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To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual of the same species.

ions of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons.

driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another. Crosscut saw. (a) A saw, the teeth of which are so set as to adapt it for sawing wood crosswise of the grain rather than lengthwise. (b) A saw managed by two men, one at each end, for cutting large logs crosswise.…

In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle.

A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road.

One who crucifies; one who subjects himself or another to a painful trial.

A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a.

ntest; -- a phrase borrowed from the practice of cudgel players, who lay one cudgel over another when the contest is ended. -- To take up cudgels for, to engage in a contest in behalf of (some one or something).

To become healed. One desperate grief cures with another's languish. Shak.

. . . is an amusement of the winter, and played on the ice, by sliding from one mark to another great stones of 40 to 70 pounds weight, of a hemispherical form, with an iron or wooden handle at top. The object of the player is to lay his stone as near to the mark as possible, to guard that of his partner, which has be…

Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation. The priest shall write these curses in a book. Num. v. 23. Curses, like chickens, come home to roost. Old Proverb.

Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.

To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles.

A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert. [Colloq.] One excels at a plan or the titlepage, another works away at the body of the book, and the therd is a dab at an index. Goldsmith.

recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.

d in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask. Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving. Ure.

ndance, to come and go obsequiously; to be or remain in waiting, at the beck and call of another, with a view to please or gain favor. A man of his place, and so near our favor, To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure. Shak.

That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability. Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt. Shak. When you run in debt, you give to another power over your liberty. Fran…

ff gently, as liquor, so as not to disturb the sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine.

of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.