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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..

Meeting :: Meeting (n.) A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers..

Interbreed :: Interbreed (v. t. & i.) To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants.

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..

Diagonal :: Diagonal (a.) Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides.

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

Sable :: Sable (n.) The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.

Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) Intersection, as of two paths or roads..

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..

Fare :: Fare (v.) The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway..

Turnpike :: Turnpike (n.) A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of beasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. See Turnstile, 1..

Window :: Window (n.) A figure formed of lines crossing each other.

Retiform :: Retiform (a.) Composed of crossing lines and interstices; reticular; netlike; as, the retiform coat of the eye..

Overthwart :: Overthwart (a.) Crossing in kind or disposition; perverse; adverse; opposing.

Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) The act of making the sign of the cross.

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..

Hatching :: Hatching (n.) A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching..

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..

Elvan :: Elvan (a.) Of or pertaining to certain veins of feldspathic or porphyritic rock crossing metalliferous veins in the mining districts of Cornwall; as, an elvan course..

Netting :: Netting (n.) A piece of network; any fabric, made of cords, threads, wires, or the like, crossing one another with open spaces between..

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