CPage 758
- English Word Cross-stitch Definition A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other.
- English Word Cross-stone Definition See Harmotome, and Staurotide.
- English Word Cross-tail Definition A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
- English Word Cross-tie Definition A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.
- English Word Cross-tining Definition A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges.
- English Word Cross-vaulting Definition Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
- English Word Cross-week Definition Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions.
- English Word Crossbar Definition 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.
- English Word Crossbarred Definition Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars.
- English Word Crossbarred Definition Made or patterned in lines crossing each other; as, crossbarred muslin.
- English Word Crossbeak Definition Same as Crossbill.
- English Word Crossbeam Definition A girder.
- English Word Crossbeam Definition A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.
- English Word Crossbill Definition A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit.
- English Word Crossbill Definition A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak.
- English Word Crossbite Definition A deception; a cheat.
- English Word Crossbite Definition To deceive; to trick; to gull.
- English Word Crossbones Definition 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.
- English Word Crossbow Definition A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.
- English Word Crossbower Definition A crossbowman.