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Show CRIO 1. To pluck a Crow, is to be induftriou or contentious about that which is of n value 1f you difpute, we muft even pluck a crow abou L Effrange S Refolve, before we go Hudibras. That you and I muft pull & crow 3. A piece of iron, with a beak, ufed as lever to force open doors ; as the Latin called a hook corwus The crow is ufed as a lever to lift up the end of great heavy timber, and then they thruft th - ¢laws betwee the groun laying fome ftuff behind the crow, they draw th other end of the fhank backwards, and fo raife th Moxon's Mechanical Exercifes timber Get me an iron crow, and bring it ftraigh Shakefpeare's Romeo and Fulict Unto my cell Againft the gate employ your crows of iron Soutbern 4. [From 7o crow.] The voice of a cock or the noife which he makes in hi galety Cro'Wro0T. 7 f. ‘[from crow and foot in Latin, ‘ranurculus. A flower #./. [from crow and foor. Cro'wrooT A caltrop, or piece of iron with fou © points, two, three, or four inchgs long "{o that, whatever way it falls, one poin It is ufed in war"for incomis up Military Diéz moding the cavalry 90 Crow w. z. preterit. J creaw, or crow - ed; I have crowed. -~ [cpapan, Saxon. 1. To make the noife which a cock make in gaiety or defiance ¢row; men ufe to rife Bacon "That the lion trembles at the crozving of th upon trial, found to be fabuHakewill Within this homeftead liv'd, without a pee For crowing loud, the noble Chanticleer So hight her cock Dryden's Fables 2. To boaft; te bully ~ blufter; to fwagger to vapour t Selby is crowing, and, though. always dcfeate by his wife, fill crowing on Grandijon CROWD. . /. [cpu'8, Saxon. 1. A multitud «ther 2. A promifcuou or diftinion confufedly prefled toge withou medley orde He could then compare the confufion of a;mul_gitud rian fea, dafhin of iflands and breakin in the Ica among its crozo Poge He went not with the crozod to fee a thrine But fed us by the way with food divine [Fro cravth Welfh. A fiddle Hark how the minftrels "gin ta fhrill alou "Their merry mufick that refounds from far That well agree withouten breach or jar Spenfer's Epith His fiddle is your proper purchafe Won in the fervice of the churches And by your doom-muft be allow' To be, or be no more, a crowd. 7o Crowp Hudibras @. a. [from the:noun. 1. To fill with confufed multitades A mind which is ever ¢crowding its memory wit things which it learns, may cramp the inventio atfelf 6. The top of any thing, as of a moun narrower from age to age, and finks morc withi its channel and the bowels of the carth, accordin Upon the crown o' th' cliff, what thing was tha Which parted from you? Shakefpeare's King Lear Huge trunks of trees, fell'd from the fteepy crozw tain as it can make its way into all thofe fubterraneou cavities, and crowd the ajr out of them Of the bare mountains, roll with ruin down Dryden's Areid Buinet's Theory 7. Part of the hat that covers the head As the mind itfelf is thought to take up n fpace, fo its alions feem to require no time; bu I once opened a remarkable atheroma: it wa .about as big as thecrown of a man's hat, and la many of them feem to be ¢rowwded into an inftant Locke underneath the pe€toral mufcle Then let us fil Watts With all the virtues we can ¢rotod into it Addifon's Cato Truft not to your fervants, who may mifinfor yeu, by which they may perhaps gain a few crowns How fhort is life! Why will vain courtiers toil Bacon 3. To incumber by multitudes But he that ca And crowd a vainer monarch for a {mile Granville ‘1. T fwarm to b is, andeternally will be, of equal value to an other ounce of filver = Locke numerous and con 9. Honour ; ornament cellence; dignity They follow their undaunted king Crozvd through their gates; and, in the fields o light 2. To thruft among a multitude A mighty man, had not fome cunning fi Amidft fo many virtues crowded in Cowley's Dawideis CROWN-IMPERIAL rialis, Lat, Sidney {carecrow foris Frpion That fellow handles hlvs ‘bo‘w like'a fz‘;'"ff%‘f" LA A plant Shakefpeare's Ricbard 111 Her who faireft does appear ~ Crown her queen of all the year Umbro, the prieft, the proud Marrabians led -My crown is in my heart, not on my head My crowwn 1s call'd content A crown it is that feldom kings enjoy ! And peaceful olives'crorvn'd his hoary head Dryden's A reid 3.'To dignify; to adorn ; to make illuftri Shakefpeare's Henry V1 Laok down, you gods ous ‘And on this couple drop a blefled crozvn Shakefpeare's Tempeft haft mad Tho a little lower than th hi angels, and haft crosumed him with glory and hoPfalyr viiie 5 nour She fhall be, to the happinefs of England An aged princefs; many days fhall fee her And yet no day without a deed to ¢roun it I would the college of the cardinal Would chufe him-pope, and carry him to Rome Shake[peare 4 To reward ; to recompentfe Urge your {uccels; deferve a lafting name ‘. She'll ervon a graterul and a conftant fame Rofcommon 5. To complete They do it to obtain a corruptible crezvz, but w 6.. To terminate; to finifh Th an incorruptible. 1 Cor. ix. 25 Let merit crowns, and juftice laurels give But let me happy by your pity live. Dryd. Epif 4. Regal power; royalty fucceffio of a crown in feveral countries Locke places it on different heads 5. The top of the head, in a contemptuou fenfe If he awake From toe to crows he'll filkour fkins with pinches | Make us ftrange ftuff Shakefpeare's Temy eff While his head was working upon this thought | the toy took him.in the ¢rown to fend for the fong L'Eftrange to perfelt Receivea crown for thy well ordering of the feaft STk, Ecclus Th Dryden 2. To cover, as with a crown If thou be a king, where is thy crown #- i for crowwns, and thfones; and fceptres, as it is to fi Kettlewell down with him as his guefts impe 1 mean yourvoice for crowning of the king de And fet the triple crown upon his head. Shakefpeare's Henry V1 Is it not as great a prefumption in us to becom God's fons ; and to inherit'kingdoms, and to hop [coron nament Had you not come upon your cue, my lord William lord Haftings had pronounc'd your part CROWN. #. [. [couronney Fr. kroone, Dut notes imperial and regal dignity 7. f 7o CrowN. . a. [from the noun. 1. To inveft with the crown or regal or #./. [crow and degp.] whic ex 10. Completion; accomplifhment CrO'WDER. 7. /. [from crowd.] A fiddler of the hea decoration Much experience is the croson of old men Ecclus. xxv. Therefore, my brethren, dearly beloved, an longed for, my joy and croawn, ftand faft in th Lord Philipe ive 1 The fhocking fquadrons meet in mortal fight Diyden's Virgil corona, Liat. 1. The ornamen feed on brea or crowwn-pieces, ftivers or ducatoons, orin bullion fufed CRO'WKEEPER eat beef, an which is {o brown May fatisfy his appetite, and owe no man a crown Suckling An ounce of filver, whether in pence, groats 4. Y0 Crowp Sail. [adea phrafe. Fe‘T fpread wide the fails upon the yatds 70 CROWD. w. 7 | fier Sharp's Surgery 8. A picce of money, anciently ftampe with a crown ; five fhillings This little interval, this paufe of life laking an privilege, or rathe crownin property, of friendfhip, is conftancys Dryden's Fables, | 3+ Reward ; honorary diftinétion -The pipe, the tabor, and the tremblingcroud Shake[peare's Henry IV To hold our fafety up It feems probable that the fea doth ftill gro z. A garland 3. The vulgar; the populace R to that tumult he had obferve Some plunge in bufinefs, others fhave their crozwns Pope The time miforder'd, doth in common fenf Crowd us and crufh us to this monftrous form Chevy-chafe fung by a blind crowder But even then the morning cock crew loud. Shakefpeare's Hamlet Diogenes called an ill phyfician, cock. - Why faith. he. Diogenes anfwered, Becaufe when yo _cock, king James Jous Behold ! if fortune or a miftrefs frowns 2z, To'prefs clofe together an timbeér and th CR CiR' Scuth All thefe a milk-white honeycomb furround Which in themid® the country banquet crozun'd Dryden Cro'wnerass 7. /. The fineft {ort of window-glafs Cro'wnrosT 7. / poft which i ftands upright in th fome buildings middle, between two principal rafters. Cro'wnscas. z /i A fiinking filthy {cab, { that breed roun | "a"horfe's hoof + ‘painful fore abou and'i the corners o a cancerous an Farrier's Did ' CROW - |