Crocus (n.) A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn.
Crocus (n.) A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colcothar) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing powder.
Croesus (n.) A king of Lydia who flourished in the 6th century b. c., and was renowned for his vast wealth; hence, a common appellation for a very rich man; as, he is a veritable Croesus.
Croft (n.) A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm.
Crofter (n.) One who rents and tills a small farm or helding; as, the crofters of Scotland.
Crefting (n.) Croftland.
Crefting (n.) Exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching.
Croftland (n.) Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised.
Crois (n.) See Cross, n.
Croisade (n.) Alt. of Croisado
Croisado (n.) A holy war; a crusade.
Croise (n.) A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross.
Croise (n.) A crusader.
Croissante (a.) Terminated with crescent; -- said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated.
Croker (n.) A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron.
Croma (n.) A quaver.
Cromlech (n.) A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found chiefly in countries inhabited by the ancient Celts, and are of a period anterior to the introduction of Christianity into these countries.
Cromorna (n.) A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe.
Crone (n.) An old ewe.
Crone (n.) An old woman; -- usually in contempt.
Crone (n.) An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman.
Cronel (n.) The iron head of a tilting spear.
Cronet (n.) The coronet of a horse.
Cronian (a.) Saturnian; -- applied to the North Polar Sea.
Cronstedtite (n.) A mineral consisting principally of silicate of iron, and crystallizing in hexagonal prisms with perfect basal cleavage; -- so named from the Swedish mineralogist Cronstedt.
Cronies (pl. ) of Crony
Crony (n.) A crone.
Crony (n.) An intimate companion; a familiar frend
Croodle (v. i.) To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw.
Croodle (v. i.) To fawn or coax.
Croodle (v. i.) To coo.
Crook (n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
Crook (n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
Crook (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
Crook (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
Crook (n.) A pothook.
Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
Crook (n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
Crook (n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
Crooked (imp. & p. p.) of Crook
Crooking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crook
Crook (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
Crook (n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
Crook (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
Crookback (n.) A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
Crookack (a.) Hunched.
Crookbill (n.) A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
Crooked (a.) Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
Crooked (a.) Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.
Crooked (a.) False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.
Crookedly (adv.) In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
Crookedness (n.) The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.
Crooken (v. t.) To make crooked.
Crookes tube () A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
Croon (v. i.) To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.
Croon (v. i.) To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly.
Crooned (imp. & p. p.) of Croon
Crooning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Croon
Croon (v. t.) To sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum.
Croon (v. t.) To soothe by singing softly.
Croon (n.) A low, continued moan; a murmur.
Croon (n.) A low singing; a plain, artless melody.
Crop (n.) The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
Crop (n.) The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.
Crop (n.) That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.
Crop (n.) Grain or other product of the field while standing.
Crop (n.) Anything cut off or gathered.
Crop (n.) Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.
Crop (n.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.
Crop (n.) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
Crop (n.) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
Crop (n.) A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
Cropped (imp. & p. p.) of Crop
Cropping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crop
Crop (v. t.) To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
Crop (v. t.) Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
Crop (v. t.) To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
Crop (v. i.) To yield harvest.
Crop-ear (n.) A person or animal whose ears are cropped.
Crop-eared (a.) Having the ears cropped.
Cropful (a.) Having a full crop or belly; satiated.
Cropper (n.) One that crops.
Cropper (n.) A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.
Cropper (n.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
Cropper (n.) A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse.
Cropsick (a.) Sick from excess in eating or drinking.
Crop-tailed (a.) Having the tail cropped.
Croquet (n.) An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.
Croquet (n.) The act of croqueting.
Croqueted (imp. & p. p.) of Croquet
Croqueting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Croquet
Croquet (v. t.) In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet.
Cro-quette (n.) A ball of minced meat, fowl, rice, or other ingredients, highly seasoned, and fried.
Crore (n.) Ten millions; as, a crore of rupees (which is nearly $5,000,000).
Crosier (n.) The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God.
Crosiered (a.) Bearing a crosier.
Croslet (n.) See Crosslet.
Cross (n.) A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals.
Cross (n.) The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom.
Cross (n.) Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.