croon (kron)

moan or bellow. Lowell , Study Windows, p. 10. [ The deil, or else an outler quey [unhoused heifer], Gat up an' gae a croon . Burns, Halloween. croonach (krö'nak), n . [Sc., equiv. to crooner and croonyal ; so called (as ult. gurnard ) from the grunting sound it makes; croon , crone , croyn, grunt, hum, purr, croon, etc.: see croon, v . Another Sc. name (Frith of Forth) is croin ter , of similar origin.] A Scotch name of the gray gurnard, Trigla gurnard us . crooner (krö'nėr), n. [Sc., also written crow ner : see croonach .] Same as croonach . crooning (krö'ning), n. [Verbal n. of croon, v.] The act of one who croons; a low humming ming or murmuring sound. Her dainty ear a fiddle charms, A bag-pipe's her delight; But for the croonings o' her wheel She disna' care a mite. J. Baillie , The Weary Pund o' Tow. croonyal (krö'nial), n. Same as croonach. crop (krop), n. [ E. croup and crupper ), the hinder parts of a horse; and (from G.) It. groppo, > F. groupe, > E. group, a knot, cluster, company: see crope2, croup2, crupper, group. Hence also (from E.) W. crop a, craw (but Ir. Gael. sgroba, craw, are appar. different). The word has a remarkable variety of special senses, appar. all derived from an orig. meaning 'a rounded projecting ma , a protuberance'; hence (a) the rounded head or top of a tree or plant, and sprouting or growing plants in general (including by a later development the idea of plants (grain) to be cropped or cut: defs. 1,2,3); (b) a physical excrescence on an animal or plant, esp. the craw of a bird, whence the developed senses 'gullet, maw, stomach,' etc. (defs. 4, 5); (c) from the noun in the sense of 'top or head of a plant,' the verb crop, to take off or pluck the head, hence cut, etc., whence the later secondary noun senses (defs. 6-14).] 11. The top or highest part of anything, especially of an herb or a tree. Grete trees with croppes brode. The lilie croppes one and one He smote of. Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 424. Gower, Conf. Amant., III. 249. сгор And in the crop of that tre on hight A litill childe he saw full right, Lapped all in clathes clene. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 69. 2. Corn and other cultivated plants grown and garnered; the produce of the ground; harvest: as, the crops are 10 per cent. larger than last year; in a more restricted sense, that which is cut, gathered, or garnered from a single field, or of a particular kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season: as, the wheat- crop ; the potato crop. Croppe of corne yn a yere, annona. Prompt . Parv., p. 104. For plenty of crop and corne to Ceres.. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 23. 3. Corn and other cultivated plants while grow ing: as, a standing crop; the crop in the ground; the crops are all backward this year. Enriching shortly, with his springing Crop, The Ground with green, the Husbandman with hope. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 3. They turned in their stubble to sow another croppe of wheate in the same place. Coryat , Crudities, I. 151. A full ear'd crop and thriving, rank and proud! Pre post'rous man first sow'd, and then he plough'd. Quarles, Emblems, i. 2. But let the good old crop adorn The hills our fathers trod. Whittier, The Corn-Song. 4. The first stomach of a fowl; the craw; the ingluvies: sometimes used humorously of the hu man maw or stomach. IMG:content-1656.png:[blocks in formation] 5. In insects, an anterior dilatation of the alimentary canal, succeeded by the proventriculus. See cut under Blattida.-6. Anything gathered when ready or in season: as, the icecrop. This bush of yellow beard, this length of hair,.. Guiltle of steel and from the razor free, Shall fall a plenteous crop reserved for thee. Dryden, Pal. and Arc., iii. 354. 7. The act of cutting or clipping off, as hair: as, he has given you a pretty close crop.-8. An ear-mark.-9. The hair of the head when thick and short, forming a sort of cap. Her hair tinct rows. 1360 plant); cut off the ends of; eat off; pull off; pluck; mow; reap: as, to crop flowers, trees, or gra ; to crop fruit from the tree. Ther [where] it growed croppe a plante of pec he. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 76. The first leaves are cropped off to feede the silke wormes with all. Coryat, Crudities, I. 151. A fairer rose did never bloom Than now lies cropp'd on Yarrow. croquette And Gascon la es, from their jetty braids, Crop half, to buy a ribbon for the rest. Bryant, Spring in Town. While force our youth, like fruits, untimely crops . Sir J. Denham , Cato Major of Old Age, iv. 2. To cut off a part of (the ear of an animal) as a mark of identification, or for other reasons. -3. To cause to bear a crop; plant or fill with crops; raise crops on: as, to crop a field. Where in the world besides [in Con naught] could there be found a field of not two acres, cropped in precise equal ity with oats and weeds, and a cow, at mid-day, standing Quarterly Rev., CXXVII. 557. in the midst? II. in trans. 1. To sprout; appear in part, and apparently by accident or undesignedly, from beneath the surface or otherwise from concealment; become partly visible or obvious: with out , sometimes up or forth . Specifically-(a) In mining , to appear at the surface: said of a vein or ma of ore when it shows itself distinctly at the surface of the ground; also, but le frequently, in geol. ogy, with regard to stratified rocks in general. Some of the islets are composed entirely of the sedimentary, others of the trappean rocks - generally, however, with the sandstones cropping out on the southern shores. Darwin, Geol. Observations, ii. 425. (6) To appear incidentally and undesignedly; come to light or to the surface: as, his peculiarities crop out in his work; the truth cropped out in spite of him. Any wild trait unexpectedly cropping out in any of the domestic animals pleased him [Thoreau) immensely. J. Burroughs, E ays from The Critic, p. 15. All such outrages crop forth I' the course of nature. Browning , Ring and Book, I. 56. 2t. To yield harvest. Shak ., A. and C., ii. 2. cropel. An obsolete or dialectal preterit and past participle of creep . Another witne crope out against the Lord Stafford. Roger North, Examen (1740), p. 217. crope2+ (krop), п. [ IMG:content-1657.png:[blocks in formation] What horse? a roan, a crop - ear , is it not? Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 3. she wore it in a crop -curled in five dis I'll lay a you sand pounds upon my crop - ear . Dickens, Nicholas Nickle by, ix. Beau , and Fl ., Scornful Lady, v. 3. 10. A wig of rough, short hair.-11. In min- 2. A person whose ears have been cropped. ing , the outcrop of a lode. See outcrop . [Cor-crop-eared (krop'ērd), a. Having the ears dilleran region.] -12. In tanning , an entire untrimmed hide, struck for sole-leather. Also A crop - ear'd scrivener this. B. Jonson, Masques. called crop - hide .-13. A fixed weight in differ crop ent. Obsolete past participle of creep . ent localities for sugar, tobacco, and other stacropert, n. An obsolete form of crupper . Chau ples. A crop hogshead of tobacco is from 1,000 cropped. cer. to 1,300 pounds net.-14. A kind of whip used crop-fish (krop'fish), n. A local English name by horsemen in the hunting-field, consisting of a short, stout, and straight staff having a crooked handle, and a loop of leather at the end. It is useful in opening gates, and differs from the common whip in the absence of a lash. Also called hunting-crop. Instead of the gold-and-ivory-handled cutting whip which he had been led to expect, she carried a light but sturdy crop . Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 207. Away-going crops. See away - going . Course of crops. See course1 . Crop and root, the whole of anything. Croppe and rote of gentile e. Chaucer , Complaint of Venus, 1. 8 (in some MSS.). Graunte mercy, ihesu, crop & roote Of al frenschip, for thou neuere fail is. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 202. Green crop, a crop that is cut or gathered in its growing or unripe state: often used in contradistinction to grain crop, root-crop, or gra - crop , and sometimes including turnips, potatoes, etc. - Neck and crop, altogether; at once; bag and baggage; in a summary way. I'd have had you trundled neck and crop out of this warehouse long ago if I'd thought you capable of pouching so much as a tobacconist's token. Sala , The Ship-Chandler. White crop, a name given by agriculturists to grain-crops, as wheat, barley, oats, and rye, which whiten or lose their green color as they ripen: in contradistinction to green crop, root-crop, etc. Winter crop, a crop which will bear the winter, or which may be converted into fodder during the winter. crop (krop), v.; pret. and pp. cropped, sometimes cropt, ppr. cropping. [ of fishes of the genus Lagocephalus. cropful, crop-full (krop'ful), a. Having a full crop or belly; satiated. Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop - full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Milton, L'Allegro, 1. 113.