| slovo | definícia |
craw
(mass) | craw
- žalúdok |
craw
(encz) | craw,ptačí vole Zdeněk Brož |
craw
(encz) | craw,vole Zdeněk Brož |
craw
(encz) | craw,žaludek n: Zdeněk Brož |
Craw
(gcide) | Craw \Craw\ (kr[add]), n. [Akin to D. kraag neck, collar, G.
kragen, Sw. kr[aum]fva craw, Dan. kro, and possibly to Gr.
???? (E. bronchus), or bro`chqos throat. [root]25. Cf. Crag
neck.] (Zool.)
(a) The crop of a bird.
(b) The stomach of an animal.
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craw
(wn) | craw
n 1: a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles
a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
[syn: craw, crop] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
crawfish
(mass) | crawfish
- langusta |
creepycrawly
(mass) | creepy-crawly
- chrobák |
crawdad
(encz) | crawdad, |
crawdaddy
(encz) | crawdaddy, n: |
crawfish
(encz) | crawfish,langusta n: Zdeněk Brož |
crawfish out
(encz) | crawfish out, v: |
crawford
(encz) | Crawford,Crawford n: [jmén.] příjmení, okres v USA Zdeněk Brož a
automatický překlad |
crawl
(encz) | crawl,kraul Zdeněk Brožcrawl,lezení Zdeněk Brožcrawl,lézt crawl,plazit se Zdeněk Brožcrawl,plížit se Zdeněk Brož |
crawl in
(encz) | crawl in, v: |
crawl on my hands and knees over broken glass just to see her photo
(encz) | crawl on my hands and knees over broken glass just to see her
photo,udělat cokoli pro ... Zdeněk Brož |
crawl space
(encz) | crawl space,polopodsklepení n: Pino |
crawl under
(encz) | crawl under,podlézt v: Pino |
crawled
(encz) | crawled,lezl |
crawler
(encz) | crawler,podlézavec n: Zdeněk Brožcrawler,šplhoun n: Zdeněk Brož |
crawling
(encz) | crawling,plížení n: Zdeněk Brož |
crawling peg
(encz) | crawling peg, |
crawling with
(encz) | crawling with,... se hemžilo ... Zdeněk Brož |
crawls
(encz) | crawls,leze |
crawlspace
(encz) | crawlspace, |
crawly
(encz) | crawly,lezoucí adv: Zdeněk Brož |
creepy-crawlies
(encz) | creepy-crawlies, n: |
creepy-crawly
(encz) | creepy-crawly,brouk n: Zdeněk Brožcreepy-crawly,hmyz Zdeněk Brož |
front crawl
(encz) | front crawl, n: |
kerb crawler
(encz) | kerb crawler, n: |
night crawler
(encz) | night crawler,žížala |
nightcrawler
(encz) | nightcrawler, n: |
pub crawl
(encz) | pub crawl, |
pub-crawl
(encz) | pub-crawl, v: |
scrawl
(encz) | scrawl,čmárat v: Zdeněk Brož |
scrawled
(encz) | scrawled,načmáraný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
scrawler
(encz) | scrawler, n: |
scrawly
(encz) | scrawly,počmáraný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
scrawniness
(encz) | scrawniness, |
scrawny
(encz) | scrawny,vychrtlý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
sea crawfish
(encz) | sea crawfish, n: |
stick in my craw
(encz) | stick in my craw, |
crawford
(czen) | Crawford,Crawfordn: [jmén.] příjmení, okres v USA Zdeněk Brož a
automatický překlad |
crawling on the floor laughing guts out and having a heart attack
(czen) | Crawling On The Floor Laughing Guts Out And Having A Heart
Attack,COTFLGOHAHA[zkr.] |
Bescrawl
(gcide) | Bescrawl \Be*scrawl"\, v. t.
To cover with scrawls; to scribble over. --Milton.
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Craw
(gcide) | Craw \Craw\ (kr[add]), n. [Akin to D. kraag neck, collar, G.
kragen, Sw. kr[aum]fva craw, Dan. kro, and possibly to Gr.
???? (E. bronchus), or bro`chqos throat. [root]25. Cf. Crag
neck.] (Zool.)
(a) The crop of a bird.
(b) The stomach of an animal.
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crawdad
(gcide) | crawdad \craw"dad\ (kr[add]"d[a^]d), crawdaddy
\craw"dad*dy\(kr[add]"d[a^]d*d[y^]), n. (Zool.)
same as crawfish
[PJC] Crawfish |
crawdaddy
(gcide) | crawdad \craw"dad\ (kr[add]"d[a^]d), crawdaddy
\craw"dad*dy\(kr[add]"d[a^]d*d[y^]), n. (Zool.)
same as crawfish
[PJC] Crawfish |
Crawfish
(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]crawfish \crawfish\ v. i.
to back out in a humilating manner; as, We'll have to
crawfish out from meeting with him.
Syn: retreat, back out, back away, crawfish out, withdraw.
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crawfish
(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]crawfish \crawfish\ v. i.
to back out in a humilating manner; as, We'll have to
crawfish out from meeting with him.
Syn: retreat, back out, back away, crawfish out, withdraw.
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Crawford
(gcide) | Crawford \Craw"ford\ (kr[add]"f[~e]rd), n.
A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, with yellow
flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey.
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Crawl
(gcide) | Crawl \Crawl\ (kr?l), n.
The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping
animal.
[1913 Webster]Crawl \Crawl\, n. [Cf. Kraal.]
A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for
holding fish.
[1913 Webster]Crawl \Crawl\ (kr[add]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crawled
(kr[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crawling.] [Dan. kravle, or
Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw.
kr[aum]la to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to
scratch.]
1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a
worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
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A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling,
as it crawls from one thing to another. --Grew.
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2. Hence, to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous
manner.
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He was hardly able to crawl about the room.
--Arbuthnot.
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The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes.
--Byron.
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3. To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self;
to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious
conduct.
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Secretly crawling up the battered walls. --Knolles.
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Hath crawled into the favor of the king. --Shak.
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Absurd opinions crawl about the world. --South.
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4. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body;
as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.
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Crawl stroke
(gcide) | Crawl stroke \Crawl stroke\ (Swimming)
A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the
water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm
strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from
the knee.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] Cray |
Crawled
(gcide) | Crawl \Crawl\ (kr[add]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crawled
(kr[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crawling.] [Dan. kravle, or
Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw.
kr[aum]la to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to
scratch.]
1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a
worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
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A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling,
as it crawls from one thing to another. --Grew.
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2. Hence, to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous
manner.
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He was hardly able to crawl about the room.
--Arbuthnot.
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The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes.
--Byron.
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3. To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self;
to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious
conduct.
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Secretly crawling up the battered walls. --Knolles.
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Hath crawled into the favor of the king. --Shak.
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Absurd opinions crawl about the world. --South.
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4. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body;
as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.
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Crawler
(gcide) | Crawler \Crawl"er\ (kr?l"?r), n.
One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.
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Crawling
(gcide) | Crawl \Crawl\ (kr[add]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crawled
(kr[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crawling.] [Dan. kravle, or
Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw.
kr[aum]la to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to
scratch.]
1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a
worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
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A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling,
as it crawls from one thing to another. --Grew.
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2. Hence, to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous
manner.
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He was hardly able to crawl about the room.
--Arbuthnot.
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The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes.
--Byron.
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3. To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self;
to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious
conduct.
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Secretly crawling up the battered walls. --Knolles.
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Hath crawled into the favor of the king. --Shak.
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Absurd opinions crawl about the world. --South.
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4. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body;
as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.
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crawling withpredicate overrun with swarming swarming withpredicate teeming teeming withpredicate
(gcide) | filled \filled\ adj.
1. containing as much or as many as is possible or normal;
as, filled to overflowing. Opposite of empty. [Narrower
terms: {abounding in(predicate), abounding
with(predicate), bristling with(predicate), full
of(predicate), overflowing, overflowing with(predicate),
rich in(predicate), rife with(predicate), thick
with(predicate)}; {brimful, brimful of(predicate),
brimfull, brimfull of(predicate), brimming, brimming
with(predicate)}; {chockablock(predicate),
chock-full(predicate), chockfull(predicate),
chockful(predicate), choke-full(predicate),
chuck-full(predicate), cram full}; congested, engorged;
{crawling with(predicate), overrun with, swarming,
swarming with(predicate), teeming, teeming
with(predicate)}; {flooded, inundated, swamped ; {glutted,
overfull}; {heavy with(predicate) ; {laden, loaded ;
overladen, overloaded ; {stuffed ; {stuffed; {well-lined
]
Syn: full.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. entirely of one substance with no holes inside. Opposite
of hollow.
Syn: solid.
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3. having appointments throughout the course of a period; --
of an appointment schedule; as, My calendar is filled for
the week. Opposite of unoccupied and free
Syn: occupied.
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Crawly
(gcide) | Crawly \Crawl"y\ (kr?l"?), a.
Creepy. [Colloq.] |
nightcrawler
(gcide) | nightcrawler \nightcrawler\ n.
A terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil;
an earthworm. It often surfaces when the ground is cool or
wet, and is used as bait by anglers. The term is used mostly
in the northern and western U. S.
Syn: earthworm, angleworm, fishworm, fishing worm, wiggler,
nightwalker, dew worm, red worm.
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pub-crawl
(gcide) | pub-crawl \pub-crawl\ v.
1. 1 to go from one pub or tavern to the next and get
progressively more drunk.
Syn: bar hop.
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Scraw
(gcide) | Scraw \Scraw\ (skr[add]), n. [Ir. scrath a turf, sgraith a turf,
green sod; akin to Gael. sgrath, sgroth, the outer skin of
anything, a turf, a green sod.]
A turf. [Obs.] --Swift.
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Scrawl
(gcide) | Scrawl \Scrawl\ (skr[add]l), n.
Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully
or inelegantly written.
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The left hand will make such a scrawl, that it will not
be legible. --Arbuthnot.
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You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. --Gray.
[1913 Webster]Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. i.
See Crawl. [Obs.] --Latimer.
[1913 Webster]Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scrawled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Scrawling.] [Probably corrupted from scrabble.]
To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily
and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a
letter.
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His name, scrawled by himself. --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. i.
To write unskillfully and inelegantly.
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Though with a golden pen you scrawl. --Swift.
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Scrawled
(gcide) | Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scrawled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Scrawling.] [Probably corrupted from scrabble.]
To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily
and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a
letter.
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His name, scrawled by himself. --Macaulay.
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Scrawler
(gcide) | Scrawler \Scrawl"er\ (-[~e]r), n.
One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer.
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Scrawling
(gcide) | Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scrawled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Scrawling.] [Probably corrupted from scrabble.]
To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily
and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a
letter.
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His name, scrawled by himself. --Macaulay.
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Scrawny
(gcide) | Scrawny \Scraw"ny\ (skr[add]"n[y^]), a. [Cf. Scrannel.]
Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.
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Sea crawfish
(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.
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Stone crawfish
(gcide) | Stone \Stone\, n. [OE. ston, stan, AS. st[=a]n; akin to OS. &
OFries. st[=e]n, D. steen, G. stein, Icel. steinn, Sw. sten,
Dan. steen, Goth. stains, Russ. stiena a wall, Gr. ?, ?, a
pebble. [root]167. Cf. Steen.]
1. Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular
mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy
threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones. "Dumb as a
stone." --Chaucer.
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They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for
mortar. --Gen. xi. 3.
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Note: In popular language, very large masses of stone are
called rocks; small masses are called stones; and the
finer kinds, gravel, or sand, or grains of sand. Stone
is much and widely used in the construction of
buildings of all kinds, for walls, fences, piers,
abutments, arches, monuments, sculpture, and the like.
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2. A precious stone; a gem. "Many a rich stone." --Chaucer.
"Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels." --Shak.
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3. Something made of stone. Specifically:
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(a) The glass of a mirror; a mirror. [Obs.]
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Lend me a looking-glass;
If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,
Why, then she lives. --Shak.
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(b) A monument to the dead; a gravestone. --Gray.
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Should some relenting eye
Glance on the where our cold relics lie. --Pope.
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4. (Med.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the
kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
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5. One of the testes; a testicle. --Shak.
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6. (Bot.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a
cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
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7. A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice
varies with the article weighed. [Eng.]
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Note: The stone of butchers' meat or fish is reckoned at 8
lbs.; of cheese, 16 lbs.; of hemp, 32 lbs.; of glass, 5
lbs.
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8. Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness;
insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
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I have not yet forgot myself to stone. --Pope.
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9. (Print.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of
stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a
book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also
imposing stone.
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Note: Stone is used adjectively or in composition with other
words to denote made of stone, containing a stone or
stones, employed on stone, or, more generally, of or
pertaining to stone or stones; as, stone fruit, or
stone-fruit; stone-hammer, or stone hammer; stone
falcon, or stone-falcon. Compounded with some
adjectives it denotes a degree of the quality expressed
by the adjective equal to that possessed by a stone;
as, stone-dead, stone-blind, stone-cold, stone-still,
etc.
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Atlantic stone, ivory. [Obs.] "Citron tables, or Atlantic
stone." --Milton.
Bowing stone. Same as Cromlech. --Encyc. Brit.
Meteoric stones, stones which fall from the atmosphere, as
after the explosion of a meteor.
Philosopher's stone. See under Philosopher.
Rocking stone. See Rocking-stone.
Stone age, a supposed prehistoric age of the world when
stone and bone were habitually used as the materials for
weapons and tools; -- called also flint age. The {bronze
age} succeeded to this.
Stone bass (Zool.), any one of several species of marine
food fishes of the genus Serranus and allied genera, as
Serranus Couchii, and Polyprion cernium of Europe; --
called also sea perch.
Stone biter (Zool.), the wolf fish.
Stone boiling, a method of boiling water or milk by
dropping hot stones into it, -- in use among savages.
--Tylor.
Stone borer (Zool.), any animal that bores stones;
especially, one of certain bivalve mollusks which burrow
in limestone. See Lithodomus, and Saxicava.
Stone bramble (Bot.), a European trailing species of
bramble (Rubus saxatilis).
Stone-break. [Cf. G. steinbrech.] (Bot.) Any plant of the
genus Saxifraga; saxifrage.
Stone bruise, a sore spot on the bottom of the foot, from a
bruise by a stone.
Stone canal. (Zool.) Same as Sand canal, under Sand.
Stone cat (Zool.), any one of several species of small
fresh-water North American catfishes of the genus
Noturus. They have sharp pectoral spines with which they
inflict painful wounds.
Stone coal, hard coal; mineral coal; anthracite coal.
Stone coral (Zool.), any hard calcareous coral.
Stone crab. (Zool.)
(a) A large crab (Menippe mercenaria) found on the
southern coast of the United States and much used as
food.
(b) A European spider crab (Lithodes maia).
Stone crawfish (Zool.), a European crawfish ({Astacus
torrentium}), by many writers considered only a variety of
the common species (Astacus fluviatilis).
Stone curlew. (Zool.)
(a) A large plover found in Europe ({Edicnemus
crepitans}). It frequents stony places. Called also
thick-kneed plover or bustard, and thick-knee.
(b) The whimbrel. [Prov. Eng.]
(c) The willet. [Local, U.S.]
Stone crush. Same as Stone bruise, above.
Stone eater. (Zool.) Same as Stone borer, above.
Stone falcon (Zool.), the merlin.
Stone fern (Bot.), a European fern (Asplenium Ceterach)
which grows on rocks and walls.
Stone fly (Zool.), any one of many species of
pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus Perla and allied
genera; a perlid. They are often used by anglers for bait.
The larvae are aquatic.
Stone fruit (Bot.), any fruit with a stony endocarp; a
drupe, as a peach, plum, or cherry.
Stone grig (Zool.), the mud lamprey, or pride.
Stone hammer, a hammer formed with a face at one end, and a
thick, blunt edge, parallel with the handle, at the other,
-- used for breaking stone.
Stone hawk (Zool.), the merlin; -- so called from its habit
of sitting on bare stones.
Stone jar, a jar made of stoneware.
Stone lily (Paleon.), a fossil crinoid.
Stone lugger. (Zool.) See Stone roller, below.
Stone marten (Zool.), a European marten (Mustela foina)
allied to the pine marten, but having a white throat; --
called also beech marten.
Stone mason, a mason who works or builds in stone.
Stone-mortar (Mil.), a kind of large mortar formerly used
in sieges for throwing a mass of small stones short
distances.
Stone oil, rock oil, petroleum.
Stone parsley (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant ({Seseli
Labanotis}). See under Parsley.
Stone pine. (Bot.) A nut pine. See the Note under Pine,
and Pi[~n]on.
Stone pit, a quarry where stones are dug.
Stone pitch, hard, inspissated pitch.
Stone plover. (Zool.)
(a) The European stone curlew.
(b) Any one of several species of Asiatic plovers of the
genus Esacus; as, the large stone plover ({Esacus
recurvirostris}).
(c) The gray or black-bellied plover. [Prov. Eng.]
(d) The ringed plover.
(e) The bar-tailed godwit. [Prov. Eng.] Also applied to
other species of limicoline birds.
Stone roller. (Zool.)
(a) An American fresh-water fish (Catostomus nigricans)
of the Sucker family. Its color is yellowish olive,
often with dark blotches. Called also stone lugger,
stone toter, hog sucker, hog mullet.
(b) A common American cyprinoid fish ({Campostoma
anomalum}); -- called also stone lugger.
Stone's cast, or Stone's throw, the distance to which a
stone may be thrown by the hand; as, they live a stone's
throw from each other.
Stone snipe (Zool.), the greater yellowlegs, or tattler.
[Local, U.S.]
Stone toter. (Zool.)
(a) See Stone roller
(a), above.
(b) A cyprinoid fish (Exoglossum maxillingua) found in
the rivers from Virginia to New York. It has a
three-lobed lower lip; -- called also cutlips.
To leave no stone unturned, to do everything that can be
done; to use all practicable means to effect an object.
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australian crawl
(wn) | Australian crawl
n 1: a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead
accompanied by a flutter kick [syn: crawl, front crawl,
Australian crawl] |
crawdad
(wn) | crawdad
n 1: tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly [syn:
crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse]
2: small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
[syn: crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy] |
crawdaddy
(wn) | crawdaddy
n 1: small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a
lobster [syn: crayfish, crawfish, crawdad,
crawdaddy] |
crawfish
(wn) | crawfish
n 1: tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly [syn:
crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse]
2: small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
[syn: crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy]
3: 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]
v 1: make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity;
"We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He
backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive
investment company pulled in its horns" [syn: retreat,
pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, {crawfish
out}, pull in one's horns, withdraw] |
crawfish out
(wn) | crawfish out
v 1: make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity;
"We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He
backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive
investment company pulled in its horns" [syn: retreat,
pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, {crawfish
out}, pull in one's horns, withdraw] |
crawford
(wn) | Crawford
n 1: United States neoclassical sculptor (1814-1857) [syn:
Crawford, Thomas Crawford]
2: United States film actress (1908-1977) [syn: Crawford,
Joan Crawford] |
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