Vocabulary : Croche to Crocker

Croche : A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler.
Crochet : A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively. ;; To knit with a crochet needle or hook; as, to crochet a shawl.
Crocheted : of Crochet
Crocheting : of Crochet
Crociary : One who carries the cross before an archbishop.

Crocidolite : A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.
Crocin : The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora. ;; A red powder (called also polychroite), which is made from the saffron (Crocus sativus). See Polychroite.
Crock : The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth. ;; To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth. ;; To give off crock or smut. ;; A low stool. ;; Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. ;; To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter.
Crocked : of Crock
Crocker : A potter.

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