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CROOK'BACK, / A term of reproach for a man 
that has gibbous (houlders : 
Aye, crookback, here I (land to anfvver thee. 
Or any he the proudeft of thy fort. Skakefpcare. 
CROOK'BACKED, adj. Having bent (boulders.— 
There are millions of truths that a man is not, or may 
not think himfelf, concerned to know ; as, whether our 
king Richard III. was crookbackcd or no. Locke, 
A dwarf as well may for a giant pafs, 
As negroe for a fwan; a crookback'd lafs 
Be call’d Europa. Dryden. 
CROOK'ED, adj. [cracker, Fi\] Bent; not ftraight; 
curved.-—Mathematicians lay of a ftraight line, that it 
is as well an index of its own redlitude, as of the obli¬ 
quity of a crooked one. Woodward. —-Winding; oblique; 
anfractuous.—A man (hall never want crooked paths to 
walk in, if he thinks that he is in the right way, where- 
cver he has the footlleps of others to follow. Locke. 
Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge. 
The glow-worm lights his gem. Thomfon. 
Perverfe ; untoward ; without redlitude of mind ; given 
to obliquity of condudt.—They have corrupted them- 
felves: they are a perverfe and crooked generation. Dcut. 
xxxii. 5.—We were not born crooked ; we learned thofe 
windings and turnings of the ferpent. South. 
Hence, heap of wrath ; foul, indigefted lump I 
As crooked in thy manners as thy (hape. Shakefpeare. 
CROOK'ED HAVEN, a bay of Scotland, on the north 
coalf of the county of Banff: two miles and a half north- 
well: of Cullen. 
CROOK'ED ISLAND, one of the Bahama iflands. 
Lat. 23. 10. N. Ion. 73.55. W. Greenwich. 
CROOK'ED LAKE, a lake of United America, in 
the (late of New York: forty miles fouth of Lake Ontario. 
CROOK'EDLY, adv. Not in a ftraight line. Untow- 
ardly; not compliantly.—If we walk perverfely with 
God, he will walk crookedly towards us. Taylor. 
CROOK'EDNESS, / Deviation from ftraightnefs; 
curvity; the date of being indebted ; inflection.—He 
that knoweth what is ftraight, doth even thereby djfcem 
what is crooked ; becaufe the abfence of ftraightnefs, in 
bodies capable thereof, is crookednefs. Hooker. —Deformity 
of a gibbous body.—When the heathens offered a facri- 
fice to their falfe gods, they would make a fevere fearch 
to fee if there were any crookednefs or fpot, any unclean- 
nefs or deformity, in their facrifice. Taylor. 
CROOTES, /. A fubftance found about the ore in 
lead-mines. 
CROP,/ [epop, Sax.] The craw of a bird; the firft 
ftomach into winch its meat defeends: 
But fluttering there, they nettle near the throne. 
And lodge in habitations not their own, 
By their high crops and corny gizzards known. Dryden. 
CROP,/ [epoppa, Sax.] The higheft part or end of 
any thing ; as, the head of a tree, the ear of corn. The 
harveft ; the corn gathered off a field ; the produdl of 
the field.—Nothing is more prejudicial to your crop than 
mowing of it too foon. Mortimer. 
The fountain which from Helicon proceeds, 
That facred ftream, fhould never water weeds. 
Nor make the crop of thorns and thirties grow. Rofcommon. 
Any thing cut off: 
Guiltlefs of fteel, and from the razor free, 
It falls a plenteous crop referv’d for thee. Dryden. 
To CROP, v. a. To cut off the ends of any thing; to 
mow; to reap; to lop.—I will crop off from the top of 
his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an 
high mountain. Ezekiel , xvii. 22. 
Cropp’d are the flower-de-luces in your arms; 
Of England’s coat, one half ss cut away. Shakefpeare, 
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No more, my goats, (hall I behold you climb 
The fteepy cliffs, or crop the flow’ry thyme. Dryden , 
To gather before it falls: 
Age, like ripe apples, on earth’s bofom drops 5 
While force our youth, like fruits, untimely crops. DenJi. 
CROP,/ [from the v. «.] A cant word for a man with 
very fhort hair, or a horfe whofe ears are cut. AJh. 
To CROP, v. n. To yield harveft: 
Royal wench! 
She made great Casfar lay his fword to-bed; 
He plough’d her, and fhe cropt. Shakefpeare, 
CROPALATI, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, and province of Calabria Citra: eleven miles 
fouth-eaft of Roffano. 
CROPA'NI, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Calabria Ultra: nine miles eaft- 
north-eaft of St. Severina. 
CROPAS'CIA, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, and province of Calabria Citra : feven miles weft 
of Umbriatico. 
CRO'PEDY, a village in the county of Oxford, on 
the river Cherwell; famous for a battle fought here, in 
1644, between the forces of Charles I. and thofe of the 
parliament, in which the latter were defeated. It is three 
miles from Banbury, and feventy-eight from London. 
CROP'FUL, adj. Satiated ; with a full belly : 
He, ftretch’d out all the chimney’s length. 
Balks at the fire his hairy ftrength ; 
And, cropful, out of door he flings 
Ere the firft cock his matin rings. Milton. 
CROP'SICK, adj. Sick with repletion; fick with ex.i 
cefs and debauchery: 
Strange odds 1 where cropfck drunkards mud engage 
A hungry foe, and arm’d with fober rage. Tate. 
CROP'PER,/ A kind of pigeon with a large crop.—» 
There be tame and wild pigeons; and of tame there be 
croppers, carriers, runts. Walton. See vol. iv. p. 823. 
CRO'QUETS,/ in cookery, balls of delicious (luffed 
meat. Scott. 
CRO'SELET,/. [from crofsA A frontlet, a head- 
cloth. AJh. 
CROSETTE,/ in architedlure, the return of a mould¬ 
ing, an elbow, a knee, an ancone. AJh. 
CRO'SICIN, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Lemberg: fifty-two miles weft-fouth-weft of Lemberg. 
CRO'SIER,/ [ croiftr, Fr. from croix, a crofs.] The 
paftoral ftaff of a bifliop, which has a crofs upon it. It 
had its origin from the (liepherd’s crook, and was in¬ 
tended to defignate the care of a bifhop over his diocefe, 
fimilar to that of a (hepherd over his flock.—.When pre¬ 
lates are great, there is alfo danger from them ; as in the 
times of Anfelmus and Tliomas Becket, who, with their 
crofers, did almoft try it with the king’s fword. Bacon. 
Her front eredt, with majefty (he bore, 
The crofer wielded, and the mitre bore. Dryden. 
CRO'SIER, f. in aftronomy, four ftars in form of a 
crofs; by the help of which, thofe that fail in the fouthern 
hemifphere find the antardlic pole. 
CROS'LET,/. [ croijfclet, Fr.] A fmall crofs. A de¬ 
vice in heraldry: 
Here an unfinilh’d diamond crofet lay, 
To which foft lovers adoration pay. Gay. 
It feems to be printed in the following paffage, by mif, 
take, for corjelet: 
The crojlet fome, and fome the cnilhes mould, 
With lilver plated, and with dudlile gold. Dryden. 
CROS'NE, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Lem¬ 
berg : eighty miles weft-fouth-weft of Lemberg. 
CROSSj/ [croix, Fr. croce, Ital. crux , Lat.] One 
ftraight 
