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o in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field.

Formerly, in the British service, a gunner or a gunner's mate; one of the soldiers in a train of artillery, who assisted the gunners in loading, firing, and sponging the guns. [Obs.]

See Matross. [Obs.]

Too gross.

A cross formed of two strips of different metals, to illustrate the Peltier effect.

To cross a second time.

ember or worker of such a society; -- so called from the badge of neutrality; the Geneva cross.

Not favored by the stars; ill-fated. [Poetic] Shak. Such in my star-crossed destiny. Massinger.

Trousers. [Obs.] Shak.

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

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

To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.

In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.

Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv.

Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment.

eculations. Adventurer. His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity. Fuller. A man gross . . . and addicted to low company. Macaulay.

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.