ppl. a. Also 6 creuised, -ished, 6–8 crevissed, 7 -assed. [f. CREVICE sb. or v. + -ED.] Having crevices, chinks or cracks; fissured. † b. Deeply furrowed or channelled. † c. Indented (of leaves, etc.).
1558–68. Warde, trans. Alexis’ Secr. (1568), 10 b. A kynde of poulse corne … havynge … the codde crevised about.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, V. xii. 561. Long narrow leaues, sometimes creuished or slightly toothed about the edges.
1583. J. Higgins, trans. Junius’ Nomenclator (N.). Columna striata … a carved or crevissed pillar, with long strakes or lines made therin.
1678. trans. Gaya’s Arms War, 22. It is screwed and rifled: that is to say, wrought and crevassed in the inside from the Muzzel to the Breech, in form of a Screw.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Jujube-tree, A rough, rugged and crevissed Bark.
1806. J. Grahame, Birds of Scot., 71. Some green branch That midway down shoots from the creviced crag.
1861. Mrs. Norton, Lady La G., I. 44. The prisoned streamlet … undermining all the creviced bank.
