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He had crippled the joints of the noble
child.

Sir W. Scott.

2. To deprive of strength, activity, or
capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of
resources; as, to be financially crippled.

More serious embarrassments . . . were
crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay.

Palfrey.

An incumbrance which would permanently
cripple the body politic.

Macaulay.

Crip"pled (kr?p"p'ld), a.
Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. "The crippled
crone." Longfellow.

Crip"ple*ness, n.
Lameness. [R.] Johnson.

Crip"pler (-pl?r), n. A wooden
tool used in graining leather. Knight.

Crip"pling (-pl?ng), n. Spars
or timbers set up as a support against the side of a
building.

Crip"ply (-pl?), a. Lame;
disabled; in a crippled condition. [R.] Mrs.
Trollope.

Cri"sis (kr?"s?s), n.


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