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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.

rsely 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.

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

A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.

The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean.

The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.

Having the legs crossed.

A small cross. Spenser.

Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.

The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.

Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n.

An order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir (Polypterus). See Brachioganoidei.

An ill-natured person. [Colloq.] "Crosspatch, draw the latch." Mother Goose.

A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.