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Any work of wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also latticework. The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice. Judg. v. 28.

A system of bars crossing in the middle to form braces between principal longitudinal members, as of a strut.

a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.

To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.

ection. H. Sweet. Level line (Shipbuilding), the outline of a section which is horizontal crosswise, and parallel with the rabbet of the keel lengthwise. Level surface (Physics), an equipotential surface at right angles at every point to the lines of force.

A slap; a quick stroke.[Colloq.] "A lick across the face." Dryden.

the action of grinding machinery according to the speed. -- Lift wall (Canal Lock), the cross wall at the head of the lock.

upon, at, in. When she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. Gen. xxiv. 64. Slowly rode across a withered heath, And lighted at a ruined inn. Tennyson.

A mongrel, as a cross between the mastiff and hound.

A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.

the East Indies and Southern Asia. The common East Indian linsang (P. gracilis) is white, crossed by broad, black bands. The Guinea linsang (Porana Richardsonii) is brown with black spots.

an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.

Adorned with lions heads; having arms terminating in lions' heads; -- said of a cross. [Written also leonced.]

The ordinary bow, not mounted on a stock; -- so called in distinction from the crossbow when both were used as weapons of war. Also, sometimes, such a bow of about the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one. To draw the longbow, to tell large stories.

mbers of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States.

ulously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality. Hawthorne. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness, n.

Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross. Gray.

One of a mongrel breed of dogs said to have been a cross between the sheep dog, greyhound, and spaniel. It hunts game silently, by scent, and is often used by poachers.

ivisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.

; -- so called because the apparent path among the stars the stars if produced back wards crosses the constellation Lyra.