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being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else. "Having two barbs or points." Ascham.

A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall.

Arch.), a door made of boards of the whole length of the door, secured by battens nailed crosswise.

An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.

ers of a building or ship. The beams of a vessel are strong pieces of timber stretching across from side to side to support the decks. Totten.

Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.

One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base. Bend sinister (Her.), an honorable ordinary drawn from the sinister chief to the dexter base.

To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold.

In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.

A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals. [Obs.] Homilies.

shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.

rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.

o contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife. -- To bind up in, to cause to be wholly engrossed with; to absorb in.

t harder than lead, and rather brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. It melts at 507º Fahr., being easily fused in the flame of a candle. It is found in a native state, and as a constituent of some minerals. Specific gravity 9.8. Atomic weight 207.5. Symbol Bi.

to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character. I'll cross it, though it blast me. Shak. Blasted with excess of light. T. Gray.

To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self). [Archaic] Holinshed.

ass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.

To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. Swift.

A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi Tomlinson.

The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.