Word Meanings - CRAUNCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch. Swift.

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• SWIFTNESS
  The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
• SWIFTLET
  Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.
• SWIFTER
  A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it. A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides. The forward shroud of a lower mast.
• VIOLENCE
  1. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force. That seal You ask with such a violence, the king, Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me. Shak. All the elements
• TEETH
  pl. of Tooth.
• CRUSH
  LL. cruscire, prob. of Ger. origin, from a derivative of the word seen in Goth. kruistan to gnash; akin to Sw. krysta to squeeze, Dan. 1. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of
• SWIFTLY
  In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly. Wyclif.
• SWIFTFOOT
  Nimble; fleet. Mir. for Mag.
• SWIFT
  to swapan to sweep, swipu a whip; cf. swifan to move quickly, to 1. Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt. My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak,
• NOISELESS
  Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; as, the noiseless foot of time. So noiseless would I live. Dryden. -- Noise"less*ly, adv. -- Noise"less*ness, n.
• NOISEFUL
  Loud; clamorous. Dryden.
• CRUSHER
  One who, or that which, crushes. Crusher gauge, an instrument for measuring the explosive force of gunpowder, etc., by its effect in compressing a piece of metal.
• NOISETTE
  A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses
• CRUNCH
  1. To chew with force and noise; to craunch. And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull. Byron. 2. To grind or press with violence and noise. The ship crunched through the ice. Kane. 3. To emit a grinding or craunching noise.
• NOISE
  1. Sound of any kind. The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived. Bacon. Note: Noise is either a sound of too short a duration to be determined, like the report of a cannon; or else it is a confused mixture of many
• TEETHING
  The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.
• CRUSHING
  That crushes; overwhelming. "The blow must be quick and crushing." Macualay.
• SCRUNCH
  To scranch; to crunch. Dickens.
• CHINOISERIE
  Chinese conduct, art, decoration, or the like; also, a specimen of Chinese manners, art, decoration, etc.
• OUTNOISE
  To exceed in noise; to surpass in noisiness. Fuller.
• OVERNOISE
  To overpower by noise.