Supin vs Crone - What's the difference?
supin | crone |
(obsolete) An old woman.
* Dryden
An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
(obsolete) An old ewe.
(obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
* Beaconsfield
* Washington Irving
As nouns the difference between supin and crone
is that supin is or supin can be while crone is (wicca) one of the triune goddesses of the lady in wicca alongside the mother and maiden and representing an old woman.supin
Not English
Supin has no English definition. It may be misspelled.crone
English
Noun
(en noun)- But still the crone was constant to her note.
- (Tusser)
- A few old battered crones of office.
- The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel which his master had given him.