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Intercrossing :: Intercrossing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intercros.

Transom :: Transom (n.) One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.

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..

Breastplate :: Breastplate (n.) A strap that runs across a horse's breast.

Agnus Dei :: Agnus Dei () A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag.

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..

Crossway :: Crossway (n.) See Crossroad.

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.].

Stonebrash :: Stonebow (n.) A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.

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

Lute :: Lute (n.) A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or sides, arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed..

Crossopterygian :: Crossopterygian (n.) One of the Crossopterygii.

Tut :: Tut (n.) An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.

Spale :: Spale (n.) A strengthening cross timber.

Carbonade :: Carbonade (v. t.) To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil.

Counterchanged :: Counterchanged (a.) Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure..

Trestle :: Trestle (n.) A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like..

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke..

Nick :: Nick (v. t.) To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry ir higher)..

Clamp :: Clamp (n.) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen..

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