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Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure.

Diagonal :: Diagonal (n.) A member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel..

Carbonade :: Carbonade (v. t.) To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil.

Transvolation :: Transvolation (n.) The act of flying beyond or across.

Cross :: Cross (v. t.) To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t..

Over :: Over (adv.) From one side to another; from side to side; across; crosswise; as, a board, or a tree, a foot over, i. e., a foot in diameter..

Browpost :: Browpost (n.) A beam that goes across a building.

Saddled :: Saddled (a.) Having a broad patch of color across the back, like a saddle; saddle-backed..

Bandolier :: Bandolier (n.) A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt..

Phoneidoscope :: Phoneidoscope (n.) An instrument for studying the motions of sounding bodies by optical means. It consists of a tube across the end of which is stretched a film of soap solution thin enough to give colored bands, the form and position of which are affected by sonorous vibrations..

Transit :: Transit (n.) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary..

Athwart :: Athwart (adv.) Across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely..

Shove :: Shove (v. t.) To drive along by the direct and continuous application of strength; to push; especially, to push (a body) so as to make it move along the surface of another body; as, to shove a boat on the water; to shove a table across the floor..

Hooke''s Gearing :: Hooke's gearing () Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle..

Subtepid :: Subtense (a.) A line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; as, the subtense of an arc..

Thwart :: Thwart (prep.) Across; athwart.

Backwater :: Backwater (n.) Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar..

Transplace :: Transplace (v. t.) To remove across some space; to put in an opposite or another place.

Groin :: Groin (n.) A frame of woodwork across a beach to accumulate and retain shingle.

Viz-cacha :: Viz-cacha (n.) A large burrowing South American rodent (Lagostomus trichodactylus) allied to the chinchillas, but much larger. Its fur is soft and rather long, mottled gray above, white or yellowish white beneath. There is a white band across the muzzle, and a dark band on each cheek. It inhabits grassy plains, and is noted for its extensive burrows and for heaping up miscellaneous articles at the mouth of its burrows. Called also biscacha, bizcacha, vischacha, vishatscha..

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