se cramponner, v.r., to cling, to hold fast, to fasten to anything; to cling like grim death to.
cramponnet, n.m., little cramp-iron, tack, loop. — de targette; lock staple.
cran, n.m., notch; cog; (bot.) scurvy-grass, cochlearia, horse-radish; (print.) nick; (vet.) notch, ridge. D’un —; by a notch. Baisser d’un —; to take a peg lower. Monter d’un —; to rise a peg higher.
crâne, n.m., skull, brain-pan, cranium; (pop.) madcap, swaggerer, blusterer. adj., bold, brave; famous, capital, spicy.
crânement, adv., swaggeringly; capitally, in style, famously, fearlessly, unblushingly.
crânerie (crâ-n-rî), n.f., (pop.) swaggering, blustering, vaporing.
crangon, n.m., shrimp.
craniologie or cranologie, n.f., craniology.
craniologique, adj., craniological.
craniologiste, n.m., craniologist.