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CRADLE, n. [Gr., to swing.] 1. A movable machine of various constructions, placed on circular pieces of board, for rocking children or inform persons to sleep, for alleviating pain, or giving moderate exercise.Me let the tender office long engage, to rock the cradle of reposing age.2. Infancy. From the cradle, is from the state of infancy; in the cradle, in a state of infancy.3. That part of the stock of a cross-bow, where the bullet is put.4. In surgery, a case in which a broken leg is laid after being set.5. In ship-building, a frame placed under the bottom of a ship for launching. It supports the ship and slides down the timbers or passage called the ways.6. A standing bedstead for wounded seamen.7. In engraving, an instrument, formed of steel, and resembling a chisel, with one sloping side, used in scraping mezzotintos, and preparing the plate.8. In husbandry, a frame of wood, with long bending teeth, to which is fastened a sythe, for cutting and laying oats and other grain in a swath.CRADLE, v.t. 1. To lay in a cradle; to rock in a cradle; to compose, or quiet.It cradles their fears to sleep.2. To nurse in infancy.3. To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.CRADLE, v.i. To lie or lodge in a cradle.
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CRADLE, n. [Gr., to swing.] 1. A movable machine of various constructions, placed on circular pieces of board, for rocking children or inform persons to sleep, for alleviating pain, or giving moderate exercise.Me let the tender office long engage, to rock the cradle of reposing age.2. Infancy. From the cradle, is from the state of infancy; in the cradle, in a state of infancy.3. That part of the stock of a cross-bow, where the bullet is put.4. In surgery, a case in which a broken leg is laid after being set.5. In ship-building, a frame placed under the bottom of a ship for launching. It supports the ship and slides down the timbers or passage called the ways.6. A standing bedstead for wounded seamen.7. In engraving, an instrument, formed of steel, and resembling a chisel, with one sloping side, used in scraping mezzotintos, and preparing the plate.8. In husbandry, a frame of wood, with long bending teeth, to which is fastened a sythe, for cutting and laying oats and other grain in a swath.CRADLE, v.t. 1. To lay in a cradle; to rock in a cradle; to compose, or quiet.It cradles their fears to sleep.2. To nurse in infancy.3. To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.CRADLE, v.i. To lie or lodge in a cradle. |
CRA'DLE, n. [Sax. cradel; W. cryd, a rocking or shaking, a cradle; crydu, to shake, or tremble; crydian, crydiaw, id.; from rhyd, a moving; Ir. creatham, to shake; Gr. κραδαω, id., and to swing; Heb. חרד, to tremble or shake, to palpitate; Syr. in Ethp., to rub or scrape. Without the first letter, W. rhyd, Heb. Ch. Eth. רעד, to tremble, to shake. In Ar. رَعَدَ raada, to thunder, to impress terror, to tremble; and رَادَ rada, to run hither and thither, to move one way and the other, to tremble or shake. The Arabic رَعَدَ to thunder, coincides with the Latin rudo, to roar, and the W. grydiaiw, to utter a rough sound, to shout, whoop or scream, grydwst, a murmur, from gryd, a shout or whoop, and this from rhyd; so that crydiaw and grydiaw are from the same root, and from this we have cry, and cry implies roughness, coinciding with the Syriac, supra, to scrape, whence grate, gride, &c. See Owen's Welsh Dictionary, and Castle's Heptaglot.]- A movable machine of various constructions, placed on circular pieces of board, for rocking children or infirm persons to sleep, for alleviating pain, or giving moderate exercise.
Me let the tender office long engage, / To rock the cradle of reposing age. – Pope.
- Infancy. From the cradle, is from the state of infancy; in the cradle, in a state of infancy.
- That part of the stock of a cross-bow, where the bullet is put. – Encyc.
- In surgery, a case in which a broken leg is laid, after being set. – Encyc.
- In ship-building, a frame placed under the bottom of a ship for launching. It supports the ship and slides down the timbers or passage called the ways. – Encyc.
- A standing bedstead for wounded seamen. – Mar. Dict.
- In engraving, an instrument formed of steel, and resembling a chisel, with one sloping side, used in scraping mezzotintos, and preparing the plate. – Encyc.
- In husbandry, a frame of wood, with long bending teeth, to which is fastened a sythe, for cutting and laying oats and other grain in a swath.
CRA'DLE, v.i.To lie or lodge in a cradle. – Shak.
CRA'DLE, v.t.- To lay in a cradle; to rock in a cradle; to compose, or quiet.
It cradles their fears to sleep. – D. A. Clark.
- To nurse in infancy. – D. Webster.
- To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.
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Cra"dle
- A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on
rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in
which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of
existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of
liberty.
- To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle] to lull or quiet,
as by rocking.
- To lie or
lodge, as in a cradle.
- Infancy, or very early life.
- To nurse or train in
infancy.
- An implement
consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of
long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the
grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
- To cut and lay with a cradle, as
grain.
- A tool used in
mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on
the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
- To transport a vessel by means of a
cradle.
- A framework of timbers, or iron bars,
moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry
ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined
plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a
ship.
- A
case for a broken or dislocated limb.
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Cradle CRADLE, noun [Gr., to swing.] 1. A movable machine of various constructions, placed on circular pieces of board, for rocking children or inform persons to sleep, for alleviating pain, or giving moderate exercise. Me let the tender office long engage, to rock the cradle of reposing age. 2. Infancy. From the cradle is from the state of infancy; in the cradle in a state of infancy. 3. That part of the stock of a cross-bow, where the bullet is put. 4. In surgery, a case in which a broken leg is laid after being set. 5. In ship-building, a frame placed under the bottom of a ship for launching. It supports the ship and slides down the timbers or passage called the ways. 6. A standing bedstead for wounded seamen. 7. In engraving, an instrument, formed of steel, and resembling a chisel, with one sloping side, used in scraping mezzotintos, and preparing the plate. 8. In husbandry, a frame of wood, with long bending teeth, to which is fastened a sythe, for cutting and laying oats and other grain in a swath. CRADLE, verb transitive 1. To lay in a cradle; to rock in a cradle; to compose, or quiet. It cradles their fears to sleep. 2. To nurse in infancy. 3. To cut and lay with a cradle as grain. CRADLE, verb intransitive To lie or lodge in a cradle |
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