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Crossflow :: Crossflow (v. i.) To flow across, or in a contrary direction..

Arbalister :: Arbalister (n.) A crossbowman.

Strass :: Strapwork (n.) A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced..

Transept :: Transept (n.) The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transepts..

Curvirostral :: Curvirostral (a.) Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill..

Crossbow :: Crossbow (n.) A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock..

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

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

Cross-stitch :: Cross-stitch (n.) A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other..

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..

Lorettine :: Lorettine (n.) One of a order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States..

Athwart :: Athwart (adv.) Across the course; so as to thwart; perversely.

Batardeau :: Batardeau (n.) A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) Anything that traverses, or crosses..

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)..

Crossbeam :: Crossbeam (n.) A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor..

Frampoid :: Frampoid (a.) Peevish; cross; vexatious; quarrelsome.

Crossbreed :: Crossbreed (n.) Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.

Crucial :: Crucial (a.) Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision..

Seesaw :: Seesaw (n.) Same as Crossruff.

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