Crocidurinæ (krosidurine)

pl. [NL., As a ve el of the crockere [in the authorized version, "a potter's ve el']. Wyclif , Ps. ii. 9 (Oxf.). crocker2 (krok'er), n. [Perhaps a var. of croak- er.] The laughing-gull, Larus or Chroïcocepha- lus rid i bundus . Montagu. [ crock1 + -ery.] crocket crockery (krok'e-ri), n. Earthen ve els collectively; earthenware; spe- cifically, articles for domestic use made of glazed pottery or stoneware. crocket (krok'et), n. [ croket , a roll or lock of hair, croquet , another form of cro- chet , a hook (see crochet , crotchet ), dim, of eroe ( ME.crok ), a lock of hair (OFlem, kroke , curled hair, > ML.crocus ), lit. a hook, crook: see crook , crock. Crocket is thus a doublet of crotchet, and both are ult. dims. of crook.] 1. A large roll or lock of hair, characteristic of a manner of dre ing the hair common in the fourteenth century. It consisted of a stiff roll, probably made over a piece of stuff, like the "rats" worn by women during the nineteenth century. They kembe her crokettes with christ all. Political Poems , I. 312. 2. One of the terminal snags on a stag's horn. -3. In medieval arch., a pointed decoration, an ornament most frequently treated as recurved foliage, placed on the angles of the inclined 1 1. Crockets in detail, from Porte Rouge, Notre Dame, Paris. 2. Crockets applied on a pinnacle. (From Viollet-le-Duc's "Dict. de l'Architecture.") Both examples, 13th century. IMG:content-1644.png:[blocks in formation] swers correctly his question, Am I going to restore the crocodiline (krok-o-dil'in), a. [ the reply is that in that case se the child cannot be restored, for to do so would violate the agreement, since the father's answer would then be incorrect. II. a. Like a crocodile, or like something pertaining to a crocodile. - Crocodile tears, false or simulated tears: in allusion to the fiction of old travelers that crocodiles shed tears over those they devour. A name of