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noun

crone n.

An old ewe. (Obs.)

An old woman; usually in contempt. "But still the crone was constant to her note."

An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman. (R.) "The old crone (a negro man) lived in a hovel,... which his master had given him." "A few old battered crones of office."

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Etymology of 'Crone'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crone" Quotes from Famous Books

... smiled upon us with so airy a welcome soon showed a discontented curve not to be belied by the merry words that issued from them, and when we would have escorted her across the fields to her father's house, she made a mocking curtsy, and wandered away with the ugliest old crone who mouths and mumbles in the meeting-house. Did she do this to mock us or him? If to mock him he had best take care, for beauty scorned is apt to grow dangerous. But perhaps it was to mock us? Well, well, there ...

— The Old Stone House and Other Stories • Anna Katharine Green

... had business with his majesty by day: we strolled over the sand and by the dwarfish palms, exchanged a 'Konamaori' with the crone on duty, and entered the compound. The wide sheet of coral glared before us deserted; all having stowed themselves in dark canvas from the excess of room. I have gone to and fro in that labyrinth of a place, seeking the king; and ...

— In the South Seas • Robert Louis Stevenson

... most dreadful little old crone," she says cheerily; "she's like some grotesque dream—why, ...

— Under the Southern Cross • Elizabeth Robins

... had been in heaven. She had a charm of barbarous words, whereby she could see the answers to questions 'in live images before her eyes, or upon the wall, but the images were not tractable (tangible), which she found by putting to her hand, but could find nothing'. In place of burning this poor crone, Mr. Frazer reasoned with her, 'taught her the danger and vanity of her practice,' and saw her die peacefully ...

— Cock Lane and Common-Sense • Andrew Lang

... aged crone, already stumbling into her dotage, hobbled from the kitchen and gathered up an armful of resinous pine from a pile beside the steps. "Dey's 'mos' es hot es de debbil's wood en iron shovel," she replied, with one foot on the step; adding in a piercing ...

— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow

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