[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cross \cross\ kro^s, a.
   1. not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse;
      oblique; intersecting.
      1913 webster

            the cross refraction of the second prism. --sir i.
                                                  newton.
      1913 webster

   2. not accordant with what is wished or expected;
      interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse. "a
      cross fortune." --jer. taylor.
      1913 webster

            the cross and unlucky issue of my design.
                                                  --glanvill.
      1913 webster

            the article of the resurrection seems to lie
            marvelously cross to the common experience of
            mankind.                              --south.
      1913 webster

            we are both love's captives, but with fates so
            cross,
            one must be happy by the other's loss. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   3. characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness,
      fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.
      1913 webster

            he had received a cross answer from his mistress.
                                                  --jer. taylor.
      1913 webster

   4. made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation;
      mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories;
      cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry
      persons standing in the same relation to each other.
      1913 webster

   cross action law, an action brought by a party who is
      sued against the person who has sued him, upon the same
      subject matter, as upon the same contract. --burrill.

   cross aisle arch., a transept; the lateral divisions of a
      cruciform church.

   cross axle.
      a mach. a shaft, windlass, or roller, worked by levers
          at opposite ends, as in the copperplate printing
          press.
      b a driving axle, with cranks set at an angle of 90deg
          with each other.

   cross bedding geol., oblique lamination of horizontal
      beds.

   cross bill. see in the vocabulary.

   cross bitt. same as crosspiece.

   cross bond, a form of bricklaying, in which the joints of
      one stretcher course come midway between those of the
      stretcher courses above and below, a course of headers and
      stretchers intervening. see bond, n., 8.

   cross breed. see in the vocabulary.

   cross breeding. see under breeding.

   cross buttock, a particular throw in wrestling; hence, an
      unexpected defeat or repulse. --smollet.

   cross country, across the country; not by the road. "the
      cross-country ride." --cowper.

   cross fertilization, the fertilization of the female
      products of one physiological individual by the male
      products of another, -- as the fertilization of the ovules
      of one plant by pollen from another. see fertilization.
      

   cross file, a double convex file, used in dressing out the
      arms or crosses of fine wheels.

   cross fire mil., lines of fire, from two or more points
      or places, crossing each other.

   cross forked. her. see under forked.

   cross frog. see under frog.

   cross furrow, a furrow or trench cut across other furrows
      to receive the water running in them and conduct it to the
      side of the field.

   cross handle, a handle attached transversely to the axis of
      a tool, as in the augur. --knight.

   cross lode mining, a vein intersecting the true or
      principal lode.

   cross purpose. see cross-purpose, in the vocabulary.

   cross reference, a reference made from one part of a book
      or register to another part, where the same or an allied
      subject is treated of.

   cross sea naut., a chopping sea, in which the waves run
      in contrary directions.

   cross stroke, a line or stroke across something, as across
      the letter t.

   cross wind, a side wind; an unfavorable wind.

   cross wires, fine wires made to traverse the field of view
      in a telescope, and moved by a screw with a graduated
      head, used for delicate astronomical observations; spider
      lines. fixed cross wires are also used in microscopes,
      etc.

   syn: fretful; peevish. see fretful.
        1913 webster
see also:
cross action cross aisle cross axle cross bedding cross bill cross bitt 
crosspiece cross bond bond cross breed cross breeding 
breeding cross buttock cross country cross fertilization fertilization 
cross file cross fire cross forked forked cross frog 
frog cross furrow cross handle cross lode cross purpose 
cross-purpose cross reference cross sea cross stroke cross wind 
cross wires fretful 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

file \file\ fimacl, n. as. fe'ol; akin to d. viji, ohg.
   fimacla, fimachala, g. feile, sw. fil, dan. fiil, cf.
   icel. thorn=el, russ. pila, and skr. pi,c to cut out,
   adorn; perh. akin to e. paint.
   1. a steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made
      by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or
      smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.
      1913 webster

   note: a file differs from a rasp in having the furrows made
         by straight cuts of a chisel, either single or crossed,
         while the rasp has coarse, single teeth, raised by the
         pyramidal end of a triangular punch.
         1913 webster

   2. anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or
      figuratively.
      1913 webster

            mock the nice touches of the critic's file.
                                                  --akenside.
      1913 webster

   3. a shrewd or artful person. slang --fielding.
      1913 webster

            will is an old file in spite of his smooth face.
                                                  --thackeray.
      1913 webster

   bastard file, cross file, etc. see under bastard,
      cross, etc.

   cross-cut file, a file having two sets of teeth crossing
      obliquely.

   file blank, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for
      cutting to form a file.

   file cutter, a maker of files.

   second-cut file, a file having teeth of a grade next finer
      than bastard.

   single-cut file, a file having only one set of parallel
      teeth; a float.

   smooth file, a file having teeth so fine as to make an
      almost smooth surface.
      1913 webster
see also:
bastard file cross file bastard cross cross-cut file file blank 
file cutter second-cut file single-cut file smooth file 

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