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IMG:content-1382.png:[blocks in formation] Mining : A cro -vein; one intersecting the principal lode. cro -mouth chisel, s . A boring-chisel of cylindrical form with a diametrical blade. ( Knight .) cro -multiplication, s [DUODECIMALS.] *cro -nook, v . 1. To check, to restrain. 2. Used as a sort of imprecation. "Come in! come in! my cauldrife lown;- Cro -nook ye, bairns, an' let him in Afore the fire." W. Beattie: Tales , p. 4. cro -patch, 8. A cro , ill-tempered person. ( Colloquial .) "I'm but a cro - patch at best."- Mrs . Gaskell : Sylvia's Lovers , ch. xxvi. cro -pawl, cro -spall, s. Shipbuilding: A temporary horizontal timber brace, to hold a frame in position. Vertical or inclined braces are called shores . Cro -spalls hold the position afterward occupied by the deck-beams. cro -piece, *cro e-peece, s . 1. Literally and Shipbuilding: (1) A flooring-piece resting upon the keel, and placed between the half-floors which form the lower sections of the ribs on each side. The half-floors make a butt-joint on the middle line of the ve el between the keel and keelson. (2) A bar running athwartship between the knight-heads, and to which the running rigging is belayed. (3) A bar connecting the bitt-heads. 2. Fig.: An ill-tempered person. IMG:content-1383.png:[ocr errors] the rugged thoughts That cro e- peece of your sex imprinted in mee, Wilson: Inconstant Lady (1614). ( Nares .) 1. A line ruled acro or at right angles to another. 2. Law (pl. cro -rules): Rules where each of the opposite litigants obtains a rule nisi , as plaintiff to increase the damages and defendant to enter a nonsuit. Cro -rule paper : Paper ruled off in squares, affording a means of drawing a pattern for weaving or worsted work. IMG:content-1384.png:[blocks in formation] cro -spine, s. A plant, Stauracanthus aphyllus . cro -springer, s . from a pillar in a diagonal direction at the inter- Arch.: In a groined arch, the rib that springs section of the arches forming the groin. *cro -point, s. A step in dancing. "What, not one cro - point against Sun days?"-Greene: James IV ., iv. 3. IMG:content-1385.png:[blocks in formation] cro -purpose, s. 1. A contrary purpose; contradictory system; contradiction; inconsistency. "To allow benefit of clergy, and to restrain the pre , seems to have something of cro - purpose in it."-Lord Shaftesbury . 2. ( Pl. ): A kind of conversational game, carried on by question and answer. "The preceding sport was probably the diversion of the age, and of the same stamp with our modern cro purposes, or questions and commands."-Whalley: Note on Ben Jonson's Cynthia's Revels. 3. Misunderstanding. "There has been a match of cro - purposes among you." -Smollett: Humphrey Clinker. To be at cro - purposes : To misunderstand or act unintentionally counter to each other. cro -quarters, s . pl . Arch.: An ornament of tracery representing the four leaves of a cruciform flower. cro -question, v. t. To cro examine; to question closely. cro -questioning, pr. par., a. & 8. ." 2. A surveyor's instrument for measuring off-sets. cro -stone, s. Mineralogy : *1. The same as HARMOTOME (q. v.). It was Mus . Cat . , old ed.) named from the twin intersecting crystals. ( Brit . †2. The same as STAUROLITE (q. v.). It is so called from the shape of some crystals. 3. The same as ANDALUSITE and CRUCITE (q. v.), especially the variety Chiastolite. It is so named because on a transverse section of the crystals markings like a cro appear. ( Dana , & c.)