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Christcross :: Christcross (n.) The beginning and the ending.

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

Zither :: Zither (n.) An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.].

Slow :: Slow (v. i.) To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge..

Cross :: Cross (n.) An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross; a badge or ornamental device of the general shape of a cross; hence, such an ornament, even when varying considerably from that form; thus, the Cross of the British Order of St. George and St. Michael consists of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it..

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

Rood :: Rood (n.) A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.

Tete-de-pont :: Tete-de-pont (n.) A work thrown up at the end of a bridge nearest the enemy, for covering the communications across a river; a bridgehead..

Racket :: Racket (n.) A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games..

Crossness :: Crossness (n.) The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.

Di- :: Di- () A prefix denoting through; also, between, apart, asunder, across. Before a vowel dia-becomes di-; as, diactinic; dielectric, etc..

Knurl :: Knurl (n.) One who, or that which, is crossgrained..

Leap :: Leap (v. t.) To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch..

Pattee :: Pattee (a.) Narrow at the inner, and very broad at the other, end, or having its arms of that shape; -- said of a cross. See Illust. (8) of Cross..

Hyparterial :: Hyparterial (a.) Situated below an artery; applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off below the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.

Calvary :: Calvary (n.) A cross, set upon three steps; -- more properly called cross calvary..

Target :: Target (n.) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff..

Auger :: Auger (n.) A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge..

Overleap :: Overleap (v. t.) To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore..

Cross-tining :: Cross-tining (n.) A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges..

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