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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CROTCHET, n. [See Crook.]
1. In printing, a hook including words, a sentence or a passage distinguished form the rest, thus [ ].
2. In music, a note or character, equal in time to half a minim, and double of a quaver.
3. A piece of wood resembling a fork, used as a support in building.
4. A peculiar turn of the mind; a whim, or fancy; a perverse conceit.
All the devices and crotchets of new inventions.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook [syn: hook, crotchet]
2: a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note [syn: quarter note, crotchet]
3: a strange attitude or habit [syn: oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, crotchet]
4: a small tool or hooklike implement

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English crochet, from Anglo-French crochet, croket — more at crocket Date: 14th century 1. obsolete a. a small hook or hooked instrument b. brooch 2. a. a highly individual and usually eccentric opinion or preference b. a peculiar trick or device 3. quarter note Synonyms: see caprice

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 Mus. a note having the time value of a quarter of a semibreve and usu. representing one beat, drawn as a large dot with a stem. Also called quarter note. 2 a whimsical fancy. 3 a hook. Etymology: ME f. OF crochet dimin. of croc hook (see CROTCH)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bracket Brack"et, n. [Cf.OF. braguette codpiece, F. brayette, Sp. bragueta, also a projecting mold in architecture; dim. fr.L. bracae breeches; cf. also, OF. bracon beam, prop, support; of unknown origin. Cf. Breeches.] 1. (Arch.) An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office. Note: This is the more general word. See Brace, Cantalever, Console, Corbel, Strut. 2. (Engin. & Mech.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles. 3. (Naut.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support. 4. (Mil.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage. 5. (Print.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet. 6. A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like. Bracket light, a gas fixture or a lamp attached to a wall, column, etc.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Crotchet Crotch"et, v. i. To play music in measured time. [Obs.] --Donne.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Crotchet Crotch"et (kr?ch"?t; 224), n. [F. crochet, prop., a little hook, a dim. from the same source as croc hook. See Crook, and cf. Crochet, Crocket, Crosier.] 1. A forked support; a crotch. The crotchets of their cot in columns rise. --Dryden. 2. (Mus.) A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note. 3. (Fort.) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed. 4. (Mil.) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle. 5. (Print.) A bracket. See Bracket. 6. (Med.) An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus. --Dunglison. 7. A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit. He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man. --De Quincey.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(crotchets) A crotchet is a musical note that has a time value equal to two quavers. (mainly BRIT; in AM, use quarter note) N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Whim, freak, quirk, quirk, vagary, whimsey, fancy, caprice, maggot in the brain.

Moby Thesaurus

L, accidental, angle, apex, bee, bend, bifurcation, bight, boutade, brainstorm, breve, cant, capriccio, caprice, chevron, coin, conceit, corner, crank, craze, crazy idea, crook, deflection, demisemiquaver, dogleg, dominant, dominant note, double whole note, eccentricity, eighth note, elbow, ell, enharmonic, enharmonic note, fad, fancy, fantastic notion, fantasy, flat, flimflam, fool notion, fork, freak, freakish inspiration, furcation, half note, harebrained idea, hemidemisemiquaver, hook, humor, inflection, kink, knee, maggot, megrim, minim, musical note, natural, nook, note, notion, passing fancy, patent note, point, quarter note, quaver, quirk, quoin, report, responding note, semibreve, semiquaver, shaped note, sharp, sixteenth note, sixty-fourth note, spiccato, staccato, sustained note, swerve, tercet, thirty-second note, tone, toy, triplet, twist, vagary, veer, vertex, whim, whim-wham, whimsy, whole note, zag, zig, zigzag