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crossgrained, a. intractable, contrary, perverse, refractory, froward, stubborn.
crossing, n. hybridization.
crossing, n. intersection, decussation; cancellation; traversing; junction; crosswalk; thwarting, frustration, contradiction, interference; consignation.
crossness, n. petulance, peevishness, cynicism, unamiability, moroseness, irritability, asperity, ill-nature, inaffability, irascibility.
crosswise, adv. across, transversely.
crotch, n. fork, crotchet, angle.
crotchet, n. whim, fancy, vagary, caprice, freak.
crotchety, a. whimsical, fanciful, vagarious, capricious.
crouch, v. squat, couch, stoop; cringe, fawn, truckle.
croup, n. cynanche.
crow, n. a.s.sociated Words: caw, corvine, corviform, corvoid.
crow, v. brag, exult, swagger, vaunt, gasconade, vapor.
crowd, v. press, shove, jostle; compress, cram, cramp, squeeze, stow, impact; swarm, throng, troop; intrude.
crowd, n. concourse, crush, posse, mult.i.tude, number, ma.s.s, throng, horde, host, troop, bevy, knot, a.s.sembly, confluence; populace, rabble, commonalty, mob, proletariat, riffraff, the ma.s.ses, rabblerout, roughscuff.
crowded, a. congested, serried, dense, compact. Antonyms: incompact, loose.
crowding, n. congestion, compression.
crown, n. diadem, coronet, corona; tiara; wreath, garland chaplet, coronal, laurel, bays; royalty, sovereignty; consummation, capsheaf, summit, top, crest, vertex, vortex; krone. a.s.sociated Words: coronal, coronary.
crown, v. consummate, complete.
crowning, a. consummating, completing.
crowning, n. coronation.
crucial, a. cruciform, cross-shaped; severe, trying, ordeal
crude, a. undeveloped, inelaborate, uncouth, inartistic, unfinished.
cruel, a. pitiless, merciless, inhuman, unmerciful, fell, relentless, ruthless, truculent, brutal, unfeeling, severe, inexorable, incompa.s.sionate, implacable.
cruelly, n. inhumanity, implacability, severity, atrocity, pitilessness.
crumble, v. disintegrate, decay, molder.
crumbly, a. friable.
crumple, v. rumple, ruck, wrinkle, crush together.
crush, v. overpower, vanquish, quell, subdue, conquer, suppress; squeeze, press, compress.
crush, n. compression; pressure, crowd.
crus.h.i.+ng, a. overwhelming.
crush-room, n. foyer.
crust, n. incrustation.--v. incrust.
crusty, a. cross, unamiable, surly.
crux, n. puzzle, riddle.
cry, v. weep, sob, wail, bawl, squall, whimper, blubber, pule, bewail; shout, call, exclaim, yell, scream, vociferate, clamor, e.j.a.c.u.l.a.t.e.
cry, n. exclamation, e.j.a.c.u.l.a.t.i.o.n, acclamation, outcry, clamor, vociferation, yoicks, scream, shriek, howl, yell, proclamation; slogan, s.h.i.+bboleth; halloo, whoop, hoot: crying, weeping, wail, lamentation, mewl, plaint whimpering.
cry down. decry, disparage, dispraise, traduce.
crying, n. weeping, sobbing, wailing, wail, clamation, bawling, puling, squalling.
crying, a. weeping, sobbing, clamant; flagrant, egregious, heinous, nefarious.
cry out upon. denounce, censure, condemn.
crypt, n. catacomb; follicle.
cryptic, a. hidden, secret, occult, enigmatical.
cry to. pray to, implore, beseech.
cry up. extol, laud, praise.
cube, n. hexahedron.
cucking-stool, n. castigatory, tumbrel, trebucket, ducking-stool
cuc.u.mber, n. gherkin (small and p.r.i.c.kly).
cud, n. rumen; quid. a.s.sociated Words: Ruminantia, ruminant, ruminate, rumination, merycism.
cuddle, v. nestle, snuggle.
cudgel, n. club, bludgeon.
