Definition of crossing

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Crossing (v. t.) The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.

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Trones :: Trones (n.) A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused..
Grade :: Grade (n.) The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade..
Lacing :: Lacing (n.) A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut..
Interbreed :: Interbreed (v. t. & i.) To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants.
Large :: Large (superl.) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter..
Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean..
Checker :: Checker (n.) To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors..
Crisscross :: Crisscross (adv.) In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways.
Cancellate :: Cancellate (v. t.) Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles..
Saltirewise :: Saltirewise (adv.) In the manner of a saltire; -- said especially of the blazoning of a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister, and crossing at the center..
Byard :: Byard (n.) A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines..
Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street.
Intercrossing :: Intercrossing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intercros.
Port :: Port (v. t.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms..
Lattice :: Lattice (n.) Any work of wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also latticework..
Rynd :: Rynd (n.) A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone by which the stone is supported on the spindle.
Intersecant :: Intersecant (a.) Dividing into parts; crossing; intersecting.
Window :: Window (n.) A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
Bull Terrier :: Bull terrier () A breed of dogs obtained by crossing the bulldog and the terrier.
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..
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