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English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: cross breeding pembastaran
English → English (gcide) Definition: Cross breeding Cross \Cross\ (kr[o^]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 90[deg] 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] Breeding \Breed"ing\, n. 1. The act or process of generating or bearing. [1913 Webster] 2. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding. [1913 Webster] 3. Nurture; education; formation of manners. [1913 Webster] She had her breeding at my father's charge. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society. [1913 Webster] Delicacy of breeding, or that polite deference and respect which civility obliges us either to express or counterfeit towards the persons with whom we converse. --Hume. [1913 Webster] 5. Descent; pedigree; extraction. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Close breeding, In and in breeding, breeding from a male and female from the same parentage. Cross breeding, breeding from a male and female of different lineage. Good breeding, politeness; genteel deportment. [1913 Webster] Syn: Education; instruction; nurture; training; manners. See Education. [1913 Webster]

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