Definition of crib

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Crib (v. t.) To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton..

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Witch :: Witch (n.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera..
Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
Cribbed :: Cribbed (imp. & p. p.) of Cri.
Roseola :: Roseola (n.) A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called also rose rash..
Adenography :: Adenography (n.) That part of anatomy which describes the glands.
Personate :: Personate (v. t.) To personify; to typify; to describe.
Sensationalism :: Sensationalism (n.) The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism..
Misdescribe :: Misdescribe (v. t.) To describe wrongly.
Proscribed :: Proscribed (imp. & p. p.) of Proscrib.
Gyre :: Gyre (n.) A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit..
Hottentotism :: Hottentotism (n.) A term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering.
Drug :: Drug (v. i.) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
Wolffian :: Wolffian (a.) Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology..
Wind-sucking :: Wind-sucking (n.) A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air; -- usually associated with crib-biting, or cribbing. See Cribbing, 4..
Vair :: Vair (n.) The skin of the squirrel, much used in the fourteenth century as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period in describing the costly dresses of kings, nobles, and prelates. It is represented in heraldry by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue..
Subscription :: Subscription (n.) That which is subscribed.
Cratch :: Cratch (n.) A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack.
Writer :: Writer (n.) One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk..
Crib :: Crib (v. i.) To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations..
Circumduction :: Circumduction (n.) The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a concial surface..
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