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achor

achor

noun

  1. (obsolete, pathology) dandruff (or similar condition)

acorn

acorn

noun

  1. (nautical) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
  2. (zoology) See acorn-shell.
  3. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

acroa

acron

acron

noun

  1. Synonym of prostomium

actor

actor

noun

  1. (grammar) The subject performing the action of a verb.
  2. (obsolete) Someone acting on behalf of someone else; a guardian.
  3. (obsolete, Ancient Rome) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
  4. (obsolete, law) Someone who institutes a legal suit; a plaintiff or complainant.
  5. (software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).
  6. A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer.
  7. Someone or something that takes part in some action; a doer, an agent.

alcor

amorc

amroc

ancor

apocr

arcos

armco

arock

asroc

barco

boric

boric

adj

  1. (chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or containing the element boron.

broca

broch

broch

noun

  1. (archaeology) A type of Iron Age stone tower with hollow double-layered walls found on Orkney, Shetland, in the Hebrides and parts of the Scottish mainland.

brock

brock

noun

  1. (UK) a male badger.
  2. (archaic, possibly obsolete) A brocket, a stag between two and three years old.
  3. (obsolete) A dirty, stinking fellow.

bronc

bronc

noun

  1. A bronco.

cairo

calor

carbo

carbo

noun

  1. (informal) carbohydrate

cardo

cardo

noun

  1. (History) A street that ran north-south, in an Ancient Roman town or city
  2. (zoology) The basal joint of the maxilla in insects
  3. (zoology) The hinge of a bivalve shell.

cargo

cargo

noun

  1. (Papua New Guinea) Western material goods.
  2. Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.

carlo

carlo

Proper noun

  1. name of Italian origin. English equivalents: Charles, Carl

caroa

caroa

noun

  1. A Brazilian plant (Neoglaziovia variegata)
  2. The fibre of this plant, used to make paper &c

carob

carob

noun

  1. A sweet chocolate-like confection made with the pulp of the fruit.
  2. An evergreen shrub or tree, Ceratonia siliqua, native to the Mediterranean region.
  3. The fruit of that tree.

carol

carol

noun

  1. (architecture) Alternative form of carrel (“small closet or enclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study”).
  2. (historical) A round dance accompanied by singing.
  3. (specifically) A (usually traditional) religious or secular song sung at Christmastime.
  4. A ballad or song of joy.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To sing carols; especially to sing Christmas carols in a group.
  2. (intransitive) To sing in a joyful manner.
  3. (intransitive, historical) To participate in a carol (a round dance accompanied by singing).
  4. (transitive) To praise or celebrate in song.
  5. (transitive) To sing (a song) cheerfully.

carom

carom

noun

  1. (countable, cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.
  2. (spices) ajwain
  3. (uncountable) A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a board measuring one meter by one meter.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To make a carom (shot in billiards).
  2. To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound.

caron

caron

noun

  1. háček

carot

carpo

cdrom

ceorl

ceorl

noun

  1. (historical) An Anglo-Saxon churl.

ceros

ceros

noun

  1. plural of cero

cerro

charo

chiro

chiro

noun

  1. (informal, countable) A chiropractor.
  2. (informal, uncountable) Chiropractic.

chlor

choir

choir

noun

  1. (Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.
  2. (architecture) The part of a church where the choir assembles for song.
  3. A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together.
  4. Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To sing in concert.

chora

chord

chord

noun

  1. (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
  2. (anatomy) A cord.
  3. (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
  4. (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
  5. (geometry) A straight line between two points of a curve.
  6. (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
  7. (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
  8. (nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
  9. (rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
  10. The string of a musical instrument.

verb

  1. (music) To accord; to harmonize together.
  2. (transitive) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
  3. (transitive) To write chords for.

chore

chore

noun

  1. (obsolete) A choir or chorus.
  2. A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.

verb

  1. (Scotland, dialect) To steal.
  2. (US, dated) To do chores.

chort

chorz

chron

chron

noun

  1. (geology) A period of time between two geomagnetic reversals.

claro

claro

noun

  1. A cigar whose wrapper is very light tan or yellowish.

clour

clour

noun

  1. (Scotland) A blow or impingement.

verb

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To inflict a blow on; punch.
  2. (Scotland, transitive) To make a dent or bump on; ding.

coarb

coarb

noun

  1. (historical) The head of one of the families composing an old Irish sept.
  2. (historical) The successor to the founder of a religious institution.

coart

cobra

cobra

noun

  1. A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.
  2. Any of various venomous snakes of the family Elapidae.

coder

coder

noun

  1. (computing) A programmer.
  2. A device that generates a code, often as a series of pulses.
  3. A person who assigns codes or classifications.

coire

coirs

coirs

noun

  1. plural of coir

coker

coker

noun

  1. (category theory, informal) cokernel
  2. (derogatory, slang) A cocaine addict, a cokehead
  3. The industrial plant in which coke is manufactured

color

color

adj

  1. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.

noun

  1. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
  2. (figuratively) Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
  3. (finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
  4. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
  5. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
  6. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
  7. (in the plural) Gang insignia.
  8. (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
  9. (medicine) Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
  10. (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
  11. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
  12. (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
  13. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
  14. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
  15. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
  16. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
  17. A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
  18. A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
  19. A paint.
  20. An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
  21. These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).

verb

  1. (informal) To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
  2. (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
  3. (mathematics, graph theory) To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
  4. (of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.
  5. (transitive) To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
  6. (transitive) To give something color.
  7. To affect without completely changing.

comdr

comer

comer

noun

  1. (figuratively) One who is catching up in some contest and has a likelihood of victory.
  2. One in a race who is catching up to others and shows promise of winning.
  3. One who arrives.

coner

coner

noun

  1. (slang, Canada, Ireland) A zoot tapered to a conical shape.

confr

conor

contr

contr

noun

  1. Abbreviation of contraction.

cooer

cooer

noun

  1. One who coos.

coorg

coorg

Proper noun

  1. A mountainous region in southwestern India, also known locally as Kodagu.
  2. A Dravidian family language of the aforementioned ethnic community.

Noun

  1. A member of the ethnic community originating from the region of Coorg in India.

coors

coper

coper

noun

  1. (Britain) A floating grogshop supplying the North Sea fishing industry.
  2. One who copes.

verb

  1. (Britain) To supply the North Sea fishing industry from a floating grogshop.

copra

copra

noun

  1. The dried kernel of the coconut, from which coconut oil is extruded.

corah

corah

adj

  1. (of Indian silk) plain, undyed

noun

  1. A plain, undyed Indian silk.

coral

coral

adj

  1. Having the orange-pink colour of coral.
  2. Made of coral.

noun

  1. (countable) A somewhat yellowish orange-pink colour; the colour of red coral (Corallium rubrum) of the Mediterranean Sea, commonly used as an ornament or gem.
  2. (countable) Any of many species of marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa, most of which build hard calcium carbonate skeletons and form colonies, or a colony belonging to one of those species.
  3. (historical) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
  4. (uncountable) A hard substance made of the skeletons of these organisms.
  5. The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.

coram

coran

coray

corbe

corbe

adj

  1. (obsolete) crooked

corby

corby

noun

  1. Alternative form of corbie (“type of bird”)

cordi

cords

cords

noun

  1. (informal) Corduroys.
  2. plural of cord

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cord

cordy

cordy

adj

  1. Of, or like, cord; having cords or cord-like parts.

corea

cored

cored

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of core

coree

corel

corer

corer

noun

  1. (geology) A device used to take core samples for analysis
  2. A utensil for removing the core from apples and similar fruit or vegetables

cores

cores

noun

  1. plural of core

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of core

corey

corfu

corge

corgi

corgi

noun

  1. Short for Welsh corgi (“a type of herding dog originating from Wales, having a small body, short legs, and fox-like features such as large ears; two separate breeds are recognized: the Cardigan Welsh Corgi and the Pembroke Welsh Corgi”).

coria

coria

noun

  1. plural of corium

corie

corin

corin

Proper noun

  1. a lover in pastoral poetry with Phillida

corke

corks

corks

noun

  1. plural of cork

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cork

corky

corky

adj

  1. Consisting of, or like, cork; dry; shrivelled.
  2. Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.

noun

  1. (Australia, slang) A deep bruise, usually on the leg or buttock, caused by a blow; a haematoma.

corly

corms

corms

noun

  1. plural of corm

corno

corno

noun

  1. (music) French horn

corns

corns

noun

  1. plural of corn

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corn

cornu

cornu

noun

  1. A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.

corny

corny

adj

  1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) Uncool, stupid, lame.
  2. (obsolete) Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
  3. (obsolete) Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.
  4. (obsolete, UK, slang) Tipsy; drunk.
  5. (rare) Containing corn.
  6. Boring and unoriginal.
  7. Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.

coroa

corol

corol

noun

  1. (botany, obsolete) A corolla.

corot

corpl

corpn

corps

corps

noun

  1. (military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
  2. An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
  3. plural of corp

corri

corry

corse

corse

noun

  1. (archaic) A dead body, a corpse.
  2. (obsolete) A (living) body.

corso

corsy

corta

corti

corty

corum

corve

corve

noun

  1. Alternative form of corf

corvi

corvi

noun

  1. plural of corvus

corvo

coryl

courb

courb

verb

  1. (obsolete) To bend; to bow.

cours

cours

noun

  1. Obsolete form of course.

court

court

noun

  1. (Australia, US) A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
  2. (Hong Kong, only used in names) A housing estate under the House Ownership Scheme.
  3. (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building, or a small development of several apartment buildings.
  4. (often capitalized) The judge or judges or other judicial officer presiding in a particular matter, particularly as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
  5. (sports) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, volleyball, squash and some other games
  6. An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
  7. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
  8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
  9. Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone
  10. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
  11. The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
  12. The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.
  13. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace.
  14. The session of a judicial assembly.
  15. one of the two divisions of a tennis, badminton or volleyball court, in which the player or players of each team play

verb

  1. (intransitive) To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.
  2. (intransitive) To engage in courtship behavior.
  3. (transitive) To attempt to attract.
  4. (transitive) To attempt to gain alliance with.
  5. (transitive) To engage in behavior leading to mating.
  6. (transitive) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
  7. (transitive) To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
  8. (transitive) To seek to achieve or win.
  9. (transitive) To try to win a commitment to marry from.

cover

cover

adj

  1. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
  2. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.

noun

  1. (combinatorics, topology) A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
  2. (construction) The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
  3. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
  4. (dated) A swindler's confederate.
  5. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
  6. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
  7. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
  8. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
  9. (music) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
  10. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
  11. (uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
  12. A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
  13. A cover charge.
  14. A lid.
  15. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
  16. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
  17. The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
  18. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
  19. The top sheet of a bed.

verb

  1. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
  2. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
  3. (intransitive, dated) To put on one's hat.
  4. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
  5. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
  6. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
  7. (sports) To defend (mark) a particular player or area.
  8. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
  9. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
  10. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
  11. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
  12. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
  13. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
  14. To be enough money for.
  15. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
  16. To deal with or include someone or something.
  17. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
  18. To provide insurance coverage for.
  19. To traverse or put behind a certain distance.

cower

cower

verb

  1. (intransitive) To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
  2. (intransitive, archaic) To crouch in general.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To cherish with care.
  4. (transitive) To cause to cower; to frighten into submission.

cowry

cowry

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of cowrie.

coyer

coyer

adj

  1. comparative form of coy: more coy

crapo

crapo

noun

  1. Alternative form of crappo (“toad”)

cravo

crcao

credo

credo

noun

  1. (Christianity) The liturgical creed (usually the Nicene Creed), or a musical arrangement of it for use in church services.
  2. A statement of a belief or a summary statement of a whole belief system; also (metonymically) the belief or belief system itself.

creon

creon

Proper noun

  1. King of Thebes, noted primarily in the stories of Antigone and Oedipus.

cribo

cribo

noun

  1. Any of various snakes in the genus Drymarchon.

croak

croak

noun

  1. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
  2. The call of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)
  3. The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To make a croak.
  2. (intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its sound.
  3. (slang) To die.
  4. (transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
  5. (transitive, slang) To kill someone or something.
  6. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

croat

croce

croci

crock

crock

noun

  1. (UK) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
  2. (UK) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
  3. (medical slang, derogatory) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
  4. (slang, Canada, US, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
  5. A low stool.
  6. A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
  7. A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
  8. Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
  9. The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.

verb

  1. (horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
  2. (intransitive) To give off crock or smut.
  3. (textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
  4. (transitive, now dialectal) To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
  5. To break something or injure someone.

crocs

crocs

noun

  1. plural of croc

croft

croft

noun

  1. (archaic) A carafe.
  2. A cave or cavern.
  3. An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.
  4. An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.
  2. (transitive, archaic) To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.

crois

croix

crome

crome

noun

  1. (UK, East Anglia) A garden or agricultural implement with three or four tines bent at right angles, resembling a garden fork with bent prongs, and used for breaking up soil, clearing ditches, raking up shellfish on beaches, etc.
  2. (music) Alternative form of croma (“a quaver”)
  3. plural of croma

verb

  1. (UK, East Anglia) To use a crome.

crone

crone

noun

  1. (archaic) An old woman.
  2. (obsolete) An old ewe.
  3. (obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
  4. An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
  5. An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.

cronk

cronk

adj

  1. (Australia, colloquial, obsolete) Illegal; dishonest.
  2. (Australia, colloquial, obsolete) No good; bad.
  3. (Australia, colloquial, obsolete) Of a horse, broken down, not useful as a work horse due to illness or infirmity.
  4. (Australia, colloquial, obsolete) Unwell, sick.

noun

  1. (Isle of Man) A hill or barrow.
  2. The honking sound of a goose.

verb

  1. To honk like a goose.

crony

crony

noun

  1. (informal) A trusted companion or partner in a criminal organization.
  2. (informal, originally Cambridge University) A close friend.
  3. (obsolete) An old woman; a crone.

crood

crook

crook

adj

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Annoyed, angry; upset.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
  3. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ill, sick.

noun

  1. (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
  2. (obsolete) A lock or curl of hair.
  3. (obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
  4. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
  5. A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
  6. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
  7. A bishop's standard staff of office.
  8. A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
  9. A pothook.
  10. A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
  11. An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To become bent or hooked.
  2. (transitive) To bend, or form into a hook.
  3. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

crool

crool

adj

  1. Alternative spelling of cruel

verb

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To murmur or mutter.

croom

croon

croon

noun

  1. A soft or sentimental hum or song.

verb

  1. (Scotland) To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.
  2. (transitive) To soothe by singing softly.
  3. (transitive, intransitive) To hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner.
  4. (transitive, intransitive) To say softly or gently

crops

crops

noun

  1. plural of crop

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crop

crore

crore

noun

  1. (India) ten million; 10,000,000; or with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,00,000. Often used with units of money.

crosa

crose

cross

cross

adj

  1. (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
  2. (chiefly Britain) Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
  3. (nautical) Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
  4. (now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
  5. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
  6. Transverse; lying across the main direction.

noun

  1. (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
  2. (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
  3. (Christianity) Usually with the: the cross on which Christ was crucified.
  4. (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
  5. (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
  6. (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
  7. (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
  8. (cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
  9. (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
  10. (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
  11. (obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.
  12. (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
  13. (slang) crossfire.
  14. (soccer) A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
  15. (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
  16. A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
  17. A line drawn across or through another line.
  18. A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
  19. A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
  20. A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
  21. A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
  22. The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other

prep

  1. (archaic) across
  2. cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.

verb

  1. (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
  2. (cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
  3. (intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
  4. (law) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
  5. (reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
  6. (rugby) To score a try.
  7. (soccer) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
  8. (transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
  9. (transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
  10. (transitive) To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
  11. (transitive) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
  12. (transitive) To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
  13. (transitive, obsolete) To interfere and cut off ; to debar.
  14. To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
  15. To mark with an X.
  16. To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
  17. To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ

crost

crost

noun

  1. Pronunciation spelling of cross.