CPage 710
- English Word Cranberries Definition of Cranberry
- English Word Cranberry Definition A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it.
- English Word Cranch Definition See Craunch.
- English Word Crane Definition A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel.
- English Word Crane Definition A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck.
- English Word Crane Definition A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. of Derrick.
- English Word Crane Definition An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire.
- English Word Crane Definition A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
- English Word Crane Definition A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2.
- English Word Crane Definition To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; -- with up.
- English Word Crane Definition To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck; as, to crane the neck disdainfully.
- English Word Crane Definition to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap.
- English Word Crane's-bill Definition The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane.
- English Word Crane's-bill Definition A pair of long-beaked forceps.
- English Word Craned Definition of Crane
- English Word Crang Definition See Krang.
- English Word Crania Definition A genus of living Brachiopoda; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.
- English Word Crania Definition of Cranium
- English Word Cranial Definition Of or pertaining to the cranium.
- English Word Craning Definition of Crane