crochet needle (kroshane dl)

A long needle of any convenient size, with a hooked end, used in crocheting. crochet-type (kro-shā'tip), n. Printing-type made to represent patterns of crochet-work. crochet-work (kro-shā'werk), n. Work done with a crochet-needle. See crochet. crociary (kro's hi-a-ri), n.; pl. crociaries (-riz). [ crociatet, n. An obsolete variant of crusade1, crocidolite (kro-sid'ō-lit), n. [ with a noise), + λίθος, a stone.] A mineral consisting principally of silicate of iron and sodium, occurring in asbestos-like fibers of a delicate blue color, and also ma ive, in Griqualand, South Africa, and in the Vosges mountains of France and Germany. Also called blue asbestos. The name is also given to a silicious mineral (tiger-eye) of beautiful yellow color and fibrous structure, much used for ornament, which has resulted from the natural alteration of the original blue crocidolite of South Africa. A beautiful series of the... so-called crocidolite cat's eyes (also called tiger-eyes),... really a combination of crocidolite fibers coated with quartz. This incasing renders it harder than unaltered crocidolite . Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVIII. 828.