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Word Meanings - PETTISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper. "A pettish kind of humor." Sterne. -- Pet"tish*ly, adv. -- Pet"tish*ness, n.

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  • 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.
  • CROSSOPTERYGIAN
    Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n.
  • CROSSBRED
    Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
  • SNARL
    To form raised work upon the outer surface of by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
  • SPLEENY
    1. Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak. 2. Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy.
  • CROSS-STONE
    See STAUROTIDE
  • CROSS-ARMED
    With arms crossed.
  • 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.
  • ILL-TEMPERED
    1. Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome. 2. Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys.
  • 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.
  • CROSSHEAD
    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
  • CROSS-BUTTOCK
    A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse.
  • CROSS-CROSSLET
    A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.
  • CROSSWORT
    A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.
  • CROSS-TAIL
    A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
  • PEEVISH
    1. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe." Wordsworth. She is peevish, sullen, froward. Shak. 2. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction;
  • 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
  • INSNARL
    To make into a snarl or knot; to entangle; to snarl. Cotgrave.
  • ENSNARL
    To entangle. Spenser.
  • HOLY CROSS
    The cross as the symbol of Christ's crucifixion. Congregation of the Holy Cross , a community of lay brothers and priests, in France and the United States, engaged chiefly in teaching and manual Labor. Originally called Brethren of St. Joseph.

 

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