Bank-sided (a.) Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship |
Bearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bear |
Bearing (n.) The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self |
Bearing (n.) Patient endurance |
Bearing (n.) The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it |
Bearing (n.) Purport |
Bearing (n.) The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth |
Bearing (n.) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports |
Bearing (n.) The portion of a support on which anything rests. |
Bearing (n.) Improperly, the unsupported span |
Bearing (n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing |
Bearing (n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates. |
Bearing (n.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. |
Bearing (n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc. |
Bearing (n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. |
Bearing (n.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast. |
Bearing cloth () A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. |
Bearing rein () A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up |
Cream-white (a.) As white as cream. |
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-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 |
whitelash white backlash | backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances |
dolphin kick | a swimming kick, an up and down kick of the feet together |
double cross doublerossing | an act of betrayal, he gave us the old double cross, I could no longer tolerate his impudent doublerossing |
perjury bearing false witness lying under oath | criminal offense of making false statements under oath |
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 |
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 |
white sale | a sale of household linens |
white man's burden | the supposed responsibility of the white race to provide care for their non-white subjects |
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 |
great white shark white shark man-eater man-eating shark Carcharodon carcharias | large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas, known to attack humans |
whitetip shark oceanic whitetip shark white-tipped shark Carcharinus longimanus | large deep-water shark with white-tipped dorsal fin, worldwide distribution, most dangerous shark |
white-throated sparrow whitethroat Zonotrichia albicollis | common North American finch with a white patch on the throat and black-and-white striped crown |
white-breasted nuthatch Sitta carolinensis | bluish-grey nuthatch with black head and white breast, of eastern North America |
white-bellied swallow tree swallow Iridoprocne bicolor | bluish-green-and-white North American swallow, nests in tree cavities |
white-tailed kite Elanus leucurus | grey-and-white American kite of warm and tropical regions |
ern erne grey sea eagle gray sea eagle European sea eagle white-tailed sea eagle Haliatus albicilla | bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail, of Europe and Greenland |
southern spadefoot Scaphiopus multiplicatus | this spadefoot toad lives in the southwestern United States |
white stork Ciconia ciconia | the common stork of Europe, white with black wing feathers and a red bill |
great white heron Ardea occidentalis | large white heron of Florida and the Florida Keys |
great white heron Casmerodius albus | widely distributed Old World white egret |
American egret great white heron Egretta albus | a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America, it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus |
white-headed stilt Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus | stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck |
white pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos | large American pelican, white with black wing feathers |
Old world white pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus | similar to American white pelican |
dolphin | any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout, larger than porpoises |
common dolphin Delphinus delphis | black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water, |
bottlenose dolphin bottle-nosed dolphin bottlenose | any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak, chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean |
Atlantic bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus | the most common dolphin of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean, often kept captive and trained to perform |
Pacific bottlenose dolphin Tursiops gilli | a bottlenose dolphin found in the Pacific Ocean |
river dolphin | any of several long-snouted usually freshwater dolphins of South America and southern Asia |
white whale beluga Delphinapterus leucas | small northern whale that is white when adult |
West Highland white terrier | small white longoated terrier developed in Scotland |
white wolf Arctic wolf Canis lupus tundrarum | wolf of Arctic North America having white fur and a black-tipped tail |
Arctic fox white fox Alopex lagopus | thickly-furred fox of Arctic regions, brownish in summer and white in winter |
bald-faced hornet white-faced hornet Vespula maculata | North American hornet |
termite white ant | whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood |
white admiral Limenitis camilla | Eurasian butterfly with brown wings and white markings |
banded purple white admiral Limenitis arthemis | North American butterfly with blue-black wings crossed by a broad white band |
small white Pieris rapae | small widely distributed form |
large white Pieris brassicae | Old World form of cabbage butterfly |
southern cabbage butterfly Pieris protodice | common North American form of cabbage butterfly |
white-tailed jackrabbit whitetail jackrabbit Lepus townsendi | largest hare of northern plains and western mountains of United States, brownish-grey in summer and pale grey in winter, tail nearly always all white |
white-footed mouse vesper mouse Peromyscus leucopus | American woodland mouse with white feet and underparts |
southern bog lemming Synaptomys cooperi | of low bogs and meadows of northeastern and central United States and southern Canada |