C — Critically to Crone (Part 5 of 6)

Croconic acid (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance, C₅O₃(OH)₂, obtained from potassium carboxide, rhodizonic acid, and various phenol and quinone derivatives of benzene, and forming yellow or orange colored salts.

Crocose
(Cro"cose) n. kro`kos saffron.]—> (Chem.) A white crystalline sugar, metameric with glucose, obtained from the coloring matter of saffron. [Written also crokose.]

Crocus
(Cro"cus) n. [L., saffron, fr. Gr. kro`kos; cf. Heb. karkom, Ar. kurkum, Skr. kunkuma.]

1. (Bot.) A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn.

2. (Chem.) A deep yellow powder; 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 iron, and used as a polishing powder.

Crocus of Venus (Old Chem.), oxide of copper.

Crœsus
(Crœ"sus) n. [L., fr. G. Kroi^sos.] A king of Lydia who flourished in the 6th century b. c., and was renowned for his vast wealth; hence, a common appellation for a very rich man; as, he is a veritable Crœsus.

Croft
(Croft) n. [AS. croft; akin to D. kroft hillock; cf. Gael. croit hump, croft.] A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm.

A few small crofts of stone-encumbered ground.
Wordsworth.

Crofter
(Croft"er) n. One who rents and tills a small farm or holding; as, the crofters of Scotland.

Crofting
(Croft"ing), n.

1. Croftland. [Scot.] Jamieson.

2. (Textile Manuf.) Exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching.

Croftland
(Croft"land) n. Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Crois
(Crois) n. [OF.] See Cross, n. [Obs.]

Croisade
(Croi*sade" Croi*sa"do) (- s?"d?), n. [F. criosade. See Crusade.] A holy war; a crusade. [Obs.] Bacon.

Croise
(Croise) n. [F. croisé crusader, fr. OF. crois, F. croix, cross. See Cross.]

1. A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross. [Obs.]

2. A crusader. [Obs.]

The conquests of the croises extending over Palestine.
Burke.

Croissanté
(||Crois`san`té") a. [F. croissant, adj. & n., crescent.] (Her.) Terminated with crescents; — said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated.

Croker
(Cro"ker) n. kro`kos saffron.]—> A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Croma
(||Cro"ma) n. [It.] (Mus.) A quaver. [Obs.]