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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 th…

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.

fully, 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.

An allowance or deduction made from the gross veight of goods. Simmonds.

g a net in fishing. Dragged by the cords which through his feet were thrust. Denham. The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. Tennyson. A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.

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

A slut; a vagabond wench. Same as Drossel. [Obs.] Hudibras.

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

See Drossel. [Obs.]

Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward. This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing. Matt. xiii. 15. O, help my weak wit and sharpen my dull tongue. Spenser.

Figuratively, a worthless thing. And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust. Shak.

Same as Crossette.

Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. [Poetic] Lowell.

The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness.

The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.

Gross; low; unrefined. "Her earthy and abhorred commands." Shak.

son. 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 as…

Of or pertaining to certain veins of feldspathic or porphyritic rock crossing metalliferous veins in the mining districts of Cornwall; as, an elvan course.

ces 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.