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Word Meanings - CROSS-GARNET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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  • STRAPPING
    Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • CROSSLY
    Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
  • CROSS-EXAMINER
    One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
  • CROSSJACK
    The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • STRAP-SHAPED
    Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
  • CROSSOPTERYGIAN
    Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n.
  • CROSSBRED
    Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
  • OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
    Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
  • HORIZONTALLY
    In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.
  • CROSS-STONE
    See STAUROTIDE
  • CROSS-ARMED
    With arms crossed.
  • GIVES
    Fetters.
  • CROSSGRAINED
    1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an 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.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • PERPENDICULAR
    At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc. Perpendicular style , a name given to the latest variety of English Gothic architecture, which prevailed from the close of the 14th century to the early
  • CROSSBREED
    1. 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. 2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.
  • CROSS-VAULTING
    Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
  • CROSSLEGGED
    Having the legs crossed.
  • NOTOTHERIUM
    An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
  • ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
    Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
  • LACROSSE
    A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught
  • SMOTHER
    Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
  • ISOTHEROMBROSE
    A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
  • TERGIVERSATOR
    One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • UNMOTHERED
    Deprived of a mother; motherless.
  • ISOTHERMAL
    Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram

 

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