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in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.

A breed of dogs obtained by crossing the bulldog and the terrier.

A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street. He seeks by-streets, and saves the expensive coach. Gay.

A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.

A representation of the crucifixion, consisting of three crosses with the figures of Christ and the thieves, often as large as life, and sometimes surrounded by figures of other personages who were present at the crucifixion.

To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate. A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of ob…

Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles.

Crossbarres; marked with cross lines. Grew.

An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the have of a church, or in a window.

Having a charge in each of the four corners; -- said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself.

A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.

Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop. [Obs.]

To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil. [Obs.] A short-legged hen daintily carbonadoed. Bean. & Fl.

running lengthwise of a ship, from one transverse desk beam to another; also, one of the cross timbers that strengthen a hath; -- usually in pl.

An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc.

ee under Belted, Black. -- Cattle guard, a trench under a railroad track and alongside a crossing (as of a public highway). It is intended to prevent cattle from getting upon the track. -- cattle louse (Zoöl.), any species of louse infecting cattle. There are several species. The Hæmatatopinus eurysternus and H. vitu…

A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross.

ida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton.

One of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters. [Spelt also seriph.] Savage.

To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.