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Croft [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A little close adjoining or near to a dwelling house, and used for pasture, tillage or other purposes.

Croft [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm.

Croft Encyclopedia Britannica

CROFT, William (1677-1727), doctor of music, was born in 1677, at Nether Eatington in Warwickshire. He received his musical education in the Chapel Royal under Dr Blow. He early obtained the place of organist of St Anne’s, Westminster, and in 17C0 was admitted a gentleman extraordinary of the Chapel Royal. In 1707 he was appointed joint-organist .with Blow; and upon the death of the latter in 1708 he became sole organist, and also master of the children and composer of the Chapel Royal, besides being made organist of Westminster Abbey. In 1715 he obtained his degree of doctor of music in the university of Oxford. In 1724 he published an edition of his choral music, in 2 vols, folio, under the name of Musiaea Sacra, or Select Anthems in score, for two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight voices, to which is added the Burial Service, as it is occasionally performed in Westminster Abbey. This handsome work was the first of the kind executed on pewter plates and in score. John Page, in his Harmonia Sacra, published in 1800 in 3 vols, folio, gives seven of Croft’s anthuns. Of instrumental music, Croft published six sets of airs for two violins and a bass, six sonatas for two flutes, six solos for a flute and bass. He died in August 1727, and was buried in the north aisle of Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by his friend and admirer Humphrey Wyrley Birch. Burney in his History of Music devotes several pages of his third volume (pp. 603-612) to Dr Croft’s life, and criticisms of some of his anthems.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 6, p. 594
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Crofter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who rents and tills a small farm or helding; as, the crofters of Scotland.

Croftland [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised.