Cross-stone
(Cross"-stone`) n. (Min.) See Harmotome, and Staurotide.
Cross-tail
(Cross"-tail`) n. (Steam Engine) A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a
backaction or side-lever engine.
Cross-tie
(Cross"-tie`) n. (Railroad) A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in
place.
Cross-tining
(Cross"-tin`ing) n. (Agric.) A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges.
Crabb.
Crosstrees
(Cross"trees`) n. pl. (Naut.) 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."
Cross-vaulting
(Cross"-vault`ing) n. (Arch.) Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple
vaults.
Crossway
(Cross"way`) n. See Crossroad.
Cross-week
(Cross"-week`) n. Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions.
Crosswise
(Cross"wise`) adv. In the form of a cross; across; transversely. Longfellow.
Crosswort
(Cross"wort`) n. (Bot.) A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls
of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.
Crotalaria
(||Crot`a*la"ri*a) n. [NL. See Crotalum.] (Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox.
Crotalaria juncea furnishes the fiber called sunn or Bombay hemp.
Crotaline
(Crot"a*line) a. [See Crotalus.] (Zoöl.) Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or Rattlesnake
family.
Crotalo
(||Crot"a*lo) n. A Turkish musical instrument.
Crotalum
(||Crot"a*lum) n. [L., fr. Gr. rattle.] (Mus.) A kind of castanet used by the Corybantes.
Crotalus
(||Crot"a*lus) n. [NL., fr. Gr. rattle.] (Zoöl.) A genus of poisonous serpents, including the rattlesnakes.
Crotaphite
(Crot"a*phite) n. [Gr. the side of the forehead.] (Anat.) The temple or temporal fossa. Also
used adjectively.
Crotaphitic
(Crot`a*phit"ic) n. (Anat.) Pertaining to the temple; temporal.
