab apple (Pyrus Malus var. sylvestris); the Siberian crab apple (Pyrus baccata); and the American (Pyrus coronaria). -- Crab grass. (Bot.) (a) A grass (Digitaria, or Panicum, sanguinalis); -- called also finger grass. (b) A grass of the genus Eleusine (E. Indica); -- called also dog's-tail grass, wire grass, etc. -- Crab louse (Zo÷l.), a species of louse (Phthirius pubis), sometimes infesting the human body. -- Crab plover (Zo÷l.), an Asiatic plover (Dromas ardeola). -- Crab's eyes, or Crab's stones, masses of calcareous matter found, at certain seasons of the year, on either side of the stomach of the European crawfishes, and formerly used in medicine for absorbent and antacid purposes; the gastroliths. -- Crab spider (Zo÷l.), one of a group of spiders (LaterigradŠ); -- called because they can run backwards or sideways like a crab. -- Crab tree, the tree that bears crab applies. -- Crab wood, a light cabinet wood obtained in Guiana, which takes a high polish. McElrath. -- To catch a crab (Naut.), a phrase used of a rower: (a) when he fails to raise his oar clear of the water; (b) when he misses the water altogether in making a stroke.

Crab (krăb), v. t. 1. To make sour or morose; to embitter. [Obs.]

Sickness sours or crabs our nature. Glanvill.

2. To beat with a crabstick. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.

Crab, v. i. (Naut.)To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Crab, a. [Prob. from the same root as crab, n.] Sour; rough; austere.

The crab vintage of the neighb'ring coast. Dryden.

Crab"bed (kr?b"b?d), a. [See Crab,n.] 1. Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.

Crabbed age and youth can not live together. Shak.

2. Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.

3. Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author. "Crabbed eloquence." Chaucer.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose. Milton.

4. Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting.

-- Crab"bed*ly, adv. -- Crab"bed*ness, n.

Crab"ber (kr?b"b?r), n. One who catches crabs.

Crab"bing, n. 1. The act or art of catching crabs.

2. (Falconry) The fighting of hawks with each other.

3. (Woolen Manuf.) A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.

Crab"bish (krăb"b&ibreve;sh), a. Somewhat sour or cross.

The whips of the most crabbish Satyristes. Decker.

Crab"by (-b&ybreve;), a. Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing. "Persius is crabby, because ancient." Marston.

Crab"eat`er (krăb"ēt`&etilde;r), n. (Zo÷l.) (a) The cobia. (b) An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus). (c) A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species).

Cra"ber (krā"b&etilde;r), n. (Zo÷l.) The water rat. Walton.

Crab"faced` (krăb"fāst`), a. Having a sour, disagreeable countenance. Beau. & Fl.

Crab"si`dle (-sī`d'l), v. i. To move sidewise, as a crab. [Jocular]. Southey.

Crab"stick` (-st&ibreve;k`), n. A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the crab tree.

Crab" tree (trē`). See under Crab.

Crab"-yaws` (kr?b"y?z`), n. (Med.) A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws. Dunglison.

Crache (krăch), v. To scratch. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Crack (krăk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cracked (krăkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cracking.] [OE. cracken, craken, to crack, break, boast, AS. cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crake, Cracknel, Creak.]

1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

2. To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.

O, madam, my old heart is cracked. Shak.

He thought none poets till their brains were cracked. Roscommon.

3. To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.

4. To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke. B. Jonson.

5. To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up. [Low]

To crack a bottle, to open the bottle and drink its contents. -- To crack a crib, to commit burglary. [Slang] -- To crack on, to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more steam. [Colloq.]

Crack, v. i. 1. To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.

By misfortune it cracked in the coling. Boyle.

The mirror cracked from side to side. Tennyson.

2. To be ruined or impaired; to fail. [Collog.]

The credit . . . of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out. Dryden.

3. To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.

As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. Shak.

4. To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of. [Archaic.]

Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack. Shak.

Crack, n. 1. A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass.

2. Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.

My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw. Shak.

3. A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip.

Will the stretch out to the crack of doom? Shak.

4. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.

Though now our voices Have got the mannish crack. Shak.

5. Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.

6. A crazy or crack-brained person. [Obs.]

I . . . can not get the Parliament to listen to me, who look upon me as a crack and a projector. Addison.

7. A boast; boasting. [Obs.] "Crack and brags." Burton. "Vainglorius cracks." Spenser.

8. Breach of chastity. [Obs.] Shak.

9. A boy, generally a pert, lively boy. [Obs.]

Val. 'T is a noble child. Vir. A crack, madam. Shak.

10. A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack. [Eng. & Scot. Colloq.]

11. Free conversation; friendly chat. [Scot.]

What is crack in English? . . . A crack is . . . a chat with a good, kindly human heart in it. P. P. Alexander.

Crack, a. Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of. [Colloq.]

One of our crack speakers in the Commons. Dickens.

Crack"-brained` (-brānd`), a. Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.

Cracked (krăkt), a. 1. Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.

2. Crack-brained. [Colloq.]

Crack"er (krăk"&etilde;r), n. 1. One who, or that which, cracks.

2. A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. [Obs.]

What cracker is this same that deafs our ears? Shak.

3. A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker.

4. A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.

5. A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. Bartlett.

6. (Zo÷l.) The pintail duck.

7. pl. (Mach.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc. Knight.

Crac"kle (krăk"k'l), v. i. [Dim. of crack.] To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.

The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden.

Crac"kle, n. 1. The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.

The crackle of fireworks. Carlyle.

2. (Med.) A kind of crackling sound or rÔle, heard in some abnormal states of the lungs; as, dry crackle; moist crackle. Quain.

3. (Fine Arts) A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.

Crac"kled (-k'ld), a. (Fine Arts) Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.

Crac"kle*ware` (-w?r`), n. See Crackle, n., 3.

Crac"kling (kr?k"kl?ng), n. 1. The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.

As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. Eccl. vii. 6.

2. The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork.

For the first time in his life he tested crackling. Lamb.

3. pl. Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.

Crack"nel (kr?k"n?l), n. [F. craquelin, fr. D. krakeling, fr. krakken to crack. See Crack, v. t.] A hard brittle cake or biscuit. Spenser.

Cracks"man (kr?ks"man), n., pl. Cracksmen (-men). A burglar. [Slang]

Cra*co"vi*an (kr?-k?"v?-an), a. Of or pertaining to Cracow in Poland.

||Cra*co`vi*enne" (kr?-k?`v?-?n"), n. [F., fr. Cracow, the city.] (Mus.) A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time.

Cra"cowes (kr?"k?z), n. pl. Long-toed boots or shoes formerly worn in many parts of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century. Fairholt.

Cra"dle (krād'l), n. [AS. cradel, cradol, prob. from Celtic; cf. Gael. creathall, Ir. craidhal, W. cryd a shaking or rocking, a cradle; perh. akin to E. crate.] 1. A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty.

The cradle that received thee at thy birth. Cowper.

No sooner was I crept out of my cradle But I was made a king, at nine months old. Shak.

2. Infancy, or very early life.

From their cradles bred together. Shak.

A form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles. Clarendon.

3. (Agric.) An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.

4. (Engraving) A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.

5. A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.

6. (Med.) (a) A case for a broken or dislocated limb. (b) A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.

7. (Mining) (a) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker. [U.S.] (b) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.

8. (Carp.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster. Knight.

9. (Naut.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.

Cat's cradle. See under Cat. -- Cradle hole, a sunken place in a road, caused by thawing, or by travel over a soft spot. -- Cradle scythe, a broad scythe used in a cradle for cutting grain.

Cra"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cradled (-d'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Cradling (-dl?ng).] 1. To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking.

It cradles their fears to sleep. D. A. Clark.

2. To nurse or train in infancy.

He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars. Glanvill.

3. To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.

4. To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.

In Lombardy . . . boats are cradled and transported over the grade. Knight.

To cradle a picture, to put ribs across the back of a picture, to prevent the panels from warping.

Cra"dle, v. i. To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.

Withered roots and husks wherein the acorn cradled. Shak.

Cra"dling (-dl?ng), n. 1. The act of using a cradle.

2. (Coopering) Cutting a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterward united and rehooped.

3. (Carp.) The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed. Knight.

Craft (kr&adot;ft), n. [AS. crŠft strength, skill, art, cunning; akin to OS., G., Sw., & Dan. kraft strength, D. kracht, Icel. kraptr; perh. originally, a drawing together, stretching, from the root of E. cramp.] 1. Strength; might; secret power. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.

Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. Acts xix. 25.

A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill or craft of making. B. Jonson.

Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, Has the craft of the smith been held in repute. Longfellow.

3. Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers.

The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds to the new craft guilds. J. R. Green.

4. Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices.

You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft. Hobbes.

The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. Mark xiv. 1.

5. (Naut.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense.

The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving over the lake. Prof. Wilson.

Small crafts, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets.

Craft, v. t. To play tricks; to practice artifice. [Obs.]

You have crafted fair. Shak.

crafter n. a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman. [WordNet 1.5]

Craft"i*ly (-?-l?), adv. [See Crafty.] With craft; artfully; cunningly.

Craft"i*ness (kr?ft"?-n?s), n. Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job. v. 13.

Craft"less (-l?s), a. Without craft or cunning.

Helpless, craftless, and innocent people. Jer. Taylor.

Crafts"man (kr?fts"man), n.; pl. Craftsmen (-men). One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.

Crafts"man*ship, n. The work of a craftsman.

Crafts"mas`ter (-m?s`t?r), n. One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning.

In cunning persuasion his craftsmaster. Holland.

Craft"y (kr?ft"?), a. [AS. cr&?;ftig.] 1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. [Obs.] "Crafty work." Piers Plowman.

2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.

A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif.

3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily. "A pair of crafty knaves." Shak.

With anxious care and crafty wiles. J. Baillie.

Syn. -- Skillful; dexterous; cunning; artful; wily; sly; fraudulent; deceitful; subtle; shrewd. See Cunning.

Crag (krăg), n. [W. craig; akin to Gael. creag, Corn. karak, Armor. karrek.] 1. A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.

From crag to crag the signal flew. Sir W. Scott.

2. (Geol.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.

Crag, n. [A form of craw: cf. D. kraag neck, collar, G. kragen. See Craw.] 1. The neck or throat [Obs.]

And bear the crag so stiff and so state. Spenser.

2. The neck piece or scrag of mutton. Johnson.

Crag"ged (-g&ebreve;d), a. Full of crags, or steep, broken rocks; abounding with prominences, points, and inequalities; rough; rugged.

Into its cragged rents descend. J. Baillie.

Crag"ged*ness, n. The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess.

Crag"gi*ness (-g?-n?s), n. The state of being craggy.

Crag"gy (krăg"g&ybreve;), a. Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain. "The craggy ledge." Tennyson.

Crags"man (krăgz"man), n.; pl. Cragsmen (- men). One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.

Craie (krā), n. See Crare. [Obs.]

Craig" floun`der (krāg" floun`d&etilde;r). [Scot. craig a rock. See 1st Crag.] (Zo÷l.) The pole flounder.

Crail (krāl), n. [See Creel.] A creel or osier basket.

Crake (krāk), v. t. & i. [See Crack.] 1. To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.

2. To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. [Obs.]

Each man may crake of that which was his own. Mir. for Mag.

Crake, n. A boast. See Crack, n. [Obs.] Spenser.

Crake, n. [Cf. Icel. krāka crow, krākr raven, Sw. krňka, Dan. krage; perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crow.] (Zo÷l.) Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.

Crake"ber`ry (-b?r`r?), n. (Bot.) See Crowberry.

Crak"er (kr?k"?r), n. One who boasts; a braggart. [Obs.] Old Play.

Cram (krăm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crammed (krămd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cramming.] [AS. crammian to cram; akin to Icel. kremja to squeeze, bruise, Sw. krama to press. Cf. Cramp.] 1. To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.

Their storehouses crammed with grain. Shak.

He will cram his brass down our throats. Swift.

2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.

Children would be freer from disease if they were not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers. Locke.

Cram us with praise, and make us As fat as tame things. Shak.

3. To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.

Cram, v. i. 1. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.

Gluttony . . . . Crams, and blasphemes his feeder. Milton.

2. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study. [Colloq.]

Cram, n. 1. The act of cramming.

2. Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination. [Colloq.]

3. (Weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.

Cram"bo (-b&osl;), n. [Cf. Cramp, a., difficult.] 1. A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme.

I saw in one corner . . . a cluster of men and women, diverting themselves with a game at crambo. I heard several double rhymes . . . which raised a great deal of mirth. Addison.

2. A word rhyming with another word.

His similes in order set And every crambo he could get. Swift.

Dumb crambo, a game in which one party of players give a word which rhymes with another, which last to be guessed by the opposing party, who represent in dumb show what they think it to be.

Cram"mer (krăm"m&etilde;r), n. One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared. Dickens.

{ Cra*moi"sie Cra*moi"sy} (kr?-moi"z?), a. [F. cramoisi crimson. See Crimson.] Crimson. [Obs.]

A splendid seignior, magnificent in cramoisy velevet. Motley.

Cramp (krămp), n. [OE. crampe, craumpe; akin to D. & Sw. kramp, Dan. krampe, G. krampf (whence F. crampe), Icel. krappr strait, narrow, and to E. crimp, crumple; cf. cram. See Grape.] 1. That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.

A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind. L'Estrange.

Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear. Cowper.

2. (Masonry) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.

3. (Carp.) A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.

4. A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.

5. (Med.) A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.

The cramp, divers nights, gripeth him in his legs. Sir T. More.

Cramp bone, the patella of a sheep; -- formerly used as a charm for the cramp. Halliwell. "He could turn cramp bones into chess men." Dickens. -- Cramp ring, a ring formerly supposed to have virtue in averting or curing cramp, as having been consecrated by one of the kings of England on Good Friday.