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Crose, Croas, n. [e.m.E. crose (1553), var. of Croce n. or Cros n.]

1 A (or the) cross. 1446 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 312.
At the abbay of the haly crose of Edinburgh 1509 Reg. Privy S. I. 288/1.
At the feist of the Inventioun of the Haly Crose 15.. Clar. i. 959.
He maid ane crose upon him devotlie c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxii. 65 (M).
Unto the crose of breid and lenth … Thai straitit him 1570 Leslie 119.
Ane quhyt crose sewit upoun thair umast clayth

2. A boundary- or market-cross. 1425 Liber Dryburgh 276.
Usque ad Hakkerstane crose 1578 Elgin Rec. I. 216.
At the marcat crose of Elgin a1578 Pitsc. I. 260/6.
Thair was a cry hard at the marcat crose of Edinburgh 1596 Dalr. I. 312/29.
In witnes of quhilk … the crose for a marche betueine the twa realmes thay walde affix 1648 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 146.
To inhibit all maner of persounes to bring sybous or ingons to the crose to be sold 1656 Glasgow Chart. II. 329.
His great tenement of land neire the crose of Glasgow 1662–3 Peebles B. Rec. II. 202.
For casting the croas of Pebles

3. Attrib. with bow, dollour, kirk. (Cf. Crosbow, etc.) 1612 Bk. Rates 291.
Pellett bowes, … Crose bowes — 1670 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. III. 127.
That the crose dollours doe passe in this day at fiftie shilling Scotts — 1539 Soc. Ant. XVI. 195.
Maister Andro Hall, person of the Crose Kyrk of Sandaye 1659 Peebles B. Rec. 424.
Given to Thom Tuadall for carying four frie stones from the Crose Kirk