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of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint. The criminations and recriminations of the adverse parties. Macaulay.

st skillful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's "Traveler"] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the "Dunciad." Macaulay.

Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right. They are a perverse and crooked generation. Deut. xxxii. 5.

In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.

of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.

A gibbet, cosisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals. Nailed to the cross By his own nation. Milton.

A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges. Crabb.

A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down. Russell. Crossbar shot, a projectile which folds into a sphere for loading, but on leaving the gun expands to a cross with a quarter ball at the end of each arm; -…

Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.

Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.

In the form of a cross; across; transversely. Longfellow.

An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.

oom, a large room in a theater, opera house, etc., where the audience may promenade or converse during the intermissions; a foyer. Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush room of the opera at night. Macualay.

One versed in crustaceology; a crustalogist.

One versed in crustalogy.

To support on crutches; to prop up. [R.] Two fools that crutch their feeble sense on verse. Dryden.

One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography.

A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.

Pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge-shaped characters, or the inscriptions in them. "A cuneiform scholar." Rawlinson.

Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.