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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 crone /ˈkron/
 乾癟老太婆,老母羊

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 crone n.
 1. An old ewe. [Obs.]
 2. An old woman; -- usually in contempt.
    But still the crone was constant to her note.    --Dryden.
 3. An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman. [R.]
    The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel, . . . which his master had given him.   --W. Irving.
    A few old battered crones of office.   --Beaconsfield.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 crone
      n : an ugly evil-looking old woman [syn: hag, beldam, beldame,
           witch]