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Peevish; cross; vexatious; quarrelsome.

• CROSSBEARER
  A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.
• 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-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.
• 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.
• CROSSQUESTION
  To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.
• 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.
• CROSSREADING
  The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.
• Crossbowman
  One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.
• Crossflow
  To flow across, or in a contrary direction.
• Cross-purpose
  A counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory.
• Cross-tining
  A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges.
• 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.

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