Part 2607

<blockquote>If two individuals of distinct races <b>cross</b>, a third is invariably produced different from either. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cross-armed</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"-armed`</hw> <tt>(kr?s"?rmd)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>With arms crossed.</def>

<h1>Cross-banded</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"-band`ed</hw> <tt>(-b?nd`?d)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Crossbar</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"bar`</hw> <tt>(-b?r`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down.</def>

<i>Russell.</i>

<cs><col>Crossbar shot</col>, <cd>a projectile which folds into a sphere for loading, but on leaving the gun expands to a cross with a quarter ball at the end of each arm; -- used in naval actions for cutting the enemy's rigging.</cd></cs>

<h1>Crossbarred</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"barred`</hw> <tt>(-b?rd`)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Made or patterned in lines crossing each other; <as>as, <ex>crossbarred</ex> muslin</as>.</def>

<h1>Crossbeak</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"beak`</hw> <tt>(-b?k`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Crossbill</er>.</def>

<h1>Crossbeam</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"beam`</hw> <tt>(-b?m`)</tt>. <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>A girder.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.</def>

<h1>Cross-bearer</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"-bear`er</hw> <tt>(-b?r`?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(R.C.Ch.)</fld> <def>A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.</def>

<h1>Crossbill</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"bill`</hw> <tt>(-b?l`)</tt>. <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit.</def>

<i>Bouvier.</i>

<note>&hand; In criminal practice, <i>cross bills</i> of indictment for assault, in which the prosecutor in once case is the defendant in another, may be tried together.</note>

<h1>Crossbill</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"bill`</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A bird of the genus <spn>Loxia</spn>, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak.</def>

<h1>Cross-birth</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"-birth`</hw> <tt>(-b?rth`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>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.</def>