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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Crook, n. p. 315A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure. Those sapphire-colored brooks, Which, conduit-like, with curious crooks, Sweet islands make. Sidney. 2. A device used as a subterfuge; an indirect method…Crōōk, v. t. p. 315CROOKED (krōōkt); p. pr. & vb. n. CROOKING. [Icel. kroka, Sw. krōka, Dan. krōge. See supra.] 1. To make into a crook; to turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve. There is but little labor of the…Crook, v. i. p. 315To be bent or curved; to deviate from a right line; to turn by a crook. Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards. (Camden.)Croōk'-băck, n. p. 315A crooked back; one who has a crooked back or round shoulders.Crook'ed, p. a. p. 315Characterized by a crook or curve; bent; not straight. “Crooked paths.” Locke. “A sibyl, old, brow-bent with crooked age.” Milton. 2. Not straight forward; deviating from rectitude; devious…Crook'ed-ly, adv. p. 315In a curved, crooked, or perverse manner.Crook'ed-ness, n. p. 315The condition or quality of being crooked; curvature; inflection. The absence of straightness in bodies capable thereof is crookedness. Hooker. 2. Deformity of body. “A severe search to see if there…Cro͝ok'en, v. t. p. 315To make crooked. [Obs.]Crōōm, n. p. 315Same as CROME.Crōōn, n. p. 315A low, continued moan; a murmur. 2. A simple piece of music; a plain, artless melody.Crōōn, v. t. p. 315To sing in a low tone; to sing softly; to hum. Holding fast his gude blue bonnet Whiles crooning o'er some auld Scots sonnet. Burns. 2. To soothe by singing softly. The fragment of the childish hymn…Crōōn, v. i. p. 315To make a continuous noise in a low, hollow tone, as cattle do when in pain; to whine or moan. Jamieson. 2. To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly. Here an old grandmother was crooning over a…Crŏp, n. p. 315The protuberant upper receptacle of food of a bird, situated in the throat; the craw. 2. The top, end, or highest part of any thing; especially of a plant. 3. That which is cropped, cut, or gathered…Crŏp, v. t. p. 315To cut off the ends of; to bite or pull off; to pluck; to mow; to reap. “A closely cropped head of hair.” Thackeray. No more, my goats, shall I behold you climb The steepy cliffs or crop the flowery…Crŏp, v. i. p. 315To yield harvest. [Obs.] Shak. To crop out. (a.) (Geol.) To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal. (b.) To come to light; to be manifest; to appear; as, the…Crŏp'-ear, n. p. 315A person or animal whose ears are cropped.Crŏp'-eared, a. p. 315Having the ears cropped.Crōpe, imp. & p. p. p. 315of creep. [Obs.] See CREEP.Crôp'ful, a. p. 315Having a full crop or belly; satiated.Crop'-lift'ing, n. p. 315The act of stealing a crop, as of grain.Cróp'per, n. p. 315A pigeon with a large crop.Crŏp'-sick, a. p. 315Sick or indisposed from a surcharged stomach; sick with excess in eating or drinking. Tate.Cröp'-sick'ness, n. p. 315Sickness from repletion of the stomach. Whitlock.Crōre, n. p. 315Ten millions; as, a crore of rupees, being nearly $5,000,000. [East Indies.] Malcom.Crō'sier, n. p. 315The official staff of an archbishop, terminating at the top in a cross; also, the pastoral staff of a bishop, which terminates in an ornamented curve or crook. Behind a darker hour ascends: The…Cro'siered, a. p. 315Bearing a crosier; as, crosiered bishops.Cros'let, n. p. 315See CROSSLET.Crŏss, n. p. 315A 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…Cross and pile p. 315a play with money, at which it is put to chance whether a coin shall fall with that side up which bears the cross, or the other, which is called pile, or reverse. This I humbly conceive to be perfect…Crŏss, a. p. 315Not parallel or correspondent in direction; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting. “The cross refraction of the second prism.” Newton. 2. Not accordant with what is wished or…Crŏss, prep. p. 315Athwart; transversely; over; so as to intersect; across. [Obs.] And cross their limits cut a sloping way. Dryden.Crŏss, v. t. p. 316To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms; to cross swords. 2. To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t. 3. To pass from one side to the…Crŏss, v. i. p. 316To lie or be athwart. 2. To move or pass from one side toward the other, or from place to place; to make a transit; as, to cross from New York to Liverpool. 3. To be inconsistent. [Obs.] Men's…Crŏss'-ăc'tion, n. p. 316(Law.) An action brought by a party who is sued against the person who has sued him, upon the same subject matter, as upon the same contract. Burrill.Crŏss'-ärmed, a. p. 316With arms crossed. 2. (Bot.) Having branches in pairs, each at right angles with the stem; decussated. Martyn.Crŏss'-ăr'rōw, n. p. 316An arrow of a cross-bow.Crŏss'-bär, n. p. 316A transverse bar.Crŏss'-bärred, a. p. 316Secured by transverse bars. Milton.Crŏss'-bär/shŏt, n. p. 316A bullet with an iron bar passing through it, and standing out a few inches on each side;—used in naval actions for cutting the enemy's rigging.Crŏss'-bēam, n. p. 316(Arch.) A large beam running from wall to wall, and serving to hold the sides of a house together.Crŏss'-beâr'er, n. p. 316(Rom. Cath. Church.) (a.) The chaplain of an archbishop or primate, who bears a cross before him on solemn occasions. (b.) An officer in the Inquisition, who makes a vow before the inquisitors to…Crŏss'-bill, n. p. 316(Law.) A bill which is brought by a defendant, in a chancery or equity suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit. Bouvier.Crŏss'-bill, n. p. 316(Ornith.) A bird or a genus of birds of the order Passeres and family Fringillidæ; the Loxia, the mandibles of whose bill curve in opposite directions, and cross each other. Baird.Crŏss'-bĭrth, n. p. 316(Obstetrics.) Delivery, actual or attempted, when in labor any other part of the child than the head is the first presented at the mouth of the uterus.Crŏss'-bīte, n. p. 316A deception; a cheat. L'Estrange.Crŏss'bite, v. t. p. 316To thwart or contravene by deception.Crŏss'-bōw, n. p. 316(Archery.) A weapon used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise onCrŏss'-bōw'er or Crŏss'-bōw'man, n. p. 316One who shoots with a cross-bow.Crŏss'-breed, n. p. 316A breed produced from parents of different breeds.Crŏss'-bŭn, n. p. 316A bun or cake marked with a cross.Crŏss'-chŏcks, n. pl. p. 316(Naut.) Pieces of timber laid across the dead-wood amidships to make good the deficiency of the lower heels of the futtock.Crŏss'cŭt, v. t. p. 316To cut across.Crŏss'-cŭt, n. p. 316A short cut across. 2. (Mining.) An horizontal gallery, not in the veins themselves, but made to connect levels. Tomlinson.Crŏss'cŭt-saw, n. p. 316A saw managed by two men, one at each end, for cutting large logs crosswise.Crŏss'-dāys, n. pl. p. 316(Eccl.) The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.Crŏs-sĕt'te', n. p. 316(Arch.) (a.) A truss, ancone, or console, on an architrave. (b.) The small, projecting piece in arch stones, which hangs upon the adjacent stones. Gwilt.Crŏss'-ex-ăm'ĭ-nā'tion, n. p. 316(Law.) The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined.Crŏss'-ex-ăm'ine, v. t. p. 316(Law.) To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party. “The opportunity to cross-examine the witnesses.” Kent.Crŏss'-eyed, a. p. 316Having the eyes turned toward the nose, so that they look in directions which intersect or cross one another.Crŏss'-fire, n. p. 316(Mil.) The crossing of lines of fire from two or more points or places.