To yield harvest.
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A person or animal whose ears are cropped.
Having the ears cropped.
Having the tail cropped.
Having a full crop or belly; satiated.
cut very short; as, her cropped hair.
One that crops.
Sick from excess in eating or drinking.
A brittle cake or other crisp pastry.
In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet.
A ball of minced meat, fowl, rice, vegetables, or other ingredients, often in a thick white sauce, highly seasoned, breaded, and fried; as, a dish of crab croquettes.
Ten millions; as, a crore of rupees (which is nearly $5,000,000).
The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God.
Bearing a crosier.
See Crosslet.
To lie or be athwart.
to create one or a series of cross sections{3} by cutting (an object) into thin slices.
With arms crossed.
A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surface of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface.
A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.
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.
A bun or cake marked with a cross of icing, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday; also, called hot cross bun, even when not hot.
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.
a race over a course including countryside, rather than over roads or prepared paths.
A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.
dealing with or comparing two or more cultures; as, a cross-cultural survey.
The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.
classification according to more than one attribute at the same time.
to dress in the clothes of the other sex.
someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex.
The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined. See Examination.
To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party.
One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
convergent strabismus; a disorder in which one or both eyes turn inward toward the nose rather than directly at the object of vision; crossed eyes.
See Strabismus.
having convergent strabismus. Contrasted with walleyed.
Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.
fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individuals of the same species.
To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual of the same species.
to register as a candidate for more than one political party in the same election.
A hinge having one strap perpendicular and the other strap horizontal giving it the form of an Egyptian or T cross.
to provide cross-references in (a book or other document).
of, relating to, or derived from more than one family of languages; as, cross-linguistic evidence.
to create cross links in; -- of polymeric molecules.
same as cross-link, n.
containing cross-links; -- of polymeric molecules.
to match items from two or more lists.
to crossbreed.
relating to different sense modalities.
ability to integrate information from different sense modalities.
Same as Cross-spale.
to fertilize by transfering pollen.
fertilization by transfer of pollen from the anthers of one flower to the stigma of another.
A counter or opposing purpose; a contrary aim; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory.
To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.
a question asked in cross-examination.
The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.
to refer from one entry to another, as in catalogues, books, and lists.
a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work.
of or pertaining to a cross section; as, a cross-sectional slice.
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.
One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. [See Illustr. of Groined vault.]
An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies.
A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other.
See Harmotome, and Staurotide.
A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.
A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges.
Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions.
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.
Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars.
Same as Crossbill.
A girder.
a member of the House of Commons of Great Britain who does not vote regularly with either the Government or the Opposition.
A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak.
To deceive; to trick; to gull.
A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death.
A weapon, used in discharging arrows or bolts, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.
A crossbowman.
One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.
Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stocks.
a stretch of turbulent water in the sea.
A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.
The implement with which the ball is thrown and caught in the game of lacrosse.
A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow. The shoulder of a joggled keystone.
A starfish.
To flow across, or in a contrary direction.
Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely and irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing.
To shade by means of crosshatching.
In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle.
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 connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.
a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text.
The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean.
a person who stands at a street crossing to assist children to cross the street safely; -- usually used near schools during the times that children are entering or leaving the school.
The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
Having the legs crossed.
Crossed again; -- said of a cross the arms of which are crossed. SeeCross-crosslet.
Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.
Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. One of the Crossopterygii.
An order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir (Polypterus). See Brachioganoidei.
the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis.
An ill-natured person.
A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.
A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road.
The alphabet; -- called also Christcross-row.
The play in bridge or whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw.
Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the /top./
See Crossroad.
In the form of a cross; across; transversely.
A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.
any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made.
A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox.
Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or Rattlesnake family.
A Turkish musical instrument.
A kind of castanet used by the Corybantes.
A genus of poisonous serpents, including the rattlesnakes.
The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively.
Pertaining to the temple; temporal.
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