Crone

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. An old ewe. [Obs.] Tusser.

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.