CPage 755
- English Word Crosiered Definition Bearing a crosier.
- English Word Croslet Definition See Crosslet.
- English Word Cross Definition A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals.
- English Word Cross Definition The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom.
- English Word Cross Definition Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.
- English Word Cross Definition 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.
- English Word Cross Definition 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.
- English Word Cross Definition 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.
- English Word Cross Definition A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above.
- English Word Cross Definition The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write.
- English Word Cross Definition Church lands.
- English Word Cross Definition A line drawn across or through another line.
- English Word Cross Definition A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.
- English Word Cross Definition An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- English Word Cross Definition A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle.
- English Word Cross Definition Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.
- English Word Cross Definition Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse.
- English Word Cross Definition Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.
- English Word Cross Definition 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.
- English Word Cross Definition Athwart; across.