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_Robertson._
CROWNER, _s._ The name of a fish.
V. ~Crooner~.
CROW-PURSE, _s._ The ovarium of a skate, Orkn.
CRUBAN, _s._ A disease of cows, S. B.
_Ess. Highl. Soc._
CRUBAN, _s._ A wooden pannier fixed on a horse's back, Caithn.
_Statist. Acc._
CRUDS, _s. pl._ Curds, S.
_s.h.i.+rrefs._
~Cruddy b.u.t.ter~, A kind of cheese, of which the curds, being poor, are mixed with b.u.t.ter, S.
_Sir J. Sinclair._
CRUE-HERRING, _s._ The Shad, Tupea Alosa, Linn.
_Pennant._
CRUELL, _adj._
1. Keen in battle.
_Wallace._
2. Resolute, undaunted.
_Wallace._
3. Terrible.
_Wallace._
4. Acute. "_Cruel_ pain," acute pain, S.
CRUELS, _s._ The king's evil, scrophula, S.
Fr. _ecrouelles_, id.
_Wodrow._
CRUER, _s._ A kind of s.h.i.+p; apparently the same with ~Crayar~, q. v.
_Mellvill's MS._
CRUFE, CRUIFE, CROVE, _s._
1. A hovel, S. _cru_, S. B.
_Henrysone._
2. A stye.
_Skene._
Isl. _hroo_, _hroof_, structura vilis.
CRUISKEN _of whisky_, a certain measure of this liquor, Ang.
Dan. _kruus_, a cup.
CRUKE, _s._ A circle.
_Douglas._
Teut. _krok-en_, curvare.
CRUKIS, CROOKS, _s. pl._ The windings of a river, S.
_Wallace._
Isl. _krok-r_, angulus.
_To_ CRULGE, _v. a._ To contract, to draw together, S.
_s.h.i.+rrefs._
