Word Meanings - CHRISTCROSSROW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The alphabet; -- formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm. From infant conning of the Christcross-row. Wordsworth.

• Crossing
  of Cross
• CROSSBEARER
  A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.
• Crossbreed
  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.
• CROSSPURPOSE
  A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons.
• Crossgrained
  Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing.
• Callipers
  See Calipers.
• Cross-questioning
  of Cross-question
• Cross-vaulting
  Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
• Connate
  Born with another; being of the same birth.
• Infant
  A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age.
• Connector
  One who, or that which, connects
• Practically
  In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless.
• Connotation
  The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
• Writing
  of Write
• Cross-armed
  With arms crossed.
• CROSSBIRTH
  Any preternatural labor, in whiche the boly 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.
• Cross-bun
  A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday.
• CROSSQUESTION
  To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.

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