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Plyer :: Plyer (n.) A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's cross.

Crucial :: Crucial (a.) Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test..

Stonebrash :: Stonebow (n.) A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below)..

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

Harmotome :: Harmotome (n.) A hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta, occurring usually in white cruciform crystals; cross-stone..

Scratchback :: Scratchback (n.) A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons..

Driver :: Driver (n.) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.

Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street.

Crossbred :: Crossbred (a.) Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.

Stemson :: Stemple (n.) A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step..

Dam :: Dam (n.) A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water..

Wide :: Wide (superl.) Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right angles to that of length; not narrow; broad; as, wide cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry..

Cross-examiner :: Cross-examiner (n.) One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.

Bail :: Bail (n.) The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.

Tenacity :: Tenacity (n.) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture..

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke..

Viaduct :: Viaduct (n.) A structure of considerable magnitude, usually with arches or supported on trestles, for carrying a road, as a railroad, high above the ground or water; a bridge; especially, one for crossing a valley or a gorge. Cf. Trestlework..

Cross :: Cross (prep.) Athwart; across.

Cross-vaulting :: Cross-vaulting (n.) Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.

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