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kris, creese, crease|krɪs, kriːs|
Forms: 6 crise, (cricke), 6–7 crys, 7 crisse, crize, cryze, (crest, cresset, cric), 8 cris, crice, 8–9 cress, creese, 9 kreese, crese, creeze, crease, kris, kriss, (krist).
[a. Malay kirīs, krīs, kres, according to Yule and Burnell of Javanese origin: the earliest Eng. uses refer to Java.]
A Malay dagger, with a blade of a wavy form.
1577–80Drake's Voy. in Hakluyt (1600) III. 742 Certaine wordes of the naturall language of Iaua learned and obserued by our men there, Cricke [? criche], a dagger. 1586–8Candish's Voy. ibid. 822 Which dagger they [of Java] call a Crise, and is as sharpe as a razor. 1598tr. Linschoten's Voy. 33 (Y.) Manancabo [Sumatra] where they make Poinyards, which in India are called Cryses. 1696J. Ovington Voy. Suratt 173 (Y.) As the Japanners..rip up their Bowels with a Cric. 1698W. Chilcot Evil Thoughts v. (1851) 53 The Javians, and Sumatrians, by their poisoned crests. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) III. 916 A crice or short dagger. 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 332 Sooloos, with drawn cresses, pursued the Buggess. 1789G. Keate Pelew Isl. 143 Snatched Soogle's Malay Creese, and stabbed him. 1847Tennyson Princ. Prol. 21 The cursed Malayan crease. 1857S. Osborn Quedah ii. 33 Standing on the main-hatch, with a long Illanoon creese in his hand.
1883I. L. Bishop Malay Pen. in Leisure Ho. 197/1 Mr. Ferney has..given me a kris. 1895Conrad Almayer's Folly xi. 220 With a shout and a leap he would be in the midst of them, kriss in hand, killing, killing, killing. 1927R. J. H. Sidney In Brit. Malaya To-Day 62 She will give Raja Besi a kris by means of which he will be able to kill the Jin. 1935Wodehouse Blandings Castle iv. 107 Malays, when pushed past this point, take down the old kris from its hook and go out and start carving up the neighbours. 1948W. S. Maugham Here & There 315 He awakened just as he thought a kriss was being drawn across his throat. 1953News Chron. 2 June 7/1 In the first carriage is the Sultan of Kelantan... He carries a kris (a dagger) made from an elephant tusk. 1964R. Perry World of Tiger vii. 106 The bull succumbed to stabs from poisoned krises tied to poles. 1965R. McKie Company of Animals i. 16 An ancient Malay kris with ivory scabbard and garuda hilt. 1972M. Sheppard Taman Indera 127 A short beak and a pair of folded arms can be recognized on many Malay kris-hilts to this day. |