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.

• 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
• 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.
• Callisection
  Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection.
• Cross-question
  To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.
• Charmed
  of Charm
• Crossway
  See Crossroad.

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