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crichton
/ˈkɹɪtʃtən/
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What does crichton mean?
proper noun
- A village and civil parish in Midlothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT384619).
- A ghost town in the Rural Municipality of Wise Creek, No. 77, Saskatchewan, Canada, named after James Crichton.
- A neighbourhood of Mobile, Alabama, United States.
More meanings (3)
proper noun
- An unincorporated community in Red River Parish, Louisiana, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States.
- A habitational surname from places.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkɹɪtʃtən/
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A bet for a large sum was once proposed to this 'Admirable Crichton' of the turf and the gaming table, and accepted.
SIR CRICHTON DAVEY'S study was a small one, and a glance sufficed to show that, as the secretary had said, it offered no hiding-place.
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Dr. J. Crichton Browne has also often noticed in melancholic patients who keep their eyebrows persistently oblique, “a peculiar acute arching of the upper eyelid.”
Though clever as clever can be— A Crichton of early romance— You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance!
He has contrived things so various as the self-acting mule and the best electro-magnet, wet gas-meters and dry planing machines, iron billard-tables and turret-clocks, the centrifugal railway and the drill slotting-machine, an apparatus for making cigars and machinery for the propulsion and equipment of steamships; so that he may almost be regarded as the Admirable Crichton of modern mechanics.