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A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other. "Tent and cross- stitch." Sir W. Scott. -- Cross"-stitch`, v. t. & i.

To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.

One who digs ditches.

The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback.

Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh. [Local, Eng.]

Ghastly; preternatural. Same as Eldritch. [Scot. & Local, Eng.]

A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.

A vetch. [Obs.]

Sharpened to a point; pointed. Cross fitché, a cross having the lower arm pointed.

Fitché. [Also fiched.]

The European polecat (Putorius foetidus). See Polecat.

Having fitches or vetches.

The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon. Swift.

The simplest stitch in knitting.

rallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.

ng a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief.

angled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling. Atoms . . . which at length hitched together. South.

See Hatchel.

To bury in, or cast into, a ditch. Bp. Hall.

. An ideal personification of the typical Russian or of the Russian people; -- used as "John Bull" is used for the typical Englishman.