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Behold a people cometh from the north country; . .
. they are cruel and have no mercy.

Jer. vi. 22,23.

2. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain,
grief, or misery.

Cruel wars, wasting the earth.

Milton.

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and
their wrath for it was cruel.

Gen. xlix. 7.

3. Attended with cruetly; painful;
harsh.

You have seen cruel proof of this man's
strength.

Shak.

Cru"el*ly, adv. 1.
In a cruel manner.

2. Extremely; very. [Colloq.]
Spectator.

Cru"el*ness, n.Cruelty.
[Obs.] Spenser.

Cru"els (kr&udd;"&ebreve;lz), n.
pl. [Corrupt. fr. F. écrouelles
scrofula.] Glandular scrofulous swellings in the
neck.

Cru"el*ty (-t&ybreve;), n.;
pl. Cruelties (-t&ibreve;z). [OF.
cruelté, F. cruauté, fr. L.
crudelitas, fr. crudelis.


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