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

Reticulated :: Reticulated (a.) Having veins, fibers, or lines crossing like the threads or fibers of a network; as, a reticulate leaf; a reticulated surface; a reticulated wing of an insect..

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..

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

Lacing :: Lacing (n.) A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut..

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..

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..

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..

Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean..

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

Network :: Network (n.) A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes between them..

Cross-stitch :: Cross-stitch (n.) A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other..

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..

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

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

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

Transatlantic :: Transatlantic (a.) Crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

Windowy :: Windowy (a.) Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window.

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..

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

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