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CROSSCUT n.
, v. t. To cut across or through; to intersect.
CROSSGRAINED a. 2 definitions
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.
CROSSING n.
Intersection, as of two paths or roads.
CROSSLY adv.
Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
CROSSROAD n.
A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road.
CROSSWISE adv.
In the form of a cross; across; transversely. Longfellow.
CROTCHET n. 2 definitions
An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
CRUCIAL a.
Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.
CRUSH v. 2 definitions
hat which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut. Lev. xxii. 24. The ass . . . thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall. Num. xxii. 25.
CRUSTACEOLOGIST n.
One versed in crustaceology; a crustalogist.
CRUSTALOGIST n.
One versed in crustalogy.
CRUTCH v.
To support on crutches; to prop up. [R.] Two fools that crutch their feeble sense on verse. Dryden.
CRYSTALLOGRAPHER n.
One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography.
CULVERT n.
A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.
CUNEIFORM; CUNIFORM a.
Pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge-shaped characters, or the inscriptions in them. "A cuneiform scholar." Rawlinson.
CUSTOMER n.
e customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths. Hakluyt.
CUT v. 3 definitions
To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles.
DACTYLIC a.
Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.
DACTYLIST n.
A writer of dactylic verse.
DEAD a.
nce for leeway, etc., without the aid of celestial observations. -- Dead rise, the transverse upward curvature of a vessel's floor. -- Dead rising, an elliptical line drawn on the sheer plan to determine the sweep of the floorheads throughout the ship's length. -- Dead-Sea apple. See under Apple. -- Dead set. See u…
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