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&fist; The garden cress, called also peppergrass, is
the Lepidium sativum; the water cress is the Nasturtium
officinale. Various other plants are sometimes called
cresses.

To strip the brook with mantling cresses
spread.

Goldsmith.

Bitter cress. See under
Bitter. -- Not worth a cress, or
"not worth a kers." a common old
proverb, now turned into the meaningless "not worth a
curse." Skeat.

Cres*selle" (kr?s-s?l"), n. [F.
crécelle rattle.] (Eccl.) A wooden
rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a bell, in the Roman
Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy Week, or the last
week of Lent.

Cres"set (kr?s"s?t), n. [OF.
crasset, cresset, sort of lamp or torch; perh. of
Dutch or German origin, and akin to E. cruse, F.
creuset crucible, E. crucible.] 1.
An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible
material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan
carried on a pole in nocturnal processions.

Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed

With naphtha and asphaltus.


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