Chapter Crimen læsæ Majestatis to Crone of C by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Croesus Rich as Croesus. Croesus, King of Lydia, was so rich and powerful that all the wise men of Greece were drawn to his court, and his name became proverbial for wealth. (B.C. 560-546.) (See Gyges.)

Cromeruach' Chief idol of the Irish before the preaching of St. Patrick. It was a gold or silver image surrounded by twelve little brazen ones.

Cromlech A large stone resting on two or more others, like a table. (Welsh, crom, bent; llech, a flat stone.)
   Weyland Smith's cave (Berkshire), Trevethy stone (Cornwall), Kit's Coty House (Kent). Irby and Mangles saw twenty-seven structures just like these on the banks of the Jordan; at Plas Newydd (Anglesey) are two cromlechs: in Cornwall they are numeròus; so are they in Wales; some few are found in Ireland, as the "killing-stone" in Louth. In Brittany, Denmark, Germany, and some other parts of Europe, cromlechs are to be found.

Cromwell in the part of "Tactus." (See Tactus .)

Crone properly speaking, means a ewe whose teeth are worn out; but metaphorically it means any toothless old beldam. (Irish, criona, old; allied to the Greek geron, an old man.)

"Take up the bastard; take `t up, I say; give `t to thy crone." - Shakespeare: Winter's Tale, ii. 3.