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Show 2. To caw, or cry as a raven or Crow The raven himfelf is hoarfe That croaks the fatal entrance of Dunca Under my battlements Shakefpeare Thc. hoarfe raven, on the blafted bough By croaking fro the left, prefag' blow At_ the fame tim the comin Dryden the wal of elms wit th ¢roaking of the ravens, looks exceeding folemn an venerable Addifon 3. It may be ufed in contempt for an difagreeable or offenfive murmur Their underftanding are but little inftruted when all their whole time and pains is laid out t fill the croaking of their own bellies Locke Croax. z. /. [from the verb. or voice of a frog or raven Th cr The fwallow fkims the river's watry face The frogs renew the croaks of their loguaciou race Dryden Wa that a raven's croak, or my fon's voice No matter which, I'll to the grave and hide me Lee Cro'ceous. adj. [croceus, Latin.] Confifting of faffron ; like faffron Di& CrociTa'rion. #. f. {crocitatio, Latin. The croaking of frogs or ravens. Di CROCK. #. / CR QR- [4ruick, Dutch. A cup any veflel made of earth Cro'ckery. z /. Earthen ware CRO'CODILE. . /. [from »péx®-, {affron and desnwy, fearing.] Anamphibious voracious animal, in fhape refembling lizard, and found in Egypt and the Indies. It is covered with very hard {cales which cannot, without great difficulty be pierced ; except under the belly where the fkin is tender. It has a wid throat, with {everal rows of teeth, thar and feparated, which enter one another It runs with great {wiftnefs; but doe not eafily turn itfelf It is long lived and is faid to grow continually to it death Some are fifteen or eightee cubits long. Crocediles lay their eggs refembling goofe - eggs, {ometimes amounting to fixty, near the water-fide covering them with the fand, that th heat of the fun may hatch them. Calmer Glofter's tho Beguiles him ; as the mournful crocodil "With forrow fnares relenting pafiengers Shakefpeare's Henry V1 Crocodiles were thought to be peculiar unto th Brown's Vulgar Errours Nile Czefar will weep, the crocodile will weep. Dryd Enticing crocodiles, whofe tears are death Syrens, that murder with enchanting breath Granwille Crocodile is alfo a little animal, otherwife calle frinx, very much like the lizard, or fmall crocodile It lives by land and water; has four fhort fmal tegs, a very ftharp muzzle, and a fhort {mall tail It is pretty enough to look at, being covered al over with little fcales of the colour of filver, inter mixt with brown, and of a gold colour apon th back. - It always remains little Trevoux Crorsa'pe. ) n. /. [eroifade, French, fro Crorsa'po. § croix, a crofs.] A hol war; a war carried on againft infidel under the banner of the crofs See that he take the nam of Urban, becauf a pope of that name did firft inftitute the croifado and, as with an holy trumpet, did ftir up the voy age for the Holy Land Bacon Cro‘1sES. 2. / 1. Pilgrims who carry a crofs 2. Soldiers who fight againit infidels unde the banner of the crofs CronE. . /. [cnone, Sax. according t Verftegan 5 kronie, Dutch, according t Skinner. Tuffer With fatted crones, and fuch old things an old woman Shake[peare's Winter's Tale The crone being in bed with him on the weddin night, and finding his averfion, endeavours to wi his affection by reafon Dryden Cro'NET. #. /i The hair which grow over the top of an horfe's hoof Cro'ny. 7z /. [acant word.] An old acquaintance ; a companion of long ftand So when the Scots, your conftant cronies Th' efpoufers of your caufe and monies. Hudibras To oblige your crony Swift Bring our dame a new year's gift Strange, an aftrologer fhould di Swift Saift CROOKXK. 7. /. [croc, French. 1. Any crooked or bent inftrument 2. A fheephook He left his crook, he left his flocks And wand'ring through the lonely rocks He nourifh'd endlefs woe 3. Any thing bent ; a meander Prior 70 CrooK. @w. a. [crocher, French. bend ; to turn into a hook It is highly probable, that this difeafe proceed from a redundant acidity, becaufe vinegar wil foften and crook tender bones Arbuthnot on Diet 2. To pervert from reétitude ; to diver from the original end Whatfoever affairs pafs fuch a man's hands, h crooketh them to his own ends; which muft need be often eccentrick to the ends of his mafter o Bacon ftate to havea curvature Their fhoes and pattens are fnouted and pike more than a finger long, crooking npwards. Camden Cro'okBACK. 7 /. [crook and back.] term of reproach for a man that ha gibbous fhoulders Fair-handed Spring unbofoms every grace Aye, crookback, here I ftand to anfwer thee T homfon CrorT 7 /. [cnope Saxon. A littl clofe joining to a houfe, that is ufed fo corn or pafture This have T learn'd Tending my flocks bard by, i' th" hilly ¢roft Milton That hrow this bettom glade Y and founds are propagated as readily throug cr ok pipes, as through firaight ones. ~ Nequy, Opticks Mathematicians fay of a ftraight line, thyt as well an index of its own rectitude as of the db liquity of a crooked one Waoodward's Naturq] H!fl. z. Winding ; oblique ; anfra@uoys, A ma fhall never want croske Or any he the proudeft of thy fort. Shak, Hen. VI Cro'okBACKED. adj. Having bent fhoulders A dwarf as well may for a giant pafs As negroe for a fwan ; a crookback'd laf Dryden's Fuwenal Be call'd Europa There are millions of truth paths in, if he thinks that he is in the riggc way:)w‘;a:r ever he has the footfteps of others to follo , Loci A ong the crooked lanes, on eyery hedge Thomf. Summe of mind; given to obliquity of condu®, T ey have corrupted themfelyes: they ar perverfe and crocked generation Deut. xxxii foul, indigefted lump ,5 As crooked in thy manners as thy fhape W " Shakefpeare's H were not born crosked; 'C{c leame:i'ryth‘g windings and turnings of the ferpent. Surh Croo'kKEDLY. adw. [from crooked. 1. Not in a ftraight line z. Untowardly ; not compliantly If we wal perverfely with God, he will wal crockedly towards us Zaylor's Ruleof Liwin Huly CrOO'KEDNESS. 7. /. [from crosked 1. Deviation from ftraightnefs; curvity the ftate of being inflefted; infle@ion He that knoweth what is ftraight, doth eve thereby difcern what is crookedy becaufe the ab 2. Deformity of a gibbous body When the heathens offered a facrifice to thei falfe gods, they would make a fevere fearch to fe if there were any crookedrefs or fpot, any uncleanTaylor's Worthy Communicant CROP. #. /. [cnop, Saxon. The craw o a bird ; the firft fomach into which it meat defcends of the meat in the mouth j but, in fuch asare no carnivorous CRO'CODILINE. adj. [crocodilinus, Lat. Like a crocodile Dic Cro'cus. z. /. - A flower Throws out the {now-drop and the crocus firft ;'dh f fi : ; th o fi h th which intercept In birds there is no maftication or comminution There fall thofe faphire-colour'd brooks Which, conduit-like, with curious crooks Sweet iflands make in that fweet land Sidney To be bent nefs or deformity, in their facrifice 1 fing the man who Judah's fceptre bor In that right hand which held the ¢rook before Cowley @w. # A bell or a cannon may be heard fence of ftraightnefs, in bodies capable thereof, i crookednefs Hooker ‘Without one wonder in the fky Not one of all his crony ftar "To pay their duty at his herfe 7o Crook 1. Bent; not firaight; curved, Hence, heap of wrath Take up the baftard Taket up, I fay; give't to thy crone 1. T CROO'KED. adj. [crocher, French 3. Perverfe ; untoward ; without re@it d Frefh herrings plenty Michel brings ing no The glow-worm lights his gem 1. An old ewe 2, In contempt whether our king Richard IIT, was ¢rookbacked CR that a man is not or may not think himfelf, concerned to know; as it is immediately fwallowed into th Ray €rop or Craw But fluttering there, they neftle near the throne And lodge in habitations not their own . By their high crops and corny gizzards known, Dr Cro‘PruLL adj. [crop and full] Sa tiated ; with a full belly He, ftretch'd out all the chimney's length Bafks at the fire his hairy ftrength And, crop-full, out of door he fling Ere the firft cock his matin rings Milton CRro'PSICK. adj. [crop and fick.] Sick wit repletion fic excef wit an de bauchery Strange odds! where crop-fick drunkards mut engag A bungry foe, and arm'd with fober rage Tate's 7a'umaf Cror. rz.f [cnoppa, Saxon. 1. The higheft part or end of any thing as the head of a tree, the ear of corn z. Th harveft the corn gathered off 2 field ; the produtt of the field And this of all my harveft hope I have Nought reaped but a weed crg of car ngree Spenfer's Pafforals Lab'ring the foil, and reaping plenteous cre Milton's Paradife Lff Corn, wine, and oil The fountain which from Helicon proceeds That facred ftream, fhould never watilr weed!:; Nor make thg ¢rop of thorns and th tlesRefeamno growe Nothing |