AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
cross: a gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a t, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an x. it was anciently used in the execution of criminals.-the sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of christianity, of a christian people, and of christendom.-affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.-a piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also, that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.-an appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross; a badge or ornamental device of the general shape of a cross; hence, such an ornament, even when varying considerably from that form; thus, the cross of the british order of st. george and st. michael consists of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it.-a monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; charing cross in london.-a common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. see the illustration, above.-the crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write.-church lands.-a line drawn across or through another line.-a mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.-an instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.-a pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle.-not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.-not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse.-characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.-made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other.-athwart; across.-to put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms.-to lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t.-to pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.-to pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.-to run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with.-to interfere and cut off; to debar.-to make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.-to cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name.-to cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.-to lie or be athwart.-to move or pass from one side to the other, or from place to place; to make a transit; as, to cross from new york to liverpool.-to be inconsistent.-to interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.
cross-banded: a term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surface of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface.
cross-bearer: a subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.
cross-birth: any preternatural labor, in which the body 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.
cross-bun: a bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on good friday.
cross-crosslet: a cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.
cross-examination: the interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined. see examination.
cross-examine: to examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party.
cross-garnet: a hinge having one strap perpendicular and the other strap horizontal giving it the form of an egyptian or t cross.
cross-purpose: a counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory.-a conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas.
cross-reading: the reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.
cross-spall: one of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-pawl.
cross-springer: one of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. [see illustr. of groined vault.]
cross-staff: an instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies.-a surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.
cross-stitch: a form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other.
cross-tail: a bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
cross-tining: a mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges.
cross-vaulting: vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
crossbar: 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.
crossbarred: secured by, or furnished with, crossbars.-made or patterned in lines crossing each other; as, crossbarred muslin.
crossbeam: a girder.-a beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.
crossbill: a bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit.-a bird of the genus loxia, allied to the finches. their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak.
crossbite: a deception; a cheat.-to deceive; to trick; to gull.
crossbones: 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.
crossbow: a weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.
crossbreed: a breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stocks.-anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.
crosscut: to cut across or through; to intersect.-a short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.-a level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.
crossette: a return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow.-the shoulder of a joggled keystone.
crossgrained: having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing.-perverse; untractable; contrary.
crosshatching: in drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle.
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 to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.
crossing: of cross-the act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean.-the act of making the sign of the cross.-the act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.-intersection, as of two paths or roads.-a place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street.-contradiction; thwarting; obstruction.
crosslet: a small cross.-a crucible.-crossed again; -- said of a cross the arms of which are crossed. seecross-crosslet.
crossly: athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
crossness: the quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.
crossopterygian: of or pertaining to the crossopterygii.-one of the crossopterygii.
crossopterygii: an order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir (polypterus). see brachioganoidei.
crosspiece: a piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.-a bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts.
crossroad: a road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road.
crossrow: the alphabet; -- called also christcross-row.-a row that crosses others.
crossruff: the play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw.
crosstrees: pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds.  at the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."
crosswort: a name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of crucianella, valantia, etc.
crotaline: resembling, or pertaining to, the crotalidae, or rattlesnake family.
crotch: the angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.-a stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; -- called also crane and crutch.
crotchet: a forked support; a crotch.-a time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note.-an indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.-the arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.-a bracket. see bracket.-an instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus.-a perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.-to play music in measured time.
crotchetiness: the state or character of being crotchety, or whimsical.
crotchety: given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man.
croton bug: a small, active, winged species of cockroach (ectobia germanica), the water bug. it is common aboard ships, and in houses in cities, esp. in those with hot-water pipes.
crotonic: of or pertaining to, or derived from, a plant of the genus croton, or from croton oil.
crotonine: a supposed alkaloid obtained from croton oil by boiling it with water and magnesia, since found to be merely a magnesia soap of the oil.
crotonylene: a colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, c4h6, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid.
crouch: to bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.-to bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.-to sign with the cross; to bless.-to bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.
croup: the hinder part or buttocks of certain quadrupeds, especially of a horse; hence, the place behind the saddle.-an inflammatory affection of the larynx or trachea, accompanied by a hoarse, ringing cough and stridulous, difficult breathing; esp., such an affection when associated with the development of a false membrane in the air passages (also called membranous croup). see false croup, under false, and diphtheria.
croupier: one who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes.-one who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.
croupous: relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrane like that found in membranous croup; as, croupous laryngitis.
croupy: of or pertaining to croup; resembling or indicating croup; as, a croupy cough.
croustade: bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon.
crouton: bread cut in various forms, and fried lightly in butter or oil, to garnish hashes, etc.
crow: to make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance.-to shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.-to utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.-a bird, usually black, of the genus corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. it has a harsh, croaking note. see caw.-a bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.-the cry of the cock. see crow, v. i., 1.-the mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
crow's-foot: the wrinkles that appear, as the effect of age or dissipation, under and around the outer corners of the eyes.-a caltrop.-same as bird's-mouth.
crow's-nest: a box or perch near the top of a mast, esp. in whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout.
crow-quill: a quill of the crow, or a very fine pen made from such a quill.
crow-silk: a filamentous fresh-water alga (conferva rivularis of linnaeus, rhizoclonium rivulare of kutzing).
crow-trodden: marked with crow's-feet, or wrinkles, about the eyes.
crowberry: a heathlike plant of the genus empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry.
crowd: to push, to press, to shove.-to press or drive together; to mass together.-to fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.-to press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.-to press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.-to urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.-a number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.-a number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.-the lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.-an ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.-to play on a crowd; to fiddle.
crowder: one who plays on a crowd; a fiddler.-one who crowds or pushes.
crowdy: a thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind.
crowflower: a kind of campion; according to gerarde, the lychnis flos-cuculi.
crowfoot: the genus ranunculus, of many species; some are common weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty.-a number of small cords rove through a long block, or euphroe, to suspend an awning by.-a caltrop.-a tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc.
crown: of crow-p. p. of crow.-a wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction; hence, anything given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward.-a royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc.-the person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown; the sovereign; -- with the definite article.-imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty.-anything which imparts beauty, splendor, honor, dignity, or finish.-highest state; acme; consummation; perfection.-the topmost part of anything; the summit.-the topmost part of the head (see illust. of bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain.-the part of a hat above the brim.-the part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth.-the vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.-same as corona.-that part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.-the rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.-the bights formed by the several turns of a cable.-the upper range of facets in a rose diamond.-the dome of a furnace.-the area inclosed between two concentric perimeters.-a round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.-a size of writing paper. see under paper.-a coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a denomination of money; as, the english crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the danish or norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.-an ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the paper is stamped with a crown.-to cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power.-to bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.-to form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.-to cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.-to effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
crown office: the criminal branch of the court of king's or queen's bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases.
crown wheel: a wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.
crown-imperial: a spring-blooming plant (fritillaria imperialis) of the lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell-shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.
crown-saw: a saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion.
crowned: of crown-having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected.-great; excessive; supreme.
crownet: a coronet.-the ultimate end and result of an undertaking; a chief end.
crownpiece: a piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle.-a coin [in sense (b) properly crown piece.] see crown, 19.
crownwork: a work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank.
crows: a tribe of indians of the dakota stock, living in montana; -- also called upsarokas.
crowtoe: the lotus corniculatus.-an unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot.
croze: a cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself.
crucial: having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.-severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test.
crucian carp: a kind of european carp (carasius vulgaris), inferior to the common carp; -- called also german carp.
cruciate: tormented.-having the leaves or petals arranged in the form of a cross; cruciform.-to torture; to torment. [obs.] see excruciate.
crucible: a vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc.-a hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal.-a test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the crucible of affliction.
cruciferous: bearing a cross.-of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants which have four petals arranged like the arms of a cross, as the mustard, radish, turnip, etc.
crucifix: a representation in art of the figure of christ upon the cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, used by the roman catholics in their devotions.-the cross or religion of christ.
crucifixion: the act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.-the state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross.-intense suffering or affliction; painful trial.
cruciform: cross-shaped; (bot.) having four parts arranged in the form of a cross.
crucify: to fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.-to destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue completely; to mortify.-to vex or torment.
crude: in its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh.-unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.-not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature.-undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.-having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner.-harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.
crudeness: a crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans.
crudity: the condition of being crude; rawness.-that which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form.
cruel: see crewel.-disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.-causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.-attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
cruelty: the attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity.-a cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain.
cruet: a bottle or vessel; esp., a vial or small glass bottle for holding vinegar, oil, pepper, or the like, for the table; a caster.-a vessel used to hold wine, oil, or water for the service of the altar.
cruise: see cruse, a small bottle.-to sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure.-to wander hither and thither on land.-a voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure.
cruive: a kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon; also, a hovel.
cruller: a kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat.
crumb: a small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.-fig.: a little; a bit; as, a crumb of comfort.-the soft part of bread.-to break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread.
crumbcloth: a cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean.
crumble: to break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.-to fall into small pieces; to break or part into small fragments; hence, to fall to decay or ruin; to become disintegrated; to perish.
crummy: full of crumb or crumbs.-soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty.
crump: crooked; bent.-hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf.
crumpet: a kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.
crumple: to draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper.-to contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple.
crunch: to chew with force and noise; to craunch.-to grind or press with violence and noise.-to emit a grinding or craunching noise.-to crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.
crunodal: possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; -- used of curves.
crunode: a point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. see double point, under double, a.
cruor: the coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore.
cruorin: the coloring matter of the blood in the living animal; haemoglobin.
crup: short; brittle; as, crup cake.-see croup, the rump of a horse.
crupper: the buttocks or rump of a horse.-a leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.-to fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon; as, to crupper a horse.