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To give off crock or smut.

A potter. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds.

A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler. The antlers and the crockets. W. Black.

Ornamented with crockets.

Ornamentation with crockets. Ruskin.

Smutty.

A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida c…

An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds.

Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile. -- n.

A caption or sophistical mode of arguing. [R.]

Same as Crocoite.

Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also red lead ore.

A salt formed by the union of croconic acid with a base.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling saffron; having the color of saffron; as, croconic acid.

A white crystalline sugar, metameric with glucose, obtained from the coloring matter of saffron. [Written also crokose.]

the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colcothar) thus produced from salts of irron, and used as a polishing powder. Crocus of Venus (Old Chem.), oxide of copper.

A division of the Turbellaria in which the digestive cavity gives off lateral branches, which are often divided into smaller branchlets.

Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc.

A genus of trees found in the East Indies, some species of which produce a fragrant resin, other species wood oil. The fruit has two long wings.