Creux
(||Creux) n. [F., adj., hollow, n., a hollow.] Used in English only in the expression en creux.
Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design.
Crevalle
(||Cre`val*le") n. [Prob. of same origin as cavally. See Cavally.] (Zoöl.) (a) The cavally or
jurel. See Cavally, and Jurel. (b) The pompano (Trachynotus Carolinus).
Crevasse
(||Cre`vasse") n. [F. See Crevice.]
1. A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier
is divided.
2. A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower
Mississippi. [U.S.]
Crevet
(Crev"et) n. [Cf. Creut.] A crucible or melting pot; a cruset. Crabb.
Crevice
(Crev"ice) n. [OE. crevace, crevice. F. crevasse, fr. crever to break, burst, fr. L. crepare to
crack,break. Cf. Craven, Crepitate, Crevasse.] A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or
the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
The mouse,
Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked,
Or from the crevice peered about.
Tennyson.
Crevice
(Crev"ice), v. t. To crack; to flaw. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.
Creviced
(Crev"iced) a. Having a crevice or crevices; as, a creviced structure for storing ears of corn.
Trickling through the creviced rock.
J. Cunningham.
Crevis
(Crev"is) n. (Zoöl.) The crawfish. [Prov. Eng.]
Crew
(Crew) n. (Zoöl.) The Manx shearwater.
Crew
(Crew) n. [From older accrue accession, reënforcement, hence, company, crew; the first syllable
being misunderstood as the indefinite article. See Accrue, Crescent.]
1. A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.
There a noble crew
Of lords and ladies stood on every side.
Spenser.
Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew?
Milton.
2. The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
The word crew, in law, is ordinarily used as equivalent to ship's company, including master and other
officers. When the master and other officers are excluded, the context always shows it. Story. Burrill.
3. In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's
crew; the boatswain's crew.
Syn. — Company; band; gang; horde; mob; herd; throng; party.
Crew
(Crew) imp. of Crow.
Crewel
(Crew"el) n. [Perh. for clewel, dim. of clew a ball of thread; or cf. D. krul curl, E. curl. &radic26.]
Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.
