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A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm. A few small crofts of stone-encumbered ground. Wordsworth.

One who rents and tills a small farm or helding; as, the crofters of Scotland.

Croftland. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A system of prison discipline employing for consecutive periods cellular confinement, associated imprisonment under the mark system, restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.

A subterranean room of any kind; esp., one under a church (see Crypt), or one used as a chapel or for any sacred purpose.

In the act of brooding. [Obs.] Abp. Sancroft.

One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf. Bancroft.

Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian. Bancroft.

A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian. Abp. Sancroft.

Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory. Bancroft.

A shareholder of the Assiento company; one of the parties to the Assiento contract. Bancroft.

A native or inhabitant of Batavia or Holland. [R.] Bancroft.

the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped. Bancroft. Full bottom, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise.

gather into "villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing." Bancroft.

und to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of. [R.] Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts That brow this bottom glade. Milton.

; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor. In the capacious recesses of his mind. Bancroft.

arass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome. Captious restraints on navigation. Bancroft.

A glass water bottle for the table or toilet; -- called also croft.

bring into one system, or under one control. [To] centralize the power of government. Bancroft.