Chapter L: B. coronula, parva corona

CROWNER, CROWNARE, CROUNAL, _s._

1. An officer, to whom it belonged to attach all persons, against whom there was an accusation in matters pertaining to the _crown_. E. _coroner_.

_Wyntown._

2. The commander of the troops raised in one county.

_Baillie._

~Crownarship~, _s._ The office of a crowner.

_Robertson._

CROWNER, _s._ The name of a fish.

V. ~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.

V. ~Croyn~.

_To_ CRUNKLE, _v. a._

1. To cress, to rumple, S.

2. To shrivel, to contract, S.

Teut. _kronckel-en_, to wrinkle.

~Crunkle~, _s._ A cress, a wrinkle, S.

CRUNT, _s._ A blow on the head with a cudgel, S.

_Burns._

CRUVE, CRUIVE, _s._ A box resembling a hen-crib, placed in a dam or dike that runs across a river, for confining the fish that enter into it, S.

Su. G. _krubba_, praesepe.

_Acts Ja. I._

CRUTLACHIN, _part. pr._ Conversing in a silly tattling way, S. B.

CUCHIL, CUTHIL, _s._ A forest or grove.

_Douglas._