Chapter 8 Crooner.

CROW-PURSE, s. The ovarium of a skate, Orkn.

CRUBAN, s. A disease of cows, S. B.

Ess. Highl. Soc.

CRUBAN, s. A wooden pannier fixed on a horse's back, Caithn.

Statist. Acc.

CRUDS, s. pl. Curds, S.

Shirrefs.

Cruddy Butter, A kind of cheese, of which the curds, being poor, are mixed with butter, S.

Sir J. Sinclair.

CRUE-HERRING, s. The Shad, Tupea Alosa, Linn.

Pennant.

CRUELL, adj.

1. Keen in battle.

Wallace.

2. Resolute, undaunted.

Wallace.

3. Terrible.

Wallace.

4. Acute. "Cruel pain," acute pain, S.

CRUELS, s. The king's evil, scrophula, S.

Fr. ecrouelles, id.

Wodrow.

CRUER, s. A kind of ship; apparently the same with Crayar, q. v.

Mellvill's MS.

CRUFE, CRUIFE, CROVE, s.

1. A hovel, S. cru, S. B.

Henrysone.

2. A stye.

Skene.

Isl. hroo, hroof, structura vilis.

CRUISKEN of whisky, a certain measure of this liquor, Ang.

Dan. kruus, a cup.

CRUKE, s. A circle.

Douglas.

Teut. krok-en, curvare.

CRUKIS, CROOKS, s. pl. The windings of a river, S.

Wallace.

Isl. krok-r, angulus.

To CRULGE, v. a. To contract, to draw together, S.

Shirrefs.

Teut. krull-en, intorquere, sinuare.

Crulge, s. A confused coalition, or conjunction, S.

Isl. krull, confusio.

CRUMMIE, CRUMMOCK, s. A name for a cow that has crooked horns, S.

Ramsay.

Isl. krumme, Gael. crom, crooked.

Crummock, Crummie-stick, s. A staff with a crooked head, S.

Burns.

CRUMMOCK, s. Skirret, a plant, S.

Gael. crumag, id.

Brand.

To CRUMP, v. a. To make a crashing noise in eating what is hard and brittle, S.

Morison.

Crump, Crumpie, adj. Crisp, brittle, S.

Burns.

To CRUNE.