(1):

(a.) Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.

(2):

(a.) Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.

(3):

(a.) Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.

(4):

(n.) See Crewel.