CPage 506
- English Word Crossbeak Definition Same as Crossbill.
- English Word Crossbeam Definition A girder.
- English Word Crossbeam Definition A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.
- English Word Crossbill Definition A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit.
- English Word Crossbill Definition A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak.
- English Word Crossbite Definition A deception; a cheat.
- English Word Crossbite Definition To deceive; to trick; to gull.
- English Word Crossbones Definition 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.
- English Word Crossbow Definition A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.
- English Word Crossbower Definition A crossbowman.
- English Word Crossbowman Definition One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.
- English Word Crossbred Definition Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
- English Word Crossbreed Definition 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.
- English Word Crossbreed Definition Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.
- English Word Crosscut Definition To cut across or through; to intersect.
- English Word Crosscut Definition A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.
- English Word Crosscut Definition A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.
- English Word Crossed Definition of Cross
- English Word Crossette Definition A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow.
- English Word Crossette Definition The shoulder of a joggled keystone.
- English Word Crossfish Definition A starfish.
- English Word Crossflow Definition To flow across, or in a contrary direction.
- English Word Crossgrained Definition Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing.
- English Word Crossgrained Definition Perverse; untractable; contrary.
- English Word Crosshatching Definition In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle.
- English Word Crosshead Definition 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.
- English Word Crossing Definition of Cross
- English Word Crossing Definition The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean.
- English Word Crossing Definition The act of making the sign of the cross.
- English Word Crossing Definition The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.