Bench (n.) A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length. |
Bench (n.) A long table at which mechanics and other work |
Bench (n.) The seat where judges sit in court. |
Bench (n.) The persons who sit as judges |
Bench (n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public |
Bench (n.) A conformation like a bench |
Bench (v. t.) To furnish with benches. |
Bench (v. t.) To place on a bench or seat of honor. |
Bench (v. i.) To sit on a seat of justice. |
Bench warrant () A process issued by a presiding judge or by a court against a person guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime |
Bloody hand () A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison. |
Bloody hand () A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom. |
Bow hand () The hand that holds the bow, i. e., the left hand. |
Bow hand () The hand that draws the bow, i. e., the right hand. |
Brother german () A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. |
Church-bench (n.) A seat in the porch of a church. |
Claw (n.) A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird. |
Claw (n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails |
Claw (n.) Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails. |
Claw (n.) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink. |
Claw (n.) To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails. |
Claw (n.) To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching |
Claw (n.) To rail at |
Claw (v. i.) To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw. |
Cousin-german (n.) A first cousin. See Note under Cousin, 1. |
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-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 |
choice selection option pick | the act of choosing or selecting, your choice of colors was unfortunate, you can take your pick |
instrument tool | the means whereby some act is accomplished, my greed was the instrument of my destruction, science has given us new tools to fight disease |
prestidigitation sleight of hand | manual dexterity in the execution of tricks |
pick | a basketball maneuver, obstructing an opponent with one's body, he was called for setting an illegal pick |
pick-off | a baseball play in which a base runner is caught off base and tagged out |
tool-and-die work | the craft of making special tools and dies |
wrestle wrestling grapple grappling hand-to-hand struggle | the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat, they had a fierce wrestle, we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully |
bench press | a weightlift in which you lie on your back on a bench and press weights upward |
incline bench press | a bench press performed on an inclined bench |
German lesson | instruction in the German language |
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 |
jacking off jerking off hand job wank | slang for masturbation |
forging | shaping metal by heating and hammering |
standing operating procedure standard operating procedure SOP standard procedure | a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely, rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries |
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 |
hammer pound hammering pounding | the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows), the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard, the pounding of feet on the hallway |
hand helping hand | physical assistance, give me a hand with the chores |
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 |
style | a slender bristlelike or tubular process, a cartilaginous style |
standard schnauzer | a medium-sized schnauzer |
German short-haired pointer | liver or liver-and-white hunting dog developed in Germany, pointer and bloodhound |
German shepherd German shepherd dog German police dog alsatian | breed of large shepherd dogs used in police work and as a guide for the blind |
standard poodle | a breed or medium-sized poodles |
claw | a bird's foot |
claw | sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles |
bear claw | claw of a bear, often used in jewelry |
claw chela nipper pincer | a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods |
black bee German bee | darkolored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin |
German cockroach Croton bug crotonbug water bug Blattella germanica | small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe, a common household pest |
hand | terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos), the kangaroo's forearms seem undeveloped but the powerful five-fingered hands are skilled at feinting and clouting- Springfield (Mass.) Union |
c acid back breaker battery-acid dose dot Elvis loony toons Lucy in the sky with diamonds pane superman window pane Zen | street name for lysergic acid diethylamide |
air hammer jackhammer pneumatic hammer | a hammer driven by compressed air |
ball-peen hammer | a hammer with one round and one flat end, used in working metal |
barrel organ grind organ hand organ hurdy gurdy hurdy-gurdy street organ | a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs |
bear claw | an incised design resembling the claw of a bear, used in Native American pottery |
bench | a long seat for more than one person |
bench | (law) the seat for judges in a courtroom |
bench clamp | a clamp used to hold work in place on a workbench |
bench hook | any of various stops on a workbench against which work can be pushed (as while chiseling or planing) |
bench lathe | lathe mounted on a workbench |
bench press | a small punch press mounted on a workbench |
bracer pick-me-up | a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor) |
bricklayer's hammer | a hammer used in laying bricks |