Crosier

kro'zher, n. a staff with a crook at the top earned before bishops on solemn occasions. [O. Fr croce, a crosier — Fr croc, a crook, hook, from root of Crook Cro , kros, «. a gibbet on which malefactors were hung consisting of two pieces of timber, one placed cro wise on the other, either thus or X the instrument on which Christ suffered, and thus the symbol of the Christian religion the sufferings of Christ anything that cro es or thwarts adversity or affliction in general a cro ing or mixing of breeds, esp. of cattle.— v.t. to mark with a cro to lay one body or draw one line acro another to cancel by drawing cro lines to pa fiom side to side: to obstruct: to thwart, to interfere with. V»i. to lie or be athwart: to move or pa from place to place. [O. Fr. cron, Fr. croix—L. crux orig an upright post to which latterly a cro -piece was added conn, with Crook bv Gael, crocati, a hook, crock hung, Ir. crochaim to hang, crock a gallows.] Cro , kros, adj lying acro transverse oblique: opposite, adverse, ill-tempered: interchanged —adv. CrosBly —n. Cro 'ne . Cro bill, kros'lnl, n a genus of birds resembling bullfinches, linnets, . with the mandibles of the bill cro ing each other near the points. Cro bow, hi os' b5, n. a weapon for shooting arrows, formed of a bow placed cro wise on a stock