Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 151
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Rouge (n.) [F.] (Chem.) A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide.
It is used in polishing glass, metal, or gems, and as a cosmetic, etc. Called also crocus, jeweler's rouge, etc.
Rouge (n.) A cosmetic used for giving a red color to the cheeks or lips. The best is prepared from the dried flowers of the safflower, but it is often made from carmine. -- Ure.
Crocus (n.) (Bot.) 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.
Crocus (n.) (Chem.) 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.
Crocus of Venus (Old Chem.), Oxide of copper.
Crocus (n.) Any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers; native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated.
Croesus (n.) 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.
Croesus (n.) Last king of Lydia (died in 546 BC).
Croesus (n.) A very wealthy man.
Croft (n.) A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm.
A few small crofts of stone-encumbered ground. -- Wordsworth.
Carafe (n.) [F.] A glass water
bottle for the table or toilet; -- called also croft. Carageen
Croft (n.) A small farm worked by a crofter.
Croft, () (Obs.) A little close adjoining to a dwelling-house, and enclosed for pasture or arable, or any particular use. Jacob's Law Dict.
Crofter (n.) One who rents and tills a small farm or helding; as, the crofters of Scotland.
Crofter (n.) An owner or tenant of a small farm in Great Britain
Crofting (n.) Croftland. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Crofting (n.) (Textile Manuf.) Exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching.
Croftland (n.) Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Crois (n.) See Cross, n. [Obs.] Croisade
Croisade (n.) Alt. of Croisado.
Croisado (n.) A holy war; a crusade. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Croise (n.) A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross. [Obs.]
Croise (n.) A crusader. [Obs.]
The conquests of the croises extending over Palestine. -- Burke.
Croissante (a.) (Her.) Terminated with crescent; -- said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated.
Croker (n.) A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron. [Obs.] -- Holinshed.
Croma (n.) [It.] (Mus.) A quaver. [Obs.]
Cromlech (n.) (Arch[ae]ol.) 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.
Cromlech (n.) A prehistoric megalithic tomb typically having two large upright stones and a capstone [syn: dolmen, cromlech, portal tomb].
Cromorna (n.) (Mus.) A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe. [Corruptly written cromona.]
Crone (n.) An old ewe. [Obs.] -- Tusser.
Crone (n.) An old woman; -- usually in contempt.
But still the crone was constant to her note. -- Dryden.
Crone (n.) An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman. [R.]
The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel, . . . which his master had given him. -- W. Irving.
A few old battered crones of office. -- Beaconsfield.
Crone (n.) An ugly evil-looking old woman [syn: hag, beldam, beldame, witch, crone].
Cronel (n.) (Anc. Armor) The iron head of a tilting spear , divided into two, three, or four blunt points. [Written also cronel.] -- Grose.
Cronet (n.) The coronet of a horse.
Cronel (n.) The iron head of a tilting spear.
Cronian (a.) Saturnian; -- applied to the North Polar Sea. [R.] -- Milton.
Cronstedtite (n.) (Min.) A mineral consisting principally of silicate of iron, and crystallizing in hexagonal prisms with perfect basal cleavage; -- so named from the Swedish mineralogist Cronstedt.
Cronies (n. pl. ) of Crony.
Crony (n.) A crone. [Obs.] "Marry not an old crony." -- Burton.
Crony (n.) An intimate companion; a familiar frend. [Colloq.]
He soon found his former cronies, though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of time. -- W. Irving.
Crony (n.) A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities [syn: buddy, brother, chum, crony, pal, sidekick].
Cronyism (n.) 任用親信 Favoritism shown to friends and associates (as by appointing them to positions without regard for their qualifications).
Croodle (v. i.) To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw. [Prov. Eng.] -- Wright. -- Forby.
A dove to fly home to her nest and croodle there. -- C. Kingsley.
Croodle (v. i.) To fawn or coax. [Obs.]
Croodle (v. i.) To coo. [Scot.]
Crook (n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
Through lanes, and crooks, and darkness. -- Phaer.
Crook (n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end. Especially:
Crook (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
Crook (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
He left his crook, he left his flocks. -- Prior.
Crook (n.) A pothook. "As black as the crook." -- Sir W. Scott.
Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
For all yuor brags, hooks, and crooks. -- Cranmer.
Crook (n.) (Mus.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
Crook (n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc. [Cant, U.S.]
By hook or by crook, In some way or other; by fair means or foul.
Crooked (imp. & p. p.) of Crook.
Crooking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crook.
Crook (v. t.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. -- Shak.
Crook (v. t.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. [Archaic]
There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games. -- Ascham.
What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends. -- Bacon.
Crook (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. " The port . . . crooketh like a bow." -- Phaer.
Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards. -- Camden.
Crook (n.) Someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime [syn: criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor].
Crook (n.) A circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path" [syn: bend, crook, twist, turn].
Crook (n.) A long staff with one end being hook shaped [syn: crook, shepherd's crook].
Crook (v.) Bend or cause to bend; "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply" [syn: crook, curve].
Crook -- U.S. County in Oregon
Population (2000): 19182
Housing Units (2000): 8264
Land area (2000): 2979.381699 sq. miles (7716.562847 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 8.032038 sq. miles (20.802882 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2987.413737 sq. miles (7737.365729 sq. km)
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 44.212739 N, 120.534152 W
Headwords:
Crook
Crook, OR
Crook County
Crook County, OR
Crook -- U.S. County in Wyoming
Population (2000): 5887
Housing Units (2000): 2935
Land area (2000): 2858.590994 sq. miles (7403.716371 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 11.926740 sq. miles (30.890113 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2870.517734 sq. miles (7434.606484 sq. km)
Located within: Wyoming (WY), FIPS 56
Location: 44.561657 N, 104.638851 W
Headwords:
Crook
Crook, WY
Crook County
Crook County, WY
Crook, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado
Population (2000): 128
Housing Units (2000): 80
Land area (2000): 0.129100 sq. miles (0.334367 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.129100 sq. miles (0.334367 sq. km)
FIPS code: 18640
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 40.858586 N, 102.801195 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 80726
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Crook, CO
Crook
Crookback (n.) A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
Crookack (a.) Hunched. -- Shak.
Crookback (a.) Characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column [syn: crookback, crookbacked, humped, humpbacked, hunchbacked, gibbous, kyphotic].
Crookback (n.) A person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine [syn: humpback, hunchback, crookback].
Crookbill (n.) (Zool) A New Zealand plover ({Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
Crooked (a.) Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. "Crooked paths." -- Locke.
He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. -- Shak.
Crooked (a.) Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.
They are a perverse and crooked generation. -- Deut. xxxii. 5.
Crooked (a.) False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.
Crooked whisky, Whisky on which the payment of duty has been fraudulently evaded. [Slang, U.S.] -- Barlett.
Crooked (a.) Having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth" [ant: straight].
Crooked (a.) Not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive [syn: crooked, corrupt] [ant: square, straight].
Crooked (a.) Irregular in shape or outline; "asymmetrical features"; "a dress with a crooked hemline" [syn: asymmetrical, crooked].
Crooked (a.) Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman" [syn: hunched, round- backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping, crooked].
Crookedly (adv.) 有鉤狀柄地；彎曲地；不誠實地 In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
Crookedly (adv.) In a crooked lopsided manner; "he smiled lopsidedly" [syn: lopsidedly, crookedly]
Crookedness (n.) [U] 彎曲；不正； 不誠實；不正當；欺詐 The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.
Crookedness (n.) A tortuous and twisted shape or position; "they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat performed incredible contortions" [syn: tortuosity, tortuousness, torsion, contortion, crookedness].
Crookedness (n.) Having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles [ant: straightness].
Crookedness (n.) The quality of being deceitful and underhanded [syn: crookedness, deviousness].
Crooken (v. t.) To make crooked. [Obs.]
Crookes tube () (Phys.) A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
Crookes tube (n.) The original gas-discharge cathode-ray tube.
Croon (v. i.) To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Croon (v. i.) To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly.
Here an old grandmother was crooning over a sick child, and rocking it to and fro. -- Dickens.
Croon (v. i.) To sing in a soft, evenly modulated manner adapted to amplifying systems, especially to sing in such a way with exaggerated sentimentality. -- MW10 -- RHUD
Crooned (imp. & p. p.) of Croon.
Crooning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Croon.
Croon (v. t.) To sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum.
Hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise. -- C. Bront['e].
Croon (v. t.) To soothe by singing softly.
The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep. -- Dickens.
Croon (n.) A low, continued moan; a murmur.
Croon (n.) A low singing; a plain, artless melody.
Croon (v.) Sing softly.
Crooner (n.) A singer of popular ballads.
Syn: balladeer.
Crooner (n.) A singer of popular ballads [syn: crooner, balladeer].
Crop (n.) The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
Crop (n.) The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree. [Obs.] "Crop and root." -- Chaucer.
Crop (n.) That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.
Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn, wine, and oil. -- Milton.
Crop (n.) Grain or other product of the field while standing.
Crop (n.) Anything cut off or gathered.
Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free, It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee. -- Dryden.
Crop (n.) Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.
Crop (n.) (Arch.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial. [Obs.]
Crop (n.) (Mining.) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
Crop (n.) (Mining.) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. -- Knight.
Crop (n.) A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
Neck and crop, Altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]
Cropped (imp. & p. p.) of Crop.
Cropping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crop.
Crop (v. t.) To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one. -- Ezek. xvii. 22.
Crop (v. t.) Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
Death . . . . crops the growing boys. -- Creech.
Crop (v. t.) To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
Crop (v. t.) To cut off an unnecessary portion at the edges; -- of photographs and other two-dimensional images; as, to crop her photograph up to the shoulders.
Crop (v. i.) To yield harvest.
To crop out. (Geol.) To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal.
To crop out. To come to light; to be manifest; to appear; as, the peculiarities of an author crop out.
To crop up, To sprout; to spring up; to appear suddenly.
"Cares crop up in villas." -- Beaconsfield.
Crop (n.) The yield from plants in a single growing season [syn: crop, harvest].
Crop (n.) A cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale.
Crop (n.) A collection of people or things appearing together; "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas"
Crop (n.) The output of something in a season; "the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores"
Crop (n.) The stock or handle of a whip.
Crop (n.) A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food [syn: craw, crop].
Crop (v.) Cut short; "She wanted her hair cropped short".
Crop (v.) Prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land" [syn: cultivate, crop, work].
Crop (v.) Yield crops; "This land crops well".
Crop (v.) Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow [syn: crop, graze, pasture].
Crop (v.) Feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" [syn: crop, browse, graze, range, pasture].
Crop (v.) Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back].
CROP. This word is nearly synonymous with emblements. (q.v.),
CROP. As between the landlord and tenant, the former has a lien; in some of the states, upon the crop for the rent, for a limited time, and, if sold on an execution against the tenant, the purchaser succeeds to the liability of the tenant, for rent and good husbandry, and the crop is still liable to be distrained. Tenn. St. 1825, c. 21; Misso. St. 377; Del. St. 1829, 366; 1 N. J. R. C. 187; Atk. Dig. 357; 1 N. Y. R. S. 746; 1 Ky. R. L. 639; 5 Watts, R. 134; 41 Griff. Reg. 671, 404; 1 Hill. Ab. 148, 9; 5 Penn. St. R. 211.
CROP. A crop is not considered is a part of the real estate, so as to make a sale of it void, when the contract has not been reduced to writing, within the statute of frauds. 11 East, 362; 2 M. & S. 205; 5 B. & C. 829; 10 Ad. & El. 753; 9 B. & C. 561; but see 9 M. & W. 501.
CROP. If a husband sow land and die, and the land which was sown is assigned to the wife for her dower, she shall have the corn, and not the executors of the husband. Inst. 81.
Crop-ear (n.) A person or animal whose ears are cropped.
Crop-eared (a.) Having the ears cropped.
Cropful (a.) Having a full crop or belly; satiated. -- Milton.
Cropper (n.) One that crops.
Cropper (n.) A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.
Cropper (n.) (Mech.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
Cropper (n.) A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse. [Slang.]
Cropper (n.) Small farmers and tenants [syn: sharecropper, cropper, sharecrop farmer].
CROPPER, contracts. One who, having no interest in the land, works it in consideration of receiving a portion of the crop for his labor. 2 Rawle, R. 12.
Cropsick (a.) Sick from excess in eating or drinking. [Obs.] "Cropsick drunkards." -- Tate. -- Crop"sick`ness, n. [Obs.] -- Whitlock.
Crop-tailed (a.) Having the tail cropped.
Croquet (n.) An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.
Croquet (n.) The act of croqueting.
Croqueted (imp. & p. p.) of Croquet.
Croqueting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Croquet.
Croquet (v. t.) In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet.
Croquet (n.) A game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops; the winner is the first to traverse all the hoops and hit a peg.
Croquet (v.) Drive away by hitting with one's ball, "croquet the opponent's ball".
Croquet (v.) Play a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops.
Cro-quette (n.) (Cookery) A ball of minced meat, fowl, rice, vegetables, or other ingredients, often in a thick white sauce, highly seasoned, breaded, and fried; as, a dish of crab croquettes.
Crore (n.) Ten millions; as, a crore of rupees (which is nearly $5,000,000). [East Indies] -- Malcolm.
Crore (n.) The number that is represented as a one followed by 7 zeros; ten million.
Crosier (n.) The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God.
Note: The true shape of the crosier was with a hooked or curved top; the archbishop's staff alone bore a cross instead of a crook, and was of exceptional, not of regular form. --Skeat.
Crosier (n.) A staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office [syn: crosier, crozier].
Crosiered (a.) Bearing a crosier.
Croslet (n.) See Crosslet.
Compare: Ordinary
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries) (Law) (Roman Law) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries) (Law) (Eng. Law) One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries) (Law) (Am. Law) A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries) The mass; the common run. [Obs.]
I see no more in you than in the ordinary Of nature's salework. -- Shak.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries) That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution. [R.]
Spain had no other wars save those which were grown into an ordinary. -- Bacon.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries) Anything which is in ordinary or common use.
Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and other ordinaries. -- Sir W. Scott.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries) A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged; a table d'h[^o]te; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room. -- Shak.
All the odd words they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style. -- Swift.
He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries. -- Bancroft.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries) (Her.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary.
In ordinary. In actual and constant service; statedly attending and erving; as, a physician or chaplain in ordinary. An ambassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a foreign court.
In ordinary. (Naut.) Out of commission and laid up; -- said of a naval vessel.
Ordinary of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), The part of the Mass which is the same every day; -- called also the canon of the Mass.
Cross (n.) A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals.
Nailed to the cross By his own nation. -- Milton.
Cross (n.) The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom.
The custom of making the sign of the cross with the hand or finger, as a means of conferring blessing or preserving from evil, is very old. -- Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
Before the cross has waned the crescent's ray. -- Sir W. Scott.
Tis where the cross is preached. -- Cowper.
Cross (n.) Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.
Heaven prepares a good man with crosses. -- B. Jonson.