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Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants,
Her maiden strewments.

Shak.

Crap"au*dine (kr?p"?-d?n), a. [F.,
n.] (Arch.) Turning on pivots at
the top and bottom; -- said of a door.

Crap"au*dine, n. [F.] (Far.)
An ulcer on the coronet of a horse.
Bailey.

Crape (krāp), n. [F.
crêpe, fr. L. crispus curled, crisped. See
Crisp.] A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk
gummed and twisted on the mill. Black crape is much used for
mourning garments, also for the dress of some
clergymen.

A saint in crape is twice a saint in
lawn.

Pope.

Crape myrtle (Bot.), a very
ornamental shrub (Lagerströmia Indica) from the East
Indies, often planted in the Southern United States. Its foliage
is like that of the myrtle, and the flower has wavy crisped
petals. -- Oriental crape. See
Canton crape.

Crape, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Craped (krāpt); p.


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