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Across; athwart. [Obs.] Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. Spenser.

ularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across.

A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag.

Intention; purpose; design; scheme. How oft ambitious aims are crossed! Pope.

Pertaining to or designating the humid division of the Transition zone extending across the northern United States from New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.

Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.

A recently invented instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See Almucantar.

By the length of, as distinguished from across. "Along the lowly lands." Dryden. The kine . . . went along the highway. 1 Sam. vi. 12.

A scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.

sculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins.

under Ice. -- Anchor ring. (Math.) Same as Annulus, 2 (b). -- Anchor stock (Naut.), the crossbar at the top of the shank at right angles to the arms. -- The anchor comes home, when it drags over the bottom as the ship drifts. -- Foul anchor, the anchor when it hooks, or is entangled with, another anchor, or with a…

Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross. [Sometimes spelt ancred.]

The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter. [Obs.] Gwilt.

ork, esp. for protecting an angle of a wall. -- Angle brace, Angle tie (Carp.), a brace across an interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse and securing the two side pieces together. Knight. -- Angle iron (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having one or more angles, used for forming the corners, o…

A tau cross with a loop at the top, used as an attribute or sacred emblem, symbolizing generation or enduring life. Called also crux ansata.

Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross.

A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

A crossbowman. [Obs.] Speed.

A crossbow. See Arbalest.

A crossbow. Fosbroke.