English-Thai Dictionary

cress

N พืช ตระกูล มัสตาร์ด ใบ ใช้ ปรุงอาหาร 

 

cresset

N ภาชนะ เหล็ก สำหรับ ใส่ ไม้ หรือ น้ำมัน ที่ ใช้ เผา ไฟ (มั กวาง ไว้ บน กำแพง  pa-cha-na-lek-sam-rab-sai-mai-rue-nam-man-ti-chai-phao-fai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CRESS

n.[G., L.] The name of several species of plants, most of them of the class tetradynamia. Watercresses, of the genus Sisymbrium, are used as a salad, and are valued in medicine for their antiscorbutic qualities. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste. They grow on the brinks of rivulets and in other moist grounds. The word is generally used in the plural.

 

CRESSET

n.[See Cross. ] 1. A great light set on a beacon, lighthouse, or watch tower.
2. A lamp or torch.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CRESS

Cress (krs ), n.; pl. Cresses (kr. Etym: [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. )

 

Defn: 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.

 

CRESSELLE

Cres *selle " (krs-sl "), n. Etym: [F. crécelle rattle. ] (Eccl.)

 

Defn: A wooden rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a bell, in the Roman Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy Week, or the last week of Lent.

 

CRESSET

Cres "set (krs "st ), n. Etym: [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 )

 

Defn: A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible. Knight.

 

CRESSY

CRESSY Cress "y (krs "), a.

 

Defn: Abounding in cresses. The cressy islets white in flower. Tennyson.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

cress

cress |kres krɛs | ▶noun a plant of the cabbage family, typically having small white flowers and pungent leaves. Some kinds are edible and are eaten raw as salad. [Barbarea and other genera, family Brassicaceae: several species, including garden cress and watercress. ] ORIGIN Old English cresse, cærse; related to Dutch kers and German Kresse .

 

cresset

cres set |ˈkresit ˈkrɛsət | ▶noun historical a metal container of oil, grease, wood, or coal burned as a torch and typically mounted on a pole. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French, from craisse, variant of graisse ‘oil, grease. ’

 

Cressida

Cres si da |ˈkresədə ˈkrɛsədə | (in medieval legends of the Trojan War ) the daughter of Calchas, a priest. She was unfaithful to her lover Troilus, a son of Priam.

 

Oxford Dictionary

cress

cress |krɛs | ▶noun [ mass noun ] a plant of the cabbage family, typically having small white flowers and pungent leaves. Some kinds are edible and are eaten raw as salad. ●Barbarea and other genera, family Cruciferae: several species, including garden cress (used in mustard and cress ) and watercress. ORIGIN Old English cresse, cærse, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch kers and German Kresse .

 

cresset

cresset |ˈkrɛsɪt | ▶noun historical a metal container of oil, grease, wood, or coal set alight for illumination and typically mounted on a pole. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French, from craisse, variant of graisse ‘oil, grease ’.

 

Cressida

Cressida |ˈkrɛsɪdə | (in medieval legends of the Trojan War ) the daughter of Calchas, a priest. She was faithless to her lover Troilus, a son of Priam.

 

French Dictionary

cresson

cresson n. m. nom masculin Plante herbacée qui croît dans l ’eau, cultivée pour ses feuilles. : Un potage au cresson.

 

cressonnière

cressonnière n. f. nom féminin Bassin où l ’on cultive le cresson.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

cress

cress /kres /名詞 U 〘植 〙カラシナ類 [キャベツ類 ]の植物, (特に )クレソン .