crockery

[Eng. crocker; -y.] Earthen order contains the modern Crocodiles, Alligators ware; ve els manufactured of clay, baked and glazed. " ." - Dr. articles of domestic crockery Illume: Ancient Meals , p. 330. crockery-ware, s . The same as CROCKERY (q. v.). crock-ět, s . [Fr. cro chet a little hook.] 1. Arch .: An upwardly projecting carved ornament on a Gothic gable or flying-buttre . "The earliest crockets are to be found in the early English style."-Glos sary of Architecture. †2. Applied to the croches or knots on a stag's head. of Thule, ch. xxv. Crocket. and Caimans, with the extinct Teleosaur i a and Belodonts. Profe or Owen divides the Crocodilia into three sub-orders: (1) Procœlia, or those which have the dorsal vertebre concave in front; (2) Amphicœlia, or those which have them concave at both ends, and (3) Opisthocœlia, in which they are concave behind. The first sub-order comprehends all the living forms, whether Crocodiles proper, Alligators, or Gavials. Profe or Huxley divided the Crocodilia into three sub-orders, founded on characters derived from the base of the skull and from the nostrils, .: (1) Para such i a, (2) Me so such i a, and (3) Eusuchia. (See these words.) Under the first were ranked Stagonolepis and Belodon, under the second Teleosaur us, ., and under the third Crocodilus and other modern genera. 2. Palæont.: Profe or Huxley points out that the Para such i a came first in time, being specialized from the Lacer til i a at least as early as the Upper Trias. The Me so such i a began not later than the Upper Trias, from which they go on to the Cretaceous period. The Eusuchia begin in the Greensand IMG:content-1351.jpg:[graphic] "Of the antlers and the crockets ."-Black more: Prince and continue till now. He is of the opinion that all crock'-ět-ěd, a. [Eng. crocket ; -ed.] this is exactly accordant with what is required by the theory of evolution, and the case of the croco 1. Lit. & Arch .: Furnished or ornamented with diles is as cogent evidence of the actual occurrence crockets. *2. Fig .: Ornamented as with crockets. crock'-ỹ, a. [Eng. crock (1), s.; -y.] Covered with soot or smut. croc-o-dile, *coke drill, 8. & a . [Dan. crocodil ; Sw. & Dut. krokodil ; Ger. krokodill ; Fr. crocodile ; Prov. cocodrilh, cocodrilhe ; Sp. & Port. cocodrilo; Ital. coccodrilo; Lat. crocodilus ; from Gr. kroko deilos , properly an Ionic word, = (1) a kind of lizard, (2) the crocodile or alligator of the Nile. Little or no weight is to be attached to the statement that this is from krokos =(1) the crocus, (2) saffron, and afraid of, and that the Egyptians placed saffron before their beehives to protect them deilos = the animal.] A. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language and Zoology.: 1. Spec .: A huge reptile, in general contour most resembling a great lizard, found in or near the Nile and some other rivers. It is the Lacerta crocodilus of Linnæus, the Crocodilus vulgar is of Cuvierd its jaws project moderately; there are six cervical of evolution as that of the horses. croc-o-dil-i-an,tcroc-o-dil'-e-an, a . & s . [Eng. crocodil (e), i or e connective, and suff. -an .] A. As adjective : 1. Lit. ( of a reptile ): Akin to the crocodile. "I think it is clear that Stagonolepis is, in the main, a crocodilian reptile." Prof. Huxley , in Q. J. Geol . Soc ., vol. xv. (1859), pt. 1., p. 455. 2. Fig .: Crocodile-like in character; treacherous and cruel. "O what a crocodilian world is this, Compos'd of treach'ries and insnaring wiles!" Quarles: Emblems. B. As subst.: A member of the order Crocodilia (q. v.). the dorsal scales of the same Crocodilians -Prof . Huxley , in Q. J. Geol. Soc . , vol. xv. (1859), pt. i., p. 450. croc-o-dil-i-dæ, s. pl . [Lat. crocodil( us ), and fem. pl. adj. suff. -ide . 1. Zool .: A family of Reptiles, the typical one of the order Crocodilia. It contains the Crocodiles, Alligators, and Gavials (q. v.). 2. Palæont .: The genera Crocodilus, Alligator, rangular and surrounded by six rows of slightly elevated carine. The hinder feet are palmated, and Gavial is have all representatives in the Eocene their posterior border with a festooned crest. It is beds of England. crocetin and sugar. crock (1), 8. & v. t. [A. S. crocca. Cogn. with O. Fr. krokha ; Dut. cruik ; Icel. krukka ; Sw.kruka ; Dan. krukke . Skeat thinks it is probably from Gael. crog a pitcher, a jar; Ir. crog an ; Wel.crwc, crochan.] 1. An earthenware ve el; a pot, a pitcher, a cup. ". these crocks were mostly sufficiently kiln-baked to withstand percolation."-Dr. Hume: Ancient Meals, p. 334. 2. (For definition see extract.) "Black or soot of a pot, or a kettle, or chimney-stock, is called crock." -Ray: South and East Country Words. 3. A pot covered with dirt or soot. "As black as a crock ."-C. Brontè: Jane Eyre, ch. xviii. crock-saw, 8. A bar of iron, toothed like a saw, which hangs at the back of the fire to carry pots and crocks. (Black more: Lorna Doone .) crock (2), 8. (Etym. unknown.] 1. Lit .: A ewe that has given over bearing. (Burns: The Twa Herds.) 2. Fig .: Any usele or worthle animal, especially a horse. ( Slang .) crock (3), s . [Etym. unknown.) A little stool. "I bid her come out of the crowd, and seated her upon a little crock at my left hand."- Tatler , No. 116. crock (1), v. t. & i. [CROCK (1), 8.] A. Trans.: To black with soot of a pot, kettle, . "I couldn't condescend to touch with kitchen tongs without crocking myself by the contact."-Dickens: Nich olas Nickle by, ch. xliii. about twenty-five feet long. At least four varieties of it exist. It was held sacred among the ancient Egyptians. The Nile was and is its best known after the fish, which is its appropriate food, but is dangerous also to dogs, or to human beings entering the water or lingering incautiously on the bank. The way to elude it on land is to turn rapidly and repeatedly in retreating from it, leaving it on each occasion to wheel its clumsy body round. It darts with rapidity through the water The leviathan of Job is almost certainly the croco dile, but in other parts of Scripture different animals are designated by the same word. "By muddy shore of broad seven-mouthed Nile, Unweeting of the perilous wandring wayes, Doth meete a cruell craftie crocodile." Spenser: F. Q., I. v. 18. 2. Gen .: Any closely allied animal. [CROCODILUS, CROCODILIDE.] II. Logic : A fallacious dilemma mythically supposed to have been first propounded by a crocodile. B. As adjective : 1. In any way pertaining to the animal described under A., or to its congeners. 2. Resembling the crocodile. 3. Consisting of crocodiles or animals akin to them, as the crocodile family or genus.