CRIPPLER
Crip"pler (-plr), n.
Defn: A wooden tool used in graining leather. Knight.
CRIPPLING
Crip"pling (-plng), n.
Defn: Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.
CRIPPLY
Crip"ply (-pl), a.
Defn: Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. [R.] Mrs. Trollope.
CRISIS
Cri"sis (kr"ss), n.; pl. Crises (-s. Etym: [L. crisis, Gr. Certain.]
1. The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point. This hour's the very crisis of your fate. Dryden. The very times of crisis for the fate of the country. Brougham.
2. (Med.)
Defn: That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat. Till some safe crisis authorize their skill. Dryden.