Definition of cross

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Cross (n.) Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.

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Shove :: Shove (v. t.) To drive along by the direct and continuous application of strength; to push; especially, to push (a body) so as to make it move along the surface of another body; as, to shove a boat on the water; to shove a table across the floor..
Trajection :: Trajection (n.) The act of trajecting; a throwing or casting through or across; also, emission..
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..
Stretcher :: Stretcher (n.) A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
Crociary :: Crociary (n.) One who carries the cross before an archbishop.
Cross-purpose :: Cross-purpose (n.) A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas..
Balister :: Balister (n.) A crossbow.
Cross :: Cross (v. t.) To interfere and cut off; to debar.
Arcubalister :: Arcubalister (n.) A crossbowman; one who used the arcubalist.
Screed :: Screed (n.) A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat..
Cross :: Cross (n.) A line drawn across or through another line.
Frumpish :: Frumpish (a.) Cross-tempered; scornful.
Ringtail :: Ringtail (n.) A bird having a distinct band of color across the tail, as the hen harrier..
Go :: Go (v. i.) To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New York..
Emplecton :: Emplecton (n.) A kind of masonry in which the outer faces of the wall are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders..
Cross-banded :: Cross-banded (a.) A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surface of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface..
Ring-tailed :: Ring-tailed (a.) Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color.
Chasuble :: Chasuble (n.) The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle..
Labarum :: Labarum (n.) The standard adopted by the Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two letters (CHR) of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various modifications of this standard..
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..
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