Word Meanings - POMMETTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having two balls or protuberances at each end; -- said of a cross.

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• 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.
• CROSSOPTERYGIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n.
• CROSSBRED
  Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
• 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.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• 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.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• 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.
• 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
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• 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.