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A partition, covering, or frame of parallel or cross bars; a latticework resembling a window grate; as, the grating of a prison or convent.

In a gross or indelicate manner. [Obs.] You talk greasily; your lips grow foul. Shak.

The quality or state of being greasy, oiliness; unctuousness; grossness.

Gross; indelicate; indecent. [Obs.] Marston.

The whole.; the gross; as, a contract to build a ship by the great.

reek Church is governed by patriarchs and is called also the Byzantine Church. -- Greek cross. See Illust. (10) Of Cross. -- Greek Empire. See Byzantine Empire. -- Greek fire, a combustible composition which burns under water, the constituents of which are supposed to be asphalt, with niter and sulphur. Ure. -- Gre…

A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.

A frame of woodwork across a beach to accumulate and retain shingle. [Eng.] Weale.

Of a coarse texture; -- applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise.

Cross; sulky; sullen. [Colloq.]

lignments in tactics. Farrow. Guide bar (Mach.), the part of a steam engine on which the crosshead slides, and by which the motion of the piston rod is kept parallel to the cylinder, being a substitute for the parallel motion; -- called also guide, and slide bar. -- Guide block (Steam Engine), a block attached in to t…

ugh crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions.

ils, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle. With busy hammers closing rivets up. Shak.

A ford or passage across a river or swamp.

A hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta, occurring usually in white cruciform crystals; cross-stone.

An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown.

To cross with lines in a peculiar manneHatching. Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched. Chapman. Those hatching strokes of the pencil. Dryden.

ion in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching.

he cables. Athwart hawse. See under Athwart. -- Foul hawse, a hawse in which the cables cross each other, or are twisted together. -- Hawse block, a block used to stop up a hawse hole at sea; -- called also hawse plug. -- Hawse hole, a hole in the bow of a ship, through which a cable passes. -- Hawse piece, one of…

Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.