Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CRIM'SON, v.i.

To become of a deep red color; to be tinged with red; to blush. Her cheeks crimsoned at the entrance of her lover.

CRIM'SON, v.t.

To dye with crimson; to dye of a deep red color; to make red.

CRIM'SON-ED, pp.

Dyed or tinged with a deep red.

CRIM'SON-HUED, a.

Of a crimson color.

CRIM'SON-ING, ppr.

Dyeing or tinging with a deep red.

CRIM'SON-WARM, n.

Warm to redness.

CRI'NAL, a. [L. crinis, hair.]

Belonging to hair.

CRINC'UM, n.

A cramp; a contraction; a turn or bend; a whim. [A vulgar word.] – Hudibras.

CRINGE, n. [crinj.]

A bow; servile civility. – Philips.

CRINGE, v.i. [crinj.]

To bow; to bend with servility; to fawn; to make court by mean compliances. Flatterers are always bowing and cringing. – Arbuthnot.

CRINGE, v.t. [crinj; probably from the root of crank, crinkle, Heb. and Ch. כרע; or from the root of crook, with a nasal sound of the last consonant; G. kriechen; W. cryçu, to curl.]

Properly, to shrink; to contract; to draw together; a popular use of the word. [Vulgarly, scringe.] You see him cringe his face. – Shak.

CRINGE'LING, n.

One who cringes meanly.

CRIN'GER, n.

One who cringes, or bows and flatters with servility.

CRIN'GING, ppr.

Shrinking; bowing servilely.

CRIN'GLE, n. [cring'gl; D. kring, krinkel, kronkel, a bend, turn, ring, or twist. See Crank and Cringe.]

1. A withe for fastening a gate. [Local.]
2. In marine language, a hole in the bolt-rope of a sail, formed by intertwisting the division of a rope, called a strand, alternately round itself, and through the strand of the bolted rope, till it becomes three-fold, and takes the shape of a ring. Its use is to receive the ends of the ropes by which the sail is drawn up to its yard, or to extend the leech by the bow-line-bridles. Iron-cringles, or hanks, are open rings running on the stays, to which the heads of the stay-sails are made fast. – Mar. Dict.

CRIN-I-CUL'TU-RAL, a.

Relating to the growth of hair.

CRI-NIG'ER-OUS, a. [L. criniger; crinis, hair, and gero, to wear.]

Hairy; overgrown with hair. – Dict.

CRI'NITE, a. [L. crinitus, from crinis, hair. Qu. W. crinaw, to parch, to frizzle.]

Having the appearance of a tuft of hair.

CRINK'LE, n.

A wrinkle; a winding or turn; sinuosity.

CRINK'LE, v.i. [crink'l; D. krinkelen, to wind or twist. Qu. crank, and ring, Sax. hring.]

To turn or wind; to bend; to wrinkle; to run in and out in little or short bends or turns; as, the lightning crinkles.

CRINK'LE, v.t.

To form with short turns or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities.

CRINK'LED, pp.

Formed into short turns.

CRINK'LING, ppr.

Bending in short turns.

CRI'NO, n.

A cuticular disease in infants, supposed to be occasioned by the insinuation of a hair worm under the skin.

CRI'NOID, n. [Gr. κρινον, a lily, and ειδος, likeness.]

A fossil lily-shaped animal.