croak 
()H(I. chri>cl;c:<ui. Ml Hi. krocli ,:i'n = (T. kriiehzen, croc (krok), n. 
croak; cf. Ij. rriicitdre (> It. erocitare, crocidarc 
= Sp. (obs.) crocitar = Pg. crocitar), croak, 
f req. of crocire, croak, = Gr. Kpu&iv, croak ; F. 
eroasser, OF. croatjuer, croak, = Sp. (obs.) croa- 
jtir, croak. All imitative words, akin to crack, 
crake 1 , creak 1 , crow 1 , cluck, etc., q. v. See also 
coaxation.] I. intrans. 1. To utter a low, 
hoarse, dismal cry or sound, as a frog, a raven, 
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crocket 
Crocin is a red coluuriii^ matter, ami it is suniiist.-d that 
the red colour of the [saffron] sti^nms is due to this re- 
action taking plaee in nature. A'm'.v*'. Hrit., XXI. 146. 
cross 
or a crow : also used humorously of the hoarse croceous (kro'shius), a. [< L. croceus, adj., < 
utterance of a person having a heavy cold. crocus, saffron: see crocus.] Saffron-colored; 
He itlie raven] croukeg for comfort when carayne he of a deep yellow tinged with red. 
fyndej. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 459. crocert, croceret, . Obsolete forms of crazier. 
Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, crocetill (kro'set-in), n. [X crocus + -et + -in 2 .] 
And the hoarse nation croak'd. IncheM.: () Crocin. (ft) A doubtful deriva- 
Pope, Dunciad, i. 330. tiye from crocJH 
2. To speak with a low, hollow voice, or in dis- crochet, An obsolete form of crutch*. 
mal accents; forebode evil; complain; grum- croche a (kroch), . [< OF. croche, a hook, fem. 
bl e - form of croc, a hook : see crook. Cf . Gael, croic, 
Marat . . . croak* with such reasonableness, air of sin- a deer's horn.] A little knob about the top of 
cerity, that repentant pity smothers auger. a deer's horn 
Carlyle, French Bev., III. ii. 1. Croche 3 ti n . A variant of Cr(m 2. 
3. To die : from the gurgling or rattling sound crochet (kro-sha'), n. [F., dim. of croc, a hook : 
see croche, crook.] 1. A kind of knitting by 
means of a needle with a hook at one end. 
[OF., a hook: see crook."] In 
ultl iiriiiniHnit : (a) The hooked rest from which 
the harquebuse or musket was fired, (ft) A mace 
of simple form, (c) A cutting weapon with a crpcitationt (krox-i-tfi'shon), w. [< L. as if *cro- 
hook-shaped blade, or with a hook attached to eitatiti(n-), < erocitare, pp. crocitatus, croak: see 
croak.'] A croaking. Jiailei/. 
crock 1 (krok), , [(1) < ME. crockn, crokke, 
crokk, < AS. crocca, also crohha, rarely crocc, a 
crock, = OFries. krocha = LG. krnkc = Icel. 
Tcrukka = Sw. kruka = Dan. krukke, a crock. 
There are two other related words, applied to 
earthen vessels of various shapes ; (2) AS. croh. 
the blade, as in some forms of halberd or parti- 
zan which had a sharp hook at the back. 
crocet, . A Middle English form of cross 1 
'. 
[Slang.] 
The old woman's 
in the throat of a dying person. 
A working man slouches in and sayf 
dead," or, "The young un's croaked." 
Philadelphia Press, July 11, 1881. 
II. trans. 1 . To utter in a low, hollow voice ; 
murmur dismally. [Rare.] 
2f. An old hagbut or hand-cannon. Wilhelm, 
Mil. Diet. 3. In fort., an indentation in the 
glacis, opposite a traverse, continuing the cov- 
ered way around the traverse. 
Marat will not drown ; he speaks and croats explanation, crochet (kro-sha'), r. ; pret. and pp. crocheted 
Carlyle, French Bev., III. ii. 1. (kro-shad'), ppr. crocheting ^kro-sha'ing). [< 
2. To announce or herald by croaking. [Rare.] 
The raven himself is hoarse 
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan. 
Shak., Macbeth, i. 6. 
croak (krok), . [< croak, v.] A low, hoarse 
guttural sound, as that uttered by a frog or a 
raven. 
Was that a raven's croak or my son's voice? 
crochet, n., 1.] I. intrans. To produce a close 
or open fabric by hooking a thread of worsted, 
linen, silk, etc., into meshes with a crochet- 
needle. 
II. trans. To make in the style of work called 
crochet: as, to crochet a shawl ; crocheted edging. 
crocheteer, n. See crotcheteer. 
crdff, early ME. croh, a pot, pitcher, etc., = OHG. 
kruag, chruag, crog, MHG. kruoc, G. krug ; (3) 
AS. cruet (pi. crucan), ME. crouke = D. ervtk = 
MHG. kruclie, G. dial, krauclie, a pot, etc. These 
groups stand in an undetermined relation with 
(are perhaps ult. derived from) the Celtic forms : 
Gael, crog, a pitcher, jar, crogan = Ir. crogan, 
a pitcher, = W. crochan, a pot ; cf. crwc, a 
bucket, pail. The Celtic forms are prob. re- 
lated to Corn, crogen, a shell, skull, = \V. and 
Bret, cragen, a shell. The Komance forms, F. 
cruchc, an earthen pot, a pitcher (> ult. crucible, 
q. v.), Gascon cruga, Pr. crtigo, OF. cniyc (> 
prob. E. dim. cruet), are of Tent, or perhaps of 
direct Celtic origin. Cf. cruse.~\ 1. An earthen 
vessel; a pot or jar (properly earthen, but also 
sometimes of iron, brass, or other metal) used 
as a receptacle for meal, butter, milk, etc., or 
in cooking. 
A brasen krocke of ij. galons. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 320. 
Where there is store of oatmeal, you may put enough 
in the crock. Ran, Eng. Proverbs (1878), p. 352. 
2. A fragment of earthenware; a potsherd, 
such as is used to cover the hole in the bottom 
of a flower-pot. 
crocheteurt. . [F., a porter, < crocheter, hang Crock 1 (krok), r. t. [< crock 1 , n.] To lay up in 
His sister's voice, too, naturally harsh, had, in the on a hook > < wef, a hook : see crochet, n.] A a crock : as, to croc* butter. Halliwell. 
- - porter; a carter. crock 2 (krok), w. [Origin uncertain; perhaps 
Rescued ! 'slight, I would have hired a crocheteur for the same as E. dial. croke, refuse, ME. croke, 
two cardecues to have done so much with his whip. 
Beau, and Fl., Honest Man's Fortune, iii. 2. 
course of her sorrowful lifetime, "contracted a 'kind of 
croak, which, when it once gets into the human throat, 
is as ineradicable as sin. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, ix. 
croaker (kro'ker), n. 1 . A bird or other animal 
that croaks. 2. One who croaks, murmurs, or crochet-needle (kro-sha'ne"dl), n. A long nee- 
grumbles; one who complains unreasonably; die of any convenient size, with a hooked end, 
one who takes a desponding view of every- used in crocheting. 
thing; an alarmist. crochet-type (kro-sha'tip), w. Printing-type 
There are croakers in every country, always boding its mad _ e to represent patterns of crochet-work. 
' 
"franklin, Auto'biog., p.loi. crochet-WOrk (kro-sha'werk), . Work done 
[Slang.] 4. A name of various ^ a er ch . e , t -. e ? dl . e - 8ee crochet. 
fishes. () A flsh of the genus Ilvmulon. Also called C j? C } a | r y, (krO shl - a - rl )> " ' P 1 : crocianes (-riz). 
grimier. [Local, U. S.] () A salt-water sciamoid flsh, L< M L. "crocianus : see crozter.] Eccles., the 
Micropogon umlulatiu, common in the southern United official who carries the cross before an arch- 
ruin. 
3. A corpse. 
, 
crok, a husk, hull, fig. refuse ; cf. LG. kral; krak, 
a thing of no value : see croeA; 5 .] Soot, or the 
black matter collected from combustion on pots 
and kettles or in a chimney ; smut in general, as 
from coloring matter in cloth. [Colloq.] 
The boy grimed with crock and dirt, from the hair of his 
head to the sole of his foot. 
Dickens, Great Expectations, vii. 
crock 2 (krok), ?. [< crocW, ,] I. trans. To 
black with soot or other matter collected from 
combustion ; by extension, to soil in any simi- 
lar way, particularly by contact with imper- 
fectly dyed cloth: as, to crock one's hands. 
[Colloq.] 
Blacking and crocking myself by the contact. 
Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, xlii. 
II. intrans. To give off crock, smut, or color : 
as, stockings warranted not to crock. 
Croaker (Micropogon iindulat, 
States, of moderately elongate compressed form, with sil- 
very-gray back and sides, and narrow, irregular, undulat- 
Ditretnidfe. 
croaking (kro^king), p. a. [Ppr. of croak, v.~\ 
1. Uttering a low, harsh, guttural sound. 2. 
Foreboding evil ; grumbling Croaking lizard 
See lizard. 
croaky (kro'ki), a. [< croak + -j/i.] Having or 
uttering a croak, or low, harsh, guttural sound ; Crocidura (kros - i - du ' ra), n. [NL. (Wagler, 
1832); prop. Crocydura ;' '< Gr. /cpo/u-f ( K poKv6-), 
the flock or nap of woolen cloth, a piece of 
woolen cloth (see crocidolite), + oii/id, tail.] A 
genus of terrestrial shrews having 28 to 30 white 
teeth and a moderately long, scant-haired tail. 
It contains nearly all the white-toothed shrews of the old 
world, upward of 60 species in all, divided into sundry 
subgenera by the systematists. The best-known are C. 
bishop. 
crociatet, ' An obsolete variant of crusade 1 . 
crocidolite (kro-sid'o-lit), n. [< Gr. upoKic, ( K po- 
Kiti-), improp. for Kfjoni/t (KOOKVO-), the flock or 
nap of cloth (< upoiai, thread, the thread passed 
between the threads of the warp, < KOCKSIV, 
weave, strike the web with the /tep/ur or comb, *' LT^ 111 ^ vval Il ; t 'V ". u lo r <; *' 
lit. strike with a noise), + Aiffoc, a stone.] A "J 6 *^ (krok) ' "' ["^ n obseur e- Cf. cricket*, 
mineral consisting principally of silicate of iron S, f 8ame sense -] A low seat ' a st o1 - t Prov - 
and sodium, occurring in asbestos-like fibers of &'J 
a delicate blue color, and also massive, in Gri- l seated her "P" a little crock at my left hand, 
qualand, South Africa, and in the Vosges moun- Taller, No. lie. 
tains of France and Germany. Also called blue crock 4 (krok), . [A var. of crook, q. v. Cf. 
crocket.] 1. A little curl of hair; in the plural, 
the under hair on the neck. 2. Same as crook, 
Eng.] 
Africa Y e cro[c]ks of a house, bijtiges. 
A beautiful series of the . . . so-called crocidolite cat's- Le " > ' Mani P ulus Vocabulonun. 
eyes (also called tiger-eyes), . . . really a combination of Crock 5 (krok), r. i. [E. dial., perhaps a var. 
crocidolite fibers coated with quartz. This incasing ren- of crack. Cf. crock" 2 and crock.] To decrease ; 
ders it harder than unaltered crocidolite. . 
Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVIII. 828. 
hoarse. 
A thin croakii voice. Carlyle, in Froude, II. 97. 
Croat (kro'at), n. [< F. Croate = G. Croate, 
Kroat (NL. Croata), etc., G. also Krabat, < 
OBulg. Khruvatinii = Slov. KJirvat (> Hung 
Horrdt = Alb. Hervat) = Pol. Karwat = Russ. 
Khrovate, Kroate, Croat.] 1. A native or an 
inhabitant of Croatia, a titular kingdom of the 
Austrian monarchy, lying southwest of Hun- 
decay. [Prov. Eng.] 
crock 6 (krok), n. [Sc. and E. dial.; prob. = LG. 
krakke, an old horse, an old decayed house, = 
OD. kraecke, an old decayed house ; perhaps 
ult. a var. of crac*.] An old ewe. 
A Crocker 1 ! (krok'er), n. [ME. crockere, crokkere; 
< croct 1 + -er 1 . The word survives in the 
proper name Crocker.] A potter. 
As a vessel of the crockere [in the authorized version, "a 
-. potter's vessel "]. Wycl\f, Ps. ii. 9 (Oxf.). 
aranea&nAC. maoeolcns of Europe; and the large C. indi- , ,, ,,. , 
cut, commonly known as the muskrat, has been placed CTOCKer^ (krok er), n. 
, ,, pPerhp-ar.ofaroat- 
. ""? , J n tms g en 8- er.] The laughing-gull, Larus or Chro'icoceijha- 
wh7,hfn^wrr y ' a t mem ^ fthe ,^T raoe Orocidurinse (kros"i-du-ri'ne), n. pi. [NL., < lus ridibundul Moltayu. 
^^^^^'^ fiK S lwh ; o 5' lt takes 0**"** + I"*-] A subfamily of shrews, crockery (krok'e-ri), n. [< crock 1 + -ery.] 
ne inmy Years War, one of the family Soricida;, containing all the ter- Earthen vessels collectively; earthenware ; spe- 
restrial white-toothed species of the old world, cifically, articles for domestic use made of 
of the genera Crocidura, Diplomesodon, and glazed pottery or stoneware. 
Anurosorex. The group is not represented in crocket (krok'et), . [< ME. croket, a roll or 
America. lock of hair, < OF. croquet, another form of cro- 
crocin (kro'sin), n. [< crocus + -in 2 .] A red diet, a hook (see crochet, crotchet), dim. of croc 
powder (C 16 H 8 OR) formed, together with sugar (ME. crok), a lock of hair (OFlem. kroke, curled 
and a volatile oil, when polychroite is decom- hair, > ML. crocus), lit. a hook, crook : see croo*, 
posed by dilute acids. croc* 4 . Crocket is thus a doublet of crotchet, 
' ,. T , 
fm Th m ; ' ieIm P e " ah !,tser- 
SaDd0therSlaV8 ' 
its 
of 
vice, 
and from 
Croatian (kro-a'shian), a. and n. 
(NL. Croatia, Russ. Kroatsiya, etc.) -f -an.] I. 
n. Of or pertaining to the Croats or Croatia. 
II. n. 1. A Croat. 2. The Slavic dialect of 
tlie Croats, closely allied to Servian. 
