To crib.  To purloin, or appropriate to one’s own use,
  part of any thing intrusted to one’s care.

To fight A crib.  To make a sham fight.  Bear garden
  term.

Cribbage-faced. Marked with the small pox, the pits
  bearing a kind of resemblance to the holes in a
  cribbage-board.

CRIBBEYS, or CRIBBY islands.  Blind alleys, courts, or
  bye-ways; perhaps from the houses built there being cribbed
  out of the common way or passage; and islands, from
  the similarity of sound to the Caribbee Islands.

Crim.  Con.  Money.  Damages directed by a jury to be
  paid by a convicted adulterer to the injured husband, for
  criminal conversation with his wife.

Crimp.  A broker or factor, as a coal crimp, who disposes
  of the cargoes of the Newcastle coal ships; also persons
  employed to trapan or kidnap recruits for the East Indian
  and African companies.  To crimp, or play crimp; to
  play foul or booty:  also a cruel manner of cutting up fish
  alive, practised by the London fishmongers, in order to
  make it eat firm; cod, and other crimped fish, being a
  favourite dish among voluptuaries and epicures.

CRINKUM CRANKUM.  A woman’s commodity.  See spectator.

CRINKUMS. The foul or venereal disease.

Cripple.  Sixpence; that piece being commonly much bent
  and distorted.

Crispin.  A shoemaker:  from a romance, wherein a prince
  of that name is said to have exercised the art and mystery
  of a shoemaker, thence called the gentle craft:  or rather
  from the saints Crispinus and Crispianus, who according
  to the legend, were brethren born at Rome, from whence
  they travelled to Soissons in France, about the year 303,
  to propagate the Christian religion; but, because they
  would not be chargeable to others for their maintenance,
  they exercised the trade of shoemakers:  the governor of
  the town discovering them to be Christians, ordered them
  to be beheaded, about the year 303; from which time they
  have been the tutelar saints of the shoemakers.

Crispin’s holiday.  Every Monday throughout the year,
  but most particularly the 25th of October, being the
  anniversary of Crispinus and Crispianus.

Crispin’s lance.  An awl.

Croaker.  One who is always foretelling some accident
  or misfortune:  an allusion to the croaking of a raven,
  supposed ominous.

CROAKUMSHIRE.  Northumberland, from the particular
  croaking the pronunciation of the people of that
  county, especially about Newcastle and Morpeth, where
  they are said to be born with a burr in their throats, which
  prevents their pronouncing the letter r.