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Word Meanings - BY-STREET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street. He seeks by-streets, and saves the expensive coach. Gay.

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  • CROSSLY
    Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
  • CROSS-EXAMINER
    One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
  • CROSSJACK
    The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
  • OBSCURENESS
    Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
  • CROSSOPTERYGIAN
    Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n.
  • CROSSBRED
    Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
  • OBSCURER
    One who, or that which, obscures.
  • CROSS-STONE
    See STAUROTIDE
  • CROSS-ARMED
    With arms crossed.
  • CROSSGRAINED
    1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
  • PRIVATEERING
    Cruising in a privateer.
  • CROSSBREED
    1. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks. 2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.
  • COACHMAN
    A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean ; -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin. (more info) 1. A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.
  • CROSSLEGGED
    Having the legs crossed.
  • CROSS-VAULTING
    Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
  • CROSSHEAD
    A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it
  • CROSS-BUTTOCK
    A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse.
  • CROSS-CROSSLET
    A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.
  • CROSSWORT
    A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.
  • CROSS-TAIL
    A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
  • INSEPARATE
    Not separate; together; united. Shak.
  • LACROSSE
    A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught
  • SUBOBSCURELY
    Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.

 

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