Word Meanings - CRUCIFEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bearing a cross.

• Crosshead
  A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the conne
• Crossroad
  A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road.
• Crosswise
  In the form of a cross; across; transversely.
• 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.
• Bearing cloth
  A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
• Crossbar
  A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down.
• Crosscut
  To cut across or through; to intersect.
• Crossjack
  The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
• Crossrow
  The alphabet; -- called also Christcross-row.
• Crosswort
  A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.
• 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.]
• Bearing rein
  A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.
• Crossbarred
  Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars.
• Cross-days
  The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.
• CRosslegged
  Having the legs crossed.
• Crossruff
  The play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw.
• BEARBERE
  Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare). [Obs. except in North of Eng. and Scot.]
• CROSSDAYS
  The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.

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