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. |