Bedding
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bed |
Bedding
(n.) A bed and its furniture |
Bedding
(n.) The state or position of beds and layers. |
Concentration
(n.) The act or process of concentrating |
Concentration
(n.) The act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation. |
Concentration
(n.) The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water. |
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-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 |
wheeling
rolling | propelling something on wheels |
| cross-pollination | stimulating influence among diverse elements, the cross-pollination of the arts |
| concentration | strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material |
double cross
doublerossing | an act of betrayal, he gave us the old double cross, I could no longer tolerate his impudent doublerossing |
| rolling | the act of robbing a helpless person, he was charged with rolling drunks in the park |
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 |
side-glance
side-look | a glance sideways, she shot him an impatient side-glance |
| lamination | bonding thin sheets together |
transvestism
transvestitism
cross dressing | the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex |
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 |
| concentration | bringing together military forces |
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 |
side-blotched lizard
sand lizard Uta stansburiana | one of the most abundant lizards in the arid western United States |
bedclothes
bed clothing
bedding | coverings that are used on a bed |
bedding material
bedding litter | material used to provide a bed for animals |
Calvary cross
cross of Calvary | a Latin cross set on three steps |
| Celtic cross | a Latin cross with a ring surrounding the intersection |
concentration camp
stockade | a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions) |
| Cross | a representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified, used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry |
| cross | a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece |
| cross bit | a rock drill having cruciform cutting edges, used in mining |
cross hair
cross wire | either of two fine mutually perpendicular lines that cross in the focus plane of an optical instrument and are use for sighting or calibration, he had the target in his cross hairs |
| cross-stitch | embroidery done with pairs of stitches that cross each other |
| cross-stitch | two stitches forming a cross or X |
| cross street | a street intersecting a main street (usually at right angles) and continuing on both sides of it |
drift
heading
gallery | a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine, they dug a drift parallel with the vein |
| drift net | a large fishnet supported by floats, it drifts with the current |
| Greek cross | a cross with each of the four arms the same length |
| half cross stitch | a single cross stitch at a diagonal |
| Jerusalem cross | a cross with equal arms, each terminating in a small crossbar |
| lamination | a layered structure |
| Latin cross | a cross with the lowest arm being longer than the others |
Lorraine cross
cross of Lorraine | a cross with two crossbars, one above and one below the midpoint of the vertical, the lower longer than the upper |
| Maltese cross | a cross with triangular or arrow-shaped arms and the points toward the center |
| papal cross | a cross with three crossbars |
| patriarchal cross | a cross with two crossbars |
pistol
handgun
side arm
shooting iron | a firearm that is held and fired with one hand |
pommel horse
side horse | a gymnastic horse with a cylindrical body covered with leather and two upright handles (pommels) near the center, held upright by two steel supports, one at each end |
| rolling hitch | a hitch for fastening a line to a spar or another rope |
| rolling mill | steel mill where metal is rolled into sheets and bars |
| rolling pin | utensil consisting of a cylinder (usually of wood) with a handle at each end, used to roll out dough |
| rolling stock | collection of wheeled vehicles owned by a railroad or motor carrier |
| side | an extended outer surface of an object, he turned the box over to examine the bottom side, they painted all four sides of the house |
| side chapel | a small chapel off the side aisle of a church |
side door
side entrance | an exterior door at one side of a building |
| side pocket | a pocket on the side of a billiard table |