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In the form of a cross; across; transversely. Longfellow.

From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

enter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.…

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

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

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

A batten laid lengthwise between two rafters to afford a bearing for laths laid crosswise.

A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges. Crabb.

A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.

A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.

er. Crosscut saw. (a) A saw, the teeth of which are so set as to adapt it for sawing wood crosswise of the grain rather than lengthwise. (b) A saw managed by two men, one at each end, for cutting large logs crosswise.

A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.

Crosswise; in the form of an X. "Anointed decussatively." Sir T. Browne.

Of a coarse texture; -- applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise.

ails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle. With busy hammers closing rivets up. Shak.

ection. H. Sweet. Level line (Shipbuilding), the outline of a section which is horizontal crosswise, and parallel with the rabbet of the keel lengthwise. Level surface (Physics), an equipotential surface at right angles at every point to the lines of force.

an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.

From one side to another; from side to side; across; crosswise; as, a board, or a tree, a foot over, i. e., a foot in diameter.

Across; crosswise; transversely. "Y'clenched overthwart and endelong." Chaucer.

k of eels, twenty-five eels. [Prov. Eng.] -- Stick chimney, a chimney made of sticks laid crosswise, and cemented with clay or mud, as in some log houses. [U.S.] -- Stick insect, (Zoöl.), any one of various species of wingless orthopterous insects of the family Phasmidæ, which have a long round body, resembling a stick…