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CRANE

Volume 2 · 41 words · 1771 Edition

in ornithology. See Ardea.

in mechanics, a machine used in building and commerce for raising large stones and other weights. See Mechanics.

CRANE'S BILL, among surgeons, a kind of forceps, so called from its figure.

CRANE'S BILE, in botany. See Geranium.