Index of English words, starting with "cr"

(1) - Criminology (n.) A treatise on crime or the criminal population.

(1) - Crimp (n.) A game at cards.
(2) - Crimp (n.) Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.
(3) - Crimp (n.) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
(4) - Crimp (n.) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
(5) - Crimp (n.) A coal broker.
(6) - Crimp (a.) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
(7) - Crimp (a.) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
(8) - Crimp (v. t.) 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.
(9) - Crimp (v. t.) to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.
(10) - Crimp (v. t.) To pinch and hold; to seize.
(11) - Crimp (v. t.) 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.

(1) - Crimpy (a.) Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.