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† crapaud Obs.
Forms: 5 crapault, -pauld, -paut, -pald, crepaud(e, -pawd, 6 crapaude, -pawd, (crapeaux, cropolte, crapal), 7 crapaud; 5 cra-, crepawnde, 6 crapon.
[a. F. crapaud, in OF. crapaut, -ot, for earlier -ault, = Pr. crapaut, grapaut, OCat. grapaut, grapalt, med.L. crapaldus, crapollus: see Diez, Littré, Hatzfeld.]
1. A toad.
1481Caxton Myrr. ii. xv. 99 Yf the tode, Crapault, or spyncop, byte a man or woman, they be in daunger for to dye. 1485― Chas. Gt. 89 Serpentes, crapauldes, and other beestes. 1634Peacham Gentl. Exerc. iii. 152 The old Armes of France were the three Toades or Crapauds.
2. (More fully crapaud-stone.) A precious stone formerly believed to be produced in the head of the toad: cf. Shakes. As You Like It ii. i. 13; a toad-stone. (The stones so named were of many kinds.)
c1440Promp. Parv. 101 Crepawnde, or crapawnde, precyous stone [Pynson crepaud], smaragdus. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 3 No man whyhs [= wys] The verteuous crepaude despyse lest, Thow [= though] a todys crowne wer' hys fyrst nest. 1465Will of Peke (Somerset Ho.), My crepaude stone. 1557Will of G. Amyas, A stone called a Cropolte. 1558Gifts to Q. Eliz. in Nichols Progr. II. 539 A jewell, contayning a crapon or toade-stone set in golde. 1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 11 Her haire like Crapal stone. |