cron.
/krəʊ/, U.S. /kroʊ/, Irish English /kroʊ/ Celtic History.
‘The compensation or satisfaction made for the slaughter of any man, according to his rank’ (Jamieson).
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a1400 Reg. Maj. iv. xxx, in Sc. Stat. 1 640 Quid sit le cro quod anglice dicitur Grant befor the Kyng.
1426 Sc. Acts Jas. I (1566) §104 (Jam.) To pay..the croy to the narrest of the kin of the slaine man.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 74 It is statute be the King, that Cro of ane Erle of Scotland is seven tymes twentie kye.
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 286 Where Earles, Earles sonnes, Thanes, Ochierns and the like are distinguisht by their Croes.
1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 135 The Cro, or Wergild, of the Thane.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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n.a1400- bone-rattling
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- bone-setting
- bone-shaking
- bone-shaped
- bone-squid
- bone-studded
- bone-thin
- bone-thinning
- bone-throwing
- bone-tipped
- bone-tired
- bone-turquoise
- bone-weariness
- bone-weary
- bone-white
- bone-work lace
- bone-worker
- bone-working
- bonebaster
- bonebleached
- boneboiling
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