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A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

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.

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

nder 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 c…

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.

rk, 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, or…

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.

of human feelings or passions to God, or to a polytheistic deity. In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Hare.

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.

A crossbowman; one who used the arcubalist. Camden.

Across; from side to side of. Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson.

Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit. There was not an atom of water. Sir J. Ross.

Hoisted up and ready to be swayed across; -- said of yards.