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Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, i. 2. cro -guard (krôs'gärd), n. 1. The guard of a sword when made in the form of a bar at right angles with the blade. The swords of the middle ages commonly had a cro -guard without other defense for the hand, which was protected by the gauntlet. See hilt and cro - hilt ; also counter - guard , 2. A similar defense mounted upon the shaft of a spear, usually not far below the head. Hunt ing-spears were sometimes fitted with such a guard, to prevent the too deep penetration of the spear and admit of its immediate extrication. cro -hair (krôs'har), n. A very fine strand of cro -jack (krôs ́jak, by sailors krô'jek), n. A large square sail bent and set to the lower yard on the mizzenmast. - Cro -jack yard, the cro -legged (krôs'leg" (krôs'leg"ed), a. Having the legs cro ed; characterized by cro ing of the legs. In an arch in the south wall of the church is cut in stone the portraiture of a knight lying cro - legged , in armour of mail. Ashmole , Berks hire, i. 16. The pilot was an old man with a turban and a long grey beard, and sat cro - legged in the stern of his boat. R. Curzon , Monast. in the Levant, p. 2. cro let1, croslet1 (krôs'let), n. [ -let .] A small cro . Then Una gan to aske, if ought he knew, Or heard abroad, of that her champion trew, That in his armour bare a croslet red? Spenser, F. Q., I. vi. 36. Cro cro let, in her ., a cro having the ends cro ed. IMG:content-1684.png:[blocks in formation] cro -lode among themselves. Of these two sets the le important and productive would be called the cro - lodes . cro -loop (krôs'löp), n. In medieval fort ., a first dorsal is behind the ventrals, and the anal close to the caudal; the nasal cavities are confluent with the mouth. The species are inhabitants of the western Pacific and especially Australian seas. free range both horizontally and vertically to an archer or arbalister. cro -loophole (krôs'löp" hōl), n. cro - loop . Same as cro ly (krôs'li), adv . 1. Athwart; so as to intersect something else. A piece of joinery, so cro ly indented and whimsically dovetailed. Burke , American Taxation. 2. Adversely; in opposition; contrarily. Thy friends are fled to wait upon thy foes, And cro ly to thy good all fortune goes. Shak., Rich. II., ii. 4. cro tree to show the grain; a drawing of the cro -sec tion of a ship. Low-water widths are only known where the cro -sec tion and range have been determined. Humphreys and Abbott , Rep. on Mi . River. Directed acro any Cro or hin us + -inæ.] Same as Cro or hi nid a . Cro or hin us (kros-ō-ri'nus), n. [NL., ῥίνη , a shark.] A genus of line or course; running acro . sharks with fringed lips, representing, in some systems of cla ification, a special family, the Cro or hi nid a. cro over (krôs'ō"ver), n. In calico - printing , a superimposed color in the form of stripes, bands, or cro -bars. cro -shed (krôs's hed), n. The upper shed of a gauze-loom. E. H. Knight. cro -sill (krôs's il), n. In railroads, a block of stone or wood laid for the support of a sleeper when broken stone is used as filling or ballast. Printed as a cro over , it darkens the indigo where it cro -somer, п. See cro - summer . falls, but the yellow shade of the colour gives a greenish cro -spale (krôs'spāl), n. Same as cro -pawl. hue to it. 3. Peevishly; fretfully. Ure , Dict., IV. 327. cro -spall, n. See cro - pawl . cro -multiplication (krôs'mul-ti-pli-kacro patch (kros pach), n. An ill-natured per cro -spider (krôs'spīdėr), n . A name of the shon), n. See multiplication . cro ne (krôs'nes), n. 1. Transversene ; intersection. Lord Petersham, with his hose and legs twisted to every point of cro ne .