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e upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals. Nailed to the cross By his own nation. Milton.

With arms crossed.

A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surfase of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface.

A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.

Any preternatural labor, in whiche the boly of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus.

A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday.

A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse.

A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.

The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.

The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined. See Examination.

as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party. "The opportunity to cross-examine the witnesses." Kent.

One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.

See Strabismus.

Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.

To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual of the same species.

strap perpendicular and the other strap horizontal giving it the form of an Egyptian or T cross.

Same as Cross-spale.

ns and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons.

To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.

The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.