Obs. Also 7 craye. [a. F. craie:—OF. creie:—L. crēta chalk. Also in F. in sense 2, for which another name is pierre stone.]

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  1.  Chalk.

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14[?].  Recipes, in Rel. Antiq., I. 52. Do tharto cray that thir parchemeners wirkes withall.

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  2.  A disease of hawks, in which the excrements become excessively hard and are passed with difficulty.

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c. 1450.  Bk. Hawking, in Rel. Ant., I. 294. An yvell y-callyd the cray, that is when an hawke may not mute. Ibid., 295. The Cray comyth of wasch mete, that is wasch in hote water, in defaute of hote mete.

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1575.  Turberv., Faulconrie, 311. The Stone or Cray.

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1618.  Latham, 2nd Bk. Falconry (1633), 134. This disease … that wee call … the Craye, is of an exiccatiue or astringent qualitie.

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