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A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.

• CROSSFERTILIZE
  To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual of the same species.
• Cross-springer
  One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. [See Illustr. of Groined vault.]
• OBLONGOVATE
  Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.
• Generation
  The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
• Oblongum
  A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis. Cf. Oblatum, and see Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.
• Roundfish
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes.
• Crossbill
  A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit.
• Solidate
  To make solid or firm.
• Cross-examining
  of Cross-examine
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• Crossness
  The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.
• Crossopterygian
  Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii.
• CROSSGARNET
  A hinge having one strap perpendicular and the other strap horizontal giving it the form of an Egyptian or T cross.
• Cross-staff
  An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies.
• PARALLELOGRAMMICPARALLELOGRAMMICAL
  Having the properties of a parallelogram. [R.]
• Generative
  Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
• Parallelogram
  A right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel, and consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles.
• Roundhead
  A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
• Section
  The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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