Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cruth"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cruth \Cruth\ (kr?th), n. [W. crwth.] (Mus.)
See 4th {Crowd}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Crowd \Crowd\, n. [W. crwth; akin to Gael. cruit. Perh. named
from its shape, and akin to Gr. kyrto`s curved, and E. curve.
Cf. {Rote}.]
An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of
violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played
with a bow. [Written also {croud}, {crowth}, {cruth}, and
{crwth}.]
A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little.
--B. Jonson.
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