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 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.