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Show cRr CR 5. To move laterally, obliquely, or athwart; not in oppofition; not in th That many knotty points there ars For fear, as feem'd, or for fome feined lof greedy they of news crofs faft toward As nature flily had thought fit For fome by-ends, to crofs-bite wit But he them fpying, 'gan to turn afide hi d Spenfer bow athwart a ftock Gentlemen fuffer their beafts to run wild in thei woods and wafte ground, where they are hunted an killed with crofs-boavs and pieces, in the manner o deer Carew of Cornwall Still do I crofs this wretch, whatfo he taketh i hand Hooker ‘The king no longer could endur Thus to be cr¢fs°d in what he did intend. Danicl He was {o great an enemy to Digby and Colcpeper, who were only-prefent in debates of the wa with the officers, that he croffed all they propofed Buried in private, and fo fuddenly It eroffes my defign, which was t* allo The rites of funeral fitting his degree Clarendon Dryden The matter of the crofs-dows; loxd Rambures Shake[peare Teftimony is like the fhot of a long bow, whic owes its efficacy to the force of the fhooter; argument is like the fhot of the crofs-boav, equall forcible whether difcharged by a giant or a dwarf Cro'ss-BOWER, 2. /f [fro A fhooter with a crofs-bow D!ydfll Though ftill by faction, vice, and fortune cro, Cro'ssGRAINED. adj. [crofs and grain. 1. Having the fibres tranfverfe or irregular Addifor's Cato 7. Not to concur ; to be inconfiftent with Then their wills clath with their underftandings Locke 8. To contravene; to hinde rity; to countermand by autho No governour is fuffered to go on with any on courfe, but upon the leaft information he is eithe flopped and croffed, or other courfes appointed hi trom hence Spenfer on Ireland It may make my cafe dangerous, to crofs this i the fmalleft Shakefpeare's Meafure for Meafure g. To contradiét n all this there is not a fyllable which any way eroffcth us Hooker It is certain, howfoever it crofs the received opi mion that founds may be created without air Bacon's Natural Hiffory 10. To debar ; to preclude From his loins no hopeful branch fhall fpring To crofs me from the golden time I look for Shakefpeare T Cross. w. 7 1. To lie athwart another thing 2. To be inconfiftent Men's actions do not always crofs with reafon Sidney LRross-BAR-5HOT. 7. / A round fhot or great bullet, with a bar of iron pu through it Harris Z0 CrOS5-EXAMINE. @. 4. [crofiand examine. To try the faith of evidence b captious queftions of the contrary party It we may but crofs-examine and interrogate thei a&ions againft their words, thefe will foon confef she invalidity of their folemneft confeffions Decay of Piety The judges fhall, as they think fit, interrogac or crafs-examine the witneffes Spectator Cro'ss-sTaFF. 7, /. [from crofs and faf An inftrument commonly called the foreftaff, ufed by feamen to take the meridian altitude of the fun or ftars. Harris Cro'ss-B1TE m [crofs and dire deception ; a cheat The fox, that trufte to'hi addrefs an ma ®age, without © much as dreamingof a crofs-bit from fo filly a animal fell himfelf int that he had digged for another the pi L' Effrange 70 Cro'ss-B1TE. @. a. [from the noun. T'e contravene by deception No rhetorick muft be fpent againtt crofs-biting eountry gvidence, and frighting him out of hi fenies crofi-bowv. Raleigh's Effays Shall find the generous labour was not loft and their appetites crofs their duty Boyle The French affifted themfelves by land with th crofsbowers of Genoa againft the Englith Swell'd with our late fuccefles on the foe ‘Which France and Holland wanted pow'r to crofs We urge an unfeen fate The firm patriot there Prior Cro'ss-Bow. #. fi [crofs and dow.] miffive weapon, formed by placing 6. To thwart ; to interpofe obftrution to embarrafs ; to obftrud; to hinder to counteraét Collier 2 If the ftuff proves croffgrained in any part o its length, then you muft turn your ftuff to plan it the contrary way, fo far as it runs croffgrained Moxon Perverfe ; troublefome ; vexatious W find in fullen writs And crofs-grain'd works of modern wits The wonder of the ignorant Hudibras Th fpirit of contradiction in a crofs-graine woman, is incurable L'Eftrange She was none 'of your ¢rofs-grained, termagant fcolding jades, that one had as good be hanged a live in the houfe with Arbutbnot's Fobn Bull But wifdom, peevith and crofs-grain'd Mauft be oppos'd, to be fuftain'd Prior Cro'ssty. adv. [from crofi. 1. Athwart; {o as to interfeét fomethin elfe z. Oppofitely ; adverfely; in oppofition to He that provides for this life, but takes no car for eternity, is wife for a moment, but a fool fo ever; and acts as untowardly and ¢rofs/y to the reafon of things, as can be imagined Tillotfon 3. Unfortunately Cro'ssNEss. # [/ [from crofs. 1. Tranfverfenefs ; interfeétion 2. Perverfenefs ; peevifhnefs bet; fo name becaufe a crof Alpha is plac ed at the beginning, to fhew that th end of learning is piety He hearkens after prophecies and dreams And from the ¢roffiow plucks the letter And fays a wizard told him, that by His iffue difinherited fhould be. Shak. Richard 111 Cro'sswinND. 7. /. [crofs and wind.] Win blowing from the right or left The leaft unhappy perfons do, in fo fickle an fo tempeftuous a fea as this world, meet with man more either crofswinds or ftormy gufts than prof perous gales L CrO'ssWORT. . /. [from crof; and*wfiz" It hath foft leaves, like the ladje bedtraw fro ti;a&r;: leave o numbe th i differ i whic produced at every joint; which in th is are onj four, difpofed in form ofa crofs Milly | 1 [eroc, French.] Ahogkgs / Crorcu fork ton ufed to raife the benevolence to h and fome called it his fork, and fome hji Lg crobytch Save elme plough acon' He Wi afh, and crab tree for car;'z): ;I;,I 1‘;.?! Save ftep for a file of the crotch and the bough 1 CRrO'TCHET. n. [ [crocket, French.] 1. [In mufick.] One of the notes of hy racters of time, equal to haa l minjrg ‘T'f"‘" and double a quaver Chambers Into whofe cunning hands the gout dothtfall ' p[F' As a good harper, ftricken far in years AlL his old crotchets in his brain he bears But on his harp plays..ill, ornotatall Dygjy q U 2. A fupport ; a piece of wood fitted intf another to fupport a building. [fro croch, a fork. A ftately temple fhoots within the fkies The crotchets of their cot in columns rife 3. [In printing. ‘pL‘ Dryd M Hooks in which word are included [thus. 4. A perverfe conceit; an odd fancy ‘. A All the devices and crotchets of new inventions which ‘crept into her, tended either to twitch o enlarge the ivy Howd The horfe {melt him out, and prefently a crotche came in his head how he might countermine him LEfrangs 1 1 Bg 7o CrouCH. . n. [crochu, crooked, Fr. 1. To ftoop low ; to lie clofe to the ground as, the lion crouches to his mafter 2. To fawn ; to bend fervilely ; to floo meanly f,"ik Every one that is left in thine houfe, fhall com W and crouch to him for a piece of filver and a morfel of bread 1 Sam. iis 36 Boyle Cro'ssway. n. /. [crofs andaway.] A fmal obfeure path interfeQing the chicf road fc')r employment There is a tradition of a dilemma that Mor Crouc Collier of the Entertainment of Books 7. /. [cro/s and row. Already to their wormy beds are gone Sifih At his heels Leafht in like hounds, fhould famine, fword, an fir The lighter fort of malignity turneth but to croffnefs or aptnefs to oppofe; but the deeper fort to envy, or mere mifchief Bacon I deny nothing, fit to be granted, out of croffief o¢ humour King Charles Who would have imagined that the fhiff croffref of a poor captive fhould ever have had the powe to make Haman's feat fo uneafy to him ? L'Ef They help us to forget the croffnefs of men ‘an things, compofe our cares and our paflions, and la our difappointments afleep Cro'ssrow e That in eroffrvays and floods haye bural ‘Which all difcufs, but few can clear iame line Mor Damn'd fpirits all U 1 i b Shakefpeare's HenryV They fawn and crouch to men of parts, who they cannot ruin; quote them, when theyare pre 1 00 i i fent; and, when they are abfent, fteal ¢heir jefts. Too well the vigour of that arm they krigw 1A They lick the duft, and crouch beneath their fata foe Dryden Your thameful ftory fhall record of me 1 The men all ¢rouch'd, and left a woman free 'Dlydfflc CROUP. #. /. [croupe, French. 1. The rump of a fowl 2. The buttocks of a horfe i CROUPA'DES. 7 /. [from croup.] Highe leap tha thof of corvets, that keep the fore and hind quarters of the horfe in an equal height, fo that he truffes h ) [ ‘ q{l legs under his belly without yerking I CROW. #. /. [cnape, Saxon; corvis, Lat. Farrier's Didl 1. A large black bird that feeds upon the carcafles of bealfts The crows and choughs, that wing the midwa air Shew fcarce fo grofs as beetles Shak, King Lear To crowus he like impartial grace affords, birds And choughs and daws, and fuch rapubhclz O!l"" [ 1 T | |