Definition of crossing

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Crossing (v. t.) A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street.

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Slow :: Slow (v. i.) To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge..
Retiform :: Retiform (a.) Composed of crossing lines and interstices; reticular; netlike; as, the retiform coat of the eye..
Intersecant :: Intersecant (a.) Dividing into parts; crossing; intersecting.
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..
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..
Rynd :: Rynd (n.) A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone by which the stone is supported on the spindle.
Decussation :: Decussation (n.) Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc..
Crossbarred :: Crossbarred (a.) Made or patterned in lines crossing each other; as, crossbarred muslin..
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..
Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) The act of making the sign of the cross.
Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.
Bridgehead :: Bridgehead (n.) A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tete-de-pont..
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.
Crossing :: Crossing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cros.
Window :: Window (n.) A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
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..
Cancellate :: Cancellate (v. t.) Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles..
Checker :: Checker (n.) To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors..
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..
Bar :: Bar (n.) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
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