| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| crossbeak | noun | Same as Crossbill. |
| crossbeam | noun | A girder., A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor. |
| crossbill | A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit., A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak. | |
| crossbite | noun | A deception; a cheat., To deceive; to trick; to gull. |
| crossbred | adjective | Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel. |
| cross-bun | noun | A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday. |
| crossette | noun | A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; — called also ancon, ear, elbow., The shoulder of a joggled keystone. |
| cross-eye | noun | See Strabismus. |
| crossfish | noun | A starfish. |
| crossflow | verb i. | To flow across, or in a contrary direction. |
| crossnath | verb t. | To shade by means of crosshatching. |
| crosshead | noun | 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. |
| crossjack | noun | The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast. |
| crossness | noun | The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor. |
| crossroad | noun | A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road. |
| crossruff | noun | The play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; — called also seesaw. |
| cross-tie | noun | A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place. |
| crosswise | adverb | In the form of a cross; across; transversely. |
| crosswort | noun | A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc. |