Croisé: m. ée: f. Crossed; layed acrosse, or ouerthwart; also, that hath taken on him the crosse, or vndertaken to fight against Jnfidels. Les bras croisez. Jdly, sloathfully, lazily; carelesly; also, mournefully, wofully, dolefully, with heauie cheere. Croix croisée. A crosse crosset (in Blazon.) Paroles mal croisées. Ill cooched, or set together.
Croiseau: m. A Stockdoue, Queest, Culuer.
Croisée: f. The crosse-barre of a window; also, a window so crosse-barred; also, the space that is betweene the shoulders on the top of the backe; and (generally) any crosse, or crosse-like proportion, or thing thats made crosse-wise, or set acroße; also, the hearbe Croßewort Gentian; or a kind of small Gentian, that beares red flowers, and hath a white, long, and most bitter root, soueraigne against bellie-wormes, the plague, the stinging of Serpents, &c, and vlcered throat-wennes, or the Kings Euill. Les croisées d'un'espée. The crosse-barres, or hilts, of a sword. Demy croisée. A window that hath but one barre, from side to side. À la croisée. Crosse-wise, orecroße, or one ouerthwart another.
Croiser. To crosse; to signe, or marke with a crosse; to set crossewise; to lay ouerthwart, or one orecroße another; also, to cut, or diuide in forme of a crosse-like X; also, to cancell, or crosse, a writing; also, (at Tennis) the ball to crosse, or to take a touch of the side-wall before it touch the wall at th'end. Se croiser. To crosse himselfe, or make the signe of the crosse on himselfe; also, to take on him the crosse, or vndertake, with others, a holy iourney, or warre against miscreants, and Jnfidels.
Croiset: m. A Cruet, Crurible, or little earthen pot, such as Goldsmithes melt their gold in; also, a greene Frog.
Croisette: f. A little croße; also, the hearbe Crossewort Gentian; or as Croisée.
Croiseur: m. One that sets, makes, or stampes a crosse on any thing.
Croisi. as Croiseau. Croisie: f. A croße, a crossing, a marking with a croße.
Croisillons. The small crosse barres of a window.
Croissance: f. Groweth, increase, a growing, augmentation, eeking.
Croissant: m. The halfe-Moone; in Blazon, a Cressant. Le croissant du jour. Is about nine a clocke in the morning. Ordre du Croissant. Seeke Ordre. Croissant: m. ante: f. Growing, increasing, waxing bigger and bigger.
Croisset: m. A greene Frog.
Croissette. as Crocette. Croissir. To cracke, or crash, or crackle, as wood thats readie to breake.
Croist: m. A groweth, increase, thriuing. Bail de bestes à croist. A lease made of beasts (with reseruation of their propertie) for part of whatsoeuer profit shall be made of them.
Croistre. To increase, grow, thriue, wax bigger, augment; swell, or rise in height, shoot vp; come on apace.
Le nez luy croist. Said of one that quietly swallowes, and disgests, a publicke affront, or disgrace, which hee might haue returned, reuenged, or preuented; we say of*
- such a one, he will carrie coales; or, he is an Asse whom any man may ride. Mauvaise herbe croist tousiours: Prov. An ill weed growes apace.
Croisure: f. A crosse, a crossing, the forme of a croße; or, a making of the signe of a crosse, or forme of a crosse. La Croisure des espaules. The breadth of, or space betweene, the shoulders; the top or part, of the backe, which is betweene the shoulders.
Croix: f. A croße; also, the signe, badge, or forme, of the crosse. La croix du cerf. The bone thats found in the heart of a Stag. La croix de par Dieu. The Christs-crosse-row; or, the hornebooke wherein a child learnes it. Exaltation Saincte croix. Holy-rood-day; (the foureteenth of September.) Invention Saincte croix. Th'inuention of the Holy Crosse; a holy-day kept by the Church of Rome on the third of May; also, a shift, inuention, or deuice for the getting of money.
Croizer. See Croiser. Crolant. as Croulant; whence; Bois crolant d'un ladre. A Lazers clacke, or clicket.
Cronique. See Chronique. Crope: f. The top, or knap of a hill; See Croupe. Cropion: m. The rumpe, or crupper; a little thing like a taile, or Cuckoes beak, composed of foure small bones, and hanging at th'end of the Os Satré. Le cropion du becquefigue. The haunch, or flanke, of a Gnat-snapper. Le mal de cropion. The Rumpe-euill, or Crupper-euill; a disease wherewith small (cage) birds are often troubled.
Croppe: f. as Crope. Croppiere. as Croupiere; A Crupper. Bonnet à croppiere. A square cap.
Croqué: m. ée: f. Creaked, cracked, crackled, crashed; also, eaten, or snatcht vp at a bit; swallowed, or let downe at a gulpe; dispatched on a sudden, in a trice.
Croque-jarret. A Baker-legd fellow; one whose hammes are warpt, or, that goes in with the hammes.
Croque-lardon: m. A smell-feast, a lickorous fellow; a wastfull glutton, a greedie eater; and (most properly) one that pickes the lard out of meat, as it roasts.
Croque-mouche: m. A flie-catcher; an idle gaping hoidon.
Croque-noisette. A nut-cracker.
Croque-notaire: m. A Pregnotarie, or Pronotarie; a word deuised by Rabelais in derision of Prothonotaire. Croque-quenouille. He whose wife beats him with a distaffe: ¶Rab. Croquer. To croake, creake, cracke, crash, crackle, as a bone which a dog breakes; also, to eat, or chaw; to catch, or snatch at a bit; also, to gulpe, as a man that drinkes hastily. Croquer la pie. Seeke Pie. Croqueter. To eat lickorously, to picke out the daintiest morsells; to deuour, or feed greedily.
Croqueterie: f. Lickorous feeding, or, gourmandizing.
Croqueteur: m. An eatnell; a greedie, and lickorous feeder.
Cros: m. Deepe holes digged into the earth to preserue corne in.
Crosilles: f. The shells which Pilgrims weare about their hats.
