Definition of cross

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Cross (n.) Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.

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Windlass :: Windlass (n.) An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow..
Reconvention :: Reconvention (n.) A cross demand; an action brought by the defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge.
Transnatation :: Transnatation (n.) The act of swimming across, as a river..
Cross :: Cross (v. t.) To interfere and cut off; to debar.
Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate..
Trajection :: Trajection (n.) The act of trajecting; a throwing or casting through or across; also, emission..
Gaffle :: Gaffle (n.) A lever to bend crossbows.
Crisscross-row :: Crisscross-row (n.) See Christcross-row.
Frump :: Frump (n.) A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip..
Rhumb :: Rhumb (n.) A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. See Loxodromic..
Bar :: Bar (n.) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
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..
Traject :: Traject (v. t.) To throw or cast through, over, or across; as, to traject the sun's light through three or more cross prisms..
Cross-days :: Cross-days (n. pl.) The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.
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..
Crossing :: Crossing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cros.
Draff :: Draff (n.) A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter..
Tie :: Tie (v. t.) A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature..
Cross :: Cross (v. t.) To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name..
Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.
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