CPage 501
- English Word Croma Definition A quaver.
- English Word Cromlech Definition 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.
- English Word Cromorna Definition A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe.
- English Word Crone Definition An old ewe.
- English Word Crone Definition An old woman; -- usually in contempt.
- English Word Crone Definition An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman.
- English Word Cronel Definition The iron head of a tilting spear.
- English Word Cronet Definition The coronet of a horse.
- English Word Cronian Definition Saturnian; -- applied to the North Polar Sea.
- English Word Cronies Definition of Crony
- English Word Cronstedtite Definition A mineral consisting principally of silicate of iron, and crystallizing in hexagonal prisms with perfect basal cleavage; -- so named from the Swedish mineralogist Cronstedt.
- English Word Crony Definition A crone.
- English Word Crony Definition An intimate companion; a familiar frend
- English Word Croodle Definition To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw.
- English Word Croodle Definition To fawn or coax.
- English Word Croodle Definition To coo.
- English Word Crook Definition A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
- English Word Crook Definition Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
- English Word Crook Definition The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
- English Word Crook Definition A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
- English Word Crook Definition A pothook.
- English Word Crook Definition An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
- English Word Crook Definition A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- English Word Crook Definition A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
- English Word Crook Definition To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
- English Word Crook Definition To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
- English Word Crook Definition To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
- English Word Crookack Definition Hunched.
- English Word Crookback Definition A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
- English Word Crookbill Definition A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.