Part 2608

<h1>Crossbite</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"bite`</hw> <tt>(-b?t`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A deeption; a cheat.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Crossbite</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"bite"</hw>, <tt>b. t.</tt> <def>To deceive; to trick; to gull.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Crossbones</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"bones`</hw> <tt>(-b?nz`)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote><b>Crossbones</b>, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Crossbow</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"bow`</hw> <tt>(-b?`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Archery)</fld> <def>A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.</def>

<h1>Crossbower</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"bow`er</hw> <tt>(-b?`?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A crossbowman.</def><mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Crossbowman</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"bow`man</hw> <tt>(-m<it>a</it>n)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who shoots with a crossbow. See <er>Arbalest</er>.</def>

<h1>Crossbred</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"bred`</hw> <tt>(-br?d`)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Stock Breeding)</fld> <def>Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.</def>

<h1>Crossbreed</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"breed`</hw> <tt>(-br?d`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.</def>

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

<hw>Cross"-bun`</hw> <tt>(-b?n`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday.</def>

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

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

<h1>Crosscut</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"cut`</hw> <tt>(-k?t`)</tt><def>, v. t. To cut across or through; to intersect.</def>

<h1>Crosscut</h1> <Xpage=348>

<hw>Cross"cut`</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <def>A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.</def>

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