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Baldric :: Baldric (n.) A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt..

Transom :: Transom (n.) A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion..

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..

Trestletree :: Trestletree (n.) One of two strong bars of timber, fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the masthead, to support the crosstrees and the frame of the top; -- generally used in the plural..

Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.

Centaur :: Centaur (n.) A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross.

Cruciform :: Cruciform (a.) Cross-shaped; (Bot.) having four parts arranged in the form of a cross.

Crossette :: Crossette (n.) The shoulder of a joggled keystone.

Redirect :: Redirect (a.) Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination..

Croslet :: Croslet (n.) See Crosslet.

Network :: Network (n.) A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes between them..

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..

Intersecant :: Intersecant (a.) Dividing into parts; crossing; intersecting.

Pomme :: Pomme (a.) Having the ends terminating in rounded protuberances or single balls; -- said of a cross.

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

Crosscut :: Crosscut (v. t.) To cut across or through; to intersect.

Crucifixion :: Crucifixion (n.) The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross.

Portate :: Portate (a.) Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate..

Crosshead :: Crosshead (n.) A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead..

Moline :: Moline (n.) The crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind.

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