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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..

Crisscross :: Crisscross (v. t.) To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks..

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

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..

Line :: Line (n.) The equator; -- usually called the line, or equinoctial line; as, to cross the line..

Subtepid :: Subtense (a.) A line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; as, the subtense of an arc..

Crossrow :: Crossrow (n.) A row that crosses others.

Spica :: Spica (n.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley..

Gammadion :: Gammadion (n.) A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot..

Overland :: Overland (adv.) By, upon, or across, land..

Cross-examination :: Cross-examination (n.) The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined. See Examination.

Riffle :: Riffle (n.) A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple..

Siding :: Siding (n.) The thickness of a rib or timber, measured, at right angles with its side, across the curved edge; as, a timber having a siding of ten inches..

Carbonado :: Carbonado (n.) Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop..

Crossrow :: Crossrow (n.) The alphabet; -- called also Christcross-row.

Halo :: Halo (n.) A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions..

Crossbower :: Crossbower (n.) A crossbowman.

Trance :: Trance (v. t.) To pass over or across; to traverse.

Misword :: Misword (n.) A word wrongly spoken; a cross word.

Cross :: Cross (n.) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.

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