CPage 504
- English Word Cross Definition Church lands.
- English Word Cross Definition A line drawn across or through another line.
- English Word Cross Definition A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.
- English Word Cross Definition An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- English Word Cross Definition A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle.
- English Word Cross Definition Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.
- English Word Cross Definition Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse.
- English Word Cross Definition Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.
- English Word Cross Definition 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.
- English Word Cross Definition Athwart; across.
- English Word Cross Definition To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms.
- English Word Cross Definition To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t.
- English Word Cross Definition To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.
- English Word Cross Definition To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
- English Word Cross Definition To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with.
- English Word Cross Definition To interfere and cut off; to debar.
- English Word Cross Definition To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.
- English Word Cross Definition 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.
- English Word Cross Definition To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.
- English Word Cross Definition To lie or be athwart.
- English Word Cross Definition 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.
- English Word Cross Definition To be inconsistent.
- English Word Cross Definition To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.
- English Word Cross-armed Definition With arms crossed.
- English Word Cross-banded Definition 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.
- English Word Cross-bearer Definition A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.
- English Word Cross-birth Definition 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.
- English Word Cross-bun Definition A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday.
- English Word Cross-crosslet Definition A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.
- English Word Cross-days Definition The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.