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ons, do and did are in common use. I do not wish to see them; what do you think Did Cæsar cross the Tiber He did not. "Do you love me" Shak. (d) Do, as an auxiliary, is supposed to have been first used before imperatives. It expresses entreaty or earnest request; as, do help me. In the imperative mood, but not in the i…

o the action. Stephen. -- Double point (Geom.), a point of a curve at which two branches cross each other. Conjugate or isolated points of a curve are called double points, since they possess most of the properties of double points (see Conjugate). They are also called acnodes, and those points where the branches of t…

The bar, or crosspiece, of a carriage, to which the singletrees are attached.

One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

lfully, or nicely; to fit ingeniously or complexly. He put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed . . . that it was indeed a very curious show. Burke.

A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.

Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from fine cloth, and uniting the cross threads, to form a pattern.

A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.

Same as Crossette.

yson. Eaves board (Arch.), an arris fillet, or a thick board with a feather edge, nailed across the rafters at the eaves of a building, to raise the lower course of slates a little, or to receive the lowest course of tiles; -- called also eaves catch and eaves lath. -- Eaves channel, Eaves gutter, Eaves trough. Same 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.

aces of the wall are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders. [R.] Weale.

ough. Chaucer. He pricketh endelong the large space. Chaucer. To thrust the raft endlong across the moat. Sir W. Scott.

To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. [R.] Thomson.

esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off above the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.

pe out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.

y the Eskimos to draw sledges. It closely resembles the gray wolf, with which it is often crossed.

s, a star which has four straight and four wavy rays. -- Estoile of four points. Same as Cross estoilé, under Cross.

In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.

xamination (Law), that examination which is made of a witness by a party calling him. -- Cross-examination, that made by the opposite party. -- Reëxamination, or Re-direct examination, that made by a party calling a witness, after, and upon matters arising out of, the cross- examination.