A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.

The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora. A red powder (called also polychroite), which is made from the saffron (Crocus sativus). See Polychroite.

To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter.

nonsense; balderdash; humbug; -- usually used in the phrase a crock.

drunk, inebriated. Opposite of sober.

A potter.

Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds.

An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.

Ornamented with crockets.

Ornamentation with crockets.

Smutty.

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 (Crocodilus vulgaris, or Crocodilus Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (Crocodilus 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.

An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds.

Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile. One of the Crocodilia.

A caption or sophistical mode of arguing.

Same as Crocoite.

Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also red lead ore.

A salt formed by the union of croconic acid with a base.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling saffron; having the color of saffron; as, croconic acid.

A white crystalline sugar, metameric with glucose, obtained from the coloring matter of saffron.

A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. Crocus vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; Crocus sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn.

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 Cr/sus.

A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm.

One who rents and tills a small farm or holding; as, the crofters of Scotland.

Croftland.

Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised.

See Cross, n.

A holy war; a crusade.

A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross.

Terminated with crescents; -- said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated.

A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron.

A quaver.

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.

A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe.

Oliver Cromwell, b. 1599, d. 1658.

of or pertaining to Oliver Cromwell.

A genus of rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns.

An old ewe.

The iron head of a tilting spear.

The coronet of a horse.

Saturnian; -- applied to the North Polar Sea.

A mineral consisting principally of silicate of iron, and crystallizing in hexagonal prisms with perfect basal cleavage; -- so named from the Swedish mineralogist Cronstedt.

A crone.

To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw.

A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

Hunched.

A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.

Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.

In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.

The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.

To make crooked.

Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (Cucurbita moschata) and is smooth and often striped.

A low, continued moan; a murmur.

a singer of popular ballads.

singing in a soft low tone; as, her crooning soon put the child to sleep.

To yield harvest.

A person or animal whose ears are cropped.

Having the ears cropped.

Having the tail cropped.

cut very short; as, her cropped hair.

One that crops.

Sick from excess in eating or drinking.

A brittle cake or other crisp pastry.

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.

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.

Ten millions; as, a crore of rupees (which is nearly $5,000,000).

The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God.

Bearing a crosier.

See Crosslet.

To lie or be athwart.

to create one or a series of cross sections{3} by cutting (an object) into thin slices.

With arms crossed.

A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surface of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface.

A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.

Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus.

A bun or cake marked with a cross of icing, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday; also, called hot cross bun, even when not hot.

A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse.

a race over a course including countryside, rather than over roads or prepared paths.

A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.

dealing with or comparing two or more cultures; as, a cross-cultural survey.

The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.

classification according to more than one attribute at the same time.

to dress in the clothes of the other sex.

someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex.

The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined. See Examination.

To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party.

One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.

convergent strabismus; a disorder in which one or both eyes turn inward toward the nose rather than directly at the object of vision; crossed eyes.

See Strabismus.

having convergent strabismus. Contrasted with walleyed.

Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.

fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individuals of the same species.

To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual of the same species.

to register as a candidate for more than one political party in the same election.

A hinge having one strap perpendicular and the other strap horizontal giving it the form of an Egyptian or T cross.

to provide cross-references in (a book or other document).

of, relating to, or derived from more than one family of languages; as, cross-linguistic evidence.

to create cross links in; -- of polymeric molecules.

same as cross-link, n.

containing cross-links; -- of polymeric molecules.

to match items from two or more lists.

to crossbreed.

relating to different sense modalities.

ability to integrate information from different sense modalities.

Same as Cross-spale.

to fertilize by transfering pollen.

fertilization by transfer of pollen from the anthers of one flower to the stigma of another.

A counter or opposing purpose; a contrary aim; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory.

To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.

a question asked in cross-examination.

The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.

to refer from one entry to another, as in catalogues, books, and lists.

a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work.

of or pertaining to a cross section; as, a cross-sectional slice.

One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-pawl.

One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. [See Illustr. of Groined vault.]

An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies.

A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other.

See Harmotome, and Staurotide.