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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.

• 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.
• CROSSFERTILIZE
  To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual of the same species.
• 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.
• 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.
• Solidifiable
  Capable of being solidified.

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