Crotch

kroch, n. Place of division, as of a trunk into branches; fork; a forked piece of wood, metal, etc. H — Crotchet, n. A forked piece of wood; crotch. (Mus.) The 3d principal note, equal in duration to J a m i n i m, marked Crotchets. with a hook, the stem of which may turn up or down according to its situation. (Print.) A bracket. See Bracket. A crooked or perverse fancy; whim; conceit. — Crotch'ety, -Y, a. Given to crotchets; whimsical. Croton-bug, kro'tun-bug, n. (Entom.) A kind of cockroach. oil, re. (Med.) A vegetable oil of hot, biting taste, —a powerful drastic cathartic. Crouch^ krowch, v. i. [crouched (krowcht), crouching.] To bend down, stoop or lie low, bend obsequiously, stoop meanly, fawn, cringe.