Cragged
(Crag"ged) a. Full of crags, or steep, broken rocks; abounding with prominences, points, and
inequalities; rough; rugged.
Into its cragged rents descend.
J. Baillie.
Craggedness
(Crag"ged*ness), n. The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess.
Cragginess
(Crag"gi*ness) n. The state of being craggy.
Craggy
(Crag"gy) a. Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain.
"The craggy ledge." Tennyson.
Cragsman
(Crags"man) n.; pl. Cragsmen (- men). One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp.,
one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the
birds themselves.
Craie
(Craie) n. See Crare. [Obs.]
Craig flounder
(Craig" floun`der) [Scot. craig a rock. See 1st Crag.] (Zoöl.) The pole flounder.
Crail
(Crail) n. [See Creel.] A creel or osier basket.
Crake
(Crake) v. t. & i. [See Crack.]
1. To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
2. To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. [Obs.]
Each man may crake of that which was his own.
Mir. for Mag.
Crake
(Crake), n. A boast. See Crack, n. [Obs.] Spenser.
Crake
(Crake), n. [Cf. Icel. kraka crow, krakr raven, Sw. kråka, Dan. krage; perh. of imitative origin.
Cf. Crow.] (Zoöl.) Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; — so called from its singular
cry. See Corncrake.
Crakeberry
(Crake"ber`ry) n. (Bot.) See Crowberry.
Craker
(Crak"er) n. One who boasts; a braggart. [Obs.] Old Play.
Cram
(Cram) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crammed (kramd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cramming.] [AS. crammian to
cram; akin to Icel. kremja to squeeze, bruise, Sw. krama to press. Cf. Cramp.]
1. To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to
fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.
Their storehouses crammed with grain.
Shak.
He will cram his brass down our throats.
Swift.
2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
Children would be freer from disease if they were not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers.
Locke.
Cram us with praise, and make us
As fat as tame things.
Shak.
