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.
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.) 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.
Cross (n.) 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.
Cross (n.) Church lands.
Cross (n.) A line drawn across or through another line.
Cross (n.) A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.
Cross (n.) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
Cross (n.) A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle.
Cross (a.) Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.
Cross (a.) Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse.
Cross (a.) Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.
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 (prep.) Athwart; across.
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.
Cross (v. t.) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
Cross (v. t.) To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with.
Cross (v. t.) To interfere and cut off; to debar.
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.
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.
Cross (v. i.) To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.
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.
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.
Crossbarred (a.) Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars.
Crossbarred (a.) Made or patterned in lines crossing each other; as, crossbarred muslin.
Crossbeak (n.) Same as Crossbill.
Crossbeam (n.) A girder.
Crossbeam (n.) A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.
Cross-bearer (n.) A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.
Crossbill () A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit.
Crossbill (n.) A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak.
Cross-birth (n.) 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.
Crossbite (b. t.) To deceive; to trick; to gull.
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.
Crossbow (n.) A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.
Crossbower (n.) A crossbowman.
Crossbowman (n.) One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.
Crossbred (a.) Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
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.
Cross-bun (n.) A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday.
Cross-crosslet (n.) 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.) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.
Cross-days (n. pl.) The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.
Crossette (n.) A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow.
Crossette (n.) The shoulder of a joggled keystone.
Cross-examination (n.) The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined. See Examination.
Cross-examined (imp. & p. p.) of Cross-examine
Cross-examining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cross-examine
Cross-examine (v. t.) To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party.
Cross-examiner (n.) One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
Cross-eye (n.) See Strabismus.
Cross-eyed (a.) Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.
Crossfish (n.) A starfish.
Crossflow (v. i.) To flow across, or in a contrary direction.
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.
Crossgrained (a.) Perverse; untractable; contrary.
Crossnath (v. t.) To shade by means of crosshatching.
Crosshatching (n.) In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle.
Crosshead (n.) 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.
Crossing (v. t.) The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean.
Crossing (v. t.) The act of making the sign of the cross.
Crossing (v. t.) The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.
Crossing (v. t.) Intersection, as of two paths or roads.
Crossing (v. t.) A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street.
Crossing (v. t.) Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction.
Crossjack (n.) The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
CRosslegged (a.) Having the legs crossed.
Crosslet (n.) A small cross.
Crosslet (n.) A crucible.
Crosslet (a.) Crossed again; -- said of a cross the arms of which are crossed. SeeCross-crosslet.
Crossly (adv.) Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
Crossness (n.) The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.
Crossopterygian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii.
Crossopterygian (n.) One of the Crossopterygii.
Crossopterygii (n. pl.) An order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir (Polypterus). See Brachioganoidei.
Crosspatch (n.) An ill-natured person.
Cross-pawl (n.) Same as Cross-spale.
Crosspiece (n.) A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.
Crosspiece (n.) A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts.
Cross-purpose (n.) A counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory.
Cross-purpose (n.) A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas.
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-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.