croisure, n.f., the length of the yards (of a ship); coat-staves; crossing, mill (in stuffs); (poet.) intermixture, mingling.
croît, n.m., increase (from breeding); growth.
croître (croissant, crû), v.n., to grow, to wax, to grow up, to grow tall, to spring up; to augment, to increase; to lengthen; to swell or swell out, to be swollen; to multiply, to be multiplied or increased; to be grown; to sprout, to shoot. — trop rapidement; to outgrow, to overgrow. Les jours commencent à —; the days begin to lengthen, to draw out. Elle ne fait que — et embellir; she grows handsomer every day.
croix, n.f., cross mark; rood; affliction, trouble, tribulation; star; (coin.) cross; (print.) dagger; (her.) cross. Sainte —; holy rood. Les bras d’une —; the bars of a cross. Mettre quelque chose en —; to put a thing cross-wise. Avoir les jambes en —; to sit cross-legged. Faire le signe de la —; to cross one’s self. On est allé au-devant de lui avec la — et la bannière; they went to meet him with cross and banner, with great ceremony. Il faut faire une — à la cheminée; we must make a cross on the chimney, we must score that up. Jouer à — et à pile; to play at head and tail, at pitch and toss. — de par Dieu, de Jésus; cross-row, criss-cross-row, primer, horn-book, alphabet. — de Saint André or de Bourgogne; St. Andrew’s-cross, saltier (her.). — de Saint Antoine; St. Anthony’s-cross. — de Lorraine; cross with two bars. Grand-—; knight grand-cross. Croix de chevalier; (bot.) caltrops, tribulus. — de Jérusalem; (bot.) lychnis Chalcedonica. — sur les câbles; (nav.) cross in the hawse. Mettre les vergues en —; to square the yards. — du Sud, — australe (astron.); Southern Cross, Crosier.
cromlech, n.m., (—s) cromlech.
cromorne, n.f., (mus.) krumhorn, cremona.
crône, n.m., (nav.) wheel-crane (on a wharf).
croquade, n.f., (paint.) rough sketch.
croquant, n.m., poor wretch, fellow; countryman; gristle. pl., name given to French peasants who rebelled under Henri IV and Louis XIII.
croquant, -e, adj., crisp, crackling, short, craunching. Biscuit —; hard biscuit. Caractère —; crispness.