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Cresses
Cress Cress (kr[e^]s), n.; pl. Cresses (kr[e^]s"[e^]z). [OE. ces, cresse, kers, kerse, AS. cresse, cerse; akin to D. kers, G. kresse, Dan. karse, Sw. krasse, and possibly also to OHG. chresan to creep.] (Bot.) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic. Note: The garden cress, called also peppergrass, is the Lepidium sativum; the water cress is the Nasturtium officinale. Various other plants are sometimes called cresses. To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread. --Goldsmith. Bitter cress. See under Bitter. Not worth a cress, or ``not worth a kers.' a common old proverb, now turned into the meaningless ``not worth a curse.' --Skeat.
Cresset
Cresset Cres"set (kr?s"s?t), n. [OF. crasset, cresset, sort of lamp or torch; perh. of Dutch or German origin, and akin to E. cruse, F. creuset crucible, E. crucible.] 1. An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions. Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus. --Milton. As a cresset true that darts its length Of beamy luster from a tower of strength. --Wordsworth. 2. (Coopering) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible. --Knight.

Meaning of Cresse from wikipedia

- Cressé (French pronunciation: [kʁese]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. Communes of the Charente-Maritime department...
- Mark Emery Cresse (born September 21, 1951) is an American former professional baseball catcher and Major League Baseball (MLB) coach, who is best remembered...
- by Lee Frost (credited as R.L. Frost) and written by Wes Bishop and Bob Cresse, the latter of whom also portrays a ****ic camp commandant. Two American...
- Michael Cressé Potter FLS (7 September 1858, in Corley, Warwickshire – 9 March 1948, in New Milton, Hampshire) was an English botanist, mycologist, phytopathologist...
- Bradley Garrett Cresse (born July 31, 1978) is an American former professional baseball catcher. He attended Los Alamitos High School and Marina High School...
- Pierre Cressé (1632 - 1714) was a 17th-century French physician during the reign of Louis XIV. He was related to Molière's mother, Marie Cressé (1601-1632)...
- circuit. Her first three films, Once Upon a Knight (1961), written by Bob Cresse, Surftide 77 (1962), directed by Lee Frost, and Tonight for Sure (1962)...
- La Cresse (French pronunciation: [la kʁɛs]; Occitan: La Cressa) is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France. Communes of the Aveyron department...
- Hagin ben Moses or Hagin filus Mossy (Hebrew: חיים בן משה, romanized: Ḥayyim ben Mosše) was Presbyter Judaeorum or Chief Rabbi of the Jews of England and...
- distinguish it from similar plants also referred to as cress (from Old English cresse), is a rather fast-growing, edible herb. Garden cress is genetically related...