crossette, n.f., (agri.) layer; (arch.) return, ear, elbow, ancone.
crosseur, n.m., cricket-player, cricketer, hockey-player.
*crossillon, n.m., the curled end of the crosier.
crotale, n.m., (antiq.) crotalum; (zoöl.) rattle-snake.
crotaphite, adj., n.m., (anat.) crotaphite.
crotte, n.f., dirt, mud, mire; dung. Il fait bien de la —; it is very dirty. Être dans la —; to be in a state of squalid misery. —s de brebis; treadles of sheep. —s de lapins; crotels of a rabbit. — de renard; scumber.
crotté, -e, part., dirty, muddy, squalid; wretched, sorry. — comme un barbet; as dirty as a pig. Un poète —; a paltry poet. Il fait bien — dans les rues; the streets are very dirty. — jusqu’à l’échine; with mud up to the eyes; draggle-tailed.
crotter, v.a., to dirt, to dirty, to bemire; to daggle, to draggle, to bedraggle; to splash, to spatter, to bespatter. Se —; to dirty one’s self; to get dirty; to draggle.
crottin, n.m., dung (of horses, sheep, etc.).
crou, n.m., (geol.) sandy, clayey soil.