Word Meanings - CROSS-QUESTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.

• CROSSBEARER
  A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.
• Closereefed
  Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail.
• 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.
• Cross-birth
  Any preternatural labor, in which the body 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-examine
  To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party.
• Crossopterygian
  Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii.
• Cross-staff
  An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies.
• Examinership
  The office or rank of an examiner.
• Subjectist
  One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
• 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.
• Close-stool
  A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.
• CROSSQUESTION
  To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.
• Crossbite
  A deception; a cheat.
• 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.
• Question
  The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.
• Subjective
  Of or pertaining to a subject.

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