Cox or Cokes, O. E. A fool; hence Coxcomb, for the top of a fool’s cap.
Crackle Porcelain or Cracklin. A kind of china, the glaze of which has been purposely cracked all over in the kiln. The Chinese have many kinds of this manufacture, some of which are extremely rare and valuable. White and grey are the common colours amongst modern crackle. The yellow and cream-coloured specimens are much prized: these are seldom seen in Europe. The greens, light and dark, turquoise, and reds are generally finely glazed, and have the crackle lines small and minute. In colouring, these examples are exquisite, and in this respect they throw our finest specimens of European porcelain quite into the shade. The green and turquoise crackle made in China at the present day are very inferior to the old kinds. Perhaps the rarest and most expensive of all ancient crackles is a yellowish stone-colour. (Fortune.)
Crackled Glass. (See Glass.)
Cracowes. Long-toed boots and shoes, introduced in 1384.
Cradle Vault, Arch. A cylindrical vault.
Cradling. A builder’s term for a timber frame for a ceiling, &c.
Craig, Scotch. (1) A rock. (2) The neck; throat.
Crampet. The decorated end of a scabbard.
Crampon. The border of gold which keeps a stone in a ring. (See Collet.)
Cramp-ring, O. E. A ring consecrated on Good Friday, an amulet against cramp.