Part 17

v. enumerate, number; esteem, consider, reckon, judge, think. count, n. numbering. countenance, n. face, visage, features; support, goodwill, encouragement.--v. encourage, favor, approve. counter, a. contrary, opposite, antagonistic. counteract, v. defeat, frustrate, contravene, neutralize. counteraction, n. frustration, contravention, neutralization. counterbalance, v. counterpoise, countervail, equiponderate, balance. counterfeit, a. false, fraudulent, spurious, fictitious, sham, mock, feigned. countermand, v. revoke, cancel, rescind, recall.--n. revocation, rescission. counterpoint, n. polyphony. counterpoise, v. counterbalance, balance, equiponderate. countersign, n. watchword, password, _consigne_. counterterm, n. antonym. counting frame. abacus. count out. exclude. countrified, a. rude, uncourtly, rustic, bucolic, rural. country, n. region, territory; nation; rural parts, farming region. Associated Words: patriotism, patriot, patriotic, incivism, compatriot, expatriate, expatriation, deport, deportation, repatriate, repatriation, national, rusticate, rustication. country, a. rural, rustic, agrestic. countryman, n. compatriot, fellow-citizen; farmer, granger husbandman, rustic; peasant; (country bumpkin) yokel, carl, clod, clodhopper, churl, yahoo. county, n. shire. couple, n. two, pair, brace, span, couplet, team. couple, v. join, link, connect; copulate. couplet, n. distich. courage, n. intrepidity, heroism, bravery, gallantry, hardihood, fortitude, valor, fearlessness, pluck, prowess. Antonyms: See cowardice and fear. courageous, a. intrepid, brave, heroic, gallant, hardy, bold, fearless, valiant, valorous, dauntless, chivalrous, plucky, daring, lion-hearted. courier, n. messenger, runner; estafet. course, n. progress, passage; direction, bearing; heat, bout, round; procedure; sequence, routine, order, succession regularity; career; series. court, n. tribunal, judicatory, judicature, judiciary, forum, mall; courtyard, quadrangle, cortile; jurisdiction; royal household, princely retinue; assize. Associated Words: curialistic, aulic, judicial, judiciary, forensic, docket, tipstaff, beadle, apparitor, summoner, _dies judicus, dies non_. court, v. woo, spark; solicit, seek, allure, attract, invite. courteous, a. deferential, polite, debonair, gracious, urbane, civil, respectful. courtesan, n. prostitute, harlot, demirep, _amorosa_, _bona roba_. courtesy, n. politeness, urbanity, civility, complaisance; favor, indulgence; curtsy. courtly, a. elegant, dignified, polite. courtyard, n. court, quadrangle, area, cortile, yard; patio, (Sp. America). cove, n. bay, recess, bight, inlet. covenant, n. compact, agreement, pact, concordat. cover, v. overspread, overlay, thatch, hide, conceal, secrete; comprise, embrace, embody, comprehend; copulate with, serve. cover, n. lid, covering, case, canopy, awning, tilt, roof, casing, cope, capsule, envelope; shelter, protection, defense, safeguard; counterpane, quilt, coverlet, spread; covert, underbrush, undergrowth, underwood, jungle, bush; plate. covered, a. covert, screened, sheltered, protected, hidden. covering, n. cover, wrapper, sheath, pavilion. covert, a. secret, hidden, disguised, clandestine, stealthy. covert, n. shelter, refuge, retreat; underwood, jungle, thicket. covetousness, n. cupidity, avarice, greed. cow, n. female of bovine animals; heifer (young cow); maverick. Associated Words: bovine, Bos, moo, low, lowing, farrow, beef, neat, moolley, vachery, chiche-vache, milch. cow, v. overawe, daunt, intimidate, scare, dishearten. coward, n. craven, dastard, poltroon, milksop, recreant. cowardice, n. pusillanimity, poltroonery, dastardy, recreancy, timidity, cowardliness. cowardly, a. craven, pusillanimous, dastard, dastardly, poltroon, recreant, timorous, white-livered, chicken-hearted faint-hearted, spiritless. cowboy, n. cattle herder, drover, herdsman, vaquero. cowcatcher, n. pilot. cow doctor. veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon. cower, v. crouch, squat; quail, cringe. cowlike, a. bovine. coworker, n. colleague, coagent, collaborator, associate. cowpox, n. vaccinia, kinepox, cowpock, kinepock. coxcomb, n. fop, dandy, dude, popinjay, exquisite. coy, a. shy, modest, retiring, demure, reserved. cozy, a. snug; talkative, chatty, sociable. crab, n. crustacean, mollusk. crabbed, a. See cross. crabs, n. pl. Cancer, Crustacea, Mollusca, Brachyura. Associated words: crustacean, cancriform, cancerite, cancrine, cancroid, lobster, carcinology, brachyurean, cancrivorous, cancrophagous, carcinoid, carcinomorphic. crack, n. chink, crevice, cranny, fissure, rift, rime, rent, cleft, interstice; rupture, breach, flaw; report, clap, pop, explosion, snap. crack, v. break, chop, cleave, split, rift, snap. crack, a. (Colloq.) first-rate, excellent, fine, capital, first-class. cracked, a. (Colloq.) crotchety, eccentric, crazy. crackle, v. crepitate, decrepitate.--n. crepitation, crackling. crackling, a. crepitant.--n. crepitation, decrepitation, crackle. crack up. (Low) extol, laud, praise, cry up. cracksman, n. burglar. cradle, n. baby's bed, trundle-bed; solen; _cunabula_. craft, n. dexterity, skill; trade, handicraft; guild; guile, cunning, subtlety, artfulness. craftiness, n. artfulness, guile, craft, cunning. craftsman, n. artificer, artisan, mechanic, skilled workman. crafty, a. shrewd, artful, wily, tricky, cunning, sly, deceitful, Machiavelian. Antonyms: guileless, artless, undesigning. cragged, a. jagged, broken, craggy. cram, v. compress, crowd, squeeze, press, impact. cramp, v. restrain, confine, hinder, restrict, obstruct. cranium, n. skull. crank, n. winch, turning-handle; bend, turn, twist, crook, curve. cranky, a. (Colloq.) crotchety, capricious, unreasonable, cantankerous, cross, perverse, cross-grained, contumacious unsteady. cranny, n. crevice, chink. See crack. crash, n. ruin, smash, failure, collapse. crass, a. coarse, unrefined, gross, crude. crave, v. long for, yearn for, hanker after; beseech, entreat, implore. craven, a. cowardly.--n. coward. craving, n. longing, yearning, hankering, hungering; entreaty, supplication. crawler, n. creeper, reptile; pl. Reptilia, reptiles. crawling, a. creeping, reptile, reptant, reptatorial, reptatory.--n. creeping. craze, v. madden, derange, distract; confuse, disarrange. craze, n. craziness, distraction; fancy, freak, crotchet; mania, passion, infatuation. craziness, n. insanity, lunacy, dementia, delirium; monomania; megalomania; paranoia. crazy, a. demented, deranged, insane, delirious, dementate, mad, lunatic, distracted, frantic, crazed, crack-brained; rickety, decrepit, shaky, tottering, dilapidated; desirous, eager, infatuated. Antonyms: sane, rational. crazy person. madman, maniac, lunatic, bedlamite; monomaniac; paranoiac; megalomaniac. cream, n. best part, quintessence; cremor; cosmetic. crease, n. ruck, wrinkle. creation, n. origination, making, invention; universe, cosmos, world. creative, a. demiurgic, inventive, cosmoplastic, omnific. creature, n. being. credence, n. belief, credit, acceptance. credit, n. belief, faith, confidence; repute, good name, esteem, honor; influence, prestige; trust, tick. Antonyms: discredit, dishonor, unbelief. creditor, n. Associated Words: bilk, subrogation. credulous, a. unsuspecting, gullible. Antonym: incredulous. creed, n. Associated-words: symbolics, symbolism Athanasian, Nicene, Apostles'. creek, n. brook, rivulet, race, runlet, streamlet, runnel, bourn, burn; cove, bight. creepers, n. pl. Reptilia. creephole, n. retreat; subterfuge, expedient, makeshift excuse. creeping, a. crawling, reptile, reptant; fawning, truckling, obsequious, sycophantic. creeping, n. reptation; formication. creepingly, adv. insidiously, cunningly. cremate, v. incremate, incinerate. cremation, n. incremation, incineration. Associated Words: crematory, crematorium. crest, n. tuft; helmet; top, ridge, crown, summit; armorial bearings, device, cognizance. crested, a. cristate. crestfallen, a. dejected, discouraged, disheartened, downcast. crevice, n. cleft, fissure, rent, cranny, crack, chink. crew, n. assemblage, throng, gang, mob, band, crowd. crib, n. manger, rack; bin, bunker, box. crib, v. (Colloq.) appropriate, plagiarize, steal, purloin. cricket, n. Associated Words: stridulate, stridulation, stridulator, stridulatory, stridulous. crime, n. felony, atrocity, outrage, enormity; offense, transgression, misdemeanor, malefaction, dereliction. Associated Words: criminology, criminologist, criminality, recidivism, recidivist. criminal, a. felonious, flagitious. criminal, n. felon, malefactor, culprit; criminaloid. criminate, v. incriminate, implicate, accuse. crimination, n. incrimination. crimp, v. curl, crisp, frizz. crimpy, a. frizzly, crimped, wavy. crincum, n. (Colloq.) twist, turn, freak, caprice, fancy, whim. cringe, v. truckle, fawn, crouch. cringing, a. truckling, fawning, servile, obsequious, slavish. crinkle, v. curl, wrinkle. crinkly, a. wavy, wrinkly, kinky. cripple, v. maim, lame, disable; hough, hamstring. crippled, a. maimed, lame, disabled, deformed, halt. crisis, n. critical juncture; climacteric, emergency, strait, exigency. crisp, a. brittle, friable, short; crackling, lively, brisk. Antonyms: tenacious, tough, flexible. critic, n. censor, reviewer, adept, judge, inspector; caviler, carper, censurer; Zoilus. critical, a. discriminating, fastidious; carping, censorious, captious, caviling, zoilean; crucial, momentous, decisive, precarious, climacteric. criticism, n. critique, censure, animadversion, stricture, cavil. croak, v. forebode, decry, complain, grumble. croaker, n. grumbler, alarmist, decrier, pessimist. crock, n. jar, pot; soot, smut. crony, n. (Colloq.) bosom friend, intimate, associ