CPage 749
- English Word Crock Definition The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth.
- English Word Crock Definition To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.
- English Word Crock Definition To give off crock or smut.
- English Word Crock Definition A low stool.
- English Word Crock Definition Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher.
- English Word Crock Definition To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter.
- English Word Crocked Definition of Crock
- English Word Crocker Definition A potter.
- English Word Crockery Definition Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds.
- English Word Crocket Definition An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.
- English Word Crocket Definition A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler.
- English Word Crocketed Definition Ornamented with crockets.
- English Word Crocketing Definition Ornamentation with crockets.
- English Word Crocking Definition of Crock
- English Word Crocky Definition Smutty.
- English Word Crocodile Definition A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (C. Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.
- English Word Crocodile Definition A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.
- English Word Crocodilia Definition An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds.
- English Word Crocodilian Definition Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile.
- English Word Crocodilian Definition One of the Crocodilia.