CPage 508
- English Word Crotaphite Definition The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively.
- English Word Crotaphitic Definition Pertaining to the temple; temporal.
- English Word Crotch Definition The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.
- English Word Crotch Definition A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; -- called also crane and crutch.
- English Word Crotched Definition Having a crotch; forked.
- English Word Crotched Definition Cross; peevish.
- English Word Crotches Definition of Crotch
- English Word Crotchet Definition A forked support; a crotch.
- English Word Crotchet Definition A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note.
- English Word Crotchet Definition An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
- English Word Crotchet Definition The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.
- English Word Crotchet Definition A bracket. See Bracket.
- English Word Crotchet Definition An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus.
- English Word Crotchet Definition A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.
- English Word Crotchet Definition To play music in measured time.
- English Word Crotcheted Definition Marked or measured by crotchets; having musical notation.
- English Word Crotchetiness Definition The state or character of being crotchety, or whimsical.
- English Word Crotchety Definition Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man.
- English Word Croton Definition A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries.
- English Word Croton bug Definition A small, active, winged species of cockroach (Ectobia Germanica), the water bug. It is common aboard ships, and in houses in cities, esp. in those with hot-water pipes.
- English Word Crotonic Definition Of or pertaining to, or derived from, a plant of the genus Croton, or from croton oil.
- English Word Crotonine Definition A supposed alkaloid obtained from croton oil by boiling it with water and magnesia, since found to be merely a magnesia soap of the oil.
- English Word Crotonylene Definition A colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, C4H6, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid.
- English Word Crottles Definition A name given to various lichens gathered for dyeing.
- English Word Crouch Definition To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.
- English Word Crouch Definition To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
- English Word Crouch Definition To sign with the cross; to bless.
- English Word Crouch Definition To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.
- English Word Crouched Definition of Crouch
- English Word Crouched Definition Marked with the sign of the cross.