Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 152
Cross (n.) A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also, that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.
I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse. -- Shak.
Cross (n.) An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross; a badge or ornamental device of the general shape of a cross; hence, such an ornament, even when varying considerably from that form; thus, the Cross of the British Order of St. George and St. Michael consists of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it.
Cross (n.) (Arch.) A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London.
Dun-Edin's Cross, a pillared stone, Rose on a turret octagon. -- Sir W. Scott.
Cross (n.) (Her.) A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above.
Cross (n.) The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write.
Five Kentish abbesses . . . .subscribed their names and crosses. -- Fuller.
Cross (n.) Church lands. [Ireland] [Obs.] -- Sir J. Davies.
Cross (n.) A line drawn across or through another line.
Cross (n.) Hence: A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.
Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler. -- Lord Dufferin.
Cross (n.) (Surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
Cross (n.) (Mech.) A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle.
Cross and pile, A game with money, at which it is put to chance whether a coin shall fall with that side up which bears the cross, or the other, which is called pile, or reverse; the game called heads or tails.
Cross bottony or Cross botton['e]. See under Bottony.
Cross estoil['e] (Her.). A cross, each of whose arms is pointed like the ray of a star; that is, a star having four long points only.
Cross of Calvary. See Calvary, 3.
Southern cross. (Astron.) See under Southern.
To do a thing on the cross, To act dishonestly; -- opposed to acting on the square. [Slang]
To take up the cross, To bear troubles and afflictions with patience from love to Christ.
Cross (a.) Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.
The cross refraction of the second prism. -- Sir I. Newton.
Cross (a.) Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse. "A cross fortune." -- Jer. Taylor.
The cross and unlucky issue of my design. -- Glanvill.
The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvelously cross to the common experience of mankind. -- South.
We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross, One must be happy by the other's loss. -- Dryden.
Cross (a.) Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.
He had received a cross answer from his mistress. -- Jer. Taylor.
Cross (a.) Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other.
Cross action (Law), An action brought by a party who is sued against the person who has sued him, upon the same subject matter, as upon the same contract. -- Burrill.
Cross aisle (Arch.), A transept; the lateral divisions of a cruciform church.
Cross axle. (Mach.) A shaft, windlass, or roller, worked by levers at opposite ends, as in the copperplate printing ress.
Cross axle. A driving axle, with cranks set at an angle of 90[deg] with each other.
Cross bedding (Geol.), Oblique lamination of horizontal beds.
Cross bill. See in the Vocabulary.
Cross bitt. Same as Crosspiece.
Cross bond, A form of bricklaying, in which the joints of one stretcher course come midway between those of the stretcher courses above and below, a course of headers and stretchers intervening. See Bond, n., 8.
Cross breed. See in the Vocabulary.
Cross breeding. See under Breeding.
Cross buttock, A particular throw in wrestling; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse. -- Smollet.
Cross country, Across the country; not by the road. "The cross-country ride." -- Cowper.
Cross fertilization, The fertilization of the female products of one physiological individual by the male products of another, -- as the fertilization of the ovules of one plant by pollen from another. See Fertilization.
Cross file, A double convex file, used in dressing out the arms or crosses of fine wheels.
Cross fire (Mil.), Lines of fire, from two or more points or places, crossing each other.
Cross forked. (Her.) See under Forked.
Cross frog. See under Frog.
Cross furrow, A furrow or trench cut across other furrows to receive the water running in them and conduct it to the side of the field.
Cross handle, A handle attached transversely to the axis of a tool, as in the augur. -- Knight.
Cross lode (Mining), A vein intersecting the true or principal lode.
Cross purpose. See Cross-purpose, in the Vocabulary.
Cross reference, A reference made from one part of a book or register to another part, where the same or an allied subject is treated of.
Cross sea (Naut.), A chopping sea, in which the waves run in contrary directions.
Cross stroke, A line or stroke across something, as across the letter t.
Cross wind, A side wind; an unfavorable wind.
Cross wires, Fine wires made to traverse the field of view in a telescope, and moved by a screw with a graduated head, used for delicate astronomical observations; spider lines. Fixed cross wires are also used in microscopes, etc.
Syn: Fretful; peevish. See Fretful.
Cross (prep.) Athwart; across. [Archaic
or Colloq.]
A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village. -- L'Estrange.
To go cross lots, To go across the fields; to take a short cut. [Colloq.]
Crossed (imp. & p. p.) of Cross
Crossing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cross
Cross (v. t.) To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms.
Cross (v. t.) To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t.
Cross (v. t.) To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.
A hunted hare . . . crosses and confounds her former track. -- I. Watts.
Cross (v. t.) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. "Your kind letter crossed mine." -- J. D. Forbes.
Cross (v. t.) To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with.
In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing. -- Shak.
An oyster may be crossed in love. -- Sheridan.
Cross (v. t.) To interfere and cut off; to debar. [Obs.]
To cross me from the golden time I look for. -- Shak.
Cross (v. t.) To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.
Cross (v. t.) To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name.
Cross (v. t.) To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.
To cross a check (Eng. Banking), To draw two parallel transverse lines across the face of a check, with or without adding between them the words "and company", with or without the words "not negotiable", or to draw the transverse lines simply, with or without the words "not negotiable" (the check in any of these cases being crossed generally). Also, to write or print across the face of a check the name of a banker, with or without the words "not negotiable" (the check being then crossed specially). A check crossed generally is payable only when presented through a bank; one crossed specially, only when presented through the bank mentioned.
To cross one's path, To oppose one's plans. -- Macaulay.
Cross (v. i.) To lie or be athwart.
Cross (v. i.) To move or pass from one side to the other, or from place to place; to make a transit; as, to cross from New York to Liverpool.
Cross (v. i.) To be inconsistent. [Obs.]
Men's actions do not always cross with reason. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Cross (v. i.) To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.
If two individuals of distinct races cross, a third is invariably produced different from either. -- Coleridge.
Cross (a.) Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis; "cross members should be all steel"; "from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully"; "transversal vibrations"; "transverse colon" [syn: cross(a), transverse, transversal, thwartwise].
Cross (a.) Annoyed and irritable [syn: crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered].
Cross (n.) A wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece.
Cross (n.) A marking that consists of lines that cross each other [syn: crisscross, cross, mark].
Cross (n.) A representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified; used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry.
Cross (n.) Any affliction that causes great suffering; "that is his cross to bear"; "he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns" [syn: cross, crown of thorns].
Cross (n.) (Genetics) An organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species; "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey" [syn: hybrid, crossbreed, cross].
Cross (n.) (Genetics) The act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids [syn: hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing].
Cross (v.) Travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day" [syn: traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across].
Cross (v.) Meet at a point [syn: intersect, cross]
Cross (v.) Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk].
Cross (v.) Fold so as to resemble a cross; "she crossed her legs" [ant: uncross].
Cross (v.) To cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries" [syn: cross, traverse, span, sweep].
Cross (v.) Meet and pass; "the trains crossed."
Cross (v.) Trace a line through or across; "cross your `t'."
Cross (v.) Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed" [syn: crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed].
Cross, () In the New Testament the instrument of crucifixion, and hence used for the crucifixion of Christ itself (Eph. 2:16; Heb. 12:2; 1 Cor. 1:17, 18; Gal. 5:11; 6:12, 14; Phil. 3:18). The word is also used to denote any severe affliction or trial (Matt. 10:38; 16:24; Mark 8:34; 10:21).
The forms in which the cross is represented are these:
1. The crux simplex (I), a "single piece without transom."
2. The crux decussata (X), or St. Andrew's cross.
3. The crux commissa (T), or St. Anthony's cross.
4. The crux immissa (t), or Latin cross, which was the kind of cross on which our Saviour died. Above our Lord's head, on the projecting beam, was placed the "title." (See CRUCIFIXION.)
After the conversion, so-called, of Constantine the Great (B.C. 313), the cross first came into use as an emblem of Christianity. He pretended at a critical moment that he saw a flaming cross in the heavens bearing the inscription, "In hoc signo vinces", i.e., By this sign thou shalt conquer, and that on the following night Christ himself appeared and ordered him to take for his standard the sign of this cross. In this form a new standard, called the Labarum, was accordingly made, and borne by the Roman armies. It remained the standard of the Roman army till the downfall of the Western empire. It bore the embroidered monogram of Christ, i.e., the first two Greek letters of his name, X and P (chi and rho), with the Alpha and Omega. (See A.)
CROSS. contracts. A mark made by persons who are unable to write, instead of their names.
CROSS. When properly attested, and proved to have been made by the party whose name is written with the mark, it is generally admitted as evidence of the party's signature.
CROSS, (n.) An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significance to the most solemn event in the history of Christianity, but really antedating it by thousands of years. By many it has been believed to be identical with the _crux ansata_ of the ancient phallic worship, but it has been traced even beyond all that we know of that, to the rites of primitive peoples. We have to-day the White Cross as a symbol of chastity, and the Red Cross as a badge of benevolent neutrality in war. Having in mind the former, the reverend Father Gassalasca Jape smites the lyre to the effect following:
"Be good, be good!" the sisterhood Cry out in holy chorus, And, to dissuade from sin, parade Their various charms before us.
But why, O why, has ne'er an eye Seen her of winsome manner And youthful grace and pretty face Flaunting the White Cross banner?
Now where's the need of speech and screed To better our behaving?
A simpler plan for saving man (But, first, is he worth saving?)
Is, dears, when he declines to flee From bad thoughts that beset him, Ignores the Law as 't were a straw, And wants to sin -- don't let him.
Cross -- U.S. County in Arkansas
Population (2000): 19526
Housing Units (2000): 8030
Land area (2000): 615.846482 sq. miles (1595.034998 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 6.486676 sq. miles (16.800413 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 622.333158 sq. miles (1611.835411 sq. km)
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.279599 N, 90.786115 W
Headwords:
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Cross, AR
Cross County
Cross County, AR
Cross-armed (a.) With arms crossed.
Cross-banded (a.) A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surface of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface.
Cross-banded (a.) (Of snakes) Having crossing bands on the back.
Crossbar (n.) A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down. -- Russell.
Crossbar shot, A projectile which folds into a sphere for loading, but on leaving the gun expands to a cross with a quarter ball at the end of each arm; -- used in naval actions for cutting the enemy's rigging.
Crossbar (n.) A horizontal bar that goes across something.
Crossbar (n.) Game equipment consisting of a horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over.
Crossbar (n.) Long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts
Crossbarred (a.) Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars. -- Milton.
Crossbarred (a.) Made or patterned in lines crossing each other; as, crossbarred muslin.
Crossbeak (n.) (Zool.) Same as Crossbill.
Crossbeam (n.) (Arch.) A girder.
Crossbeam (n.) (Naut.) A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.
Crossbeam (n.) A horizontal beam that extends across something [syn: trave, traverse, crossbeam, crosspiece].
Cross-bearer (n.) (R.C.Ch.) A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.
Crossbill (n.) (Zool.) A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak.
Crossbill () (Law) A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit. -- Bouvier.
Note: In criminal practice, cross bills of indictment for assault, in which the prosecutor in once case is the defendant in another, may be tried together.
Crossbill (n.) Finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed [syn: crossbill, Loxia curvirostra].
Cross-birth (n.) (Med.) Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus.
Crossbite (n.) A deception; a cheat. [Obs.]
Crossbite (v. t.) To deceive; to trick; to gull. [Obs.]
Crossbones (n. pl.) A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death.
Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality. -- Hawthorne.
Crossbones (n.) Two crossed bones (or a representation of two crossed bones) used as a symbol danger or death.
Crossbow (n.) (Archery) A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.
Crossbow (n.) A bow fixed transversely on a wooden stock grooved to direct the arrow (quarrel).
Crossbower (n.) A crossbowman. [Obs.]
Crossbowman (n.) One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.
Compare: Arbalest
Arbalest, Arbalist (n.) (Antiq.) （中世紀裝有彈簧的）大弓；弩 A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] -- Fosbroke. Arbalester
Arbalest (n.) An engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles [syn: catapult, arbalest, arbalist, ballista, bricole, mangonel, onager, trebuchet, trebucket]
Crossbred (a.) (Stock Breeding) Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
Crossbred (a.) Bred from parents of different varieties or species [ant: purebred].
Crossbreed (n.) A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stocks.
Crossbreed (n.) Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.
Crossbreed (n.) (Genetics) An organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species; "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey" [syn: hybrid, crossbreed, cross].
Crossbreed (v.) Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed" [syn: crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed].
Cross-bun (n.) A bun or cake marked with a cross of icing, and intended to {hot crossbun"> be eaten on Good Friday; also, called {hot cross bun, even when not hot.
Cross-country skiing (n.) 【體】越野滑雪（是一項藉助滑雪工具，在山丘雪原上按照規定路線進行的雪上競速項目） The sport of skiing across the countryside (rather than downhill).
Cross-country skiing (n.) The sport of skiing across the countryside, often through woods and usually on relatively flat terrain, using narrow skis with boots that can be raised off the ski at the heel when striding. Also called Ski touring.
Related forms: Cross-country skier (n.)
Cross-crosslet (n.) (Her.) A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.
Crosscut (v. t.) To cut across or through; to intersect.
Crosscut (n.) A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.
Crosscut (n.) (Mining) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.
Crosscut saw. (a) A saw, the teeth of which are so set as to adapt it for sawing wood crosswise of the grain rather than lengthwise.
Crosscut saw. (b) A saw managed by two men, one at each end, for cutting large logs crosswise.
Crosscut (n.) A diagonal path
Crosscut (n.) A route shorter than the usual one [syn: shortcut, cutoff, crosscut].
Crosscut (v.) Cut using a diagonal line [syn: crosscut, cut across].
Cross-days (n. pl.) (Eccl.) The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.
Cross-dressing (n.) [ U ] The act of wearing clothes usually worn by the opposite sex.
// There's a lot of cross-dressing in British pantomimes, where men dress up as Dames and a woman plays the part of the young hero.
Crossette (n.) (Arch.) A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow.
Crossette (n.) (Arch.) The shoulder of a joggled keystone.
Cross-examination (n.) (Law) The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined. See Examination.
Cross-examination (n.) [fig.] Close or detailed questioning.
Compare: Examination
Examination (n.) The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.
Examination (n.) A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry.
He neglected the studies, . . . stood low at the examinations. -- Macaulay.
Examination in chief, or Direct examination (Law), That examination which is made of a witness by a party calling him.
Cross-examination, That made by the opposite party.
Re["e]xamination, or Re-direct examination, (Law) That questioning of a witness at trial made by the party calling the witness, after, and upon matters arising out of, the cross-examination; also called informally re-direct.
Syn: Search; inquiry; investigation; research; scrutiny; inquisition; inspection; exploration.
Cross-examination (n.) (Law) Close questioning of a hostile witness in a court of law to discredit or throw a new light on the testimony already provided in direct examination.
CROSS-EXAMINATION, practice. The examination of a witness, by the party who did not call him, upon matters to which he has been examined in chief.
CROSS-EXAMINATION, Every party has a right to cross-examine a witness produced by his antagonist, in order to test whether the witness has the knowledge of the things he testifies and if, upon examination, it is found that the witness had the means and ability to ascertain the facts about which he testifies, then his memory, his motives, everything may be scrutinized by the cross- examination.
CROSS-EXAMINATION, In cross-examinations a great latitude is allowed in the mode of putting questions, and the counsel may put leading questions. (q.v.) Vide further on this subject, and for some rules which limit the abuse of this right, 1 Stark. Ev,. 96; 1 Phil. Ev. 210; 6 Watts & Serg. 75.
CROSS-EXAMINATION, The object of a cross-examination is to sift the evidence, and try the credibility of a witness who has been called and given evidence in chief. It is one of the principal tests which the law has devised for the ascertainment of truth, and it is certainly one of the most efficacious. By this means the situation of the witness, with respect to the parties and the subject of litigation, his interest, his motives, his inclinations and his prejudices, his means of obtaining a correct and certain knowledge of the facts to which he testifies the manner in which he has used those means, his powers of discerning the facts in the first instance, and of his capacity in retaining and describing them, are fully investigated and ascertained. The witness, however artful he may be, will seldom be able to elude the keen perception of an intelligent court or jury, unless indeed his story be founded on truth. When false, he will be liable to detection at every step. 1 Stark. Ev. 96; 1 Phil. Ev. 227; Fortese. Rep. Pref. 2 to 4; Vaugh. R. 143.
CROSS-EXAMINATION, In order to entitle a party to a cross-examination, the witness must have been sworn and examined; for, even if the witness be asked a question in chief, yet if he make no answer, the opponent has no right to cross-examine. 1 Cr. M. & Ros. 95; 1 16 S. & R. 77; Rosc. Cr. Ev. 128; 3 Car. & P. 16; S. C. 14 E. C. L. Rep. 189; 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 3217. Formerly, however, the rule seems to have been different. 1 Phil. Ev. 211.
CROSS-EXAMINATION, A cross-examination of a witness is not always necessary or advisable. A witness tells the truth wholly or partially, or he tells a falsehood. If he tells the whole truth, a cross-examination may have the effect of rendering his testimony more circumstantial, and impressing the jury with a stronger opinion of its truth. If he tells only a part of the truth, and the part omitted is favorable to the client of the counsel cross-examining, he should direct the attention of the witness to the matters omitted. If the testimony of the witness be false, the whole force of the cross-examination should be directed to his credibility. This is done by questioning him as to his means of knowledge, his disinterestedness, and other matters calculated to show a want of integrity or veracity, if there is reason to believe the witness prejudiced, partial, or willfully dishonest. Arch. Crim. Pl. 111. See Credible Witness.
Cross-examined (imp. & p. p.) of Cross-examine.
Cross-examining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cross-examine.
Cross-examine (v. t.) (Law) To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party. "The opportunity to cross-examine the witnesses." -- Kent.
Cross-examiner (n.) One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
Cross-examiner (n.) Someone who questions a witness carefully (especially about testimony given earlier) [syn: cross-examiner, cross-questioner].
Cross-eye (n.) See Strabismus.
Cross-eye (a.) Convergent strabismus; a disorder in which one or both eyes turn inward toward the nose rather than directly at the object of vision; crossed eyes.
Cross-eye (n.) Strabismus in which one or both eyes turn inward toward the nose [syn: cross-eye, crossed eye, convergent strabismus, esotropia].
Cross-eyed (a.) Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting. cross-fertilisation
Cross-eyed (a.) Having convergent strabismus. Contrasted with walleyed.
Syn: crosseyed, boss-eyed[Brit. informal].
Cross-eyed (a.) Having convergent strabismus [ant: walleyed].
Crossfish (n.) (Zool.) A starfish.
Crossflow (v. i.) To flow across, or in a contrary direction. "His crossflowing
course." -- Milton.
Cross-garnet (n.) A hinge having one strap perpendicular and the other strap horizontal giving it the form of an Egyptian or T cross.
Crossgrained (a.) Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing.
If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. -- Moxon.
Crossgrained (a.) Perverse; untractable; contrary; difficult to deal with.
Syn: balky, contrarious.
She was none of your crossgrained, termagant, scolding jades. -- Arbuthnot.
Crossnath (v. t.) To shade by means of crosshatching.
Compare: Hatching
Hatching (n.) A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching.
Crosshatching (n.) In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle.
Crosshead (n.) (Mach.) A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.
Crosshead (n.) A heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text [syn: crossheading, crosshead].
Crosshead (n.) Metal block that connects to a piston; it slides on parallel guides and moves a connecting rod back and forth.
Crossing (n.) The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean.
Crossing (n.) The act of making the sign of the cross. -- Bp. Hall.
Crossing (n.) The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.
Crossing (n.) Intersection, as of two paths or roads.
Crossing (n.) A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street, or a set of marks across the street pavement indicating that this is a designated location for pedestrians to cross.
Crossing (n.) Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction.
I do not bear these crossings. -- Shak.
Crossing (n.) Traveling across.
Crossing (n.) A shallow area in a stream that can be forded [syn: ford, crossing].
Crossing (n.) A point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect.
Crossing (n.)A junction where one street or road crosses another [syn: intersection, crossroad, crossway, crossing, carrefour].
Crossing (n.) A path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other [syn: crossing, crosswalk, crossover].
Crossing (n.) (Genetics) The act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids [syn: hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing].
Crossing (n.) A voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean).
Crossjack (n.) (Naut.) The lowest
square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
Crossjack (n.) The lowermost sail on a mizzenmast [syn:
crossjack, mizzen course].
Crosslegged (a.) Having the legs crossed.
Crosslet (n.) A small cross. -- Spenser.
Crosslet (n.) A crucible. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Crosslet (a.) (Her.) Crossed again; -- said of a cross the arms of which are crossed. See {Cross-crosslet.
Crossly (adv.) Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
Crossly (adv.) In an ill-natured manner; "she looked at her husband crossly" [syn: crossly, grouchily, grumpily].
Crossness (n.) The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.
Crossness (n.) An irritable petulant feeling [syn: irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance, choler].
Crossness (n.) A disposition to be ill-tempered [syn: crabbiness, crabbedness, crossness].
Crossopterygian (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii.
Crossopterygian (n.) (Zool.) One of the Crossopterygii.
Crossopterygian (n.) Any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form [syn: crossopterygian, lobefin, lobe-finned fish].
Crossopterygii (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir ({Polypterus). See Brachioganoidei.
Crossopterygii (n.) Fishes having paired fins resembling limbs and regarded as ancestral to amphibians [syn: Crossopterygii, subclass Crossopterygii].
Crosspatch (n.) An ill-natured person. [Colloq.] "Crosspatch, draw the latch." -- Mother Goose.
Crosspatch (n.) A bad-tempered person [syn: grouch, grump, crank, churl, crosspatch].
Cross-pawl (n.) (Shipbuilding) Same as Cross-spale.
Crosspiece (n.) A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.
Crosspiece (n.) (Naut.) A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts.
Crosspiece (n.) A horizontal beam that extends across something [syn: trave, traverse, crossbeam, crosspiece].
Crosspiece (n.) A transverse brace.
Cross-purpose (n.) A counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory.
Cross-purpose (n.) pl. A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. -- Pepys.
To be at cross-purposes, To misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons.
Cross-purpose (n.) A contrary aim; "at cross-purposes."
Cross-questioned (imp. & p. p.) of Cross-question.
Cross-questioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cross question.
Cross-question (v. t.) To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.
Cross-question (n.) A question asked in cross-examination.
Cross-reading (n.) The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.