_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 b.u.t.ter~, A kind of cheese, of which the curds, being poor, are mixed with b.u.t.ter, 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._

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