An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language - Part 195
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Gael. _crioncan_, strife.

CRANNACH, _s._ Pottage, Ang. Aberd.

CRANREUCH, _s._ h.o.a.r frost, S. O.

Gael. _cranntarach_, id.

_Burns._

CRANSHACH, CRANSHAK, _s._ A distorted person, S. B.

_Ross._

Gael. _crannda_, decrepid.

CRANTZE, _s._ The Common Coralline, Millepora polymorpha, Linn., Shetl.

c.r.a.p, _s._

1. The highest part or top of any thing, S.; _crop_, E.

_Baith c.r.a.p and root_, literally, top and bottom; metaph., beginning and end, S.

2. The cone of a fir-tree, S. B.

A. S. _croppa_, Su. G. _kroppa_, id.

c.r.a.p, _s._ The produce of the ground, S.

_Ramsay._

c.r.a.p, _s._ The craw of a fowl, _crop_, E.; used ludicrously for the stomach of man; _c.r.a.pine_, id. S.

_Ramsay._

Teut. _krop_, ingluvies; stomachus.

_To_ ~c.r.a.p~, _v. a._ To fill, to stuff, S.

_c.r.a.ppit heads_, the heads of haddocks stuffed with a pudding made of the roe, oatmeal and spiceries, S.

Teut. _kropp-en_, saginare, turundis farcire.

_To_ c.r.a.p, _v. a._ To crop, to lop, S.

_Ferguson._

Teut. _krapp-en_, abscindere.

c.r.a.pS, _s. pl._ A species of weed, S. named perhaps from keeping near the _c.r.a.p_ or surface of the ground.

CRAUCH. _To cry crauch_, to acknowledge one's self vanquished.

_Dunbar._

Arm. _cracq_, a b.a.s.t.a.r.d.

CRAUCHMET, (gutt.) s. An exaction made by men in a state of war.

_MS. Chron._

_To_ CRAW, _v. n._

1. To crow; _crawin_, part. pa.

_Douglas._

2. To boast, to vapour, S.

_Ferguson._

A. S. _craw-an_, id.

CRAW, _s._ A crow, S.

~Craw~, _s._ The act of crowing, S.

_Burns._

A. S. _crawe_, Alem. _craue_, id.

~Craw-Croops~, _s. pl._ Crow-berries, S. B.

~Craw-Dulse~, _s._ Fringed fucus; S. Fucus ciliatus, Linn.

~Craw-Taes~, _s. pl._ Crowfoot, S. Ranunculus, repens and acris.