CPage 500
- English Word Crocket Definition A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler.
- English Word Crocketed Definition Ornamented with crockets.
- English Word Crocketing Definition Ornamentation with crockets.
- English Word Crocking Definition of Crock
- English Word Crocky Definition Smutty.
- English Word Crocodile Definition A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (C. Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.
- English Word Crocodile Definition A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.
- English Word Crocodilia Definition An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds.
- English Word Crocodilian Definition Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile.
- English Word Crocodilian Definition One of the Crocodilia.
- English Word Crocodility Definition A caption or sophistical mode of arguing.
- English Word Crocoisite Definition Same as Crocoite.
- English Word Crocoite Definition Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also red lead ore.
- English Word Croconate Definition A salt formed by the union of croconic acid with a base.
- English Word Croconic Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling saffron; having the color of saffron; as, croconic acid.
- English Word Croconic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, croconic acid.
- English Word Crocose Definition A white crystalline sugar, metameric with glucose, obtained from the coloring matter of saffron.
- English Word Crocus Definition 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.
- English Word Crocus Definition 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.
- English Word Croesus Definition 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.
- English Word Croft Definition A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm.
- English Word Crofter Definition One who rents and tills a small farm or helding; as, the crofters of Scotland.
- English Word Croftland Definition Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised.
- English Word Crois Definition See Cross, n.
- English Word Croisade Definition Alt. of Croisado
- English Word Croisado Definition A holy war; a crusade.
- English Word Croise Definition A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross.
- English Word Croise Definition A crusader.
- English Word Croissante Definition Terminated with crescent; -- said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated.
- English Word Croker Definition A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron.