Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CRAY'ON, n. [Fr. from craie, chalk, from L. creta, Sp. greda.]

1. A general name for all colored stones, earths, or other minerals and substances, used in designing or painting in pastel or paste, whether they have been beaten and reduced to paste, or are used in their primitive consistence. Red crayons are made of blood-stone or red chalk; black ones, of charcoal or black lead. – Encyc.
2. A kind of pencil, or roll of paste, to draw lines with. – Dryden.
3. A drawing or design done with a pencil or crayon. – Johnson.

CRAY'ON, v.t.

1. To sketch with a crayon. Hence,
2. To sketch; to plan; to commit to paper one's first thoughts. – Bolingbroke.

CRAY'ON-ED, pp.

Sketched with a crayon.

CRAY'ON-ING, ppr.

Sketching or planning with a crayon.

CRAY'ON-PAINT-ING, n.

The act or art of drawing with crayons.

CRAZE, v.t. [Fr. ecraser; Sw. krossa; to break or bruise, to crush. See Crush.]

1. To break; to weaken; to break or impair the natural force or energy of. Till length of years, / And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs. – Milton.
2. To crush in pieces; to grind to powder; as, to craze tin.
3. To crack the brain; to shatter; to impair the intellect; as, to be crazed with love or grief. – Shak.

CRAZ'ED, pp.

Broken; bruised; crushed; impaired.; deranged in intellect; decrepit.

CRAZ'ED-NESS, n.

A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the intellect. – Hooker.

CRAZE'-MILL, or CRAZ'-ING-MILL, n.

A mill resembling a grist mill, used for grinding tin. – Encyc.

CRA'ZI-LY, adv. [See Crazy.]

In a broken or crazy manner.

CRA'ZI-NESS, n. [See Crazy.]

1. The state of being broken or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship or of the limbs.
2. The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement.

CRAZ'ING, ppr.

Breaking; crushing; making crazy.

CRA'ZY, a. [Fr. ecrasé.]

1. Broken; decrepit; weak; feeble; applied to the body, or constitution, or any structure; as, a crazy body; a crazy constitution; a crazy ship.
2. Broken, weakened, or disordered in intellect; deranged, weakened, or shattered in mind. We say, the man is crazy.

CREAGHT, n. [Irish.]

Herds of cattle. [Not used.] – Davies.

CREAGHT, v.i.

To graze on lands. [Not used.] – Davies.

CREAK, v.i. [W. crecian, to scream, to crash; crec, a scream, a shriek; connected with creg, cryg, rough, hoarse, harsh, from rhyg, Eng. rye, but the sense of which is rough, rugged. Indeed this is radically the same word as rough, L. raucus. The L. rugio is probably from the same root, and perhaps rugo. The Sax. cearcian, to creak, may be the same word, the letters transposed; as may the Sp. cruzir, to rustle, Gr. κρεκω, to comb, scrape, rake, and Russ. crik, a cry, krichu, to cry. On this word are formed shriek and screech.]

To make a sharp harsh grating sound, of some continuance, as by the friction of hard substances. Thus, the hinge of a door creaks in turning; a tight firm shoe creaks in walking, by the friction of the leather.

CREAK'ING, n.

A harsh grating sound.

CREAK'ING, ppr.

Making a harsh grating sound; as, creaking hinges or shoes.

CREAM, n. [Fr. crême; L. cremor; G. rahm; Sax. ream; Ice. riome; D. room; Sp. crema. Class Rm.]

1. In a general sense, any part of a liquor that separates from the rest, rises and collects on the surface. More particularly, the oily part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated in a cool place, rises and forms a scum on the surface, as it is specifically lighter than the other part of the liquor. This by agitation forms butter.
2. The best part of a thing; as, the cream of a jest or story. Cream of lime, the scum of lime water; or that part of lime which, after being dissolved in its caustic state, separates from the water in the mild state of chalk or lime-stone. – Encyc. Cream of tartar, the scum of a boiling solution of tartar. – Coxe. The purified and crystalized supertartrate of potash. – Chim.

CREAM, v.i.

1. To gather cream; to flower or mantle.
2. To grow stiff, or formal. – Shak.

CREAM, v.t.

1. To skim; to take off cream by skimming.
2. To take off the quintessence or best part of a thing.

CREAM'-BOWL, n.

A bowl for holding cream.

CREAM'ED, pp.

Skimmed off from milk, as the best part.

CREAM'-FAC-ED, a.

White; pale; having a coward look. – Shak.

CREAM'-NUT, n.

The fruit of the Bertholletea excelsa, of South America. – Haldiman.