Word Meanings - CROSS-BUN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday.

• 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.]
• Crossbow
  A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.
• 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.
• Intendant
  One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.
• Marketableness
  Quality of being marketable.
• CROSSDAYS
  The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.
• CROSSSTITCH
  A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other. "Tent and cross- stitch." Sir W. Scott. -- Cross"-stitch`, v. t. & i.
• Crossbower
  A crossbowman.
• Crossfish
  A starfish.
• Crosspiece
  A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.
• Cross-tie
  A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.
• Intendedly
  Intentionally.
• Marketer
  One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
• CROSSSTONE
  See Harmotome, and Staurotide.
• Crossbowman
  One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.

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