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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crone" Quotes from Famous Books

... with this old crone?" Beorn said. "It would never do to risk her giving an alarm, and though she looks feeble she might be able to get ...

— Wulf the Saxon - A Story of the Norman Conquest • G. A. Henty

... of the old bedridden crone whom Aubrey had referred to. It was as a gleam of sunshine,—that sweet comforting face; and here, seated by the old woman's side, with the Book of the Poor upon her lap, Evelyn was found by Lady Vargrave. ...

— Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... thus over the fire like some old crone?" he growled, voicing at last the irritability that so long had been ...

— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini

... would be better to walk. Michael Daragh had never seen her more alert and alive to the things about her. Nothing escaped her darting glance,—the lyrical, first grass in the Square, the stolid and patient tiredness of an Italian crone on a bench, the pictorial quality of a hurdy-gurdy man, and yet, for all her chattiness, the smart young person beside him seemed leagues upon leagues away from him. He supposed, miserably, that she was aghast at him ...

— Jane Journeys On • Ruth Comfort Mitchell

... unmoved by the yelling and screaming of the children, and the scolding of the mother, which had preceded the dispersion of the family. Edie had arranged his various bags, and was bound for the renewal of his wandering life, but first advanced with due courtesy to take his leave of the ancient crone. ...

— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott

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