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Definition of cross

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Cross (n.) The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom..

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Cross-reading :: Cross-reading (n.) The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas..

Thwart :: Thwart (a.) Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.

Arbalist :: Arbalist (n.) A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc..

Port :: Port (v. t.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms..

Crossbeak :: Crossbeak (n.) Same as Crossbill.

Reef-band :: Reef-band (n.) A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for reefing are made.

Trajection :: Trajection (n.) The act of trajecting; a throwing or casting through or across; also, emission..

Gnarly :: Gnarly (a.) Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained.

Stretch :: Stretch (v. i.) To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles..

Evener :: Evener (n.) In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast..

Hatching :: Hatching (n.) A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching..

Prod :: Prod (n.) A light kind of crossbow; -- in the sense, often spelled prodd..

Cancellated :: Cancellated (a.) Crossbarred; marked with cross lines.

Y :: Y (n.) A portion of track consisting of two diverging tracks connected by a cross track.

Cross :: Cross (n.) A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above..

Windlass :: Windlass (n.) An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow..

Snare :: Snare (n.) The gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.

Cross-examine :: Cross-examine (v. t.) To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party..

Sill :: Sill (n.) A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.

Cross :: Cross (v. t.) To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with.