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 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.