Croslé: m. ée: f. Shaken, wagged, fast moued.
Crosler. To shake, wag, tremble; quauer, moue fast; quiuer, quake.
Croslier: m. ere: f. Shaking, wagging, quaking, trembling.
Crosliere: f. A quagmire, bog; or peece of loosse, and soft ground, that shakes vnder the feet.
Crosse: f. A Crosier, or Bishops staffe; also, a Cricket-staffe; or, the crooked staffe wherewith boyes play at Cricket. Donner la Mitre, & la crosse à. To authorise, or beare out, by the priuiledge of a religious function; to couer with the specious cloake of Religion. Evesque d'or crosse de bois, crosse d'or Evesque de bois: Prov. The lesse a Bishops staffe, the more his vertue, shines; pompe first corrupted Prelacie.
Crosser. To play at Cricket. Aller ou envoyer crosser. To send one packing, to bid him goe shake his eares.
Crossette: f. A slip of a tree, or plant; See Crocette. Crossir. as Grincer. Crostes. as Crottes. Crot: m A hole, denne, caue, grot: ¶Parisien. Crotaphique: com. Belonging, or neere vnto, the Crotaphiques. Artere crotaphique. A great sinew neere vnto the temples.
Crotaphiques. The two muskles of the temples.
Croté. as Crotté. Crotenotaire. as Croquenotaire. Crotes. as Crottes. Crotesque: f. Rude countrey painting, or caruing, wher*-in many things are confusedly represented; See Grotesques. Croton: m. as Crotton; and (more particularly) the dungeon of a prison. Crotpescheret. A kind of blacke Osprey: ¶Bourg. Crotte. See Crottes. Crotté: m. ée: f. Bedagled, bemired, berayed, with durt. Crotté en Archediacre. Dagged vp to the bard heeles, extreamly bedurtied, all to be dabled; (Belike when this phrase came first in vse, Archdeacons trudged vp and downe on foot.)
Crotter. To dig, or make holes in the earth, or in old wals; also, to daggle, bedurtie, bemire.
Crottes: f. Durt, filth, mire; dagling stuffe; also, the dung, excrements, or ordure of Sheepe, Goats, Conies, Hares, &c.
Crotton: m. A deepe hole, a filthie dungeon.
Croüacement. as Croüas. Croüas: m. The croaking, or crie of Rauens.
Croüasser. To croake or crie like a Rauen, or Crow.
Crouë d'un pressouër. as Escrouë; or the vppermost boord, and the hole thereof, whereinto the Vice-pinne enters. Crouillet: m. The latch of a doore.
Croulant: m. ante: f. Shaking, wagging, mouing, trembling.
Crouler. as Crosler; to shake, wag, or quake. Croule-vniuers. World-shogging, all-shaking.
Croulier: m. ere: f. (piez crouliers. Which tremble, or shake vnder one;) shaking, wagging, trembling, quagmire-like.
Crouliere: f. A quagmire; a trembling, or shaking peece of ground; as Crosliere.
Croupant: m. ante: f. Crooching, stooping, bowing downwards; also, long standing in one place; & hence;
Eau croupante; puddle water.
Croupe. as Crope; the top or knap of a hill; also, the rumpe, or crupper peece. La croupe du dos. The ridge of the backe. Vn chien assis sur la croupe. A dog sitting on his taile, or buttocks. Porter en croupe. To carrie behind on horsebacke.
Croupeton. vn lievre estant à croupeton. That sits vpon her buttocks (as she doth often while she is at reliefe) and raises her selfe thereon, to listen at euerie wag of a feather.
Croupi: m. ie: f. as Croupy. Eau Croupie. Standing water, which hath no course, as that of lakes, puddles, &c.
Croupie. chasser à la croupie. To find a Hare at reliefe, and then course her with Greyhounds.
Croupiere de cheval. A horse-crupper.
Croupir. To crooch, bow, stoope, grow or goe double; also, to rest, or grow idle; stand, or abide long in a place.
Croupissant. eau croupissante. A standing puddle, a dead water.
Crouppe: f. The top, or knap, of a hill.
Croupy: m. ye: f. Crooched, or crooching; inclined, crooked, stooping, bowing; also, resting, standing, being idle.
Crousille: f. The shell-fish, called a Scallop.
Croussiller entre les dents. To crash, or crackle betweene the teeth, as a nut shell, &c.
Crouste: f. A crust; a scab, or hard scurfe. Croustes de pastez valent bien pain: Pro. Piecrust is alwayes worth a peece of bread; or may well serue in stead of bread.
Crousteau: m. A great crust; or great scab. Crousteau de cire. A wax comb wherein bees make, or lay vp, their honie.
Croustelevé. Scuruie, bescabbed; full of the pocks.
Crousteleveure: f. Scuruinesse, scabbinesse, pockinesse.
Crousteleux. Crustie; as Crousteux. Croustelles; ou Croustellettes. Little crusts, or scabs.
Crouster. To crust, or scab; to bring a crust, or scab vpon.
Crousteux: m. euse: f. Crustie, bescabbed; hard, and rugged, like a wall that is pargetted.
Croustons: m. Sharpe flintie stones.
Croute: f. A hole, grot, caue, denne.
Croutelevé. as Croustelevé: ¶Rab. Croyable: com. Credible, beleeuable, to be trusted vnto, relyed on. Chose aisée croyable: Prov. That which is easily done is soone beleeued.
Croyablement. credibly.
Croyance: f. Beliefe, beleeuing, credit giuen vnto.
Croye: f. Chalke. Croye pour nettoyer draps. Fullers earth. Croye rouge. Ruddle, red Lead, red Oaker. Croye teincte de pourpre. Cheeke vernish, red painting. Croye verde. as Verd de terre. Croyé: m. ée: f. Chalked; marked, or whited with chalk.
Croyer. To chalke; to marke, or white, with chalke.
Croyeux: m. euse: f. Chalkie, full of chalke.
Cru: m. A groweth, growing; increase, or increasing.
Armé à cru. In compleat armour; or, all-ouer armed.
Cela n'est pas de son cru. That was none of his owne setting, or planting; that is none of his owne inuention, or doing.
