CPage 761
- English Word Crossruff Definition The play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw.
- English Word Crosstrees Definition Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."
- English Word Crossway Definition See Crossroad.
- English Word Crosswise Definition In the form of a cross; across; transversely.
- English Word Crosswort Definition A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.
- English Word Crotalaria Definition A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox.
- English Word Crotaline Definition Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or Rattlesnake family.
- English Word Crotalo Definition A Turkish musical instrument.
- English Word Crotalum Definition A kind of castanet used by the Corybantes.
- English Word Crotalus Definition A genus of poisonous serpents, including the rattlesnakes.
- English Word Crotaphite Definition The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively.
- English Word Crotaphitic Definition Pertaining to the temple; temporal.
- English Word Crotch Definition The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.
- English Word Crotch Definition A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; -- called also crane and crutch.
- English Word Crotched Definition Having a crotch; forked.
- English Word Crotched Definition Cross; peevish.
- English Word Crotches Definition of Crotch
- English Word Crotchet Definition A forked support; a crotch.
- English Word Crotchet Definition A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note.
- English Word Crotchet Definition An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.