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2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.

Cross"-bun` (-bŭn`), n. A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday.

Cross`-cross"let (-kr?s"l?t; 115), n. (Her.) A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.

Cross"cut` (-kŭt`), v. t. To cut across or through; to intersect.

Cross"cut`, n. 1. A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.

2. (Mining) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.

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.

Cross"-days` (-d?z`), n. pl. (Eccl.) The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.

Cros*sette" (kr?s-s?t`), n. [F., dim. of crosse. See Crosier.] (Arch.) (a) A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow. (b) The shoulder of a joggled keystone.

Cross"-ex*am`i*na"tion (kr?s"?gz-?m`?-n?"sh?n; 115), n. (Law) The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined. See Examination.

Cross"-ex*am"ine (-?m"?n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cross-examined (-?nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cross-examining.] (Law) To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party. "The opportunity to cross-examine the witnesses." Kent.

Cross"-ex*am"in*er (-?r), n. One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse- examination.

Cross"-eye` (-?`), n. See Strabismus.

Cross"-eyed` (-?d`), a. Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.

Cross"fish` (-f?sh`), n. (Zo÷l.) A starfish.

Cross"flow` (-fl?`), v. i. To flow across, or in a contrary direction. "His crossflowing course." Milton.

Cross"-gar`net (kr?s"g?r`n?t), n. A hinge having one strap perpendicular and the other strap horizontal giving it the form of an Egyptian or T cross.

Cross"grained (-gr?nd`), a. 1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely and irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing.

If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.

2. Perverse; untractable; contrary.

She was none of your crossgrained, termagant, scolding jades. Arbuthnot.

Cross"hatch` (-h?ch`; 224), v. t. To shade by means of crosshatching.

Cross"hatch`ing, n. In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle.

Cross"head` (-h?d), n. (Mach.) A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.

Cross"ing, n. [See Cross, v. t. ] 1. The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean.

2. The act of making the sign of the cross. Bp. Hall.

3. The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.

4. Intersection, as of two paths or roads.