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Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions.

A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down. Russell. Crossbar shot, a projectile which folds into a sphere for loading, but on leaving the gun expands to a cross with a quarter ball at the end of each arm; -…

Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars. Milton.

Same as Crossbill.

A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.

bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak.

A deeption; a cheat. [Obs.]

A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.

A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.

A crossbowman.[Obs.]

One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.

Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.

A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks.

, v. t. To cut across or through; to intersect.

The implement with which the ball is thrown and caught in the game of lacrosse.

A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow.

A starfish.

To flow across, or in a contrary direction. "His crossflowing course." Milton.

ersely 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.

To shade by means of crosshatching.