Cross
(n.) 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. |
Cross
(n.) The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material |
Cross
(n.) Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue |
Cross
(n.) A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also, that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped |
Cross
(n.) An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross |
Cross
(n.) A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place |
Cross
(n.) A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above. |
Cross
(n.) The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write. |
Cross
(n.) Church lands. |
Cross
(n.) A line drawn across or through another line. |
Cross
(n.) A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding |
Cross
(n.) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course. |
Cross
(n.) A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle. |
Cross
(a.) Not parallel |
Cross
(a.) Not accordant with what is wished or expected |
Cross
(a.) Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor |
Cross
(a.) Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation |
Cross
(prep.) Athwart |
Cross
(v. t.) To put across or athwart |
Cross
(v. t.) To lay or draw something, as a line, across |
Cross
(v. t.) To pass from one side to the other of |
Cross
(v. t.) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. |
Cross
(v. t.) To run counter to |
Cross
(v. t.) To interfere and cut off |
Cross
(v. t.) To make the sign of the cross upon |
Cross
(v. t.) To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across |
Cross
(v. t.) To cause to interbreed |
Cross
(v. i.) To lie or be athwart. |
Cross
(v. i.) To move or pass from one side to the other, or from place to place |
Cross
(v. i.) To be inconsistent. |
Cross
(v. i.) To interbreed, as races |
Cross-armed
(a.) With arms crossed. |
Cross-banded
(a.) 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
(n.) A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions. |
Cross-birth
(n.) 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
(n.) A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday. |
Cross-crosslet
(n.) A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses. |
Cross-days
(n. pl.) The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension. |
Cross-examination
(n.) The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined. See Examination. |
Cross-examined
(imp. & p. p.) of Cross-examine |
Cross-examining
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cross-examine |
Cross-examine
(v. t.) To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party. |
Cross-examiner
(n.) One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination. |
Cross-eye
(n.) See Strabismus. |
Cross-eyed
(a.) Affected with strabismus |
Cross-garnet
(n.) A hinge having one strap perpendicular and the other strap horizontal giving it the form of an Egyptian or T cross. |
Cross-pawl
(n.) Same as Cross-spale. |
Cross-purpose
(n.) A counter or opposing purpose |
Cross-purpose
(n.) A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. |
Cross-questioned
(imp. & p. p.) of Cross-question |
cross-fertilization
cross-fertilisation | interchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial, the cross-fertilization of science and the creative arts |
| cross-pollination | stimulating influence among diverse elements, the cross-pollination of the arts |
| crucifix | a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings when the gymnast supports himself with both arms extended horizontally |
| frog kick | a swimming kick, knees are drawn upward and outward so the legs can be brought together when fully extended |
double cross
doublerossing | an act of betrayal, he gave us the old double cross, I could no longer tolerate his impudent doublerossing |
hybridization
hybridisation
crossbreeding
crossing cross
interbreeding
hybridizing | (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids |
| dihybrid cross | hybridization using two traits with two alleles each |
| monohybrid cross | hybridization using a single trait with two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas) |
reciprocal cross
reciprocal | hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype |
transvestism
transvestitism
cross dressing | the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex |
Holy Eucharist
Eucharist
sacrament of the Eucharist
Holy Sacrament
Liturgy Eucharistic liturgy
Lord's Supper | a Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine |
Communion Holy Communion
sacramental manduction
manduction | the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist, the governor took Communion with the rest of the congregation |
| holy order | the sacrament of ordination |
Stations
Stations of the Cross | (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary |
hybrid
crossbreed
cross | (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock, especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species, a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey |
frog
toad
toad frog
anuran
batrachian
salientian | any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping, semiaquatic and terrestrial species |
true frog
ranid | insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs |
wood-frog
wood frog
Rana sylvatica | wideanging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce |
leopard frog
spring frog Rana pipiens | common North American green or brownish frog having white-edged dark oval spots |
green frog
spring frog Rana clamitans | similar to bullfrog, found in or near marshes and ponds, of United States and Canada |
cascades frog
Rana cascadae | mountain frog found near water, of United States Northwest to California |
goliath frog
Rana goliath | largest living frog, up to a foot and weighing up tolbs, Africa |
pickerel frog
Rana palustris | a meadow frog of eastern North America |
tarahumara frog
Rana tarahumarae | Mexican frog found within a jump or two of water |
grass frog
Rana temporaria | a common semiterrestrial European frog |
leptodactylid frog
leptodactylid | toothed frogs: terrestrial or aquatic or arboreal |
| robber frog | small terrestrial frog of tropical America |
barking frog
robber frog Hylactophryne augusti | of southwest United States and Mexico, call is like a dog's bark |
| tree frog tree-frog | any of various Old World arboreal frogs distinguished from true frogs by adhesive suckers on the toes |
tailed frog
bell toad
ribbed toad
tailed toad
Ascaphus trui | western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ |
| true toad | tailless amphibian similar to a frog but more terrestrial and having drier warty skin |
agua
agua toad
Bufo marinus | largest known toad species, native to Central America, valuable destroyer of insect pests |
European toad
Bufo bufo | common toad of Europe |
American toad
Bufo americanus | common toad of America |
Eurasian green toad
Bufo viridis | Eurasian toad with variable chiefly green coloring |
American green toad
Bufo debilis | small green or yellow-green toad with small black bars and stripes |
Yosemite toad
Bufo canorus | of high Sierra Nevada meadows and forest borders |
Texas toad
Bufo speciosus | nocturnal burrowing toad of mesquite woodland and prairies of the United States southwest |
southwestern toad
Bufo microscaphus | a uniformly warty stocky toad of washes and streams of semiarid southwestern United States |
western toad
Bufo boreas | of a great variety of habitats from southern Alaska to Baja California west of the Rockies |
obstetrical toad
midwife toad Alytes obstetricans | European toad whose male carries the fertilized eggs wrapped around its hind legs until they hatch |
| midwife toad Alytes cisternasi | similar in habit to Alytes obstetricians |
fire-bellied toad
Bombina bombina | toad of central and eastern Europe having red or orange patches mixed with black on its underside |
spadefoot
spadefoot toad | a burrowing toad of the northern hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection on each hind foot |
tree toad
tree frog tree-frog | arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe, of southeast Asia and Australia and America |
Pacific tree toad
Hyla regilla | the most commonly heard frog on the Pacific coast of America |
| chameleon tree frog | a form of tree toad |
| cricket frog | either of two frogs with a clicking call |
northern cricket frog
Acris crepitans | a cricket frog of eastern and central United States |
eastern cricket frog
Acris gryllus | a cricket frog of eastern United States |