] lay stretched
The infamy of Crete, detested brood
Of the feigned heifer.
Dante,
Hell
, xii. (1300, Cary's translation).
Crèvecour (2 syl.). The count Philip de Crèvecour is the envoy sent by Charles "the Bold," duke of Burgundy, with a defiance to Louis XI., king of France.
The Countess of Crèvecour, wife of the count.—Sir W. Scott, Quentin Durward (time, Edward IV.).
Crib (Tom), Thomas Moore, author of Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress (1819).
Crillon. The following story is told of this brave but simple-minded officer. Henry IV., after the battle of Arques, wrote to him thus: