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Webster 1913 Edition


Creese

Creese

(krēs)
,
Noun.
[Malay.
kris
.]
A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade.
[Written also
crease
and
kris
.]
From a Malayan
creese
to a sailor’s jackknife.
Julian Hawthorne.

Webster 1828 Edition


Creese

CREESE

,
Noun.
A Malay dagger.

Definition 2024


creese

creese

English

Noun

creese (plural creeses)

  1. Archaic form of kris.
    • 1887, Julian Hawthorne, A Tragic Mystery: From the Diary of Inspector Byrnes (page 25)
      [] near it is a cluster of weapons of villanous aspect, comprising every thing from a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife or a Smith & Wesson revolver.

Verb

creese (third-person singular simple present creeses, present participle creesing, simple past and past participle creesed)

  1. Archaic form of kris.
    • 1799, The Gentleman's Magazine (volume 85, page 170)
      Attributing this to accident, or some impropriety of conduct on the part of the sailor, he went to enquire personally into the affair; but had no sooner approached the head Boorghese, than the fellow creesed him also, and he fell dead at his feet.