To crow.  To brag, boast, or triumph.  To crow over any
  one; to keep him in subjection:  an image drawn from a
  cock, who crows over a vanquished enemy.  To pluck a
  crow; to reprove any one for a fault committed, to settle a
  dispute.  To strut like a crow in a gutter; to walk proudly,
  or with an air of consequence.

Crowd.  A fiddle:  probably from CROOTH, the Welch name
  for that instrument.

CROWDERO.  A fiddler.

CROWDY.  Oatmeal and water, or milk; a mess much eaten
  in the north.

Crow fair.  A visitation of the clergy.  See review of
  the black CUIRASSIERS.

Crown office.  The head.  I fired into her keel upwards;
  my eyes and limbs Jack, the crown office was full; I s—­k-d
  a woman with her a-e upwards, she was so drunk, that her
  head lay on the ground.

Cruisers.  Beggars, or highway spies, who traverse the
  road, to give intelligence of a booty; also rogues ready to
  snap up any booty that may offer, like privateers or pirates
  on a cruise.

Crummy.  Fat, fleshy.  A fine crummy dame; a fat woman. 
  He has picked up his crumbs finely of late; he has
  grown very fat, or rich, of late.

Crump.  One who helps solicitors to affidavit men, or false
  witnesses.—­’I wish you had, Mrs. Crump;’ a Gloucestershire
  saying, in answer to a wish for any thing; implying,
  you must not expect any assistance from the speaker.  It
  is said to have originated from the following incident: 
  One Mrs. Crump, the wife of a substantial farmer, dining
  with the old Lady Coventry, who was extremely deaf, said
  to one of the footmen, waiting at table, ’I wish I had a
  draught of small beer,’ her modesty not permitting her to
  desire so fine a gentleman to bring it:  the fellow, conscious
  that his mistress could not hear either the request or
  answer, replied, without moving, ’I wish you had, Mrs.
  Crump.’  These wishes being again repeated by both parties,
  Mrs. Crump got up from the table to fetch it herself;
  and being asked by my lady where she was going, related
  what had passed.  The story being told abroad, the expression
  became proverbial.

Crump-backed. Hump-backed.

Crusty beau.  One that uses paint and cosmetics, to obtain
  a fine complexion.

Crusty fellow.  A surly fellow.

Cub.  An unlicked cub; an unformed, ill-educated young
  man, a young nobleman or gentleman on his travels:  an
  allusion to the story of the bear, said to bring its cub into
  form by licking.  Also, a new gamester.