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A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler.

A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively. Crochet hook, Crochet needle, a small hook, or a hooked needle (often of bone), used in crochet work.

An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain; -- used in crocheting, sewing, and embroidery.

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

Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.

, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.

Quarter note (Mus.), a note equal in duration to half a minim or a fourth of semibreve; a crochet. -- Quarter pieces (Naut.), several pieces of timber at the after- part of the quarter gallery, near the taffrail. Totten. -- Quarter point. (Naut.) See Quarter, n., 1 (n). -- Quarter railing, or Quarter rails (Naut.),…

A woman's light scarflike head covering, usually knit or crocheted of wool.

n long legs. Some of the species grow to great size, as the great Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira Kempferi), measuring sometimes more than fifteen feet across the legs when they are extended. -- Spider fly (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of parasitic dipterous insects of the family Hippoboscidæ. They are mostly…

Given to, or characterized by, vagaries; capricious; whimsical; crochety.