Cross and Pile
The obverse and reverse sides of a coin, head and tail; hence, money generally, pitch and toss, etc. Pile is French for the reverse of a coin, and the other side for centuries was marked with a cross.
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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 cove and molisher
A man and woman who live by thieving.
cross dishonest
A cross cove; any person who lives by stealing or in a dishonest manner.
cross my heart and hope to die
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
cross of gold
A symbol of wealth or materialism that is revered or worshiped
cross off
Remove or eliminate something from a list
cross out
To delete or cancel something
cross patch
A peevish boy or girl, or rather an unsocial ill-tempered man or woman.
cross paths
Meet or encounter someone by chance
cross someone's palm
to pay or bribe someone
cross someone's path
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
cross that bridge when one comes to it
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
cross the aisle
To cooperate or form an alliance with someone from a different political party
cross the line
to go beyond what is acceptable or reasonable
cross the stream where it is shallowest
Act where it is easiest or safest
cross the Thames
to attend a meeting or event in a different part of a city
cross the Tiber
To convert to Catholicism
cross to take up
to accept a challenge
cross with its beak
Schwenckfeld in 1603 {Theriotropheum Silesia) gave the fable in the Latin verses of Johannes Major; but it would be better known to English readers through Longfellow's "Legend of the Crossbill" from the German of Julius Mosen.
cross-buttock
An unexpected fling down or repulse; from a peculiar throw practised by wrestlers.
cross-crib
A house frequented by thieves.
Cross-legged Knights
Crusaders were gen- erally represented on their tombs with crossed legs.
crossed
Prohibited from taking food from the buttery.—University.
crossword puzzle
A puzzle in which words must be discovered to fill in, letter by letter, the squares into which a rectangular diagram is divided. Clues are furnished and most of the letters form parts of two words, one reading across and the other down the rectangle. There have long been simple puzzles of this nature, but the more ingenious crossword was invented in U.S.A., about 1923, and immediately welcomed in Britain.
crotch crickets
Pubic lice.
crotch critter
A sexually transmitted pathogen, particularly pubic lice.
crotch down
To crouch.
crotch dumpling
A child.
crotch goblin
A child.
crotchling
A child.
Crotona's Sage
Pythagoras. So called because at Crotona he established his chief school of philosophy (about 530 B.C.). Such success followed his teaching that the whole aspect of the town became more moral and decorous in a marvellously short time.
crow
Or COCK-CROW, to exult over another’s abasement, as a fighting-cock does over his vanquished adversary.
crow fair
A visitation of the clergy. See REVIEW OF THE BLACK CUIRASSIERS.
crow to pick
a dispute or issue to be settled
crow to pluck
to have a dispute or issue to resolve
crow to pull
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Crow's Nest
The "look out'* — originally a barrel fixed to the masthead of an old- fashioned whaling-ship. Crowd, Croud, or Crouth. An ancient Celtic species of fiddle with from three to six strings (Welsh crwth). Hence crowder, a player on a crowd. The last noted player on this instru- ment was John Morgan, who died in 1720.
crowbar hotel
Jail.
crowd
A fiddle: probably from CROOTH, the Welch name for that instrument.
crowd in on
To surround or press in on someone closely
crowd sail
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
crowdy
Oatmeal and water, or milk; a mess much eaten in the north.
Crown of the East
Antioch, capital of Syria, which consisted of four walled cities, encompassed by a common rampart, that "enrounded them like a coronet.
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.
Crown Prince
The title of the heir-apparent to the throne in some countries, as Sweden, Denmark, and Japan (formerly also in Ger- many).
crown to put them down
The necessity has long since ceased, but the office remains; and, since 1740, when a Member of Parliament wishes to vacate his seat, one way of doing so is by applying for the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds; for no member of Parliament may resign his seat, but if he accepts an office of profit under the Crown he is obliged to be re-elected if he wishes to remain a member.
crowned with bays
A reward of victory: from the custom that obtained in ancient Rome of so crowning a victorious general.
Crowns of Egypt
Ancient Egypt was divided into two parts, Upper Egypt, or the South Land, and Lower Egypt, or the Northern Land, the kings styling themselves suten bat, kings of the north and south. As ruler of the two countries each king wore the crown made up of the White Crown of the South and the Red Crown of the North, and it is from this crown, named Pschent, that they can be distin- guished in hieroglyphics or on monuments.
crows will not pick out crows eyes
People will not criticize or punish those of their own kind
crowsfeet
Wrinkles which gather in the corners of the eyes of old or dissipated people.
cruel mistress
Something that is attractive but also punishing or unkind
crug
Bread.
crug
Food. Christ’s Hospital boys apply it only to bread.
cruisers
Beggars, or highway spies, who traverse the road, to give intelligence of a booty; also rogues ready to snap up any booty that may offer, like privateers or pirates on a cruise.
crumb cruncher
A child.
crumb crusher
A child.
crumb grinder
A child.
crumb snatcher
A child.
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