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(q. v.). *crop-sick, a. Sick through over-eating or drink- ing; sick with exce . "Strange odds! where crop - sick drunkards must engage A hungry foe, and arm'd with sober rage." Tate: Juvenal, sat. xv. *crop-sickne , s. Sickne through exce in eating or drinking. crop-weed, s. A name for Centaurea nigra . crop (2), s . [CRAP.] A name given to two plants: (1) Polygonum Fagopyrum , (2) Lolium perenne. crop, *croppen, v. t. & i. [CROP (1), s.] A. Transitive : I. Ordinary Language: 1. Literally: II. Bookbinding : To cut the edges of a book so closely as to reduce the margin too much. "The book is quite perfect, but has been cruelly cropt ." -S. J. Herrtage: Introd. to Gesta Romanorum , p. xxi. B. Intransitive : "Of these she cropp'd to please her infant son, And I myself the same rash act had done." IMG:content-1365.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To yield a harvest, to bear fruit. "Royal wench! She made great Cæsar lay his sword to bed: He plough'd her, and she cropp'd ." Shakesp.: Ant. and Cleop., ii. 2. 2. The same as to crop the cause, or causeway (q. v.). treacherously cropping within his land." growing. 7. The yield of a particular plant. but he hoped that before the time came for shipping the new crop [cotton] matters would have greatly improved."-London Daily Telegraph. *8. Hair worn short, and without powder. "Wearing the hair short, and without powder, was at this time considered a mark of French prínciples. Hair so worn was called a crop." Letters of Sir G. C. Lewis, p. 410. (Davies.) II. Fig .: A yield, a return, a harvest. B. Technically: 1. Mining: (1) Tin ore of the first quality, after it is dre ed or cleaned for smelting. (2) The appearance of a vein or seam, or of ore or coal, at the surface; the strike. 2. Geol .: The outcrop of a bed, layer, or stratum. 3. Ornith .: A pouch or dilatation in the raptorial and grain-feeding birds at the lower part of the neck, just in front of the merry-thought. Here the food is kept for a time before being transferred to the proper digestive organs. ( Nicholson .) [A., I.1.] 4. Entom .: A membranous, usually folded, stomach in the masticating i masticating insects. It constitutes a first stomach, from which the food pa es into a second one termed the gizzard. " Another name for 3 and 4 is INGLUVIES (q. v.). (1) Crop of whey: The thick part of whey. that delicious beverage called crop of whey, Blackwood (2) Crop and root : A proverbial phrase signifying entirely, completely. (Cf. Root and branch.) "Therefore they conclude to go on upon a course, and sweep off the bishops of both kingdoms crop and root,.."- Spalding , i. 100. (3) Rotation of crops : [ROTATION.] *crop-doublet, s. A short doublet. "Hospitality went out of fashion with crop - doublets ."Love will Find Out the Way, i. 1. IMG:content-1366.png:[blocks in formation] To crop out: 1. Ord. Lang.: To appear or come to light incidentally and occasionally. the same idea and phraseology crop out." Tyndall: Frag. of Science (3d ed.), x. 248. 2. Mining, Mineral Surveying & Geol.: To come to or appear at the surface, as a layer, bed, or stratum, underlying another but showing itself from below at the edge, the main part of the sur face being covered. "In many places, immense quantities [of iron-stone] may be observed cropping out on the banks of those streams."-Wilson: Agr . Sur . Renfr ., p. 25. To crop the causey: To walk boldly in the street; literally, to keep the uppermost part (S. syn on. the crown ) of the causey. "All the covenanters now proudly crop the causey, glad at the incoming of this army."- Spalding, i. 176. crope, v. i. [CROUP (1), v.] To make a hoarse IMG:content-1367.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1368.png:[blocks in formation] croslet (2) One who, having no interest in the land, works it in consideration of receiving a portion of the crop for his labor. 2. Fig .: A fall on to the head; hence, an utter failure, a collapse. "Handicraftsman was leading three lengths, but fell a cropper, which took all the go out of him."- Field. II. Ornith.: A variety of pigeon having a large crop. [POUTER.] "There be tame and wild pigeons; and of tame there be croppers , carriers, runts."- Walton : Angler. crop'-ping, pr . par., a. & s. [CROP, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the IMG:content-1369.png:[blocks in formation] "And slitting of noses, and cropping of ears, While his own a 's rags were more fit for the shears." Swift : The Yahoo's Overthrow. 2. The act or proce of raising crops. crop'-pỹ, crăp'-ple, s. [Eng. crop ; -y.] 1. Irish Hist.: One whose ears have been cropped for treason. The word was especially applied during Irish insurrections to an Irish rebel, and is rendered notoriously immortal in the song "Croppies, lie down." 2. Eng. Hist.: A Round head. (So called from the fact that the Round heads, as the parliamentary party in the reign of Charles I. were called, wore their hair cut short, in contradistinction to the Royalists, who wore their hair in long ringlets.) 3. One whose hair has been cropped in prison. ( Slang .) croquet (pron. crō-kā), s. [Fr. croquer =to crack.] 1. An open-air game played with mallets, balls, and little iron hoops or arches. It may be played by any two or more persons. It consists in driving the ball through a certain number of hoops in order till it reaches a peg at the end of the ground. On the way the player may if he choose endeavor to strike his opponent's ball and drive it away from the hoop which it has to pa through. 2. When a player has croqueted or struck his opponent's ball with his own, he is entitled to place his own ball in contact with it, and by a a smart blow of his mallet to drive it to any distance he pleases: this is called a croquet. croquet (pron. crō-kā), v . t . & i. [CROQUET, 8.] A. Trans.: In the game of croquet, to drive the opponent's ball away from his hoop by a smart blow of the mallet on one's own ball. B. In trans.: To play the game of croquet. cro-quette (quette as kět), s. IMG:content-1370.png:[blocks in formation] Head of a Crosier. IMG:content-1371.png:[blocks in formation] "The Saracens, Curdmans, and Ishmaelites yield, To the scallop, the saltier, and crosleted shield." Scott: The Fire-King. cro , *creoiz, *croice, *crois, *croiz, *cros, *cro e, *croyce, *croys, *croyse, s., a ., adv . & prep. [O. Fr. crois ; Fr. croix ; Sp. & Port. cruz; Ital. croce , from Lat. crucem, acc us. of crux =a cro ; Sw. & Dan. kors . The root is the same as in Eng. crook (q. v.).] A. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. Literally: (1) A gibbet consisting of two pieces laid acro each other at various angles, and in various pat terns. "At Costantynople is the cros of our Lord Jesu Crist." -Maundeville, p. 9. (2) A monument or ornament, either made in form of a cro or surmounted with a cro . "She doth stray about By holy cro es, where she kneels and prays," Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice, v. 1. In some countries rude cro es or crucifixes are set up to mark the scene of a fatal accident, a murder, or other tragic occurrence. "This happened close to a cro , the record of a former murder."-Darwin: Voyage round the World (ed. 1870), ch. iii., p. 41. (3) Anything in the shape of a cro . "The mysterious cro of yew, first set on fire, and then quenched in the blood of a goat, was sent forth to summon all the Camp bells, from sixteen to sixty."- Macaulay : Hist. Eng ., ch. v. (4) A crucifix (q. v.). "They knelt before the Cro , that sign Of love eternal and divine." Hemans: A Tale of the Secret Tribunal . (5) A mark in the shape of a cro , spec. one placed on a deed or other document by a person who cannot write, in lieu of his signature. (6) A market-place; so called from the cro es so commonly erected in them. the place called Charing Cro ."-Baker: Ed. ward I., an. 1306. IMG:content-1372.png:[blocks in formation] 1196 IMG:content-1373.png:[blocks in formation] *C. As adverb: 1. Lit.: Acro , athwart ". . give him another staff; this last was broke Sports The act of impeding another in his cro ." --Shakesp.: Much Ado about Nothing , v. 1. course, and probably preventing him from winning a race by cro ing in front of him. 6. Teleg .: Accidental metallic connection between two wires on a line. 7. Surv.: An instrument for laying off lines perpendicular to the main course. 8. Breeding: (1) The mixing of two distinct breeds in producing animals. the above-described appearances are all due to ancient cro es with the dun stock."-Darwin: Origin of Species (ed. 1859), ch. v., p. 164. (2) An animal of a cro -breed. *9. Old Arm .: The horizontal piece near the top of a dagger. 10. Theol .: Christian doctrine, regarded as having for its central truth the atoning death of Christ upon the cro . It is founded on such pa ages as the following: 1 Cor. i. 17, 18; Gal. v. 11, vi. 12, . 11. Ch. & Civil Hist .: Early in the second century the Christians seem to have signed with the cro . In the third century they supposed that the cro was a preservative against all evils, especially against the machinations of evil spirits, and therefore entered on no enterprise of importance without first cro ing themselves. The allegation was made by Const an tine that when advancing, in A. D. 312, to encounter Maxentius, he saw in the heavens a great shining cro , with the inscription, In học sig no vinces. After his victory in that year he Theodoret and others, Helena, the mother of the adopted the cro as his standard. According to Emperor Const an tine, found at Jerusalem three cro es with a superscription. One of these, having 2. Fig .: In opposition or contrary to; adversely, opposite. (Followed by the prep. to . ) "It runs cro to the belief and apprehension of the rest of mankind."-Atterbury. *D. As preposition: 1. Acro . "I charge thee waft me safely cro the channel." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. II., iv. 1. 2. Through. "A fox was taking a walk one night cro a village."L'Estrange. (1) The Catholic League of the Cro 8: Ch. Hist .: A Catholic league, instituted under the auspices of Cardinal Manning, for the promotion of temperance among the profe ors of the Roman Catholic faith. (2) Cro and pile : A game of to ing with money, equivalent to our heads and tails, the cro being the reverse or tail of the coin. [CROSS, 8., A.1.2 (3).] "This I humbly conceive to be perfect boys' play; cro , I win, and pile , you lose ."- Swift . (3) Cro of Jerusalem: Lychnis chalcedontca. (4) On the cro : Unfairly, dishonestly. Opposed to on the square (q.v.). ( Slang .) (5) Order of the Cro : (a) A sisterhood instituted in 1625 in Picardy by four young women, and afterward removed to Paris. In 1640 it was erected into a regular order. ( b ) An order of the same kind, instituted in 1668 by Eleanora de Gonzaga, wife of Leopold I. trials with patience. (6) To take up one's cro : To bear troubles and "If him deny himself, (reputedly) cured a dying woman, was held to be the of Christ; one part was given to Jerusalem, another part to Constantinople, where it was encased within the emperor's statue, became the palladium of the city, and so venerated that the people used to a emble round the statue with wax candles. Chosroes, king of Persia, carried off the moiety of the cro kept at Jerusalem, but it was retaken by the Emperor Heraclius in A. D. 615, an auspicious event celebrated by the establishment, in A. D. 642, of a festival called the Exaltation of the Cro . Cro es were introduced into churches about A. D. 431, and began to be set up on steeples about A. D. 568. The Anglo-Saxons were accustomed to sign documents with the cro , accompanying it with their own name if they could write, and leaving it unaccompanied if they could not; this is the reason why the mark made by the illiterate is still a cro . A charter of King Caedwalla, signed with a cro , has a note appended at the instance of the monarch in which he frankly admits his inability to write. In 1641, when the Puritan party were dom i nant, cro es were removed from the churches. B. As adjective: I. Literally: 1. Transverse, oblique; falling acro or athwart something else. ".. they either advance toward one another in direct lines, or meet in the intersection of cro ones." -Bentley. 2. Oblique; lateral, zigzag. the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cro lightning." II. Figuratively : " IMG:content-1374.png:[blocks in formation] Shakesp.: King Lear, iv. 7. *1. Adverse, opposing or contrary; unpropitious, "We're both love's captives; but with fate so cro , One must be happy by the other's lo ." Dryden. 2. Contrary, contradictory. all the appearing contrarieties and contradictions, that seemed to lie cro and uncouth, and to make the whole unintelligible."- South . 3. Perverse, untractable, untoward. and fasnyman will come after mellow me. Luke ix. 28. Obvious compound: Cro - legged. IMG:content-1375.png:[blocks in formation] Arch.: The same as TRANSEPT (q. v.). cro -armed, a. 1. Ord . Lang .: With arms folded acro . "Yet neither will I vex your eyes to see A sighing Ode, nor cro - arm'd Elegie." Donne: Poems, p. 182. 2. Bot .: Having branches in pairs, each at right angles to the pairs above and below; decu ated. *cro -arrow, s. The arrow of a cro -bow. “.. shot i' the head with a cro -arrow, Beaum. & Flet.: King and No King. IMG:content-1376.png:[blocks in formation] Cro -bar shot : A kind of shot which folds into a sphere for loading, but on parting from the muzthe cro circumstances of a man's temper or zle expands to a cro with sections of the shot at condition,."-South. the extremities of the arms. 4. Peevish, ill-humored; out of temper. ". a fine high-spirited young woman, who could now and then be cro and arbitrary."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. vii. *5. Contrary to wishes or hopes; unfortunate; unlucky. ".. the cro and unlucky i ue of my design.." -Glanville. .