The eggs are four or five in number, of a greenish colour, spotted with dusky and ash-colour, their weight about five drachms. Colonel Montagu observed two crows by the sea-shore, busy in removing small fish beyond the flux of the flowing tide, and depositing them just above high-water mark, under the broken rocks, after having satisfied the calls of hunger. This species, like the magpie, is extremely garrulous at the sight of a fox or other small quadrupeds, and attacks and makes prey of a half-grown hare. In a summer evening ramble, Colonel Montagu saw one of these birds make repeated pounces at some animal in a field where the grass was nearly a foot high, which appeared to raise itself on its hind legs, and defend itself stoutly; upon a nearer approach he discovered it to be a young hare.—_Rennie._ CROWNSCAB, _s._ A stinking filthy scab round a horse’s hoof. Crown Scab and Rat Tails are of the same nature as mallenders, and may be cured by the same means. They generally, however, leave a blemish, consisting in a loss of hair and thickening of the cuticle. Crown scab occurs on the coronet, and rat tails in lines on the back part of the leg, extending from the fetlock upwards.—_Vide_ MALLENDERS. CRUDE, _a._ Raw, not subdued by fire; not brought to perfection, immature. CRUPPER, _s._ That part of the horse’s furniture that reaches from the saddle to the tail. CRURAL, _a._ Belonging to the leg. CRUST, _s._ Any shell, or external coat; an incrustation, collection of matter into a hard body; the outer hard part of bread. CRUSTACEOUS, _a._ Shelly, with joints; not testaceous. CRY, _v._ To utter an inarticulate voice, as an animal; to yelp, as a hound on a scent. CRY, _s._ Yelping of dogs; yell, inarticulate noise; a pack of dogs. CRYSTAL, _s._ A clear transparent substance, like glass. CRYSTAL, _a._ Consisting of crystal; bright, clear, transparent, lucid. CRYSTALLINE HUMOUR, _s._ The second humour of the eye, that lies immediately next to the aqueous, behind the uvea. CUB, _s._ The young of a beast, generally of a bear or fox. CUB, _v. obs._ To bring forth. CUB-HUNTING. The pursuit or chace of young foxes—dangerous for horses, and destructive to game. Previous to the month of November no man who has any thing else to amuse himself with, or who has a regard for his neck, or his horse, should be seen by a covert’s side, unless it be on a hack cub-hunting, which after all is but a melancholy recreation. CUBE, _s._ A regular small body, consisting of six square and equal faces or sides, and the angles all right, and therefore equal. CUBEBS, _s._ A very efficient pepper. It has been lately much used in medicine. CUCKOO, _s._ A bird which appears in the spring, and is said to suck the eggs of other birds, and lay her own to be hatched in their place; a name of contempt. [Illustration]