Word Meanings - CROSSWEEK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions.

• Cross-examiner
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• Crossopterygii
  An order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir (Polypterus). See Brachioganoidei.
• Cross-stitch
  A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other.
• CROSSREADING
  The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.
• Crossbite
  A deception; a cheat.
• Cross-eye
  See Strabismus.
• Crosspatch
  An ill-natured person.
• Cross-stone
  See Harmotome, and Staurotide.
• CROSSBUTTOCK
  A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse.
• CROSSSPALECROSSSPALL
  One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross- pawl.
• Crossbones
  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.
• Cross-eyed
  Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.
• Cross-pawl
  Same as Cross-spale.
• Cross-tail
  A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
• CROSSCROSSLET
  A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.
• CROSSSPRINGER
  One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. Note: [See Illustr. of Groined vault.]
• Crossbower
  A crossbowman.

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