A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt.
bick
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crib
crib
noun
(Britain) A bed for a child older than a baby.
(Canada) A small raft made of timber.
(UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) The stomach.
(US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
(cribbage) The card game cribbage.
(cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
(cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
(nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
(now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
(obsolete) A job, a position; (Britain) an appointment.
(obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
(slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
(slang, sometimes African-American Vernacular) One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
(southern New Zealand) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
(usually in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.
The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
verb
(India) To complain, to grumble
(intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
(intransitive, of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
(transitive) To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
(transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
(transitive, informal) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
(transitive, obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.