CROCUS, or CROCUS METALLORUM. A nick name for a surgeon of the army and navy. CROKER. A groat, or four pence. CRONE. An old ewe whose teeth are worn out; figuratively, a toothless old beldam. CRONY. An intimate companion, a comrade; also a confederate in a robbery. CROOK. Sixpence. CROOK BACK. Sixpence; for the reason of this name, see CRIPPLE. CROOK YOUR ELBOW. To crook one's elbow, and wish it may never come straight, if the fact then affirmed is not true--according to the casuists of Bow-street and St. Giles's, adds great weight and efficacy to an oath. CROOK SHANKS. A nickname for a man with bandy legs. He buys his boots in Crooked Lane, and his stockings in Bandy-legged Walk; his legs grew in the night, therefore could not see to grow straight; jeering sayings of men with crooked legs. CROP. A nick name for a presbyterian: from their cropping their hair, which they trimmed close to a bowl-dish, placed as a guide on their heads; whence they were likewise called roundheads. See ROUNDHEADS. CROP. To be knocked down for a crop; to be condemned to be hanged. Cropped, hanged. CROPPING DRUMS. Drummers of the foot guards, or Chelsea hospital, who find out weddings, and beat a point of war to serenade the new married couple, and thereby obtain money. CROPPEN. The tail. The croppen of the rotan; the tail of the cart. Croppen ken: the necessary-house. CANT. CROPSICK. Sickness in the stomach, arising from drunkenness. CROSS. To come home by weeping cross; to repent at the conclusion. CROSS DISHONEST. A cross cove; any person who lives by stealing or in a dishonest manner. CROSS BITE. One who combines with a sharper to draw in a friend; also, to counteract or disappoint. CANT.--This is peculiarly used to signify entrapping a man so as to obtain CRIM. COM. money, in which the wife, real or supposed, conspires with the husband. CROSS BUTTOCK. A particular lock or fall in the Broughtonian art, which, as Mr. Fielding observes, conveyed more pleasant sensations to the spectators than the patient. CROSS PATCH. A peevish boy or girl, or rather an unsocial ill-tempered man or woman. TO CROW. To brag, boast, or triumph. To crow over any one; to keep him in subjection: an image drawn from a cock, who crows over a vanquished enemy. To pluck a crow; to reprove any one for a fault committed, to settle a dispute. To strut like a crow in a gutter; to walk proudly, or with an air of consequence. CROWD. A fiddle: probably from CROOTH, the Welch name for that instrument. CROWDERO. A fiddler. CROWDY. Oatmeal and water, or milk; a mess much eaten in the north. CROW FAIR. A visitation of the clergy. See REVIEW OF THE BLACK CUIRASSIERS. CROWN OFFICE. The head. I fired into her keel upwards; my eyes and limbs Jack, the crown office was full; I s--k-d a woman with her a-e upwards, she was so drunk, that her head lay on the ground.