CPage 507
- English Word Crossing Definition Intersection, as of two paths or roads.
- English Word Crossing Definition A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street.
- English Word Crossing Definition Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction.
- English Word Crossjack Definition The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
- English Word CRosslegged Definition Having the legs crossed.
- English Word Crosslet Definition A small cross.
- English Word Crosslet Definition A crucible.
- English Word Crosslet Definition Crossed again; -- said of a cross the arms of which are crossed. SeeCross-crosslet.
- English Word Crossly Definition Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
- English Word Crossnath Definition To shade by means of crosshatching.
- English Word Crossness Definition The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.
- English Word Crossopterygian Definition Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii.
- English Word Crossopterygian Definition One of the Crossopterygii.
- English Word Crossopterygii Definition An order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir (Polypterus). See Brachioganoidei.
- English Word Crosspatch Definition An ill-natured person.
- English Word Crosspiece Definition A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.
- English Word Crosspiece Definition A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts.
- English Word Crossroad Definition A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road.
- English Word Crossrow Definition The alphabet; -- called also Christcross-row.
- English Word Crossrow Definition A row that crosses others.
- English Word Crossruff Definition The play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw.
- English Word Crosstrees Definition Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."
- English Word Crossway Definition See Crossroad.
- English Word Crosswise Definition In the form of a cross; across; transversely.
- English Word Crosswort Definition A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.
- English Word Crotalaria Definition A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox.
- English Word Crotaline Definition Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or Rattlesnake family.
- English Word Crotalo Definition A Turkish musical instrument.
- English Word Crotalum Definition A kind of castanet used by the Corybantes.
- English Word Crotalus Definition A genus of poisonous serpents, including the rattlesnakes.