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cray
(encz) | Cray,Cray n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
cray
(czen) | Cray,Crayn: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
cray
(gcide) | Crare \Crare\ (kr?r), n. [OF. craier, creer, croyer, ship of
war, LL. craiera, creyera, perh. from G. krieger warrior, or
D. krijger.]
A slow unwieldy trading vessel. [Obs.] [Written also
crayer, cray, and craie.] --Shak.
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Cray
(gcide) | Cray \Cray\ (kr[=a]), Crayer \Cray"er\ (-[~e]r), n.
See Crare. [Obs.]
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cray
(encz) | Cray,Cray n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
crayfish
(encz) | crayfish,rak n: Zdeněk Brož |
crayon
(encz) | crayon,pastel n: Zdeněk Brož |
crayons
(encz) | crayons,barevné křídy Zdeněk Brož |
crays
(encz) | Crays,Crays n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
wax crayon
(encz) | wax crayon, n: |
cray
(czen) | Cray,Crayn: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
crays
(czen) | Crays,Craysn: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
cray
(gcide) | Crare \Crare\ (kr?r), n. [OF. craier, creer, croyer, ship of
war, LL. craiera, creyera, perh. from G. krieger warrior, or
D. krijger.]
A slow unwieldy trading vessel. [Obs.] [Written also
crayer, cray, and craie.] --Shak.
[1913 Webster]Cray \Cray\ (kr[=a]), Crayer \Cray"er\ (-[~e]r), n.
See Crare. [Obs.]
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crayer
(gcide) | Crare \Crare\ (kr?r), n. [OF. craier, creer, croyer, ship of
war, LL. craiera, creyera, perh. from G. krieger warrior, or
D. krijger.]
A slow unwieldy trading vessel. [Obs.] [Written also
crayer, cray, and craie.] --Shak.
[1913 Webster]Cray \Cray\ (kr[=a]), Crayer \Cray"er\ (-[~e]r), n.
See Crare. [Obs.]
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Crayer
(gcide) | Crare \Crare\ (kr?r), n. [OF. craier, creer, croyer, ship of
war, LL. craiera, creyera, perh. from G. krieger warrior, or
D. krijger.]
A slow unwieldy trading vessel. [Obs.] [Written also
crayer, cray, and craie.] --Shak.
[1913 Webster]Cray \Cray\ (kr[=a]), Crayer \Cray"er\ (-[~e]r), n.
See Crare. [Obs.]
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Crayfish
(gcide) | Crawfish \Craw"fish`\ (kr[add]"f[i^]sh`), Crayfish \Cray"fish`\
(kr[=a]"f[i^]sh`), n.; pl. -fishes or -fish. [Corrupted
fr. OE. crevis, creves, OF. crevice, F. ['e]crevisse, fr.
OHG. krebiz crab, G. krebs. See Crab. The ending -fish
arose from confusion with E. fish.] (Zool.)
Any decapod crustacean of the family Astacid[ae] (genera
Cambarus and Cambarus), resembling the lobster, but
smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed
very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North
American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus
Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mammoth Cave is
Cambarus pellucidus. The common European species is
Astacus fluviatilis.
Syn: crawdad, crawdaddy.
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2. tiny lobsterlike crustaceans usually boiled briefly.
Syn: crawdad, ecrevisse.
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3. a large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace
but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters.
Syn: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish, sea
crawfish.
[WordNet 1.5]Crayfish \Cray"fish\ (kr[=a]"f[i^]sh), n. (Zool.)
See Crawfish.
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Crayon
(gcide) | Crayon \Cray"on\ (kr?"?n), n. [F., a crayon, a lead pencil
(crayon Cont['e] Cont['e]'s pencil, i. e., one made a black
compound invented by Cont['e]), fr. craie chalk, L. creta;
said to be, properly, Cretan earth, fr. Creta the island
Crete. Cf. Cretaceous.]
1. An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of
some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or
cylinders.
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Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some
strokes of the pencil or the crayon. --Dryden.
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Note: The black crayon gives a deeper black than the lead
pencil. This and the colored crayons are often called
chalks. The red crayon is also called sanguine. See
Chalk, and Sanguine.
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2. A crayon drawing.
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3. (Electricity) A pencil of carbon used in producing
electric light.
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Crayon board, cardboard with a surface prepared for crayon
drawing.
Crayon drawing, the act or art of drawing with crayons; a
drawing made with crayons.
[1913 Webster]Crayon \Cray"on\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crayoned (-?nd); p. pr.
& vb. n. Crayoning.] [Cf. F. crayonner.]
To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.
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He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably
to the plan which he had crayoned out. --Malone.
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Crayon board
(gcide) | Crayon \Cray"on\ (kr?"?n), n. [F., a crayon, a lead pencil
(crayon Cont['e] Cont['e]'s pencil, i. e., one made a black
compound invented by Cont['e]), fr. craie chalk, L. creta;
said to be, properly, Cretan earth, fr. Creta the island
Crete. Cf. Cretaceous.]
1. An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of
some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or
cylinders.
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Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some
strokes of the pencil or the crayon. --Dryden.
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Note: The black crayon gives a deeper black than the lead
pencil. This and the colored crayons are often called
chalks. The red crayon is also called sanguine. See
Chalk, and Sanguine.
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2. A crayon drawing.
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3. (Electricity) A pencil of carbon used in producing
electric light.
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Crayon board, cardboard with a surface prepared for crayon
drawing.
Crayon drawing, the act or art of drawing with crayons; a
drawing made with crayons.
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Crayon drawing
(gcide) | Crayon \Cray"on\ (kr?"?n), n. [F., a crayon, a lead pencil
(crayon Cont['e] Cont['e]'s pencil, i. e., one made a black
compound invented by Cont['e]), fr. craie chalk, L. creta;
said to be, properly, Cretan earth, fr. Creta the island
Crete. Cf. Cretaceous.]
1. An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of
some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or
cylinders.
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Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some
strokes of the pencil or the crayon. --Dryden.
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Note: The black crayon gives a deeper black than the lead
pencil. This and the colored crayons are often called
chalks. The red crayon is also called sanguine. See
Chalk, and Sanguine.
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2. A crayon drawing.
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3. (Electricity) A pencil of carbon used in producing
electric light.
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Crayon board, cardboard with a surface prepared for crayon
drawing.
Crayon drawing, the act or art of drawing with crayons; a
drawing made with crayons.
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Crayoned
(gcide) | Crayon \Cray"on\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crayoned (-?nd); p. pr.
& vb. n. Crayoning.] [Cf. F. crayonner.]
To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.
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He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably
to the plan which he had crayoned out. --Malone.
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Crayoning
(gcide) | Crayon \Cray"on\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crayoned (-?nd); p. pr.
& vb. n. Crayoning.] [Cf. F. crayonner.]
To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.
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He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably
to the plan which he had crayoned out. --Malone.
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Portcrayon
(gcide) | Portcrayon \Port`cray"on\, n. [F. porte-crayon; porter to carry
+ crayon a crayon.]
A metallic handle with a clasp for holding a crayon.
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Scray
(gcide) | Scray \Scray\ (skr[=a]), n. [Cf. W. ysgr[aum]en, ysgr[aum]ell, a
sea swallow, Armor. skrav.] (Zool.)
A tern; the sea swallow. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also
scraye.]
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scraye
(gcide) | Scray \Scray\ (skr[=a]), n. [Cf. W. ysgr[aum]en, ysgr[aum]ell, a
sea swallow, Armor. skrav.] (Zool.)
A tern; the sea swallow. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also
scraye.]
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Sea crayfish
(gcide) | Sea crawfish \Sea" craw"fish`\ Sea crayfish \Sea" cray"fish`\
(Zool.)
Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as
the European spiny lobster (Palinurus vulgaris), which is
much used as an article of food. See Lobster.
[1913 Webster]Rock \Rock\, n. [OF. roke, F. roche; cf. Armor. roc'h, and AS.
rocc.]
1. A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed
stone or crag. See Stone.
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Come one, come all! this rock shall fly
From its firm base as soon as I. --Sir W.
Scott.
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2. (Geol.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's
crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth,
clay, etc., when in natural beds.
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3. That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a
support; a refuge.
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The Lord is my rock, and my fortress. --2 Sam. xxii.
2.
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4. Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling
the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
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5. (Zool.) The striped bass. See under Bass.
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Note: This word is frequently used in the formation of
self-explaining compounds; as, rock-bound, rock-built,
rock-ribbed, rock-roofed, and the like.
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Rock alum. [Probably so called by confusion with F. roche a
rock.] Same as Roche alum.
Rock barnacle (Zool.), a barnacle (Balanus balanoides)
very abundant on rocks washed by tides.
Rock bass. (Zool.)
(a) The stripped bass. See under Bass.
(b) The goggle-eye.
(c) The cabrilla. Other species are also locally called
rock bass.
Rock builder (Zool.), any species of animal whose remains
contribute to the formation of rocks, especially the
corals and Foraminifera.
Rock butter (Min.), native alum mixed with clay and oxide
of iron, usually in soft masses of a yellowish white
color, occuring in cavities and fissures in argillaceous
slate.
Rock candy, a form of candy consisting of crystals of pure
sugar which are very hard, whence the name.
Rock cavy. (Zool.) See Moco.
Rock cod (Zool.)
(a) A small, often reddish or brown, variety of the cod
found about rocks andledges.
(b) A California rockfish.
Rock cook. (Zool.)
(a) A European wrasse (Centrolabrus exoletus).
(b) A rockling.
Rock cork (Min.), a variety of asbestus the fibers of which
are loosely interlaced. It resembles cork in its texture.
Rock crab (Zool.), any one of several species of large
crabs of the genus C, as the two species of the New
England coast (Cancer irroratus and Cancer borealis).
See Illust. under Cancer.
Rock cress (Bot.), a name of several plants of the cress
kind found on rocks, as Arabis petraea, Arabis lyrata,
etc.
Rock crystal (Min.), limpid quartz. See Quartz, and under
Crystal.
Rock dove (Zool.), the rock pigeon; -- called also {rock
doo}.
Rock drill, an implement for drilling holes in rock; esp.,
a machine impelled by steam or compressed air, for
drilling holes for blasting, etc.
Rock duck (Zool.), the harlequin duck.
Rock eel. (Zool.) See Gunnel.
Rock goat (Zool.), a wild goat, or ibex.
Rock hopper (Zool.), a penguin of the genus Catarractes.
See under Penguin.
Rock kangaroo. (Zool.) See Kangaroo, and Petrogale.
Rock lobster (Zool.), any one of several species of large
spinose lobsters of the genera Panulirus and
Palinurus. They have no large claws. Called also {spiny
lobster}, and sea crayfish.
Rock meal (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite
occuring as an efflorescence.
Rock milk. (Min.) See Agaric mineral, under Agaric.
Rock moss, a kind of lichen; the cudbear. See Cudbear.
Rock oil. See Petroleum.
Rock parrakeet (Zool.), a small Australian parrakeet
(Euphema petrophila), which nests in holes among the
rocks of high cliffs. Its general color is yellowish olive
green; a frontal band and the outer edge of the wing
quills are deep blue, and the central tail feathers bluish
green.
Rock pigeon (Zool.), the wild pigeon (Columba livia) Of
Europe and Asia, from which the domestic pigeon was
derived. See Illust. under Pigeon.
Rock pipit. (Zool.) See the Note under Pipit.
Rock plover. (Zool.)
(a) The black-bellied, or whistling, plover.
(b) The rock snipe.
Rock ptarmigan (Zool.), an arctic American ptarmigan
(Lagopus rupestris), which in winter is white, with the
tail and lores black. In summer the males are grayish
brown, coarsely vermiculated with black, and have black
patches on the back.
Rock rabbit (Zool.), the hyrax. See Cony, and Daman.
Rock ruby (Min.), a fine reddish variety of garnet.
Rock salt (Min.), cloride of sodium (common salt) occuring
in rocklike masses in mines; mineral salt; salt dug from
the earth. In the United States this name is sometimes
given to salt in large crystals, formed by evaporation
from sea water in large basins or cavities.
Rock seal (Zool.), the harbor seal. See Seal.
Rock shell (Zool.), any species of Murex, Purpura, and
allied genera.
Rock snake (Zool.), any one of several large pythons; as,
the royal rock snake (Python regia) of Africa, and the
rock snake of India (Python molurus). The Australian
rock snakes mostly belong to the allied genus Morelia.
Rock snipe (Zool.), the purple sandpiper ({Tringa
maritima}); -- called also rock bird, rock plover,
winter snipe.
Rock soap (Min.), a kind of clay having a smooth, greasy
feel, and adhering to the tongue.
Rock sparrow. (Zool.)
(a) Any one of several species of Old World sparrows of
the genus Petronia, as Petronia stulla, of Europe.
(b) A North American sparrow (Pucaea ruficeps).
Rock tar, petroleum.
Rock thrush (Zool.), any Old World thrush of the genus
Monticola, or Petrocossyphus; as, the European rock
thrush (Monticola saxatilis), and the blue rock thrush
of India (Monticola cyaneus), in which the male is blue
throughout.
Rock tripe (Bot.), a kind of lichen ({Umbilicaria
Dillenii}) growing on rocks in the northen parts of
America, and forming broad, flat, coriaceous, dark fuscous
or blackish expansions. It has been used as food in cases
of extremity.
Rock trout (Zool.), any one of several species of marine
food fishes of the genus Hexagrammus, family Chiradae,
native of the North Pacific coasts; -- called also {sea
trout}, boregat, bodieron, and starling.
Rock warbler (Zool.), a small Australian singing bird
(Origma rubricata) which frequents rocky ravines and
water courses; -- called also cataract bird.
Rock wren (Zool.), any one of several species of wrens of
the genus Salpinctes, native of the arid plains of Lower
California and Mexico.
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sea crayfish
(gcide) | Sea crawfish \Sea" craw"fish`\ Sea crayfish \Sea" cray"fish`\
(Zool.)
Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as
the European spiny lobster (Palinurus vulgaris), which is
much used as an article of food. See Lobster.
[1913 Webster]Rock \Rock\, n. [OF. roke, F. roche; cf. Armor. roc'h, and AS.
rocc.]
1. A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed
stone or crag. See Stone.
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Come one, come all! this rock shall fly
From its firm base as soon as I. --Sir W.
Scott.
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2. (Geol.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's
crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth,
clay, etc., when in natural beds.
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3. That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a
support; a refuge.
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The Lord is my rock, and my fortress. --2 Sam. xxii.
2.
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4. Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling
the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
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5. (Zool.) The striped bass. See under Bass.
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Note: This word is frequently used in the formation of
self-explaining compounds; as, rock-bound, rock-built,
rock-ribbed, rock-roofed, and the like.
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Rock alum. [Probably so called by confusion with F. roche a
rock.] Same as Roche alum.
Rock barnacle (Zool.), a barnacle (Balanus balanoides)
very abundant on rocks washed by tides.
Rock bass. (Zool.)
(a) The stripped bass. See under Bass.
(b) The goggle-eye.
(c) The cabrilla. Other species are also locally called
rock bass.
Rock builder (Zool.), any species of animal whose remains
contribute to the formation of rocks, especially the
corals and Foraminifera.
Rock butter (Min.), native alum mixed with clay and oxide
of iron, usually in soft masses of a yellowish white
color, occuring in cavities and fissures in argillaceous
slate.
Rock candy, a form of candy consisting of crystals of pure
sugar which are very hard, whence the name.
Rock cavy. (Zool.) See Moco.
Rock cod (Zool.)
(a) A small, often reddish or brown, variety of the cod
found about rocks andledges.
(b) A California rockfish.
Rock cook. (Zool.)
(a) A European wrasse (Centrolabrus exoletus).
(b) A rockling.
Rock cork (Min.), a variety of asbestus the fibers of which
are loosely interlaced. It resembles cork in its texture.
Rock crab (Zool.), any one of several species of large
crabs of the genus C, as the two species of the New
England coast (Cancer irroratus and Cancer borealis).
See Illust. under Cancer.
Rock cress (Bot.), a name of several plants of the cress
kind found on rocks, as Arabis petraea, Arabis lyrata,
etc.
Rock crystal (Min.), limpid quartz. See Quartz, and under
Crystal.
Rock dove (Zool.), the rock pigeon; -- called also {rock
doo}.
Rock drill, an implement for drilling holes in rock; esp.,
a machine impelled by steam or compressed air, for
drilling holes for blasting, etc.
Rock duck (Zool.), the harlequin duck.
Rock eel. (Zool.) See Gunnel.
Rock goat (Zool.), a wild goat, or ibex.
Rock hopper (Zool.), a penguin of the genus Catarractes.
See under Penguin.
Rock kangaroo. (Zool.) See Kangaroo, and Petrogale.
Rock lobster (Zool.), any one of several species of large
spinose lobsters of the genera Panulirus and
Palinurus. They have no large claws. Called also {spiny
lobster}, and sea crayfish.
Rock meal (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite
occuring as an efflorescence.
Rock milk. (Min.) See Agaric mineral, under Agaric.
Rock moss, a kind of lichen; the cudbear. See Cudbear.
Rock oil. See Petroleum.
Rock parrakeet (Zool.), a small Australian parrakeet
(Euphema petrophila), which nests in holes among the
rocks of high cliffs. Its general color is yellowish olive
green; a frontal band and the outer edge of the wing
quills are deep blue, and the central tail feathers bluish
green.
Rock pigeon (Zool.), the wild pigeon (Columba livia) Of
Europe and Asia, from which the domestic pigeon was
derived. See Illust. under Pigeon.
Rock pipit. (Zool.) See the Note under Pipit.
Rock plover. (Zool.)
(a) The black-bellied, or whistling, plover.
(b) The rock snipe.
Rock ptarmigan (Zool.), an arctic American ptarmigan
(Lagopus rupestris), which in winter is white, with the
tail and lores black. In summer the males are grayish
brown, coarsely vermiculated with black, and have black
patches on the back.
Rock rabbit (Zool.), the hyrax. See Cony, and Daman.
Rock ruby (Min.), a fine reddish variety of garnet.
Rock salt (Min.), cloride of sodium (common salt) occuring
in rocklike masses in mines; mineral salt; salt dug from
the earth. In the United States this name is sometimes
given to salt in large crystals, formed by evaporation
from sea water in large basins or cavities.
Rock seal (Zool.), the harbor seal. See Seal.
Rock shell (Zool.), any species of Murex, Purpura, and
allied genera.
Rock snake (Zool.), any one of several large pythons; as,
the royal rock snake (Python regia) of Africa, and the
rock snake of India (Python molurus). The Australian
rock snakes mostly belong to the allied genus Morelia.
Rock snipe (Zool.), the purple sandpiper ({Tringa
maritima}); -- called also rock bird, rock plover,
winter snipe.
Rock soap (Min.), a kind of clay having a smooth, greasy
feel, and adhering to the tongue.
Rock sparrow. (Zool.)
(a) Any one of several species of Old World sparrows of
the genus Petronia, as Petronia stulla, of Europe.
(b) A North American sparrow (Pucaea ruficeps).
Rock tar, petroleum.
Rock thrush (Zool.), any Old World thrush of the genus
Monticola, or Petrocossyphus; as, the European rock
thrush (Monticola saxatilis), and the blue rock thrush
of India (Monticola cyaneus), in which the male is blue
throughout.
Rock tripe (Bot.), a kind of lichen ({Umbilicaria
Dillenii}) growing on rocks in the northen parts of
America, and forming broad, flat, coriaceous, dark fuscous
or blackish expansions. It has been used as food in cases
of extremity.
Rock trout (Zool.), any one of several species of marine
food fishes of the genus Hexagrammus, family Chiradae,
native of the North Pacific coasts; -- called also {sea
trout}, boregat, bodieron, and starling.
Rock warbler (Zool.), a small Australian singing bird
(Origma rubricata) which frequents rocky ravines and
water courses; -- called also cataract bird.
Rock wren (Zool.), any one of several species of wrens of
the genus Salpinctes, native of the arid plains of Lower
California and Mexico.
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Stonecray
(gcide) | Stonecray \Stone"cray`\, n. [Stone + F. craie chalk, L. creta.]
A distemper in hawks.
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american crayfish
(wn) | American crayfish
n 1: common large crayfishes of eastern North America |
crayfish
(wn) | crayfish
n 1: warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and
South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also
in Florida and California [syn: spiny lobster,
langouste, rock lobster, crayfish]
2: tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly [syn:
crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse]
3: small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
[syn: crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy]
4: large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but
lacking the large pincers of true lobsters [syn: {spiny
lobster}, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish,
crayfish, sea crawfish] |
crayon
(wn) | crayon
n 1: writing implement consisting of a colored stick of
composition wax used for writing and drawing [syn:
crayon, wax crayon]
v 1: write, draw, or trace with a crayon |
old world crayfish
(wn) | Old World crayfish
n 1: small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America
[syn: Old World crayfish, ecrevisse] |
wax crayon
(wn) | wax crayon
n 1: writing implement consisting of a colored stick of
composition wax used for writing and drawing [syn:
crayon, wax crayon] |
cray instability
(foldoc) | Cray instability
A shortcoming of a program or algorithm that manifests
itself only when a large problem is being run on a powerful
machine such as a Cray. Generally more subtle than bugs
that can be detected in smaller problems running on a
workstation or minicomputer.
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cray research, inc.
(foldoc) | Cray Research, Inc.
US manufacturer of large powerful mainframe
supercomputers, co-founded by noted computer architect,
Seymour Cray.
Quarterly sales $216M, profits $8M (Aug 1994).
Cray were bought by Silicon Graphics, Inc..
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crayola
(foldoc) | crayola
/kray-oh'l*/ A super-minicomputer or super-microcomputer
that provides some reasonable percentage of supercomputer
performance for an unreasonably low price. A crayola might
also be a killer micro.
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crayola books
(foldoc) | crayola books
A humorous and/or disparaging term for the
rainbow series of National Computer Security Center (NCSC)
computer security standards.
See also Orange Book.
[Jargon File]
(1996-12-03)
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crayon
(foldoc) | crayon
1. Someone who works on Cray supercomputers. More
specifically, it implies a programmer, probably of the CDC
ilk, probably male, and almost certainly wearing a tie
(irrespective of gender). Systems types who have a Unix
background tend not to be described as crayons.
2. A computron that participates only in number crunching.
3. A unit of computational power equal to that of a single
Cray-1. There is a standard joke about this usage that
derives from an old Crayola crayon promotional gimmick: When
you buy 64 crayons you get a free sharpener.
[Jargon File]
(1994-10-13)
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seymour cray
(foldoc) | Seymour Cray
The founder of Cray Research and designer of
several of their supercomputers.
Cray has been a charismatic yet somewhat reclusive figure. He
began Cray Research in Minnesota in 1972. In 1988, Cray moved
his Cray-3 project to Colorado Springs. The next year, Cray
Research spun it off to create Cray Computer. In 1989, Cray
left Cray Research and started Cray Computer Corporation in Colorado
Springs.
His quest to build a faster computer using new-generation
materials failed in 1995, and his bankruptcy cost half a
billion dollars and more than 400 jobs. The company was
unable to raise $20 million needed to finish the Cray-4 and
filed for bankruptcy in March 1995.
In the summer of 1996, Cray started a Colorado Springs-based
company called SRC Computers, Inc. "We think we'll build
computers, but who knows what kind or how," Cray said at the
time. "We'll talk it over and see if we can come up with a
plan."
On 1996-09-22, aged 70, Cray broke his neck in a car accident.
Surgery for massive head injuries and swelling of the brain
left him in a critical and unstable condition. He died on
1996-10-05.
(1997-03-02)
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crayfish
(devil) | CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but
less indigestible.
In this small fish I take it that human wisdom is admirably
figured and symbolized; for whereas the crayfish doth move only
backward, and can have only retrospection, seeing naught but the
perils already passed, so the wisdom of man doth not enable him to
avoid the follies that beset his course, but only to apprehend
their nature afterward.
Sir James Merivale
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