crusado2, cruzado (krozado)

[Also cru sade = D. krusaet (Kilian) = G. crusade, etc., v., and cf. crusadel, cruciate.] A money and coin of Portugal. The old crusado, now a mere name, was 400 reis, or 43 United States cents. The new crusado is 480 reis, or 52 cents. The Portuguese settlements of the east coast of Afri ca reckon with a crusado of only 17 cents. Also crusade. I had rather have lost my purse Full of cruzadoes . Shak ., Othello, iii. 4. I was called from dinner to see some you sands of my Lord's crusados weighed, and we find that 3000 come to about 530l. or 40 generally. Pepys, Diary, June 5, [1662. The King's fifth of the mines yields annually thirteen millions of crusadoes or half dollars. Jefferson, Correspon[dence, II. 110. cruse (krös), n. GPORTETAIGRE IMG:content-1728.jpg:[blocks in formation] Silver Crusado of John V.- British Museum. (Size of the original.) [Also written improp.cruise; earthen mug. Perhaps ult. connected with crock1, q. v. Hence, ult., the dim. cruset and cre et.] An earthen pot or bottle; any small ve el for liquids. David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster. 1 Sam. xxvi. 12. In her right hand a crystal cruse filled with wine. B. Jonson, King James's Coronation Entertainment. This cruse of oil, this skin of wine, These tamarinds and dates are thine. T. B. Aldrich , The Sheik's Welcome. cruset (krö'set), n. [F. creuset, OF. creuset , a crusade; support or oppose any cause with zeal. Cease crusading against sense. M. Green, The Grotto. crusade2 (krö-sād′), n. Same as crusado2 . crusader (krö-sāʼder), n. [Cf. equiv. croisee.] A person engaged in a crusade. The crusaders of the middle ages bore as a badge on the breast or the shoulder representation of cro , the a umption which, called taking the cro ," constituted a binding engagement and released them from all other obliga. tions. If other pilgrims had their peculiar marks, so too had the crusader. For a token of that vow which he had plighted, he always wore a cro sewed to his dre , until he went to, and all the while he stayed in, the Holy Land. Rock , Church of our Fathers, III. i. 446. With all their faults these nobles [of Cyprus] were bona fide Crusaders; men who, like the first champions, were ready to cast in their lot in a Promised Land, and not, like the later adventurers, anxious merely to get all they could out of it, to make their fortunes. Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 200. crusading (krö-sāʼding), p . a . [Ppr. of crusade1 , v.] Of or pertaining to the crusades; engaged in or favoring a crusade or crusades. In how many kingdoms of the world has the crusading sword of this misguided saint-errant spared neither age, or merit, or sex, or condition. Sterne , Tristram Shandy, ii, 17. smiths' crucible or melting-pot. crush (krush), v. [ IMG:content-1729.png:[blocks in formation] Deut. xxviii. 33. When loud winds from diff'rent quarters rush, Vast clouds encount'ring one another crush , Waller, Instructions to a Painter. 7. To rumple or put out of shape by pre ure or by rough handling: as, to crush a bonnet or a dre . [Colloq.] - Angle of crushing. See angles. -To crush a cup (or gla ), to drink a cup of wine together; "crack a bottle" probably in allusion to the custom, prevalent in wine-growing countries, of squeezing the juice of the grape into a cup or goblet as required. If you be not of the house of Montagues, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine. Shak ., R. and J., 1. 2. Come crush a gla with your dear papa. IMG:content-1730.png:[graphic] S. Judd, Margaret, ii. 6. To crush out. (a) To force out by pre ure. Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine. Milton , Comus, 1. 47. (b) To destroy; frustrate: as, to crush out rebellion. =Syn. 1. Mash, etc. See dash.- 2. To break, pound, pulverize, crumble, bray, disintegrate, demolish.-4. To overpower, prostrate, conquer, quell. II. in trans. To be pre ed out of shape, into a smaller compa , or into pieces, by external force: as, an egg-shell crushes readily in the hand.