1. To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.
To criminate, with the heavy and ungrounded charge of disloyalty and disaffection, an uncorrupt, independent,
and reforming parliament.
Burke.
2. To involve in a crime or in its consequences; to render liable to a criminal charge.
Impelled by the strongest pressure of hope and fear to criminate him.
Macaulay.
Crimination
(Crim`i*na"tion) n. [L. criminatio.] The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint.
The criminations and recriminations of the adverse parties.
Macaulay.
Criminative
(Crim"i*na*tive) a. Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory. R. North.
Criminatory
(Crim"i*na*to*ry) a. Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience.
Criminology
(Crim`i*nol"o*gy) n. [L. crimen, crimenis, crime + -logy.] A treatise on crime or the criminal
population. — Crim`i*nol"o*gist n.
Criminous
(Crim"i*nous) a. [L. criminosus, fr. crimen. See Crime.] Criminal; involving great crime or
grave charges; very wicked; heinous. [Obs.] Holland.
— Crim"i*nous*ly, adv. — Crim"i*nous*ness, n. [Obs.]
Crimosin
(Crim"o*sin) n. [Obs.] See Crimson.
Crimp
(Crimp) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crimped (krimt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Crimping.] [Akin to D. krimpen
to shrink, shrivel, Sw. krympa, Dan. krympe, and to E. cramp. See Cramp.]
1. To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to
give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp.
The comely hostess in a crimped cap.
W. Irving.
2. To pinch and hold; to seize.
3. Hence, to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.
Coaxing and courting with intent to crimp him.
Carlyle.
4. (Cookery) To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when
living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.
Crimping house, a low lodging house, into which men are decoyed and plied with drink, to induce
them to ship or enlist as sailors or soldiers. — Crimping iron. (a) An iron instrument for crimping and
curling the hair. (b) A crimping machine. — Crimping machine, a machine with fluted rollers or with
dies, for crimping ruffles, leather, iron, etc. — Crimping pin, an instrument for crimping or puckering
the border of a lady's cap.
Crimp
(Crimp), a.
1. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. [R.]
Now the fowler . . . treads the crimp earth.
J. Philips.
