Meaning of crevis | Babel Free

Definitions

The crayfish.

UK, dialectal

Examples

“By the gods, I know⟳ not how best to devise My name⟳ or my property well to disguise. A merchant, a may-pole, a man or a mackerel, A crab or a crevis, a crane or a cokerel?”

“The fifth pair had each a fair large tray, strewed with fresh grass; and in them conger, burt, mullet, fresh herrings, oysters, salmon, crevis, and such like⟳, from Neptunas, God of the sea.”

“In the household of Joan Holand, crayfish or lobsters (crevis) appeared on 26 and 27 February 1378 and on 1 and 2 October in the same year; at Hunstanton one crevis was served on Good Friday 1349; none appeared at Frampton.”

“Till at the last⟳ I spide within the same where one stood peeping through a crevis small.”

“It's the traversing of a mans thoughts, the coasting of the mind⟳ and imagination into every crevis and corner, pryes into every particular, takes a special view⟳ of the borders and confines of any corruption or condition that comes to be scanned,”

“I saw⟳ a flash⟳ of light'ning through the crevis of the porthole, and heard it thunder.”

“Be it further enacted that each Discovey ^([sic]) claim⟳ shall be plainly marked and staked with the name⟳ of the person, who shall have⟳ discovered the same plainly written thereon, and a hole or shaft shall be sunk on the same to the crevis thereof, and the same shall be recorded as other claims and in all cases each discovery claim⟳ shall be as plainly described on the Records as possible, and a penalty of Ten Dollars shall be imposed upon any one removing or defacing stake or land⟳ mark⟳.”

“Irrigation under tissue flap partially covering the tooth and application of glycerite of iodine and zinc, into the tissue crevis surrounding the tooth.”

“He has a joynt or crevis about an inch within the utmost edge of his shell, which goes round about his body from his head to his tail, on his belly side; into which joynt or crevis, you put⟳ your knife, beginning at the head, and so rip up that side, and then do as much to the other;”

“The edge of the free gingiva is the gingival margin (gingival crest) and the gingval sulcus is the crevis between the free gingiva and the tooth.”

“Thoughts of the end⟳ of Connor and I looming near by and the fact that I would be in Chicago, the closest I would be to Iowas in years, the place⟳ where I was born and grew up in, thoughts of the family I left there that threaten⟳ to break⟳ out of the deep crevis of my brain where I keep⟳ them locked, all rush⟳ into my head, giving me a dull headache.”

“Clinical examination revealed coronal color change⟳ of the tooth involved and pus draining from the gingival crevis.”

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